[rfisher]

Thanks for the replies chaps. Very useful stuff (I can't believe I didn't know about the binocular button!)

Another thought that struck me the other day is this;
shouldn't the OOB be a little more creative with the truth to allow for what a country would buy if it was involved in a serious war. For instance, I read the other day that the British Army was about to buy a bunch of APCs and patrol vehicles like ones used more commonly in the US Army due to the circumstances of its deployments.
I also saw on a website once (Vickers possibly), a light tank with the Sabre/Scorpion/Scimitar sort of chasis, but instead of a gun on the turret it had a couple of missile launchers! Isn't there a situation where the British Army would have ordered a bunch of those? My point being, a lot of the battles we set up for ourselves in SPMBT are fictional (WWIII etc) so why shouldn't the OOB be a little fictional?