Raid on Des Moines

The Raid on Des Moines was a military action of the Second Havenite-Manticoran War between a task force of the Royal Manticoran Navy's Eighth Fleet and the Destroyer Squadron 93 of the Republic of Haven Navy, when the Des Moines System was selected for a deep raid by the RMN as part of Operation Cutworm II.
== Order of battle ==
===RMN===
task force of the Eighth Fleet - CO Vice Admiral Samuel Miklos:
* CLAC Squadron 6 - two divisions - CO Vice Admiral Samuel Miklos
* a battlecruiser element:
** Battlecruiser Division 81.2
** a battlecruiser division of Battlecruiser Squadron 32
* a cruiser/destroyer element
===RHN===
Des Moines System Defence - CO acting Commodore Arakel Hovanian:
* Destroyer Squadron 93 - CO acting Commodore Arakel Hovanian
* a LAC squadron
==Course of encounter==
Shortly after the arrival of RMN forces in system in overwhelming superiority, Governor Arnold Bruckheimer contacted acting Commodore Arakel Hovanian and ordered him to withdraw the three destroyers in his command as employing them against such numerically superior odds would only lead to the needless destruction of his command and the deaths of his personnel. ()
==References==
Des Moines, Battle of
Des Moines, Battle of