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Country equipment updates
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:28 am
by 7.62
I see our antipodean friends will be keeping the GHQ staff busy changing the list of equipment operated down under.
First remove Tiger helicopter to replace with Apache and now scrap all the NH-90's and replace with new Black Hawks.
Big changes.
Re: Country equipment updates
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 6:10 am
by redleg
I admit it. I had to look antipodean up in the dictionary.
Re: Country equipment updates
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:07 pm
by Roger H
The Frogs kinda got screwed over on all fronts …..not just with the submarines .
Are the Aussies still looking at the French Caesar SP guns to replace the 105mm light guns and the 198s?
Re: Country equipment updates
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 11:21 pm
by BenfromBrooklyn
Give GHQ time!
They still have to add the FH77 Bofors 155mm (you'll find it in Sweden) to India, which has more of them, and more importantly gives them great credit for success in the Kargil war.
Re: Country equipment updates
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:45 pm
by Splod
Roger H wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:07 pm
The Frogs kinda got screwed over on all fronts …..not just with the submarines .
Are the Aussies still looking at the French Caesar SP guns to replace the 105mm light guns and the 198s?
Nope. We no longer have any 105mm in service, and the M198 has already been replaced with the M777. We don't currently have any self-propelled artillery in inventory, but we've gone with the South Korean K9 Thunder. It'll be known as the AS9 Huntsman in Aussie service.
Re: Country equipment updates
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 8:24 pm
by chatto
Yeah we've done a LOT of chops and changes recently.
Basically, in the next ten years you'll see a lot of modifications.
AH-64E Apache replacing the Tiger (never really reached full service capability that thing!)
UH-60M and MH-60R Blackhawk/Seahawk helicopters back on the scene replacing the Taipan (MRH-90 was okay, but again never really cut the mustard)
Latest M1 variant with the SEP V3 and the active protection systems.
Some new IFV, it might be either the KF-41 Lynx (Boxer IFV/Puma turret and a FV510 Warrior Hull at this time) OR the AS-21 Redback (Harder to emulate as there are no seven-roller hulls available, but I'd use the K-21's turret on whatever hull).
K-9 155mm cannon
HIMARS rockets, we'll probably be using more of the missile systems instead of the rocket pods, but the HIMARS in the shop will cover it!
There's nothing that looks like the Hawkei currently in GHQ, somewhere else has one but that's as far as I'll discuss here.
Infantry wise I use a mix of another sources Australian infantry and US soldiers from GHQ. Still waiting for literally anyone to make an 84mm Carl Gustav carrying soldier however!