Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday is the second mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The player takes control of Derek "Frost" Westbrook, a Delta Force operator in New York. The objective of the mission is to destroy a Russian radio/microwave jammer placed on the Stock Exchange. Once the jammer is destroyed, the player will be extracted by a Black Hawk and must duel against Russian helicopters to reach New York Harbor which is the location of the next mission.
==Characters==
*Metal Team
**Derek "Frost" Westbrook (playable)
**Sandman
**Grinch
**Truck
*Anvil Team
**Grizzly
**Thumper
**Worm
*Overlord (heard only)
*Strykers
**Firefly
**Frolic
**Samaritan
*Soucy
*Blackjack Actual
==Plot==
The level begins with the player, Sgt. Derek "Frost" Westbrook, and Sandman climbing from the wreckage of an overturned Humvee in Manhattan. They emerge to find themselves, the rest of Team Metal, and a friendly Stryker battalion under attack, by Russian infantry and GAZ Tigrs. The battalion fights their way up the street, past heavy resistance, and meet up with a convoy of Strykers at the corner of Exchange and Broad Street.
Metal Team and the convoy are then ambushed by a Mi-24 at an enemy roadblock, forcing the team of Deltas to circumnavigate the road block and enter another building. After they clear the shop and alley, they meet with Grizzly and his team. Together they fight towards the Stock Exchange.
As the team reaches the , they fight their way through the trade floor and take a service ladder up to the roof. Using thermite, Frost destroys the radio jammer on the roof, restoring radio communications to friendly forces, allowing air support to arrive. They then come under attack by enemy forces positioned on some nearby rooftops.
Frost uses guided missiles from a MQ-1 Predator drone to neutralize the enemy troops on the roof, as well as an enemy gunship that arrives to provide support. A Black Hawk then flies in to extract the team, but they are pursued by two Mi-24s, fighting through the Downtown Manhattan airspace. Frost, operating a Minigun, destroys one gunship. At a nearby construction site, as Frost destroys the last Hind, Delta team's Black Hawk crashes into the scaffolding. The impact causes the Black Hawk to whirl out of control, nearly chucking Frost out of the cabin. The pilot eventually regains control of the helicopter and the team is briefed while proceeding to their next mission in New York Harbor.
==Weapon Loadout==
Starting Loadout
File:M4A1 menu icon MW3.png|M4A1 w/ Hybrid Sight
XM25 Menu Icon MW3.png|XM25
Found in level
AK-47 menu icon MW3.png|AK-47
MP412 Create-a-Class MW3.png|MP412 (used by enemies during the Last Stand)
P90 Menu Icon MW3.png|P90
PKP Pecheneg Menu Icon MW3.png|PKP Pecheneg
SPAS-12 menu icon MW3.png|SPAS-12
M4A1 menu icon MW3.png|M4A1
MP5 menu icon MW3.png|MP5
Minigun MW3.png|Minigun
RPG-7 menu icon MW3.png|RPG-7
==Transcript==
==Achievements/Trophies==
*Too Big to Fail (10 / Bronze Trophy ) - Complete "Black Tuesday" on any difficulty.
*The Big Apple (25 / Silver Trophy ) - Complete "Black Tuesday" and "Hunter Killer" on Veteran difficulty.
*This Is My Boomstick (20 / Bronze Trophy ) - Kill 30 enemies with the XM25 in "Black Tuesday".
==Intel==
#Head to the third floor of the first building entered at the beginning of the game. Poke around the bedrooms on that floor and the intel will be located on the floor of one of them.
#Enter the Jewelry Store and look for a table back underneath the stairs. This intel is located on top of that table.
#Stay in the Stock Exchange lobby and now look over on the left side. Spot a pair of ammo crates and look for the intel to be sitting near them.
#Enter the main Stock Exchange area and look toward the right side of it. In the corner next to the stairs is a trading kiosk counter, and on that counter is the fourth piece of intel.
#From the Stock Exchange lobby, go to the roof and find the intel resting on top of a fold-out table just before the final set of stairs.
MW3 Intel Locations - Black Tuesday - Mission 1 - Scout Leader Achievement Trophy guide|Intel locations
==Gallery==
Frost aiming M4A1 Black Tuesday MW3.jpg|Frost aims his M4A1 on Wall Street.
