Iron Lady

"Iron Lady" is the twelfth mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It takes place in Paris, where the player will be manning the guns of an AC-130, similar to the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare mission "Death From Above". The player will also toggle between playing as Frost and the AC-130 gunner in this mission.

Characters

 * Derek "Frost" Westbrook (playable)
 * Unnamed AC-130 Gunner (playable)
 * Sandman
 * Grinch
 * Truck
 * Volk

Plot
The mission begins with Frost with the rest of Metal Team and a captive Volk, waiting for extraction by Raptor 2. However, as the Osprey flies towards the extraction point, it is hit by enemy rocket fire, and spins out of control. The helicopter hits a large group of cars, and Metal Team are forced to dodge the carnage caused by the crash.

Since their primary landing zone is compromised, an AC-130 with the call sign "Warhammer" is tasked with escorting them to another extraction point. As a large enemy force consisting of infantry, helicopters and tanks starts to travel through a large roundabout, the gunship fires, destroying large amounts of the Russian men and equipment. As the AC-130 is mopping up, Odin 6; a group of three A-10 Warthogs commences with a bombing run which destroys the remaining Russian armor in a spectacular explosion. Before Metal Team can move up, the gunship sweeps the surrounding streets, clearing out more enemy forces in the vicinity. When the area is clear, Metal Team starts to advance down the street. However as they do, more hostiles appear and Warhammer eliminates them. As the Delta squad start to move closer to a junction, enemy infantry engage them from behind, and the gunship again takes them out.

Approaching the fork in the road, hostile armored vehicles and helicopters emerge, and Warhammer has to destroy them. When Metal Team finally reaches the fork in the road, they come under heavy RPG fire from a building in the middle of the fork. After getting clearance from Overlord, Warhammer fires at the building, causing half of it to collapse, killing all enemies inside. Metal Team takes a left at the fork and heads towards a hotel across the street. Above them, Warhammer is targeted by Russian MiGs, and is forced to deploy flares and make sharp turns to avoid enemy missiles. Before the MiGs can make another pass, they are pursued by American fighter planes. The friendly fighter planes can not stay for long however. Resuming its task, Warhammer fires on the embassy.

Inside the hotel, Metal Team are pinned down by enemy fire, and Warhammer can't provide fire support due to hostile fire. Sandman, seeing that they're on their own, order Truck and Frost to flank the enemy machine gun pinning them down. Running through the hotel's corridors, they engage a small group of Russians. Eventually they arrive at a balcony with a view over the courtyard. Frost picks up a sniper rifle and kills the machine gunner. When he is eliminated, Metal Team advances into the courtyard, killing hostiles in the embassy. Once they reach the end of the courtyard, a Russian tank appears. Frost throws a smoke marker near the tank, so that Warhammer is able to destroy it.

As Metal Team wait for Uniform 6-2 to extract them, a large Russian force surrounds the area. As Warhammer starts to clear them out, the Humvees arrive. Russian forces, alerted to the convoy's presence start to converge on it, and Metal Team along with Volk board the Humvees. Uniform 6-2 leaves the intersection and barely miss being hit by rockets, fired by Russian MiGs. Sandman orders Grinch to man the 50. Cal, mounted on top of the Humvee. Two enemy vehicles start to chase Uniform 6-2 through the French streets. Helicopters join the pursuit, and Warhammer destroys the enemy vehicles. The convoy makes a hard left to avoid more enemy armor. They continue to make sharp turns to dodge the enemy vehicles, which Warhammer destroys. Eventually the convoy drives through an intersection where three hostile tanks are side by side trying to destroy the convoy, but the gunship eliminates them.

Uniform 6-2 turns right and starts to drive along the side of the Seine River. Multiple enemy helicopters start to pursue them, and Warhammer uses precise aiming to destroy them. However, as the convoy reaches the Pont d'Iéna, a tank round hits the front Humvee, flipping it over. Uniform 6-2 stops at the bridge and Warhammer begins to engage tanks stationed on the bridge. Frost clambers out of the overturned Humvee, and is ordered by Sandman to grab a Javelin. Using it, he destroys two enemy tanks. Using smoke markers to indicate targets for Warhammer, Metal Team advance along the bridge. As they reach roughly half way along the bridge, a Russian MiG attempts to bomb the U.S forces, but instead hits the bridge. Sandman throws down red smoke to mark the extraction point.

