Operation Pike

14-15 March 2026: Themed Game, Catterick OBUA
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Location: Uzunboyat Azerbaijan 

The Russian incursion through Zukhuloba and Samur was supposed to be clean, fast, and psychologically overwhelming. Instead, it has turned into a slow, grinding quagmire.

Within days of the initial landings, the situation fractured into two very different wars.

Along the coastal highway and the main arteries toward Baku, Russia’s conventional forces continue to push south, supported by armour, artillery and air power. Their objective is clear; create relentless pressure toward the capital, overwhelm exhausted Azerbaijani units, and force a political collapse before NATO can meaningfully respond.

But in the countryside around Samur, Qusar, and the villages north of the M-1 corridor, the reality is very different. Here, the advancing Spetsnaz elements that landed to “secure” key installations have been drawn into an ugly, fragmented struggle across farms, forests, hills, and small settlements. They face not an organized front, but a tangled web of local defence units, paramilitary groups, and TF-94 teams operating in the grey space between military and militia.

There is no clear battlefield, no fixed line, only constant pressure.

Fuel convoys vanish, communications go dead overnight, bridges are found intact one morning, unusable by nightfall. Russian officers on the ground report an enemy “that appears, disrupts, and vanishes.”

To Moscow, this is unacceptable. The Spetsnaz teams that were meant to stabilize the border zone are now tied down, bleeding time and resources – exactly what Russia cannot afford if it wants momentum toward Baku.

Meanwhile, across Azerbaijan:

  • Civilians flee south in waves
  • Rumours spread faster than facts
  • Confidence in the government wavers, but so does outrage at Russian “liberation”

Satellite imagery reveals that Russia has rerouted additional forces away from the Samur sector to reinforce the capital drive. In effect, Moscow is gambling; if Baku falls fast enough, the north won’t matter.

This decision creates a dangerous vacuum behind their lines, TF-94 now realizes something crucial; Russia is no longer trying to win the north, they are trying to outrun it!

If they can stretch those bogged-down units just a little longer, delay them just a little more, the southern push could overextend itself. Supply lines could strain. Morale could fracture. International pressure could escalate to a breaking point.

The town of Uzonboyat is a critical juncture on the road south to Baku linking the south to the rural north where the Russian Spetsnaz forces are bogged down fighting national security forces and UKSF from TF-94 

Whoever holds this town controls the ability to resupply in any direction!

HUMINT also confirms the town to be home to an Azerbaijani drone research facility, this places great importance on securing the facility to either control or deny enemy use of any technology present. An added complication to an already violent conflict. 

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Catterick OBUA

Catterick OBUA – Directions

Lat, Long / Postcode:
54.359700, -1.717140 / DL9 3RH

Arrivals:
1800H-2300H 13 MARCH
0730-0830H 14 MARCH

Price

£100 TOTAL
– Online booking of £45 deposit (plus fees)
– Remainder to be paid on arrival
– Accommodation available on checkout