RE Swedish OOB

[DRG]

....on the list..........

BUT..........


For next time this should have been posted as it's own thread in the OOB subforum so that when we need to find it again....... we can find it.

FYI the forum "search" is a joke. After three tries using quotes from the copy I had made to my list I finally gave up and tried Google and it came up right away. That's why this whole thread has been moved and renamed


RE

However, STRIX is a mortar fired anti-tank munition, that has been used since the mid 90s by the "ordinary" 120mm mortar system. It was present in earlier versions of OOB066.

I cannot find an earlier OOB with STRIX used in a regular infantry mortar but I do not have copies of all the older OOB's...... are you saying these have been available for use in the 120mm Grk m/41D since the mid 1990's ??


Don

[wulfir]

Originally Posted by DRG

I cannot find an earlier OOB with STRIX used in a regular infantry mortar but I do not have copies of all the older OOB's...... are you saying these have been available for use in the 120mm Grk m/41D since the mid 1990's ??

STIRX is also known as 12 cm pansarsprängvinggranat 94. It is fired by the 12cm Grk m/41D mortar system. Some online sources claims it has been used since 1994. For OOB purposes maybe 1/95 or 1/96 would be suitable. I was called up in 1996 and they were in use then.

IIRC, in previous versions, and I think this was before the windows version of the game, OOB066 had an extra set of 120mm mortars with the STRIX. It was more expensive than the regular set, had reduced HE rounds and a few AP rounds. In game terms it worked similar to weapon systems with cluster munitions, on a bit smaller scale. Acceptable IMHO, although the STRIX would not be very effective against soft tagets.