I have read your post and found it interesting and even checked your other one you linked to your last from the 8th of this month as well. So what more can I say then thank you for backing me up on my information submitted in "The FASTBOAT Patch Page" (TFPP) Thread
Post #172 and please note the date; Look under "
New Items" and for this topic the "
A2" submission and please read it carefully. Also it was re-posted in this it's "home" thread above in
#274. The easy part is saying "I think I'll submit this piece of equipment..." for any reason you choose to end that sentence with. The hard part is in researching the hard data and do all the checks and balances to try to submit and
present that piece of equipment to Don and ultimately everyone else out here in a manner to advocate for it, highlight the main points, present the references and finally write it up to an international audience where even in the English speaking nations how an idea is presented by the use of a term can have a different meaning. Perfect example there was an item about armor penetration a short time ago that an APC was protected up to 14.7mm rounds in the U.S. that would generally mean to include the 14.7mm round; elsewhere it seems that means it would not include that round. So we either have a communication issue or one of reaction vs research before reaction to a topic. But it's all good, we both contribute and help like many others out here but please understand that I actually do read my references so I can take those steps outlined above because I know Don and others out here will read them as well. Look at the TFPP Thread especially the earlier posts and you'll see what I'm talking about. Do I get it right all the time? No, Indonesia's LEOPARD deal I tracked that for over two years, everybody including JANE's was reporting they would get the 2A6 even after the Dutch deal fell through. Before the German deal was reported it was still 2A6 tanks, then maybe 2A4 from an undisclosed European country but still 2A6 tanks maybe from Germany you see the pattern here? Well LEOPARDS was right, Germany would be right but the 2A6 WOULD BE WRONG. Even as they were being shipped it was still being reported that the 2A6 was on the way. So guess what LEOPARD is on my list for Indonesia when I get the green light to submit equipment again? Yeah the 2A4 improved and modified Indonesian tank.
A long way around to make a point I know but who wasted their time more to make a point? I don't know and quite frankly I don't care.
Well I should post a tank issue here so, here's one I've been dealing with for years also; DRDO in India is ready to have the ARJUN MKII fielded in 2016 if the Army might want the tank before the LAHAT issue is resolved. DRDO is working very closly with ELBIT of Israel to get the techincal issues resolved. The last discusses some more detailed aspects of the tank we haven't I believe looked at yet for the game as currently entered.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/29514617.cms
http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=54792
http://www.armyrecognition.com/march...6_2303144.html
http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?o...nse&Itemid=282
Good Night!
Regards,
Pat