Historical Design Notes Thread

[Mobhack]

Mark Felton article just out, Japan's National Police Reserve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSUdVn5QvI

(The previous story was about a record transatlantic glider tow, or what happens if your father in law really doesn't like you!)

[MarkSheppard]

Added this to my site:

EXCERPTS -- Soviet Amphibious Forces: Tasks and Capabilities in General War and Peacetime -- A Research Paper (June 1979)

It's an excerpted run through of the full paper, which you can find 3.1 MB PDF HERE

as a result of me going into the rabbit hole on Soviet thought on Amphibious landings

Might be of use to campaign/scenario designers for Cold War Gone Hot scenarios, for designing useful REDFORCES to use.

For example:

In recent years, many active and reserve Sverdlov-class cruisers equipped with 152-mm guns have undergone conversion or modernization, ensuring the continued availability into the early 1980s of large-caliber naval gunfire.

The last Sverdlovs left the fleet in like 1990.