Megalon Jones
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4 hours ago, acrashb said:
1) should have, but could not. NATO countries combined GDP ~18.4 Trillion, Russia GDP pre-war ~1.6 Trillion (and much of that consumed by corruption).
2) "if accurate"? Of course it's accurate. Readily verifiable.
3) Bull**** (I mean this in the academic sense - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bull**** ). Review the last twenty years of Putin's and other prominent Russian power-brokers statements. It was a question of when, not if.
But don't take my word for it: https://www.understandingwar.org/report/how-we-got-here-russia-kremlins-worldview
The "state of their army" and the "sat thing" was not a matter of choice or conflict avoidance, it was necessity driven by economics and social (corruption) factors.
At the outset of the war one could be excused for a shallow understanding driven by dominant (and shallow) media. Now? Not so much.
You’re a bit off on your calculations. The US does north of $20 trillion in GDP by itself. Once you end up with that many zeros the whole things does tend to get arbitrary and academic.
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US V Corps has been reactivated and is heading for a permanent HQ to Poland.
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Dude. Seriously.
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The NVA got a bunch of T72's but I assumed they would be sent in the FRG alongside the invasion.
2 hours ago, domfluff said:and might be an isolated light infantry force with zero-to-no artillery, holding out against a heavy, mechanised Soviet force, that will struggle to bring it's full weight to bear.
That's the thing. The Berlin Brigade was severely limited in heavy arty due to the treaties ending WW2. Whoever plays NATO in our match is going to be absolutely wedded to the TOE of the Berlin Brigade found in the QMB. No extra arty or airpower.
I'm going to figure out what tanks the US force should have as soon as I tie down an exact year. M48's or M60's?
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1 hour ago, Rooks And Kings said:
Professional Edition allows you to edit this via CSV files
Ok. Now the real question: How does one get his hands on a copy?
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On 4/14/2022 at 12:04 AM, Rooks And Kings said:
We've given them some NATO small arms equipment, along with minimal Ajax support and NVG's.
How? Isn't that hardcoded?
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Are the armband versions included in the mod pack yet?
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32 minutes ago, MikeyD said:
In our timeframe the Soviets had a robust (one might say massive) electronics warfare capability controlled at Division level. It doesn't get used much in-game because its just not 'fun' to be cut off from your air and artillery assets, not to mention cutting your command lnks. EW use in Ukraine in 2014 really made the Pentagon sit up and take notice. It might be instructive to bring your favorite scenario into the editor, turn the Russian EW up to max, then replay to see what a difference it would make. Russians wouldn't have to worry about incoming cluster munitions, in that event.
When playing solo QMB I tend to turn up the EW all the way up for both sides. I just assume that the air would be filled with tons of electronic noise making communication difficult.
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Since it’s been determined that 8GA couldn’t stack the prerequisite force strength in Fulda to mount a serious offensive, what would be the possibility of shifting parts of REFORGER units north from CENTAG into NORTHAG?
I’m enjoying the read so far.
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Bad source. Turner is a felon/Nazi apologist/conspiracy theorist.
It's like taking investment advice from a crackhead.
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1 hour ago, Probus said:
Who would be some good, friendly people to talk to about snazzing up this AR to make it more interesting? I don't have a YouTube presence per-se, nor do I really want one. But I would like to learn how to make better Combat Mission videos that draw you into the action.
Shoot the action from multiple angles. Shoot at ground level. Use easily recognizable scenery to allow people to place the action. Pay attention to continuity. Shoot more footage than you think you need. Watch Peckinpah (editing), Romero (more editing), Fuller (how to do more with less) and Kubrick (framing) films for ideas. Remember that some people get motion sick.
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My poor bookshelf overfloweth! Looks like I’m pre-ordering.
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9 hours ago, Probus said:
Reminds me of a super advanced game of Harpoon.
That's exactly what it is! I just finished a four hour user scenario focusing on a potential PRC vs Tawain situation. It doesn't bode well for Tawain. Wait until you meet the Chinese PL-15 AAM.
From Wiki......
QuoteThe missile features an active electronically scanned array radar seeker,[6] and has a range exceeding 200 km – comparable to that of the Russian R-37 missile. It is 4 meters long and incorporates a dual-thrust solid-fuel rocket motor, capable of a speed of Mach 4
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Honestly, the least important part of any PRC/Taiwan war would be the ground aspect.
