Army without 'vital vehicles'

[Aidan Closed Account Find all posts View Profile Close Aidan]

C-T, is that a Sprut?

[trellheim Lord Chief Bottlewasher Find all posts View Profile Close trellheim]

Raise you a

[yellowjacket Potential Liability Find all posts View Profile Close yellowjacket]

Lads, try and keep this on topic will ye?

[paul g C/S Find all posts View Profile Close paul g]

CT true, but if you oretend the Scorpion is a tank, as you do in training exercises, then it helps in tactics.


As for overseas training, fine for one big exercise a year, but the battalion has to be deployable, having a few MBT wouldn't hurt.

[yellowjacket Potential Liability Find all posts View Profile Close yellowjacket]

At the price those Leopards are available for, you could buy a few extra, and keep them at an overseas training location (eg Germany or Poland - both Leo2 users), and contract out maintenance to them.

[paul g C/S Find all posts View Profile Close paul g]

y-j.

In that case why not do what C.T suggested.



Personally i think a few tanks would be a very useful training tool all levels, and wouldn't break the bank.

[yellowjacket Potential Liability Find all posts View Profile Close yellowjacket]

Presumably (theoretical) Irish vehicles would be localised somewhat, and inevitably different systems would be installed over time, comms etc.

[California Tanker My tank is bigger... Find all posts View Profile Close California Tanker]

Yes, it's an SP Sprut.

That's OK, Paul.. They kept pretending that the Fougas were combat aircraft...

NTM

[paul g C/S Find all posts View Profile Close paul g]

hey, during the 1920's and early 1930, everybody laughed when the german army used to exercise with tanks made out of cardboard and mountedon bikes, but they all stopped laughing in 1940.

[Guest Close Bud Fox]

With the possibility of the introduction of carbon taxes the Army could go "Green".
The SHADOW RST-V - a nice option.

http://www.army-technology.com/proje...dow/index.html

[yooklid 6-40509-04014-7 Find all posts View Profile Close yooklid]

With the Suspension lowered it looks like the APC from aliens...

[Johnny2Stripes C/S Find all posts View Profile Close Johnny2Stripes]

Look at this table - the T90 looks good!
http://www.indiadefence.com/T-90.htm
http://military-graphics.net/t72-t90/t-90a.jpg

Its lighter than the Leo11 and has a crew of 3

Its also cheaper new- so if we could get them second hand...Check out the spec- it even has air conditioning!
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/t-90.htm

[Come-quickly Commandant Find all posts View Profile Close Come-quickly]

For reasons I couldn't bring myself to reitereate again no one will buy eastern defence equipment in the EU it would upset too many of the people you'd need helping you

[California Tanker My tank is bigger... Find all posts View Profile Close California Tanker]

I can't keep up these days with knowing what countries are in the EU, but Greece for sure is one that uses a decent amount of Eastern-bloc equipment. Cyprus and Finland are two European countries that do.

I believe Sweden had selected the Mi-28 for its new attack helicopter, but that got axed on financial reasons.

NTM

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Scorpion Upgrades

Come on guys just how many scorpions do we have! Im ashamed to say less than 10?