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Old March 16th, 2006, 04:21 AM

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Default Re: Hornets, Finland and NATO

I've made some small changes to the OOB and will post it here next weekend. Changes are:

-Leo 2A4 hull armour values same as WG Leo2 and turret front received extra points against HEAT (only a few) due to the boxes Finns use in the front turret (Germans don't use)
-Leo 2A4M armour values changed to Leo 2A5 standards
-The 120 L44 Fi07 gun changed to WG96, as the Fi gun had sabot pen of 87, which is supposed to present DM53, but the ammo Finns buy (2007) is the DM33A2 (and maybe DM43). They have penetration of 68 in the game

Finns will propably not buy the DM53 round at all, because of the expences (parts in the gun need to be upgraded and the shot wears down the gun very fast compared to DM33 and 43).

Finnish air forces are only for fighting air threats (at the moment) and it has been that way after WW2.. With 64 hornets it's most likely that during chrisis they have other stuff to do than fly low to the enemy AA to fire off few rockets and drop some bombs

MLRS was quite cheap to Finns as the system was bought used from Holland (22 launcher vehicles ~40 million euros).

When testing the SPA the army of course wanted to buy them, but no money-no funny. The system (if bought new as the plan was) would have been really heavy moneywise, so the 155mm K98 was bought instead. Of course Finns still have a number of 2S1s and 2S5s, but the new SPA was to be used with the Brig 05s, the old russian ones are used with the armoured brigs and the new mech battlegroups(?). At least the AMOS could be bought!

Someone may think after reading these posts that FDF has always moneyproblems... well, it is that way! Compromises must be made.

But anyway, till next weekend!

Zip
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