Update 3: The Reigns Down in Africa news - Red Alert 3: New Dawn mod for C&C: Red Alert 3

With an ever escalating arms race, the Aether has become the symbol of Allied air superiority. Capable of reaching hypersonic speeds, this advanced fighter's role is to rapidly close in on enemy aircraft squadrons and reduce them to scrap metal. Armed with a powerful proton missile, the Aether fires off its payload once its in range, escaping back to base before it is consumed by the missile's blast. Do note however that the Aether can only carry one of these missiles in order to properly maintain its fast speeds.

The Hermes serves in a support role in the Allied Nations Peacekeeper forces. Originally designed as a riot suppression vehicle, the Allied War Council was interested in acquiring these vehicles after seeing their performance in Italy during the Years of Lead. These versions were upgunned to incorporate a more powerful sonic cannon that can shatter structures, let alone its effects on infantry. A later modification would see these vehicles retooled to serve in both deploying mines and clearing them at the same time, turning them into an effective area denial platform that could stem assaults and create chokepoints for enemy forces. This method of warfare would become essential to the survival of British forces during the horrors of the Falklands War, with the Hermes playing a major role protecting their retreat across the island.

I also decided to change the Mig model as I was not a fan of the original design.

You can view videos of the two units here and here. The rest of the article is about the setting.

The Great Socialist People's Libyan Pan-Afro-Arabian Democratic Republic of the Masses, or
the Libyan Democratic Republic, or Libya for short, serves as the bastion of communist power in North
Africa. It is primarily responsible for the destabilization of various colonies in the area. It's leader,
Muhammad Dagaffo, seized power in Libya by successfully attempting a bloodless coup, something
that is considered an impossibility and more like “a plothole in a cheap alternate history story”, as some
journalists described it. With the country under his command, Libya heavily industrialized and
modernized itself, and with the help of the Soviet Union, this former monarchy became a socialist
power house, spreading its influence across North Africa and seizing former colonial lands, forcefully
integrating them into their territory. The ones who disagreed with their liberators were considered
“traitors to the revolution” and ended up “disappearing”. The country is also known for funding various
communist insurgent movements, along with anyone who has a grudge against their current leaders, so
long as they get something out of it. Needless to say, that has become quite a loose definition. Allied
politicians have said that the Libyan Democratic Republic is a "clear and present danger to our
democracy.", especially with their recent funding to the IRA. As Degaffo pledged, the World
Revolution will not be civilized and it will not stop until every nation is free from the oligarchs that
control them.

Formed in the 60s, the European Union serves as both a political alliance and defensive
network for the Western European countries. It is shown as a union where every member has an equal
say on policies and rules, but this is nothing more but a smokescreen. Only the decisions of France and
the Netherlands matter, with every other nation being forced to follow them. A combination of being
devastated in the Second Great War and losing a majority of their colonies has turned France into a
vengeful nation, with a deep simmering hatred of anything that slightly resembles socialism. While
they were scarred greatly, they were better off compared to other nations on the continent, something
that they would use to their advantage. With financial assistance of the Netherlands and their
megacorporations, mainly Futuretech, the two nations worked together to ensure that they would not be
lapdogs of the British or Americans. Instead, they would maintain their own sovereignty through the
use of the French army and having the largest megacorporation who specializes in advanced
technology on their side. Maintaining a firm grip upon their remaining colonies while subjugating the
European countries in their alliance, the French are determined that the humiliation and destruction
they suffered under the Soviet Union will never happen again, and they will do so with force. Such
efforts require a lot of resources and funding to do so, and Futuretech is more than happy to provide
them with whatever they need, for a price of course.

The Abyssinian Empire is ruled under the regime of Menelik IV, the so called “Golden Lion”
because of the gold lion mask he always wears. A proclaimed descendant of the royal family, he has
reshaped the country into a blend of monarchism and fascism, with him and his race as their ruler.
Much like Japan, the Abyssinians are the ones at the top of this system while the non-Abyssinians live
in squalor. After the assassination of his uncle, Haile Selassie, a brutal civil war emerged, which
Menelik used to gain favor with the Japanese to gain funding and weapons. Menelik IV was a devoted
fascist, and secretly admired Mussolini's regime even though they conquered his homeland. To him, he
saw strength, power and a return to the ways of their ancestors. He believed that his uncle's
“liberalization” of the country was the reason they lost. The Italians had discovered the system that
gave them strength, while the Japanese refined it under Yoshiro's regime. It was the only answer to the
problem that faced the nation, and he sought to emulate it. To him, it was the natural order of things.
Much like how its natural for a lion to eat a deer, he saw it natural for “lesser races to be ruled by
superior ones”. His uncle was a fool to break this system. With the planet in chaos, Menelik IV believes
that the only way to fix this is to enforce this system upon the entire world. Only those that are able to
harness the tenants of fascism are worthy of it, and deserve their rightful place as rulers among the lessers, much like how the Global Pact operates.