Operation Judgment

Operation: Judgement, also known as the Battle of Tauberg, was an operation carried out by the Allied Forces to destroy Belka's laser cannon Excalibur.

Prelude
In Operations: Hell Bound and Dynamo, numerous Allied planes were destroyed by Excalibur's powerful laser. The Allied Forces could not perform any more operations without fear of losing more forces; Excalibur had to be destroyed.

Summary
Due to their recent stellar performance, the Allied Forces sent the mercenary Galm Team into battle against Excalibur. They also hired a new mercenary group, the Crow Team, to replace the pilots lost in combat. They sent both teams and a refueling tanker to Tauberg to destroy the cannon.

Once the pilots had entered the airspace, Excalibur engaged and destroyed the tanker. It continued to fire at the planes as they began their operation. First, they had to destroy the ECM jamming stations protecting Excalibur. AA guns, shoulder-launched SAMs, and one helicopter protected the stations, but the pilots took care of all four facilities rather quickly.

Next was the main facility. Most of the pilots could not enter the facility due to the RTLS railway artillery protecting it. Cipher, however, took out all four RTLS. This opened up the way for the pilots to take out Excalibur's power facilities. As the power facilities were destroyed, Excalibur's laser was becoming more unstable. The personnel were becoming frantic, firing the laser regardless of damage.

After all power facilities were destroyed, Cipher fired at and destroyed the radome of Excalibur, preventing the laser from firing any longer. Cipher then destroyed the main Excalibur tower, causing it to dangerously tilt and then shatter in half.

Results
The operation was a major success. With Excalibur destroyed, the Allied Forces did not have to worry about a laser attack on their forces; they could continue invading Belka again.

The operation also gave Cipher a lot of reputation and respect among both the Allied Forces and the Belkans. Since the Allied Forces already knew and respected Pixy, the Galm Team was now a very famous and popular team for both of its impressive members.

Trivia

 * This is the first and only operation during the Belkan War where Allied Forces operate in northern Belka.
 * Excalibur is also known among both the Allied Forces and Belka as "the King's Sword" or "Tauberg's sword," while Tauberg is known as the "stone" in which the "sword" is situated. This is a major reference to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
 * Excalibur is itself the name of King Arthur's sword. Some believe that Excalibur is the same as the "sword in the stone" that only one could pull out (Belka apparently included), but most versions of the tales consider them to be separate.