The 52nd Airborne, the 104th Airborne and the 81st Airborne divisions guarding the launch site then proceed to attack the TFT, whom are still marked as terrorists.
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TFT attempts to stop the shuttle launch but the Red Cell succeeds in hijacking the shuttle and performs a manual launch. Red Cell is tracked to Cape Canaveral where they try to hijack Space Shuttle Liberty in order to work on X-357 in space where it can be modified to kill humans. Watts finishes his speech and then is sent to America so that he may testify in the United States Congress against Cardiff. Naval base in the Bahamas, where he gives a speech on live television all around the country testifying against Cardiff and the Consortium. While they fail to find Morello, they discover Senator Watts still alive and evacuate him to a friendly U.S. TFT seizes a hacienda in Cuba in search of a Cuban biological weapons expert, Dr. Landing in Cuba, they discover that the country has been completely taken over by the Consortium and that President Cardiff is working with the Consortium and was behind Baldwin's assassination. TFT meets up with Admiral Burns and the USS Tarawa who help them land in Cuba. TFT hijacks a Consortium Visby class Corvette and escapes CancĂșn, pursuing a trio of Consortium Typhoon class submarines which are carrying the biological samples. There it is discovered that Red Cell is working with the Consortium and that the bio-weapon is X-357, a virus which is deadly against animals, but harmless against humans. Sergeant Major Ray Jefferson and Sergeant Oz Jackson successfully escape the trap, and track Whitemore's C-17 transport carrying a shipment of USAMRIID biological barrels to CancĂșn, Mexico. Army forces, and marked as guilty of high treason. However, once there, they are attacked by U.S. Task Force Talon travels to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, in order to meet Colonel Whitemore, leader of the " Red Cell" military group based there. Several important government officials and General Kelly are arrested on conspiracy charges pertaining to the assassinations. VPOTUS Cardiff survives and becomes the new POTUS, while Senator Watts is assassinated in Manhattan. Presidential election, the two candidates for President of the United States, Senator Watts and Vice President Cardiff are attacked, and the sitting POTUS, President Baldwin is assassinated with an explosive device while his motorcade is leaving the White House.
From massive enemy assaults to delicate hostage extractions, from classified spy missions to search-and-destroy onslaughts, Task Force TALON is deployed to engage the enemy in hotspots around the globe. Army Brigadier General Jason Richter, a career soldier and former commander of the 1st Special Forces (Delta Force) who has been given control of an elite new anti-terrorist unit: Task Force TALON. military, but also to the shadowy organization known as the Consortium. Clues point to corrupt elements within the U.S. Presidential elections, simultaneous terrorist attacks hit both candidates. The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed game Act of War: Direct Action picks up where the techno-thriller left off.