Current AFVs with withdrawn from service variants

[Legbreaker]

With Indonesia making waves just next door, the only troops sent to Korea are not going to be first line that's for sure.
I see 9 Brigade being tasked with rear area security and perhaps reinforcement and occasional recce. They're unlikely to be in the front line except in extremis.
Therefore infantry is probably a decent option, especially when in defence in rugged terrain.

[Arrissen]

Originally Posted by HorseSoldier

My thinking was the possibility of the Australian military looking at a possible commitment in Korea or the Middle East as the mid 90s go down the drain. The Korean theater of operations in that time frame would still be rugged terrain but the other side is hugely gunned up from it's 1950s predecessor. I don't know how well an infantry centric force would hold up without some heavy firepower (a similar issue I see with some of the US forces in theater). The Aussie Leo I's could be sent but they're not ideal (fast/thin skinned for Korea seems a bad idea -- more viable for a force sent to CENTCOM maybe). Anyway, being able to gun up an Australian or ANZAC brigade with a battalion (-) of heavy armor would make a big difference when rolling up against North Korean motor rifle units or when the Soviets jump in even more.

But, anyway, just an idea.

Yeah, at least they'd finally get a decent tank battle! A beefed up ANZAC battle group could have been possible and probably would have been more likely for Korea than the Middle East, I think. But who know's what the Australian foreign policy on such problems might have been in the mid-nineties in the T2K timeline, and who would have foreseen the war going nuclear anyway, I mean really? Obviously once that happened no one was playing brinkmanship anymore were they? More like sinkmanship!

[Abbott Shaull]

Originally Posted by Arrissen

Yeah, at least they'd finally get a decent tank battle! A beefed up ANZAC battle group could have been possible and probably would have been more likely for Korea than the Middle East, I think. But who know's what the Australian foreign policy on such problems might have been in the mid-nineties in the T2K timeline, and who would have foreseen the war going nuclear anyway, I mean really? Obviously once that happened no one was playing brinkmanship anymore were they? More like sinkmanship!

As food for thought many of the last US M48s and M60s AFVs were serving in active service with the 2nd US ID and then some cases were handed over to the South Koreans or sold else where when M1 production had made it to the point where Germany and State side units had made the switch. Including pre-position war stock in Europe.