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On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger, a U.S. Special Operations Forces composed mainly of Rangers, Delta Force (1st SFOD-D) operators, and aviation support from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Night Stalkers), attempted to capture Aidid's foreign minister Omar Salad and top political advisor Mohamed Hassan Awale. The plan was to fast rope down from hovering MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, capture the targets, and load them onto a ground convoy for transport back to the U.S. compound. Four Ranger chalks, also inserted by helicopter, were to provide a secure square perimeter on the four corners of the operation's target building.
The ground extraction convoy was supposed to reach the captive targets a few minutes after the beginning of the operation. However, it ran into delays. Somali citizens and local militia formed barricades along the streets of Mogadishu with rocks and burning tires, blocking the convoy from reaching the Rangers and the captive targets. A five-ton truck, part of the convoy, was struck by a rocket propelled grenade.
Other complications arose. A U.S. Army Ranger, Private Todd Blackburn, was seriously injured during the insertion. Pvt. Blackburn fell while fast roping from a helicopter hovering 70 feet above the streets. Minutes later, a MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was shot down by a rocket propelled grenade.
There was confusion between the ground convoy and the assault team. The assault team and the ground convoy waited for twenty minutes just out of sight of each other, ready to move, but each under the impression that they were to be first contacted by the other. During the wait, a second Black Hawk was also downed.
Most of the assault team went to the first crash site for a rescue operation. Upon reaching the site, about 90 Rangers found themselves under siege from heavy militia fire. Despite limited air support, the Rangers were effectively trapped for the night.
At the second crash site, two Delta Force snipers, Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart and Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, were inserted by helicopter to protect the wounded pilot from the approaching mob. Both soldiers were later killed by the mob. The site was overrun by Somali militiamen. The pilot, Mike Durant, was seriously injured during the crash. He was taken hostage. Shughart and Gordon each received the Medal of Honor posthumously for their heroic action during the battle. They both repeatedly volunteered to be dropped on the ground, against the advice of their superiors who knew the magnitude of the mob and the risk of the insertion. Repeated attempts by the Somalis to mass forces and overrun these American positions were neutralized by the soldiers at the first crash site, aided by rockets and Gatling guns fired from strafing U.S. aircraft. Attacks by Somali militiamen were fended off during the night until reinforcements from the U.S. 10th Mountain Division aided by Malaysian and Pakistani U.N. forces arrived in the early morning. No contingency planning or coordination with U.N. forces had been arranged prior to the operation. This lack of planning complicated the rapid recovery of the surrounded U.S. soldiers at the first crash site.
The battle was over by the next morning, October 4 at 6:30 AM. American forces were finally evacuated to the U.N. Pakistani base. In all, eighteen US soldiers died of wounds acquired during the battle and another 79 were injured. The Malaysian forces lost one soldier and had seven injured, while the Pakistanis suffered two injuries. Casualties on the Somali side were heavy with estimates on fatalities from 300 to over 1000 people. The Somali casualties were a mixture of militiamen and local civilians. Two days later, a mortar fell on the US compound. This killed a nineteenth US soldier and injured another twelve.
The battle was the most intense urban battle faced by the U.S. forces during the Somalian U.N. mission and is often cited as the reason behind America's withdrawal from U.N. peacekeeping duties.
According to the American soldiers, Aidid's forces used civilians pushed out in front of their fighters as a screen. However, these civilian screens reduced after the Americans soldiers showed repeatedly that they were willing to fire and kill the screening civilians in order to reach their opponents.
Hello,
First of all I'd like to introduce myself, I am Eirik aka Icy-Spicy. I am Modeling Department Head, that means that I'm in charge of all the modeling going on.
Well, enough about me, let's look at the goodies.
To start off with we have a G3A3 reskin done by Icy-Spicy
Olympic Hotel Café done by Icy-Spicy
Two AK47 variants done by Sarge
M16A2 done by Sarge
Skorpion Vz. 61 done by Icy-Spicy
Somali City Diner done by Icy-Spicy
Toyota Landcruiser done by Icy-Spicy
M16A2/M203 done by Sarge
Browning High Power done by Icy-Spicy
M72 LAW done by Sarge
M14 done by Sarge
Browning M2HB .50 Cal done by Icy-Spicy
Then to finish it all of we have the UH60 Blackhawk done by SirFluffy and Icy-Spicy
And as we are a quite small team we need more members to speed up the process. We are in special need of skinners for not only weapons and vehicals, but statics so we can start planning a few maps. You are going to see less and less weapons in our updates and more buildings and random statics, so we can build a beta. If you can skin, and would like to help please contact us. We are also looking for people who can:
-Code
-Model
-Animate
-Skin
-Researchers (If you have a past in the military that's a bonus. We only accept serious people)
If you are intrested you can mail us by clicking Here.
And, we can trade modeling and uv mapping for skinning. (Cause we need a few more skinners to boost our progress.) So if your a mod thats strong in the skinning department, but could use a boost modeling a few weapons, we would be glad to make some sort of deal with you.
Thats it for now.
Regards,
ORH Team
In this update, we do not have any new things to show you because we are doing things a bit differently. We know in the past we have released some things...
I have finally updated our MODDB page. I, Kamakazi, will be takingcare of this from now on. We are in need of skinners and people capable of modeling...
officialy.. dead.. :P
good mods are always abandoned
So sad,i was looking forward to this.......
AWESOME
DING DONG THE MOD IS DEAD DING DONG THE MOD IS DEAD
Wow...i had no idea lolz
Nooo. Really?
hey thats cool I always wanted a black hawk down in battlefield 2 i m plaing the black hawk down map but it'd be more fun to shoot somalis instead of MEC-troopers ;) but the models look nice when r u starting at the structures and map(s)??
you kno most of those guns u made new models of are already in the game
Its Dead, but I wished this idea has kept up.