Old Bolt stuff

[JDR Dragoon]

9. Added Thermal to French AMX-30B2 tanks (Castor Thermal imaging site)

As far as I know this was an update done in a hurry for the battalion of tanks slated to participate in Operation Desert Storm and later in the battalions that had the BRENUS ERA extra armor package. The rest of the french armys AMX 30B2s would have had a LLLTV installed.

AMX 30B. Notice no targeting equipment to the left of gun (as seen from the front). Notice mounting bracket for IR/White light projector to the right of the gun. Notice the "bulges" ahead and below the cupola containing the optical rangefinder:

http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/Modern/Amx30/...4.jpg.html
http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/Modern/Amx30/...5.jpg.html

AMX 30B2. Notice LLLTV to the left of the gun. Notice lack of "bulges" due to Laserrangefinder:

http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/Modern/Amx30/...1.jpg.html
http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/Modern/Amx30/...2.jpg.html
http://armyreco.ifrance.com/europe/franc...nce_03.jpg
(Curiously this last tank has retained the large IR/White light projector to the right of the gun)

AMX 30B2 upgraded with Thermal Sight for Desert Storm. Notice Thermal Sight instead of LLLTV to the left of the gun.

Curiously these tanks also has the IR/White Light projector to the right of the gun (which should otherwise only have been a necessity on the non-LLLTV/TIS equipped AMX 30B):

http://www.clash-of-steel.org/gallery/pa...AMX_30.jpg
http://www.fncv.com/biblio/conflits/autr...x30_b2.jpg

AMX 30B2 upgraded w. Thermal sight and ERA package for rapid reaction role in the early-mid 1990s. Notice Thermal Sight to the left of the gun instead of LLLTV (same as used in Desert Storm):

http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/Modern/Amx30/...7.jpg.html

31.I have put the SSM units in the game, for Nato the Lance,Pluton and Pershing. For the Soviets the SS-1c,SS-21 and SS-23. All these units are flagged WMD but have a HA of 0 and a SA of 0 so cant be used for conventional attacks only WMD attacks, this is also the reason for not adding the WP minors SSMs,they had no WMDs and how much damage can 4 frog missiles do to a Bn anyways.

A little comment: Although the Soviet Union retained custody of warheads (much as the US did in NATO) we know for a fact that the poles and East Germans at least planned and expected to receive soviet warheads for their missiles. The East Germans even squirreled away a few SS23s for this purpose, in blatant violation of the INF Treaty. Caused quite a shock when it was discovered in the early 1990s ;-)

35.Danish Bde level AT units had 16 Tow mounted on Jeeps and 12 TOw mounted on m-150s Changed

Well, it was not strictly at Brigade level. At Brigade level there was an AT reserve (Panserværnsraket Element) of 2 platoons, each of 4 Landrovers/Jeeps. The rest of the units represents the consolidation of battalion level AT Platoons into extra counters (1 platoon of 4 TOW/M113s came from the Armored Battalion of the Brigade, and each of the Mechanized Infantry Battalions had a platoon of 4 TOW/M113s and a Platoon of Landrovers/jeeps w. TOW). When all of these assets are added up you arrive at the above numbers. Another way to represent the battalion level TOW systems would be to raise the Hard Attack value of the infantry units in the battalions and only have a single counter of 8 TOW landrovers at Brigade level. By the late 1980s the missile used would have been mostly ITOW and all systems would have had Thermal Sights.