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West Germany at least had been thinking about a common non-MBT platform. Thing is, I don‘t have any reliable sources. It‘s beena long time. The Marder would have been replaced by the Marder 2, armed with a 35mm/50mm autocannon and missiles and protected by laminated armor, fast enough to keep up...

The Last War is still going strong (since 2005). I am a semi-regular contributor to the TL. Ask JN1 on this website, it's his baby. He was quite conservative in introducing new and exciting technologies. NATO is still playing with Abrams, Leo 2, Chally 2, Leclerc et al. while the Warsaw Pact has...

I just bought a Meng BMPT "Terminator" model in 1:35. Meng models ROCK! *ahem* I wonder what a Chally, Leopard 2 or Abrams equivalent would look like.

Not a line drawing, but the 120mm/44 Leopard Versuchsträger, including MEXAS armour modules and IR suppression for the exhaust.

I hate to rain on everybody's mobile mine wanking, but that would fly exactly once or twice. The Germans, for all their faults at that time, weren't dummies. They'd wise up to the fact that those tanks are radio-controlled. So they'd jam the frequencies, look for the controllers to kill...or...

You could take most of the cast of the Fighter Pilots' Revolt, I think.

It is difficult to understate how profoundly fucked up the DDR was financially, economically and also socially. The rot everywhere was so deep that we are still paying the price almost thirty years later... I cannot see that sorry excuse for a country surviving for much longer. Under any...

I am a bit skeptical about that. It was revolutionary rather than evolutionary and that is always a risk. Interestingly, the T-14 Armata seems to rip off many of the MBT 70's features...

I never would have pegged you for a tankie, paulo. Russia is a joke economy-wise. Especially compared to the EU. No buts about it. If European NATO decided to up the defence budget to even 1,5%, they would leave the Russian one in the dust. Hell, Germany alone on 2% would do that.

There is always the problem of accuracy, however. If the radar isn't sufficiently sophisticated, all you are doing is throwing lots of lead downrange for no discernible gain. In any case, with a gatling-type weapon, you have one hell of an ammunition storage problem on a mobile land platform. I...

The 120mm rounds for the Rheinmetall gun have a combustible case. All that's left after firing is the baseplate.

There is a noticeable and vicious anti-NATO attitude in Greece. The posters around Suda Bay and in Chania are something to behold.

And just imagine how THAT one would go over internationally :rolleyes: It would be a PR and foreign policy disater of the highest order. West germany would be absolutely within its moral rights to foist the refugees upon the Benelux states and France. The borders are nearly impossible to fortify...

Again? :confounded::rolleyes: Okay. The DDR was in such a shit state in ALL aspects that a state can be in a shit state that it would not have had a chance of a paper cat being chased through hell by a pack of asbestos dogs to survive for much longer without the USSR propping it up. Its export...

The racing tank is missing an ah.com sponsor decal! I am aghast. What a blunder :mad: :biggrin:

Friedrich III. not taking up smoking, his wife having a competent physician to get Willy 2 out healthy (without a crippled arm and slight brain damage thanks to hypoxia), Willy 2 having decent, liberal teachers. Friedrich III. successfully standing his ground against the nationalist faction and...

In fairness, the elelvation of the undercarriage is at its maximum. However, I cannot imagine a scenario where another Jagdpanzer that late in the 20th century would be useful. The Jaguar wasn't introduced on a lark...

Taake a good, hard look at the (West) German constitution, specifically the part about outlawing wars of aggression (also covered in our criminal code). Take another look at the NATO treaty details. Then shitcan this and try to think up a more plausible German-screw. I am outta here.

Now that is something I would like to have heard :) I have no idea where Iceland stood when it came to being reinforced but I am willing to bet it would be quite high up on the totem pole. Iceland was too important to NATO to leave hanging.

If there is nobody at home on Iceland, that might actually work. Once again: The US Army had the 187th Infantry Brigade earmarked for the defence of Iceland. A brigade of troops is more than enough to contest an air landing by a division and even an amphibious landing by a divisional force.