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Originally Posted by LoneCollector1987
Hello,
as a former member of the FKG 2 I would be much interested in what the future of the FKG 1 and 2 would have been.
Both units were equipped with 36 Pershing 1A missiles each and were deactivated in 1991.
The nuclear warheads were under the control of a US unit, in the case of the FKG 2 it was the US Army 85th Field Artillery Detachment.
But what about the Twilight timelines?
Would something like the SLEP (Service Life Extension Programm) for aircraftcarriers happened to those missiles?
Would they have been replaced by a more modern missile or would those units turned into artillery units with 155mm guns?
I once started to write a sourcebook myself, but WRITERSBLOCK (and I dont know how to beat it) but in my timeline the missiles were replaced by the fictional Pershing III missile (range and payload nearly identical) that was a downsized version of the Pershing 2.
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I use the V2.2 Timeline and they were replaced in my timeline (like they were in reality) with generation 2 thermobaric devices. Why risk the dangers of fallout when you can have all the benefits of a tac nuke without the drawbacks? Many of the Tac Nukes were more than 20 years old (the warheads) and nearing the end of their service lives anyway. It really wouldn't take much to retrofit a Pershing with a thermobaric warhead.