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Mobhack said:
Any actual cites for the unavailability of the T-62 in the East German army?. A bald statement unless backed up by some facts cannot be relied upon, I am afraid.
Ditto for the BMP-2. However 24 BMP-2 is enough to allow its remaining in the OOB, but the radio code might then need changing to X3 to stop any AI buy.
As to "I don't know if they exist in the SPMBT OOB... ", simply opening up Mobhack and searching on BMP will find it in oh, about 10 seconds 
cheers
Andy
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Here you go--- I was not at home when I posted yesterday so I didnt't have the source or the game ready to check,,, you may forgive me... but I do have a source, and a very good one in my opinion, see below. And, by the way: You are asking me for my source on the non-availability of T-62s and the limited number of BMP-2s... fair enough--- but then, as a conclusion from your statement above, I would call it a bit naive to include T-62s in the OOB of just about any Soviet client state per se, with a motto like 'Let them have T-62s unless someone can prove me wrong',,, as they were 'standard-issue' - without any source? In fact, as you undoubtedly know, the T-62 was in much less wide-spread use when compared to the T-55, and many armies upgraded their T-54s and T-55s until the T-72 arrived, without ever receiving T-62s.
Alright, here's my source:
Kopenhagen, Wilfried: Die Landstreitkräfte der NVA, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart; 2. Auflage, 1999; ISBN 3-613-01943-4
This book was written as the third part of a series on the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic, all of them being very detailed and highly recommended (in German, of course). The author himself served in the NVA as an officer and later he became a journalist for a military journal.
Some information as required: (my translation ;-)) "Altogether, only 24 BMP-2 were in the inventory, all of them with the 9th Armored Division. Initially, the Soviets had difficulties with meeting the delivery schedule, due to the high demand for Afghanistan, while from 1987 on, the NVA was not interested in any further BMP-2s. It was intended to transition to the BMP-3 directly, which had become available in the meantime." (page 135, together with a 2-page colour photo of NVA Grenadiers dismounting from a BMP-2).
Some sample data from the total inventory:
As of summer 1990 , the NVA had 549x T-72, some 1969x T-55 (various versions, the latest being 319x upgraded T-55AM2B), 24x BMP-2 (since 1985), 926xBMP-1SP2, 187xBMP-1P, 12xBRM-1K, 545xMT-LB, 54xPT-76, 123xZSU-23/4, 958xSPW-70 (=BTR-70), et cetera, et cetera...
The book also offers phased in-service dates and origins of almost any system in the East German army, including all kinds of vehicles and weapons, and even the most rare engineer equipment or self-made modifications of older systems.
While I am willing to make some contributions to this great game, I do, however, not have the time to spend ages on producing a correct OOB for East Germany - and, I admit, I am not so concerned with such details anyway - if I play East Germany I just won't use them T-62s
cheers,
Shan