Foreign military vehicles to add to US units for variety

[Cpl. Kalkwarf]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Well, it wouldn't be the first time that Jane's has disappointed me...

I have as of late started to wonder about Janes at times. Some of their later publications have had some glaring errors in pics not matching title, etc. My guess is they need some one to do a better job of editing or fact checking..

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Jane's themselves acknowledged that some of their information was not up to spec. Later editions of the yearbooks add the word "verified" for entries that they consider have been checked.

[Adm.Lee]

A little on buried tanks... http://www.armchairgeneral.com/panze...-in-norway.htm

I wish we'd known about this years ago, when I was a student at OSU, one of the miniatures club's "experts"* had us attack one or another of the Norwegian airfields in a WW3 scenario at least twice. Hidden PzIIIs in the hills would have been just the kind of wrinkle we would have loved.

*Minis club experts (my definition): back then, most of us were students, with a handful of alumni. The latter were the guys who had money to buy & paint minis, so they were the sources of scenarios, referees, and so on. We had one guy who had WW2 tanks, another with WW3/Vietnam stuff, and so on for Am. Civil War, WW2 ships, WW2 planes, and Napoleonics. They worked out a schedule at the begining of every quarter; the rest of us just showed up and played, never bothered to read the rules.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Cpl. Kalkwarf

I have as of late started to wonder about Janes at times. Some of their later publications have had some glaring errors in pics not matching title, etc. My guess is they need some one to do a better job of editing or fact checking..

It seems Janes, like the universe, is subject to entropy.

[rcaf_777]

Another possible vehicle is TH-495 Infantry Combat Vehicle. TH-495 was a infantry combat vehicle being proposed by German-based Thyssen-Henschel for NATO countries, but it was primarily being pitched to the Canadian Forces and the then government of Brian Mulroney in the 1990s. It was planned as replacement for the Old M-113 Fleet found in many NATO nations armies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TH-495

[Olefin]

Another vehicle from the Jane's would be for the RDF forces. The Santa Barbara BMR-600 is a wheeled APC that is in service in Saudi Arabia by their Marine forces.

Knowing the US Marines proclivity for "five finger discount" (i.e. stealing anything they can get their hands on) as shown in Europe (hey isnt that a German Leopard tank in that Marine unit that just went thru town?) they could easily have managed to get their hands on several of these vehicles to replace losses.

As usual, Twilight 2000 stats can be found for the vehicle at:

http://www.pmulcahy.com/wheeled_apcs...eeled_apcs.htm