Foreign military vehicles to add to US units for variety

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by Olefin

The Littlefield collection, for sure, would have been pressed into service in CA for MilGov - especially considering how tank poor most of the units are there, both on MilGov and the Mexican side. Those tanks would prove crucial in any MilGov attempt to take back southern CA.

What's the physical address of the MVTF, though? I mean, if it's close to a primary site it's as good as done.

[Olefin]

No worries there - its in the mountains north of Santa Cruz and southwest of Sunnyvale - nothing hit anywhere near there - which means that the facility and its trained techs and vehicles is very much intact -

possibly even being used as a Depot by MilGov for its units in CA

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by Olefin

No worries there - its in the mountains north of Santa Cruz and southwest of Sunnyvale - nothing hit anywhere near there - which means that the facility and its trained techs and vehicles is very much intact -

possibly even being used as a Depot by MilGov for its units in CA

Depends on fallout patterns but it may be OK. And, assuming it is, yeah...I can see either CivGov or MilGov appropriating it for the "duration of the emergency" (and Littlefield (and by extension family) getting very good treatment as a result...probably not even triaged due to the condition that eventually took his life).

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

Depends on fallout patterns but it may be OK. And, assuming it is, yeah...I can see either CivGov or MilGov appropriating it for the "duration of the emergency" (and Littlefield (and by extension family) getting very good treatment as a result...probably not even triaged due to the condition that eventually took his life).

Most likely it would be MilGov - they have all the CA units - CivGov is pretty much confined to the East, the South and the Midwest

[Brother in Arms]

I noticed earlier in the thread a picture of the loyd carrier...
the Rhodesian used up armored and heavier armed T16 universal carriers during the war there in the 1970's.

So I can see earlier vehicles scaved up with some new armor or armaments just like the Syrians are doing in there current war.

[Olefin]

If you are playing a game in Korea there are lots of ways you could introduce alternate vehicles - South Korean, Chinese, North Korean and Russian equipment could all be part of US units

Especially with any units that got all the way to the Yalu and then had to retreat under the Russian attack - they could have cutoff Chinese troops as part of their forces, still equipped with Chinese tanks, APC's or SPG's

Especially among either the USMC units (see what they have done in Europe for ideas) for the units like 25th, 41st and 45th that lost most of their equipment in the fighting. Most likely they would be re-equipped with either captured or repaired enemy equipment or South Korean equipment that they were issued once they got back to US lines - i.e. older second line equipment

For instance in 1996 South Korea still had 400 or more M47 tanks and several hundred old M48A3 tanks in reserve storage - some of those tanks could be issued to the American units to give them an armored component again to replace the lost LAV-75's and M60A5's of those divisions.

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by Olefin

If you are playing a game in Korea there are lots of ways you could introduce alternate vehicles - South Korean, Chinese, North Korean and Russian equipment could all be part of US units

Especially with any units that got all the way to the Yalu and then had to retreat under the Russian attack - they could have cutoff Chinese troops as part of their forces, still equipped with Chinese tanks, APC's or SPG's.

Probably a bit of a long shot, but you could also add British vehicles (and troops) into that mix - the 6th UK Infantry Division briefly linked up with US forces on the Yalu around about July / August 1997 before withdrawing back to Hong Kong after the nukes started flying. It's not impossible some UK forces could have been cut off and unable to withdraw to HK with the main body of the Division so found a home with the Americans.