As Russian helicopters insert even more infantry, Warhammer runs out of fuel and is forced to return to base. Huge amounts of enemy armor roll in from the Eiffel Tower. Odin-6 returns for a bombing run, but because Metal Team is all out of smoke markers, it is forced to perform a dangerously close bomb run north of Metal's position. As the Russian forces are obliterated, the Eiffel Tower, having sustained too much damage, tips over and falls into the river. As it collapses, a large force of American helicopters swarms the landing zone. Everyone boards a Little Bird, except for Grinch and Volk, who waits for the next helicopter. The mission ends with Metal Team being extracted from the bridge with a view of the destroyed Eiffel Tower.

Found in Level
The following weapons can be found with and without attachments.

Intel
30. First snipe the mounted gun, then head into the glass greenhouse building and locate the intel at the top of the stairs inside.

31. After battling the tanks, spot a bus on the left side of a bridge. The intel is inside it toward the back.

Video:MW3 - Intel Locations - Iron Lady - Mission 10 - Scout Leader Achievement/Trophy guide

Intel locations

Achievements/Trophies
We'll Always Have Paris (10 / Bronze trophy ) - Complete "Iron Lady" on any difficulty.

City of Lights (25 / Silver trophy ) - Complete "Bag and Drag" and "Iron Lady" on Veteran difficulty.

Ménage à Trois (20 / Bronze trophy ) - Destroy 3 Russian tanks with a single 105mm shot in "Iron Lady".

Trivia

 * "Iron Lady" is a reference to the Eiffel Tower's nickname, also called Iron Lady.
 * At the start of this mission the M4A1 and USP .45 have red stains on them.
 * The player's ammunition will be refilled upon the last transition from the AC-130 to Frost (although the grenades for the M4A1's Grenade Launcher will not be refilled).
 * Rangers were involved in the battle. This is stated by Overlord telling Sandman to pop flares for a Ranger quick reaction force during the previous level in the catacombs.
 * At the beginning of the level, the V-22 Osprey that is downed is not a solid object, and neither are the debris that it pushes when it is downed.
 * GIGN don't seem to appear in this mission.
 * The way the Eiffel Tower falls is very similar to the way it falls in 2009 film.
 * At the left side of the bridge where Frost is at the ending of the mission, there are 2 Mi-26 Halo helicopters parked on the dock.
 * There is a glitch where the Humvee that was not destroyed at the bridge is not a solid object.
 * There is a glitch that if player takes out the first of two tanks on the bridge by using AC-130 before returning to Frost for the next objective, the second tank remains present but cannot be targeted by the Javelin. In order to anticipate this, the player must take it out with an RPG or restart the level.
 * The Eiffel Tower survived two world wars and ended up being destroyed by friendly fire.
 * The HMMVW's that pick up Team Metal have the callsign of Uniform 6-2. This is a reference to Black Hawk Down where the convoy's (or McKnight's) callsign is Uniform 6-4.
 * If the player looks at the Eiffel Tower from the AC-130, it can be seen that the Eiffel Tower is not damaged at all.
 * It is possible to be run over by the Little Bird at the end of the mission. If doing so, you have to hold back the enemies and call the air strike on the enemy vehicles again.
 * Just before the Eiffel Tower falls, there is a grammatical error in the subtitles. The subtitles say: "The tower's not gonna take much more that!", when he actually says "the tower's not gonna take much more than that!"
 * After the first AC-130 sequence, there will be fire to the right of the player starting position. Standing in it while playing on the Recruit and Regular difficulties will cause the player to constantly take damage until right before the point where the player would usually die, but the player cannot die by standing in the fire. However, on the Hardened and Veteran difficulties, the player quickly die. This is probably due to the lower health on the higher difficulties.
 * Even though this mission takes place after the events in "Bag and Drag ", which took place on October 9th at 14:10:05, the time says "October 9th - 07:42:20".