Some more Spring cleaning to "unmask" my working refs for the coming campaign.
1. Don't know if the end result will be the
ANDERS ,however it is likely. Polish industry getting together to ensure the end product will be made in Poland.
http://www.armyrecognition.com/febru...m_2502131.html
FYI.
2. Submitted some changes two or three years ago to Chile's LEO 2A4CHL which needed to be brought up to the LEO 2A6 standard as I recall. The issue here will be if Chile upgrades the proposed LEO 2A5
if bought to the CHL level or not. But in either case it still might require an
ADD of either a LEO 2A5CHL (With the same numbers of the 2A4CHL.) or do the calculus again to figure out which LEO 2A5 they'll buy if not modified. And you thought equipment submissions were easy to make!?!
http://www.dmilt.com/index.php?optio...rica&Itemid=58
TRACK/ADD.
3. Well in this case the calculus paid off, Indonesia is getting the LEO 2A6. I had held off in submitting it sooner as there were many reports at the time that it might be the LEO 2A4 with the REVOLUATION Kits (Making them similar in looks and attributes to Singapores and Turkeys (Added last year.) upgraded LEOs). This was one of the few sites to report it as LEO 2A6 tank from the start as indicated in the first ref. In an earlier commentary I felt that Indonesia after losing the Dutch LEO deal wouldn't take a couple of steps back for 2A4s, when the Dutch tanks were 2A6 marks. The last ones show the order was increased to 163 tanks.
The MARDER I'll address separately elsewhere.
http://www.armyrecognition.com/july_...a_1007125.html
http://www.armyrecognition.com/july_...2_0307121.html
http://www.army-technology.com/news/...anks-indonesia
http://www.dmilt.com/index.php?optio...asia&Itemid=56
FOLLOW UP.
4. Saudi Arabia looking at Turkey for a future ALTAY buy possibly. Somebody won't be happy about that!?!
http://www.armyrecognition.com/april...a_2804132.html
TRACK.
5. One last time to mark the end of an era. I don't believe it was posted here the first time, but in a different thread.
http://www.stripes.com/news/us-army-...rmany-1.214977
FYI.
6. Peru will try again for new tanks. Hey there's those Dutch LEOs again, won't the Parliament ever let the Government and Military sell those tanks!?! It would put them on par with Chile next door if I remember my geography correctly.
http://www.dmilt.com/index.php?optio...rica&Itemid=58
TRACK.
Well except for Peru possibly, another S. American country that recieved a significant upgrade of their tanks from a middle eastern country and some minor fixes on tanks items I submitted in the last PP, that's all I foresee in the tank world for the coming campaign. It'll be SPA/SPAA Light, APC medium and Jet/Plane heavy as that area has been neglected for a couple of years now.
Have a good night and it's back to the salt mines tommorrow.
Regards,
Pat