1. About the
VT-4 for
Thailand UNIT 020...
From SIPRI (Slightly Modified Format)
Supplier/ No Year(s) Year No.
recipient (R) ordered ordered delivered Comments
China
R: Thailand 28 VT-4 Tank 2016 2017 28 THB4.9 b ($140 m) deal
34 Type-07P/VN-1 IFV 2017 THB2.3 b ($58 m) deal; delivery planned by 2020
10 VT-4 Tank 2017 THB2 b ($58 m) deal
We based date on late 2017 delivery a posted and for training. Also I believe they received those additional tanks in latter part of 2018. Should be posted in here.
https://www.janes.com/article/85735/...ks-from-china/
http://www.defenseworld.net/news/209...l#.XFas13dFzoo
UPDATE:
USMC M1A1 FEP: Looking more like
JUN/OCT 2009. Sources showing
FOC closer to end of production.
BRADLEY M3A3: Still holding at 3 UNITS. Holding at
TI/GSR 45 reducing my initial call on
FC to 22 vice 25.
BRADLEY M3A3 BUSK: 3 UNITS no change to current
TI/GSR 50 FC 25 vice current 20. The BUSK besides the Armor got also a
COMPLETLY new FCS. I believed these got submitted with the
M1A2 SEP V2. I've found a
VERY close relationship between the SEP tanks to the BRADLEY,
especially in the area of electronics.
M1A2 SEP/MIA2 SEP V1: Of all the above,
this was the worst PITA of them all. The information just kept overlapping, in fact the
SEP V1 I only saw in a small number of references as compared to articles going from
SEP to SEP V2. I've spent a lot more time on this issue than I cared to as the submission clock is winding down and my focus was elsewhere at the time. It's OK, CINCLANTHOME knows only to well when I get a "mission" in my head I'll do it until there's no more to do.
http://www.military-today.com/tanks/m1a2_sep.htm
(Though the START DATE is
1999(?), that is correct for when the contract was awarded for
1 M1A2 SEP MBT.) I hope you see the point I'm trying to make here, this was the
ONLY one where I ran into with this date that at least
DID had a question mark.
That being said as far as I'm concerned at this moment, I believe you'll get a slot back in the USA OOB. I'll take a closer look at
UNITS 316/317 and go from there. The start date is the issue to be resolved I'm thinking it'll fall somewhere between
JUN 2004 - JAN 2008. End date will be
DEC 2025 as I don't think they'll be updated to the
SEP V3 before games end due to the push to get the
M1A1 and the soon to be operational "new"
M1A1 SA upgraded first. The contracts are being awarded if you will, oldest to newest and somewhere in there the
USMC M1A1 FEP as well.
And I was just getting ready to fix some T-90S tanks that need fixing. That'll be easy compared to this.
John how about that JANE's!?! 
Maybe for CHRISTMAS? 
Regards,
Pat
