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Old 06-12-2019, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b View Post
The Iranian Army never operated the British Challenger Tank
They were all set to buy large amounts of the Challenger 1. but this deal was scotched by the Iranian Revolution. The British tried to fill Iran's immediate need for a modern tank by offering them an upgraded Chieftain; these too were cancelled by the Revolution. However, the Jordanians saw that the British had 125 tanks they had no use for, asked for a few more upgrades, and still got them at a bargain price. They call them the Shir 2.

The Soviet Mi-17 transport helicopter never existed.
Not true; the Mi-17 is a progressive improvement of thr Mi-8. I will grant you that the Iranians might not have them in T2K; it depends on how close they were to the Soviets in the T2K timeline.

The US Air Force never operated the Hughes 530 helicopter
True, but the Nightstalkers did operate then and do to this day.

The US Navy never operated the Dutch Fokker F-27
The Navy does have a few of them, but probably not in the T2K timeline.
The Army operates a good number also. They are handy jump aircraft in SOCOM, and they have found the F-27 can be modified for "additional uses."

The Iranian Revolution killed off all Western arms exports to Iran. The Iranians had ordered the Chieftain Mk.5 (P), Shir 1 and Shir 2 before the revolution, and the Shir-2 was reworked in Britain in the aftermath of the cancelled order and became the Challenger 1. All versions of the Iranian Chieftain tanks were unlikely to have been fitted with Cobham armour. T2K does state that Iran became more friendly with the West before the Twilight War started, but I doubt they received any Challenger I's from Britain as the British Army was building up its strength for the war in Europe and would not have been able to spare them from its already relatively limited stocks.

Mi-17 was a typo, it should have been Mi-27. The Mi-27 never existed.

The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Nightstalkers ) is part of the US Army

The US Navy VOJ-24 operated 4 Fokker F-27 and 2 Brequet Atlantique as naval air units under USAF control. The Atlantique is a marine-patrol or anti-submarine aircraft and by assumption the F-27 would be the marine patrol version (F-27 200-MAR or Maritime Enforcer), as the US Navy has no real use for a troop transport like the US Army C-31A Troopship. The F-27 200-MAR was never used by any US forces.
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