Iron Curtain (Red Alert 3)

The Iron Curtain is a Soviet superweapon used during the Third World War.

Background
The Iron Curtain is one of the Soviet military's most-feared creations. It gathers some sort of energy inside its furnace, which it uses to project a kinetic barrier onto armored forces. While the barrier lasts only a short while, affected targets are completely invulnerable during that time.

Effects

 * Generals
 * Kills infrantry.
 * Protects the object from being damaged by incoming attacks.
 * Protects vehicles from being crushed by a bigger vehicle.
 * Sky Knights produced by an Iron Curtained Aircraft Carrier will be Iron Curtained as well.
 * Removes Tanya out of the Iron Curtained object.
 * Iron Curtained Terror Drones cannot be removed by repair drones.
 * Protects the vehicle from infection damage.
 * Protects vehicles from being sucked into the Vacuum Imploder singularity and protects buildings from being damaged by it.


 * From special abilities
 * Prevents and undoes freezing.
 * Protects objects from Blackout Missile.
 * Prevents weapon from being jammed.
 * Prevents the vehicles from being paralysed, staticized and disrupted.
 * Prevents the vehicles from being bribed.
 * Vehicle's pilots cannot be sniped.
 * Protects units like King Oni or Shogun Battleship from destroy themselves when hitting a larger unit with their ramming abilities.
 * Protects Dreadnought from damaging itself when overloading its Launchers.
 * Prevents vehicles from being dragged by Apocalypse tank's Magnetic Harpoon.
 * Prevents Hammer tank from healing itself when using leech beam on the Iron Curtained object.


 * From protocols
 * Protects objects from Chrono Rift.
 * Protects objects from being destroyed by rematerializing objects which were phased out by the Chrono Rift.
 * Prevents vehicles from being equipped with Point-Defense Drones.
 * Prevents vehicles from taking Toxic Corrosion damage.
 * Protects vehicles from Magnetic Satellite.
 * Protects vehicles from Magnetic Singularity.
 * Prevents objects from being placed Cash Bounty on.

Exceptions

 * An Iron Curtained vehicle transported by a Twinblade will be destroyed normally if the helicopter is shot down.
 * Iron Curtained Terror Drones get in a transport will be destroyed if the transport is destroyed.
 * If an airfield/airbase with Iron Curtained planes docking in is destroyed, the planes still be destroyed.
 * Iron Curtained vehicles can still be destroyed voluntarily with a Crusher Crane.
 * Does not prevent suicide abilities, like the Burst drone's Self Destruction or Yari mini-sub's Last Voyage, from destroying the suicide unit.
 * Does not protect vehicles from S.H.R.I.N.K. beam and does not undo the effect.
 * Does not prevent shrunk units like King Oni or Shogun Battleship from destroy themselves when hitting a building with their ramming abilities.
 * Does not undo the effect of Blackout Missile.
 * Does not prevent sniped vehicles from being captured.
 * Does not protect jet fighters from taking "out-of-ammo" damage and crashing.
 * Does not prevents vehicles from being infected and does not remove infection.
 * Does not prevent weapon from being leeched if the vehicle is somehow destroyed.
 * Does not prevent vehicles from being Chronoshifted or Chrono Swapped.
 * Does not protect vehicles from being destroyed by unmatched terrain when teleported.
 * Does not prevent units from being affected by Emperor's Rage.
 * Does not prevent Sunburst drone from attaching itself to the Iron Curtained unit, or slowing it down.
 * Does not affect Point-Defense Drones.
 * Does not prevent vehicles from being contaminated with Toxic Corrosion and does not remove the Toxic.
 * Does not protect Kirov Airship from damaging itself for using Volatile Fuel.
 * Does not undo Cash Bounty if already placed on the objects.
 * Does not prevent civilian buildings from being cleared or occupied.

Glitches

 * Using Iron Curtain on an Athena Cannon with Aegis Shield active or Assault destroyer with Black Hole Armor engaged would cause a graphic glitch and make the shield/field invisible.

Trivia

 * In truth, the Iron Curtain effect lasts for 28 seconds. Specifically, 25 seconds after first received and 3 seconds for area effect.
 * The real "Iron curtain" was a political border in Europe separating capitalist countries from communist countries, at the end of World War 2 until 1991, when the USSR collapsed.