Military museums of USA

[General Pain]

http://www.olive-drab.com/od_history_museums_us.php

I think for US campaigns old military museums could be used as a way of getting equipment that might be repariable or in working condition.

[General Pain]

http://www.olive-drab.com/od_other_navy_ships.php3

[General Pain]

http://www.olive-drab.com/od_other_aviation.php3

[WallShadow]

One of the links was to sites of VFW posts, American Legion posts, etc., that have military vehicles as permanent outside displays. Just how demilitarized/disabled/dewatted are these items, and what, if at all possible, would be required to bring them backup to operable condition?

I envision several of the WW2 vehicle restoration clubs becoming very useful to either Milgov, Civgov, or New America (for heavy-duty repairs to any of their heavier vehicles, or for those captured after being hit by AT fire). And probably these clubs would be the ones tasked to bring the old relics back online after the TDM.

[jester]

Bringing old monument pieces back online would be a task of the most difficult order.

I recall crawling inside a couple in Hawaii outside a museum at Fort DeRussey.

Large sections of metal were missing inside, lots of heavy rust, most of the interiors were missing. Engines were one bit rusted piece of metal or missing, Weapons <main guns> missing the entire rear breach, or just a semiliar piece of pipe, not transmissions and sometimes not even real wheel assemblies.

And then we have the whole armor, often it was rusted and prepped for painting but full of holes and pits and patches that a good hit and the shock would have made the repairs useless.

And then, where does one get parts for such a thing? All would need to be handmade.

I used an example in my Ashes campaign, where the locals simply put pieces of plat metal at an angle on a towtruck and turned it into an armored car, then mounted a machinegun on it. Such a vehicle would be better suited to deal with the stressed of the armor and much newer and more reliable.

[Legbreaker]

It was the same at the armour museum I visited last weekend. Some of the vehicles were in working order, but anything that had been there more than a few years had pretty much all the internal components stripped out and were little more than shells.

On the other hand, they did have half a dozen Leopard I's, a few Centurions, half a dozen M113s, a Swedish S tank and KV-85, not to mention ex East German T-72 and BMP-1 in working order (or at least close to it). However as the place is located in the heart of Kapooka, Australia's Armour Corps training facility, it's almost guaranteed in a T2K setting they'd have been returned to service in short order leaving only the WWI and WWII shells.