Two oddities of "Bullets and Bluegrass"
Oddity Number 1
The 90mm Cockerill on the LAV-300 has explosive rounds
BUT
The 105mm tank guns do not have explosive rounds. Only solid shot. Why?
The KFS has 105mm howitzers. There seems little point in having howitzers that only fire solid shot, so there is (presumably) a capability to manufacture HE rounds in 105mm
Oddity Number Two
So MANY armoured vehicles. The KFS Army fields almost the same number of tanks as the ENTIRE British Army...(144 compared to 156)
The KFS manufactures 2 types of tank: a replica M1 and a replica M60A3. These have less armour ("half a meter at best") than the originals and lack luxuries such as weapon stabilization and laser rangefinders. There are 72 tanks in each of the "Praetorian" 6th and 7th regiments
They also make a "replica" M2 Bradley (no TOW missiles). There are 84 Bradleys in each Praetorian regiment
Oh, and let's not forget the 16 V-300's in each of the other 5 regiments
That's 144 tanks, 168 tracked IFVs and 80 wheeled APCs - 4 separate designs, each with its own logistics problem. Is there a way for the KFS to simplify things?
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