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Old July 6th, 2019, 12:11 PM
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Fallout Re: MBT's

Things are still tracking along for the U.S. Airborne forces as they are heading towards a "Rendezvous with Destiny" (101st) as it's ready to go "All the way!" (82nd) in providing fire support to it's troops on the ground. These are by way of an update to a story I've been tracking for awhile. There is a possibility that we could see the Army's final choice at FOC in the final year of the games time table. The first was reposted to the site given more recent updates from other sources.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/octo..._division.html
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-...ts-formations/


It looks like they'll try to arm it with the 105mm (Preferred.), has to meet the requirement for a C-17 GLOBEMASTER III to be able to air drop two of them and weigh no more then 40 tons.
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-She...obemaster-iii/

That airdrop video is always fun to watch!


In the meantime, and here's a switch, U.S. Airborne troops will be using "second hand" USMC LAV-25 A2 (I believe this is the same one I submitted for the last patch with improved FCS & TI/GSR inline with the USMC FEP for their M1A1 tanks.) which is a lot better than what they had which, was nothing, since the SHERIDAN's were deactivated in 1997.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...mored-vehicles

Time for lunch and off to work-"TGIF" (Mine anyway!)!!

Regards,
Pat
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