British Army Equipment in the Later Twilight War

[Legbreaker]

I'm not Irish so what I'm saying might not be completely accurate, however from what I can see, Ireland was a member of the Commonwealth up until April 1949.
There appears to be a few exceptions and so forth regarding this status though with Ireland still being able to participate in the Commonwealth Games and it's citizens born prior to 1949 able to claim British citizenship. There's a few other things as well that differentiate Ireland from every other non-commonwealth country and there appears to be a move towards Ireland rejoining the Commonwealth.

[Fusilier]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker;28012from

what I can see, Ireland was a member of the Commonwealth up until April 1949.

Which is why I said over half a decade.

Originally Posted by Legbreaker;28012from

There appears to be a few exceptions and so forth regarding this status though with Ireland still being able to participate in the Commonwealth Games and it's citizens born prior to 1949 able to claim British citizenship. There's a few other things as well that differentiate Ireland from every other non-commonwealth country and there appears to be a move towards Ireland rejoining the Commonwealth.

Those exceptions aren't explicit to only Ireland. A few other states have had the same inclusions but it doesn't make them members or half members or anything like that.

[Legbreaker]

From what I read, only Mozambique has similar status with the Commonwealth as Ireland. Of course that's taken from wiki, so who knows how accurate it is.

[Tegyrius]

While I was poking at 1st Armoured for the Czech book, I noticed that the Royal Engineers have received or are about to take delivery on rather a lot of new heavy equipment (Trojan, Titan, Terrier). How much of that stuff was in development back in the '90s and plausibly could have been rushed to production?

- C.

[Legbreaker]

You'd have to say it was at least in development in the mid 90's for it to make the late 1997 cut off for new technology. It would be extremely difficult, if not impossible to introduce anything new after the nukes except on a prototype and handmade basis.

[pmulcahy11b]

1st Armored? Is this a site I should know about?

[Tegyrius]

No specific site, Paul. I was just making a general reference to the research I did on 1st Armoured Division.

Leg - yeah, I just don't know which of those vehicles, if any, started development that early. I know the REME had CARRVs during Operation Telic, so I suspect it's possible at least a few prototypes would have been around in time for the T2k timeline.
- C.

[Legbreaker]

Hmm, with the first production hull of the Terrier only entering production on the 27th of January 2010, I'd say there's absolutely no chance of it, or the other two vehicles even being conceived in the T2K timeline. I tend to estimate that even in wartime you're looking at a minimum of 18 months from design to the first production models. Therefore these particular vehicle would almost need to be on the drawing board even before hostilities commenced and the requirement for them became known.
Of course that's just three vehicle types - you'd have to look at each one individually to work out if it's a possibility (and I think Paul's probably done 95% of that legwork already).