Timeline

This is the timeline of the Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. series.

1991

• January
  • First Gulf War: Casper, Talon, Rainmaker, and Dagger fight in it. Operations: Trespasser, Albatross, and Unforgivable Mistakes.
  • Carl Loensch is wounded in Kuwait.
  • Rainmaker fires on civilian targets and is blacklisted by the Air Force. He later forms DDI.

Time uncertain (post-1991)

• Curtis "Scorch" Bowman is presumed killed on a mission.

1999

• David Crenshaw graduates from the Air Force Academy.

2001

• Operation Enduring Freedom. Crenshaw earns a GWoT Service Medal for his participation.

2003

• Operation Iraqi Freedom.

2005

• Operation Red Arrow. Crenshaw earns a Bronze Star.

2006

• April
  • 14: Crenshaw is transferred to the H.A.W.X. squadron.

2012

• The Reykjavik Accords are signed, allowing for the expansion of PMC operations.

Time uncertain (post-2012)

• Sudan conflict; rebels overrun US military base.
• Troy Loensch joins Firehawk, LLC.
• H.A.W.X. Program is turned over to Firehawk.
• The Executive Branch Management Bill is signed; President Albert Fachearon resigns.
• Firehawk CEO Raymond Harris is killed in a failed attempt to nuke Camp David.

2014

• Operation: Ghost Rider
• H.A.W.X. squadron is disbanded.
• November
  • David Crenshaw is accepted into Artemis Global Security and assigned to lead Reaper Flight.

2015

• March
  • 23: Operation: Adder, Reaper Flight's first combat operation.
• September
  • 2: Operation: Cobalt
• November
  • 10: Operation: Blacklight

2021

• January
  • 10: Operation: OFF Certification
• February
  • 25: Operation: Glass Hammer
• April
  • 4: Operation: Backfire
• June
  • 19: Operation: Ulysses
  • 24: Artemis Global Security conflict begins. Operation: Stiletto, Operation: Red Eagle, Operation: Torchlight, Operation: Iron Arrow, Operation: Typhoon
  • 25: Operation: Backhand, Operation: Thunderbolt, Operation: Wildhorse
  • 26: Operation: Javelin, Operation: Twilight, Artemis conflict ends.
• The Reykjavik Accords are repealed.
• Several weeks later: Operation: Monarch
• October
  • 14: Crenshaw visits the remains of his friend Jerry Slaten.

Time uncertain (c. Oct 2021)

• At some time prior to October 2021, H.A.W.X. squadron is deployed to defend a Mexican oil refinery from a PMC.

Near future

DDI conflict

• Crenshaw turns the H.A.W.X. squadron into an international response team. He is then deployed to the Middle East, leaving the US branch in charge of Dagger.
• Arrow defects to the H.A.W.X. squadron from DDI.
• Dagger is shot down and presumed dead.
• Rainmaker plans on forming a squadron of advanced UAVs. He starts a covert war with the US but is defeated by Arrow and Major Zeal.
• He reveals his secret weapon, the Firestorm satellite. It is quickly seized by H.A.W.X. but self-destructs.
• Zeal decimates a Russian oligarchy squadron.

Insurgent/ultranationalist conflict

• Prince Faisal Airbase is decimated by insurgent cruise missiles.
  • At the same time, Spetzgruppa Medved fights separatists in the Caucasus region.
• H.A.W.X. squadron finds and rescues Crenshaw and eventually defeats the insurgents in a successive series of engagements in Africa to find Mansour Hafiz.
• After Medved fails to recover stolen nuclear warheads, Romashkino Oil Field is destroyed by one.
  • President Anton Karzkazev is replaced by Aleksandr Treskayev.
• Dmitri Sokov defects from Medved after the separatist leaders are wiped out.
• The last warhead is recovered in Cape Town.
• Two months later, NATO retakes Norway from the Russians in two operations, Maelstrom and Amphibious Assault.
• The Ultranationalists are then defeated after losing Moscow.

Time uncertain

• HAWX2 defends a Ghost Recon team as they recover a nuclear weapon.