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Very nice work!

Cheers: mark

HMNZS Leander (F75) HMNZS Te Kaha (F77) HMNZS Te Mana (F111) HMNZS Achilles (F148) Important - the Clarke Government falls on 27 July 2002 The entire NZDF is a hollow shell until July 2002, so in TLW we can assume that the 2005 orbat is a powerful, almost 'knee jerk' reaction to the Clarke Governmen...

This might seem atavistic (who? me??) but in TL-verse I'd expect to see Tu22K (Blinder, not Tu22M Backfire) either still in service or returning to it from reserve. The Tu22K (I'll say Blinder from now to avoid confusion) was at best a qualified success, being short-ranged, a bitch to fly with a hig...

Hi gents I modelled the attack on a known old Soviet concept (and what is a current Chinese one), which is a minor extension of the Russian, WWI and WWII German, and WWII Japanese methods of projecting their sea power into areas which are a very long distance away. The aim is to cause a lot of disru...

Johnny, I work in Navy HQ at the moment and have studied our acquisition ... aah... "policies" over the last few decades. Speaking purely historically (and I mean that very, very seriously, this is in no way a comment on post-2000 policy let alone current policy) the general trend is that ...

Re: Australian Defence Force Unread post by clancyphile » Sun Jul 30, 2023 4:53 am A little disappointed the buy of Armidale-class PCs wasn't a bit larger... and no HMAS Hammersley? BLASPHEMER! Sorry, I promised to send around the heavy mob to steal all Jan's left socks and paint his toenails pink i...

No its fine. Now if people will just stop bloody dying... I am getting tired of attending funerals. Been a bad year so far.

Cheers: Mark

Hi Jan, back after many travails. Basically I got into a fight with the registration and login processes and lost! Also, it's been a very bad year in many ways. So I had to invent a new login using my academic system here at Australian Defence Force Academy.

Cheers: Mark Bailey