*Post*-TDM armor production.

[Legbreaker]

My guess is the factory was actually a primary target rather than the city itself. Any damage to the city would probably be either a byproduct of the attack on the M113 factory, from another warhead in the MIRV, or both.

[TrailerParkJawa]

I alwasy had a more literal interpetation of the target list for the USA proper. I do remember that only attacks of a certain size where listed but ran on the assumption that tonnages less than 250k were reserved for battlefields. Meaning most of them were smaller tacticals.

The plant in San Jose most certainly could be hit by a MIRV from the Benecia attacks but in my mind and the material I created it was just the refineries that were hit.

I had mulled around the idea of a Soviet submarine attackign the plant with a conventional cruise missiles. Hit the plant at lunch time or a shift change and you'd kill a lot of employees and do some good damage. Although in none of the source material did I ever follow up with the idea.

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

My guess is the factory was actually a primary target rather than the city itself. Any damage to the city would probably be either a byproduct of the attack on the M113 factory, from another warhead in the MIRV, or both.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Wow, this thread is still going in fits and starts (rather like post TDM armor production would! ha!)

Interesting to note that AAI is located in Hunt Valley, MD. AAI is the primary producer of the RDF/LT (aka "LAV-75"). If Baltimore survived there's a chance some LAV75s could still be rolled out with remaining parts (I'm sure like all defense contracting, sub-assemblies were spread out to hell and gone).

Of course DC is a mere 60 miles away, that could make things impossible.

The LAV family is primarily manufactured at GDLS-Canada; dunno how bad Canada got pasted, nor where the factory for that would have been.

FMC is in Santa Clara so...yeah, no more M113s or Bradleys. Santa Clara is just south of the Bay and everything up that way gets hit pretty bad.

I think for the first 25 or 30 years after the war the best bet would be to keep what you have running, simplify, and when you absolutely positively need a "new" vehicle you put forth a massive effort to cobble one together out of spares.

(Of course my own non-canon Coming Home scenario would see a bunch of AFVs being taken back home - still a bunch left in Germany, too, mind.)