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I know Bernard has been working on expanding the number of Territorial and Home Service Force battalions. He's aware of the errors in the posted version, and I'll add that I've seen a version of the British Army ORBAT that corrects many of the errors mentioned and has added battalions. It's a work ...

Simon, I am working on the updated British Army ORBAT now. Suffice it to say TLW Army concentrated on things the IRL Army had as aspirations/priorities. Other than 5 RTR and some other additions to the RA/RE/RLC, the RAC and Inf sought to fully man the units they had. Additionally the AI & MW so...

Just a Warning Order… Bernard and I are currently trying to get a grip on updating the ORBAT. A ton of documents have been released since TLW started, so things that were guessed at/like to have turned out somewhat differently from what was planned prior to IRL Wall Fall. So we are trying to reconci...

Bernard,

Please shoot me an email, I am trying to update the ORBAT and have some questions.

Simon, I will post the RN and Army stocks too I left out the Sonobuoys for RAF, they had different stocks from the RN in different categories. I will post them also. RN & RAF seem to have followed the NATO Stockpile Planning Guidance (SPG) which was for 30 days of war. As I previously said, the ...

RAF As ofMay 1990 SRAAM (ie SIDEWINDER) NATO SPG = 4438 RAF Stock =4413 MRAAM NATO SPG = 2241 RAF Stock = 2242 (SKYFLASH) 383 (SPARROW) 27mm Ammo HEI/APHE NATO SPG = 574320 RAF Stock = Full stock of 30+ days JP233 NATO SPG = 1370 RAF Stock = Full stock of 30+ days to be continued......

Give me a few, I’ll post it by this weekend

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 12:48 am The CAT competitions were totally unrealistic and a lot of countries cheated.

Yes, in Richard Kent’s Challenger 1 book he delves into that. U.S. Army team was caught taking pictures and videos of the range, etc.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 6:30 pm And despite CAT 87 its Tank gunnery was also probably amongst the best in NATO too. Something later proved on the battlefield. Just not a European one.

Yes Sir, you are certainly correct on that account. Made more so by the advent of Chally2.

Just a brief note on how 1 BR Corps planned to fight in 1989 The FEBA was supposed to be from the IGB to the Leine, with 3 Armd Div in hides between the Weser and Leine. However by 1989, in practice the Rear Boundaries for 1 & 4 Armd Divs extended to the Weser. This was because 3 Armd Div might ...

Question does the regular Mechanized Wheeled Battalion that served in Communications Zone and Rear Combat Zone which was 2nd Bn, The Royal Green Jackets in Lousid BOAR orbat still exist? There were two regular Type A/Mechanized Wheeled (aka Saxon) Bns that would set up the LOCs on TTW, Joint Theatr...

I will post the page regarding U.S. formations… II MEF would stage through the UK coming in via Liverpool (port) and Manchester (airfield). UK was also set to stage 9 IND but by 1989 they were informed that the 9th would go direct to a BALTAP. The PA ARNG’s 28IND was due to stage thru the UK but the...

I was thinking, if this ever came to fruition (CETB), would not the best deployment for Canada be back in NORTHAG, perhaps to cover the Belgian sector?

Canadian European Theatre Base

Forgot to mention that Canada was in discussion with the UK to set up a supply depot in the UK also, again never materialized due to Wall fall.

IIRC, after the CAST Bde was removed from Norway and had a mission to “round-out” 1 Can Div in FRG, a NATO Composite Force was being formed. I believe it was a Canadian Bn Gp, a U.S. Arty Bn/Bty, and other odds & sods. I will try to look it up. Additionally in the late 1980’s a MEB had POMCUS eq...

I forgot to add that Leo 2 and M1A1 was in the running, but unless the FRG gave license right for
Leo 2 to be built in Canada it would be problematic to get new builds/replacements in wartime since I am told the main Leo 2 factory was 48 hours away from being overrun by a Soviet Front.

While I'm in no way shape or form an expert on this, I suspect that the Corps 86 idea that's been mentioned might have been more than a staff exercise to be honest. Some time ago, I happened upon old official Canadian late cold war/early post-cold war-era training films on YouTube that go into the ...

While on the topic, Bernard, did the UK buy up the World Tea supply again on TTW?

https://blog.teabox.com/year-britain-bought-tea-world