Well I felt kind've bad about the last post by Don. History has shown that at times equipment I've "reported on" has made it into this game without myself actually having had submitted it to Don. As noted in the past many times and speaking ONLY for myself, our arrangement has been simply if there's strong evidence to support it we'll work within a six month "swag' of the expected fielding date based mostly on including the training/certification of the crews for that piece of equipment as I've recently posted in this thread on the U.S. Army training for the Abrams in response to a question from Don. You
don't automatically field a unit without training first unless in time of war and the game does this (
Or did.) when you upgraded tank Y for tank Z
IN YOUR CORE UNITS WITH THE EXISTING CREW, you took a small hit in the crews experience level.
This will be the case when India does get and operate the T-90MS. They have very experienced crews that have operated the T-90S for a very long time now and as a reminder they've licensed built the same also for a very long time.
Status thus far for India is the contract has been signed since last November 2016 as also reported by
SIPRI they also confirm reports from the web that the deal is worth just over 2 Billion U.S. for
464 units of the T-90MS. India's MOD is pushing hard to get
64 units directly from Russia for immediate deployment to the Pakistani border as there have been several border clashes involving the killing of Indian soldiers at the border. Well Russia has to build them first. No status of delivery of those tanks yet. I can confirm none were delivered by the end of 2016. You should know I'll be watching for developments.
My best guess would be around Oct. 2017 earliest.
To my opening section for now on when I post in any of "my" threads you will see as the lead one of or both of the following "tag lines"
FYI and
Fielded anything under those "tags lines" well means just that and
NOTHING ELSE.
Don my apologies if something I posted lead you to entering the tank in India's OOB.
Regards,
Pat