Frost aiming M4A1-2 Black Tuesday MW3.jpg|Frost fighting off Ultranationalists.
Sandman tosses Frost magazine Black Tuesday MW3.png|Frost with an M4A1 magazine in the reveal trailer (notice the Modern Warfare 2 M4A1 & the U.S. Army Rangers arms).
Declining stock values Black Tuesday MW3.png|A chart from the Stock Exchange.
Stock Market numbers Black Tuesday MW3.png|A board in the Stock Exchange building showing many different numbers, most of which are negative.
Destroyed jamming tower collapsing Black Tuesday MW3.png|The jamming tower collapsing after being destroyed by a thermite charge.
Stock Exchange MW3.jpg|Another shot of the Stock Exchange.
==Video Walkthrough==
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - Campaign - Black Tuesday|Black Tuesday
==Trivia==
*This level has a unique reload animation for the M4A1. When Frost exits the jeep he will put a new magazine into the gun and pull the charging handle. In the normal reload animation, the character never pulls the charging handle.
*The title "Black Tuesday" is a reference to the during the Great Depression in 1929. The mission, however, takes place on August 17th, 2016 which is a Wednesday.
**Additionally, the E3 demo showed the mission taking place on May 13th, 2016, as reported by a TV screen. The date is also not a Tuesday, but a Friday.
*The quote that runs on the TV news crawl is a near exact copy of Mayor comments about casualties following 9/11.
*The victory theme for Delta Force in multiplayer can be heard during the fight in the Stock Exchange while the Inner Circle spawn theme is played during the assault on the store.
*Some Russian soldiers can be seen using a suppressed version of an ACOG fitted AK-47. If in use by Russian forces, the rifle will cease to fire and will only function in the player's possession.
*The news crawl misstates its own news network, stating it as "CNC" when the logo is "CNB".
*The MSE's symbol is a pyramid with the all-seeing eye, known as the .
*During the intel on the loading screen for this mission, it can be seen that the 75th Ranger Regiment is also fighting in New York. This regiment is the one which James Ramirez, Foley and Dunn, the main American protagonists of the previous game, are part of. The 75th is fighting in Central Manhattan Island, as seen from the loading screen.
**The 2nd Marine Division is also present on the loading screen, apparently fighting in the northern area of Manhattan Island.
*All stock markets can be seen as falling, apart from those of Activision, Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, , Raven Software, Treyarch, and War, who have stocks on the rise.
*In the alley where the player has to throw a 9-Bang, there is graffiti on the wall that says "SHG" and "Sledgehammer", which are both references to Sledgehammer Games. There is also a sledgehamemr on a table near the fifth intel.
*In one of the destroyed newspaper boxes, one can see a newspaper with the headline "Call of Duty 3".
*If one looks closely when leaving New York at the end of the mission, the new World Trade Center building can be seen.
*All of the taxi cabs in the level say IW New York.
*On Recruit difficulty, if the player runs out of XM25 ammo after clearing out the Russians in the jewelry store before meeting with Anvil Team, it will be refilled to full ammo again once Sandman tells the player to use the XM25.
*In the E3 demo for Black Tuesday, the firing sound for the M4A1 is same as its firing sound in Modern Warfare 2. thumb|300px|right
*When looking at the second Hind after it is destroyed, the player will notice that it will seemingly vanish into thin air.
*When Frost gets out of the Humvee at the start of the level, his wristwatch says the time is 2:45. However, the mission briefing says the time is 10:18.
*Sandman orders the player to "get on the XM25", as if said weapon was mounted, although the XM25 is handheld.
*If the player uses all their 9-Bangs before the breach where Sandman orders them to use them, they will automatically be restocked when they get to the door.
*In the E3 Demo, the mission's date was "Day 2". This was changed before release.
*If the player stays on the streets for too long after meeting up with allies for the first time, an indestructible Hind will appear and kill him.
*In the French version of the game, the mission takes place on at 16:32:12 instead of 10:18. The date, August 17th, is still intact however. This appears to be a mistake as 16:32:12 is the time in which the next mission, "Hunter Killer", takes place.
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