Patch Post #2 for the 2017/2018 Campaign
This is a simple supplement of mostly just
DATE CHANGES with one EW change as noted below. I hope you can accommodate them. However the subject matters aren't, as you'll read below. Most of these deal with
my favorite two OOB's India and Turkey. Enough said here about them.
CHANGES
JETS PLANES BUT NO UAVS HERE.
C5. USA/UNIT 921/F-35A/EW 12// This would match the others grouped with it (
Currently at EW 9) and I believe this was the only one I could find with this difference. Submitting here in case it was "lost" from
Post #212.
MBT’s
C3. TURKEY/UNIT 614/ALTAY/START DATE JAN 2019// Well I believe this will be the 3rd or 4th time I've submitted a change to this tank since I first submitted it. You can apply the last statement to the
ARJUN below as well.
So to
ALTAY a brief synopsis, had contract issues, technical issues finally they got worked out, then in 2016 as the program was just starting to come around, they had severe political issues with
Austria which dealt a
serious blow to the program. The issue was "human rights" based forcing Austria (And Germany in the background.) to back out of the
Engine and
Power packs they were to supply etc.
This set up an indigenous competition to development the same for the
ALTAY the winner was just announced this past week, as I eluded to in my last MBT post I believe. Quote is taken from
ref. 1.
"In the Altay serial production race BMC will be competing with FNSS and Otokar, the maker of Altay’s prototypes. Procurement sources say the government’s
final decision on the multibillion-dollar
serial production contract will
likely come later in 2018."
I do expect this to slip, just "the nature of the beast" I guess. Because as you can see I'm only allowing 1 yr. from production to FOC+.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/febr...nous_tank.html
https://www.defensenews.com/industry...-expectations/
https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com...project-05012/
This last
ONLY for context, because I just know someone will read it and get overly excited.
Please note the date of it and
remember what you read above. This clearly should demonstrate how easy it is to
derail a program and the need to
follow up on them. I said years ago and I believe some might remember this, when the game was set to expire in
2020, I felt we'd be lucky to see these
3 tanks in the game based on what I was tracking with them. Here it's
2018 and look where we're at with the
ALTAY, ARJUN Mk II and ARMATA. All
3 are game changers in RL, we should all be thanking Andy and Don for giving us the extension so these can get in.
https://thediplomat.com/2016/04/good...ss-production/
C4. INDIA/UNIT 021/ARJUN Mk 1+/START DATE JAN 2020.// Recommend you put this in a status for scenario purposes and taken out of normal game playing status. To me that's all just "
PFM" (Might get in trouble if I spelled out what PFM means.
) and why Don does that and NOT me!!
So you'll just love this. It applies to the
ARJUN Mk II as well. What's the problem with the
LAHAT, well first they had compatibility issues that took about
3 yrs to resolve, than the Indian Army said
something along the lines of..."
Wonderful that you've fixed the problem, well done, however LAHAT has a minimum Rng. of 1500m's and that is no longer acceptable, we want one that has a minimum Rng. of 1200m's now. So sorry, tea anyone?" Yeah that was about
3 years ago. Seems to coincide with something else HMmmm! The smart ones will figure that out. But you'll all be glad to know that the
LAHAT "seems" to be back in again!!
Sorry I digress.
C5. INDIA/UNITS 022 & 023/ARJUN Mk II/START DATE JAN 2020.//The Army doesn't want them other factions in the Government do. After
ARJUN Mk I soundly defeated all their other tanks (They didn't enter the
T-72 variants in service because they already knew what the result would be.) in opeval completion that lasted several months. The next step was the above tank. The main issues were weight, want of a better FCS, in all about, depending on refs.
85-100 improvements. This was accomplished in over the last
~3 yrs or so, and the Army still doesn't want it. They should really rethink that after the
EMBRASSMENT they suffered when they choose to enter their
T-90S variant in the
2017 Russian Tank Biathlon. India was disqualified because the tank
broke down.
The ref. below is the latest and greatest on the matter.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com...w/61177561.cms
HELO News game related.
C3. AUSTRILIA/UNITS 457 - 462/TIGER ARH/TIGER ARH-AT/START DATE DEC 2008.// These helicopters have had problems from every user to include
several groundings by this country, France and Germany. They are all well documented. Australia received the first of them in late
2004 and had some issues from the start that pushed
FOC+ back. The ref. below should be all I need here I believe. It indicates when the first
3 entered Squadron service in Darwin. Also by
2008 I'm sure they had the
HELLFIRE Missiles by then as well.
Ref.1 is dated
NOV/DEC 2008. This has been
LONG on my list to get fixed and just got lost along the way until recently-
sorry for the inconvenience.
http://www.airbushelicopters.com/w1/.../customer.html
https://www.army.gov.au/our-future/m...ects/arh-tiger
All new and current pics for others good.
I'm only on requests now, should something "pop up".
Regards,
Pat
