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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...

56th Pennsylvania Infantry Brigade (Motorized - Heavy)
- 4-103rd Armor Regiment: M1A1
- 1-111th Infantry Regiment: M1126, M1134
- 2-111th Infantry Regiment: M1126, M1134
- 1-112th Infantry Regiment: M1126, M1134
- 1-229th Field Artillery Regiment: M198
- 328th Support Battalion (Forward)

Added JMSDF. Apologies for the delay.

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force V2.0 DDH Haruna (DDH-141) Hiei (DDH-142) Shirane (DDH-143) Kurama (DDH-144) Hyūga (DDH-181) [NOTE 1] DDG Tachikaze (DDG-168) Asakaze (DDG-169) Sawakaze (DDG-170) Hatakaze (DDG-171) Shimakaze (DDG-172) Kongō (DDG-173) Kirishima (DDG-174) Myōkō (DDG-175) Chōkai (DDG-...

Japan Air Self-Defense Force I. AIR DEFENSE COMMAND Yokota AB Iruma AB ADC HQ Flight Group : U-4, YS-11EA/EB, T-4, EC-1 Hyakuri AB Tactical Reconnaissance Group 501st TRS: RF-4E,/EJ, T-4 Nyutabaru AB Tactical Fighter Training Group : F-15J/DJ, T-4 Hamamatsu AB Airborne Early Warning Group 602nd Sq....