This would all be decided by submarines, logistics, SSM's, cruise missiles, cyber war, EMP weapons, SAM nets and deft diplomacy in the terminal phase.
However, Slitherines Command Modern Operations (expensive, but worth it for the database alone) has an interesting DLC dealing with the subject.
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Regarding the sighting: what were they sighted at prior to the change? Or is this something completely new?
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4 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
Nobody loves poor SLUF.
Mind you, when you are named after this dude:
You have a lot to live up to.
That was my ride in IL2 1946. Nothing could catch it in the PTO with the exception of the Ki 84.
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1 minute ago, MikeyD said:
While we're snickering at MiG-23, lets remember in this timeframe US is still flying A-7 Corsair which makes MiG-23 look like Star Wars technology in comparison.
Not as a dedicated air superiority fighter. If NATO were to use the Corsair as a fighter it would’ve meant that the war was lost.
The MiG 27 was actually a much better use of the airframe especially in airfield denial with cluster munitions.
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I think the expectations for the Flogger were pretty high given how well the MiG 15/17/19/21 programs advanced VVS capabilities.
The MiG 23 was supposed to stand shoulders above the Western Gen 3 fighters especially given it’s swept wing design and look down/shoot down Fox 2 capabilities. It ended up kind of ‘meh.’
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I ain't afraid o' no ghosts!
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8 hours ago, John Kettler said:
Megalon Jones,
The ammo types you listed all fly more slowly by far than HVAPFSDS and therefore have looping trajectories compared to the KE forming your baseline. In turn, this increases the likelihood of top hits. Would say that these days, HESH/HEP would be the lest penetrating--for multiple reasons. For starters, HESH/HEP, unless vs a very weak target, doesn't penetrate at all. that's not its kill mechanism. Instead, it creates massive spall on the far side of the armor plate struck. How massive? Pie plate size and, say, two inches thick! That piece of armor steel is now tearing through the fighting compartment, demolishing men and equipment throughout, not to mention wiring, hydraulaics and ammo. Have seen a classified pic from the 1967 War in which a T-55 took a turret rear hit from what I recall as 105 mm HESH/HEP. The spall pie plate cored out the large radio and kept going. There was no further coverage of the damage in detail, but that hit would've taken the TC apart and the gunner, too. For openers. But, to my knowledge, HESH/HEP has no such capability vs modern composite armor, because the layers of various materials grossly interfere with the detonation shockwave, preventing the all-important massive spalling. Armor arrays designed to defeat HVAPFSDS KE would not find HESH/HEP much of a challenge. Thus, the last Russian tank I would deem HESH/HEP effective against frontally would be the T-62, for everything after that, from the T-64 onward, has composite armor.
HEAT can be very effective, but how effective depends on a) the armor array struck, and the particulars of the HEAT shell used. For example, Russian HEAT is designed to take advantage of impact speed as well as the primary HEAT charge. Recall, too, that an obsolete 76.2 mm Russian HEAT round recovered during the Yom Kippur War was found to be able to frontally penetrate the Gen One Abrams. And while in Desert Storm Saddam's hardened steel KE harmlessly stuck to the sides of Abrams turrets like darts, 125 mm HEAT was no joke.
Summing up, in ascending effectiveness there is HESH/HEP, then HEAT, then KE, with pride of place going to the 120 and 125 mm gunned tanks.
Regards,
John KettlerVery interesting! Thanks!
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I want to say they are extra fuel? The GSFG were supposed to be self sufficient for 72 hours before having to stop for fuel or ammo.
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1 hour ago, sawomi said:
The same book also contains a chapter by Siegfried Lautsch who was an Oberst (Colonel) in the NVA and then an Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) in the Bundeswehr. In DDR times he was - Head of the Operative Department of Military District V/5th Army of the NVA (1983-1987), Sub-Department Head for Training in the Ministry of National Defense of the GDR (1987-1990). He writes:
NVA 5th Army would have been on the most right flank up in the north on the Baltic coast and 3th Army on the most left flank south of the Thuringian Forest mountains.
That’s another reason I think we’ll get the NVA and BAOR shipped together. They share the same operational sectors.
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