History, Politics And Current Affairs

Jotun, I've long, long believed that we really dropped the ball on SSM back in the late 80s and early 90s. Harpoon was obsolescent by the mid-90s. Something like NSM should have been entering service by the same era, whereas it was 2012 until it did. We still have nothing to match Yakhont (P800 Ony...

I suspect the fact that many naval SAMs seem to have a secondary surface-to-surface / anti-ship mode might have something to do with it. Quick check . . . - Sea Slug √ - Sea Dart √ - Standard SM-1/SM-2 √ - used in Operation Praying Mantis (1988) - Sea Sparrow √ - real world proof of that one, sadly ...

Just as a reminder, the Royal Navy and RAF also grew in TLWverse. Just keep that in mind when theorizing how much you can grow non-Gurkha infantry on top of the additional armor and artillery units in TLWverse in peacetime without conscription.

I never said NAVCENT / US 5th Fleet wouldn't be happy for two escorts and a sub. Depending on what the current status of Yemen and the Bab el Mandeb is at D+100, the two escorts may be very welcome. But we also don't know if the French and Saudis were able to clear the strait by D+100. I'm merely po...

Good chapter! Could someone explain to me how two escorts and a submarine to CENTCOM is supposed to assuage the Gulf States fighting a land war in Iraq when CENTCOM has complete dominance of the Persian Gulf? If anything, I'd expect naval assets to be reduced in the Persian Gulf by this point. Keep ...

Perun's latest. Seemed appropriate to share given it kinda came up in the Czech Armed Forces thread.


Saudi Arabia's Armed Forces - Can (lots of) Money Buy a Major Military?

IRL I believe Canada only stocked equipment for an additional Armd Sqn, 2xMech Coys and an Arty Bty. If anything else was to be stocked I don’t believe it would have been done until the early 90’s. Canada didn’t have enough Leo 1’s for two full Armd Regts, if the 200 to 250 tanks they were looking ...

drmarkbailey wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2026 1:39 am We're running in to the other side of Stuart's comment now, in the Bab el Mandab.

Care to expand on that?

Nice work. Thanks. This one was kinda fun. Anybody notice what the Czech Army is lacking that other Warsaw Pact armies still have? We forget the sheer power which the Warsaw pact actually had, and the society-wrecking cost developing it imposed. Indeed. Post Cold War, the west has mostly fought opp...

I. Ministry of Transportation Railway Troops Command Military Railway Operations Center 11th Railway Brigade - 11th Railway Construction Battalion - 12th Railway Construction Battalion - 17th Railway Construction Battalion - 14th Railway Bridge Battalion - 19th Railway Bridge Battalion 31st Railway...

Air and Air Defense Forces Air Force Command HQ: Prague Prague Airport 3rd Air Transport Regiment - Mixed Special Purpose Squadron: Mi-8PS-11 (VIP transport) I. 10th Air Army HQ: Hradec Králové AB Ostrava AB 1st Mixed Air-Transport Regiment - 1st Squadron: An-12, An-26 - 2nd Squadron: L-410 - 3rd S...

Western Military District HQ: Tábor 2nd Headquarters Regiment 6th Headquarters Guard Battalion - Příbram 311th Independent Training Tank Battalion: T-72 313th Independent Training Tank Battalion: T-72 Army Aviation of the Western Military District 31st Command And Reconnaissance Squadron: Mi-2, Mi-...

General Staff of the Czechoslovak People's Army HQ: Prague Main Intelligence Directorate 78th Special Purpose Radio Center 22nd Special Purpose Airborne Brigade (Cat A) - Prostějov - Headquarters and Staff Company - 1st Special Reconnaissance Division - 2nd Special Reconnaissance Division - 3rd Spe...

Czechoslovak People's Army

I. General Staff of the Czechoslovak People's Army

II. Ground Forces

III. Air and Air Defense Forces

IV. Other Supporting Forces

NORWAY TORPEDOES Norway kept a small number of underwater coastal torpedo launch sites as a last line of defence located in narrow approaches such as the famous Oscarsborg fortress in the Oslofjord. The modernised sites use the DM2A3 torpedo. [NOTE 2] As best as I've been able to figure out based o...

Good chapter!

No surprise Zimbabwe is going to hell.
Can we get an update in an upcoming chapter on Angola and Mozambique?
Or heck, maybe just a briefing style "State of the World on D+100" chapter?

Keep up the good work!

Not Bernard, but . . . One way to get around the cease-fire re: Africa... The Navy aircrew and Marines were no doubt hoping to get redeployed elsewhere, but a "Training and Advisory" mission... And no doubt the P-3s and MIM-120s are "On loan" until the SANDF can afford outright p...

Just caught up on several chapters. Good work. Just how much of the Faw Peninsula have the Iranians taken at this point? I ask because at some point very soon, even accounting for extended-range shells, the New Jersey is going to become just a long VLS nest as the front moves beyond the range of her...