Operation Iron Horse

Operation Iron Horse is the second raid to be introduced in Tom Clancy's The Division 2. This raid takes Division agents out to a foundry that has been taken over by the True Sons to liberate it and put a wrench in the True Sons' plans by the request of a worker at the foundry by the name of Zach Young.

Description
''When I landed a gig at United Ironworks, I thought I was set. Medical, dental, the works. Four days later, Green Poison killed my insurance, then my parents. Some of the crew set up camp in the foundry, and we decided to keep the lights on and reconfigure the machines to make emergency survival stuff. Try to help people, you know?''

''I guess the True Sons didn't like that. They killed most of us before I even knew what was happening. Apparently, they don't think I'm much of a threat, but I've been keeping my eyes and ears open, and I swear to God I'm going to find a way to make them pay. - Z''

Objectives
Investigate the foundry
 * Reach the foundry
 * Secure the rail-yard
 * Find a way into the foundry
 * Defeat Lieutenant Gray
 * Secure the rail-yard
 * Investigate the foundry
 * Survive the furnace room
 * Reach the forge
 * Investigate the forge interior
 * Investigate the area
 * Defeat Captain Fieser
 * Secure the area
 * Search for Colonel Morozova
 * Traverse the aqueduct
 * Deal with the snipers
 * Locate Colonel Morozova
 * Enter the furnace room
 * Prevent furnace explosion
 * Defeat Major Williams
 * Secure the area
 * Pursue Morozova
 * Prevent Morozova from escaping on the armored train
 * Reach the train crash site
 * Defeat Morozova and her armored train

Plot
Following the conquest of the Foundry by Colonel Morozova's platoon, Z kept a low profile until he found an open radio channel through which he contacted The White House, alerting Alani Kelso about the True Sons' activities at the Foundry. It is here when The Division discovers about the True Sons' usage of the Ironclad system (a chemical compound that emulates the Bonus armor that players can sometimes use).

Right at the beginning, after players defeat Lieutenant Gray, Z helps The Division with Intel on the train, and tries to guide them through the bulwark and all the path to the furnace, but gets killed by Morozova before he can help agents shut down the Furnace, making it slowly build up dangerous pressure and sending Morozova rushing towards the Iron Horse, a giant weaponized train coated with metal from the foundry equipped with a giant cannon christened, "The Earthshaker", and several mortars and defense systems.

Right at the last second, players manage to derail the Iron Horse, leading to The Division facing off against Morozova and utilizing the True Sons' automated turrets to destroy the train and subsequently kill Morozova and destroy the Earthshaker.

World's First Challenge
Massive Entertainment issued a challenge as part of the release of Iron Horse on June 30th, 2020. The first team to complete the raid on each platform would become immortalized in-game in the form of having their names and characters put in a frame inside The White House for their respective platforms.

The teams that were the first to complete the raid are:

PC: Xbox One: PlayStation 4:
 * CoverBasedGamer
 * RopeCutter
 * SOLIDFPS
 * lotofour
 * Tyrone951
 * a5onAPUSHexam
 * FleshCrunch
 * Matix-012
 * USA Mushrooooom
 * Scrub
 * SHIZZYNOW
 * WEDGE II
 * Frequency Pulse
 * ZHAMBEEE
 * stabbingking
 * Headshot Damage
 * dffghnmmkoiiygfv
 * llturco
 * gabriele94elite
 * enzoiacopo87
 * vergilisaak
 * Kempiro
 * SavageTyleR_
 * Giovyx__89

Cheats Controversy
Controversy arose when a player on the second-place squad, a content creator named MarcoStyle, admitted during his Twitch stream that his team had been using an apparently leaked document with details on what to expect in the raid. This information was soon corroborated by a teammate on Twitter. The document, which Marco says he received through a private Discord and has since been made available on Imgur, appears to be an internal breakdown of the raid’s mechanics, information that would be vital for anyone looking to beat it as fast as possible.

The community has also cast suspicion on the winners of the world’s first race. That said, the developers don’t believe it was a widespread issue. “There is no evidence that other teams have received the document and have been using it" associate creative director Yannick Banchereau said while addressing the situation.

Initial Launch
Operation Iron Horse was initially supposed to launch with Episode 2, but was delayed until later in 2020 (now known to be June 30). The developers' reasoning for this extreme delay was for them to be able to increase the quality of the raid. This came after many complaints about Operation Dark Hours and its difficulty, especially on the console.

Game-mode Delay
Operation Iron Horse has a tiered launch schedule. The normal mode launched on June 30th, with the Discovery mode launching a week later on July 7th. Also launching on July 7th is the level 30 version of the raid.