Confirmed as of 12:00:
- Strikes began 02:40. French SAMP/T battery destroyed, casualties confirmed.
- Two RAF Typhoons shot down. Both pilots ejected over Faxaflói and were recovered.
- Runway cratered both ends.
- Ground fighting at the airport since approx 05:45.
Unconfirmed: everything else. Please do not post live locations of allied positions. Please do not post video of the fighting with identifying landmarks.
We are a subforum about a country with no army. We are all improvising. Be careful with each other.
u/gardabaer_g: My father was born the year the Americans left in 2006. He said the base was the argument that never ended here — occupation or protection, forty years of it.
I do not think he expected the argument to be settled this way.
u/hafnarfj_ea: The thing I cannot get past: nine days ago we voted to let allies in to protect us. Cross-party. All night session. It felt enormous and grown-up.
Nine days.
u/reykjavik_med: Landspítali is on emergency footing. We are being told to expect casualties from the airport and we have no idea whose.
I trained for volcanoes and road accidents. There is no protocol in my hospital for this.
u/mod_island: **Update 15:40.** Local capitulation was agreed at 11:20 UTC. 154 British and French personnel in US custody. Armoured vehicles are around Alþingishúsið.
Removing all posts that name or picture individual soldiers on either side. Some of you are posting faces. Stop.
u/akureyri_j: Six hours. Two hundred men with rifles against a Marine brigade with naval gunfire and gunships, in sleet, with no air cover and no resupply.
They were not defending their own country. They were defending ours.