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Oberon · 01-08-10, 01:00 PM

Thanks for the recommendations Sledgehammer, I'll keep an eye out for those, should be able to pick them up on Amazon with no probs when I have the money handy

Regarding the later makes of the M829, I agree that it would be able to penetrate Kontakt-5 however the A2 version didn't come into service until '93 when the US realised how effective Kontakt-5 was. So the Warsaw Pact forces would have had the upper hand on defensive measures in their armour divisions, although I suspect that reliability and supply issues may still have forced a limited advance, 'Seven Days to the River Rhine' comes to mind, although that would have been through a post-nuclear battlefield would have had been hellish fighting in NBC gear in constant buttoned down mode. Then again, it's quite likely that the Soviets would have used chemical weaponry even in a non-nuclear attack scenario, so NBC gear would still have to be used.

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Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Thanks for the recommendations Sledgehammer, I'll keep an eye out for those, should be able to pick them up on Amazon with no probs when I have the money handy Regarding the later makes of the M829, I agree that it would be able to penetrate Kontakt-5 however the A2 version didn't come into service until '93 when the US realised how effective Kontakt-5 was. So the Warsaw Pact forces would have had the upper hand on defensive measures in their armour divisions, although I suspect that reliability and supply issues may still have forced a limited advance, 'Seven Days to the River Rhine' comes to mind, although that would have been through a post-nuclear battlefield would have had been hellish fighting in NBC gear in constant buttoned down mode. Then again, it's quite likely that the Soviets would have used chemical weaponry even in a non-nuclear attack scenario, so NBC gear would still have to be used.