Amen to that.
It seems since the Ukrainian Crisis started and we entered into the "Chilled/or Chilly(?) War" all this equipment is coming out of the woodwork, though in regards to the Russian ARMATA Package that's a long "on again off again" program going back to the "
BLACK EAGLE". We respond by moving up the M2A2 SEP V3 program, UK with the CHALLENGER upgrades with Germany, France etc. etc. responding in kind. Australia is practically revamping their entire Army and it's equipment from an Infantry based one to one that'll be more mobile and Armor heavy.
Every current truck in their inventory will be replaced by about 4-5 variants of the German MAN family of trucks within the next five years or less. It's the largest military truck deal made in a very long time.
We are in a period now worldwide of the greatest introduction of new equipment we've seen probably since the Cold War. And for us that'll present it's own set of issues which is why I'm being a little more cautious than normal and spending more time tracking and researching many of these pieces of equipment and trying to sift through the data to find the "
commonalities" among the many refs out to properly establish as solid a baseline for any given piece of equipment becoming available to us.
Quite frankly, I don't want to spend the next fifteen years "fixing" equipment when I can be playing with it in a game instead.
It's just where my "heads at" right now.
The
EITAN Icon looks real good!
Sometimes I wish I had another "me" I could pull out of a box to help me here, however, and I hear you, that thought scares the
crap out of me as well let alone what how CINCLANTHOME would feel about that!?!
Anyway Savannah calls in the morning where a little R&R and a couple of "pints" of SMITHWICKS in the evening should set the world right again!
Enjoy your weekend everyone and take care.
Regards,
Pat
