NATO, WAPA and the indefensibility of LandJut in NGP and D85

[JDR Dragoon]

Well I talked to a few old NVA soldiers as well over the years. Of course they might just have been bragging for "ostalgic" reasons ;-). The NVAs internal documents (http://www.eurobuch.com/buecher/isbn/381...1/Nva.html) also shows how the "Mobilmachungsdauer" was succesfully brought down from about a week in the 1960s-70s to just a few days by the early 80s (”Die Mobilmachungsdauer konnte von fünf Tagen (1976) auf zwei Tage (1986) reduziert werden”. page. 90) About the NVA and the T72, they still had over 500 of the critters (still only 1 T72 for every 2-3 T54/55s though ;-)). As for the BMP, they only had a battalion of BMP 2s, yes. But they had quite a few BMP 1s (over a 1000). Not quite enough to equip their units to soviet standards though, but still nothing to sneer at.