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Grumbler
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It would be simply wonderful - if you (one) have met our forward units of armies and have shown all to sight of island :) Also it would be wonderful - if you have grasped with yourselves on island of the traitor from Japan (which was on sale for food and has stolen MIG-25). Our military scientists specially for him have developed the new chamber for tortures of traitors :) If we shall not find on island of this traitors - that it is necessary to us attack Japan to find him... I Think our friends from Northern Korea to us will assist with it.

Yours faithfully

That almost sounds like a challenge. I really don't have time at the moment for a new game, having 7 sitting there waiting for me to find the time to play them. However, I think in a week or 10 days, I should be caught up enough to think about a new opponent. I have no DL slots left, but all my CD slots past 30 are available.
Soviets vs Japan. I don't think I've ever played that combination in MBT. Once in WaW many years ago. I have played Japan vs N. Korea many times. Both sides. The NorKs just don't have the kit to do anything against Japan. They need to defend with a 2 to 1 advantage to have any chance at all after the 60's.
The Japs have excellent EW and they also have 40 vision about the same time as the US and UK do. After '80 and the advent of TTS any unit without 40 vis is pretty much a target.

You suggest to make " Falklands in Pacific ocean " ?

Only consider, during fight, that advantage in forces will be behind the Soviet union. ;)

Or you have reasons that could to be differently? :smoke:

Read for the information http://www.airwar.ru/history/locwar/xuss...mig25.html

Still room for one more player? I'd love to nail some Swedes, but if necessary, I can also play as a defender of Gotland.

PS. I've been in Visby. Nice town, let's destroy it!!:smg:

The MiG-25 was a classic example of both the good and bad things about the Soviet system. AS an aircraft, it was built for a single purpose, to locate and kill the American B-70. Congress cancelled the B-70 while it was in prototype stage. The Soviets kept building the MiG-25, because their bureaucracy was even more fooooked up then our and once they got started on a weapon, it was difficult to get them to stop.
The MiG-25 itself was a very low tech design, which has it's advantages when the people working on it are low tech themselves. It's not easy to get somone who has NEVER seen an airplane to become an acomplishe aircraft technician in just 3 years. And if they did reach the level of profeciency that the west has, they will leave the military when their period of service is up.. You cannot run a modern military with conscripts. The more enlightened members of the Soviet military hierarchy knew this. Stalin knew it, which is why he wanted a LOT of simple machines. That is also why the Soviets lost over 12 million in WW2 (The Great Patriotic War).
When technology meets numbers, the body counts go WAAAY up there.
The MiG-25 was as simple a design as the Soviets could manufacture AND STILL GET THE JOB DONE. The Job, remember, was intercepting and destroying high altitude Mach 2+ bombers. Because of the backwardness of Soviet radar equipment, the Foxbat ( NATO code name) has the most powerful radr to be put in an aircraft, up to that time. It also had two of the most powerful jet engines every put in 1 airframe.
The result was a cheap, robust aitcraft that would fly at Mach 2.5 or so and get up there to about 25 Km's or so.
Of course, by this time the USA had given up on the XB-70, to develop this;
http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=81

In it's early confiuguration the B-1 could outrun a Foxbat at almost any aktitude, especially on the deck, where the radar coverage isn't so good for a high power low tech radar.
And the B-2 was being dreamed of.
So the Soviets dsid the same thing with te Foxbat that the USA did with the SR-71 Blackbird. Turned it into a recon plane. How did this get so far offtopic? I think I was trapped. Cleve rooskies, go back to your wodka.

Ok, update on the team lists..., again if I forgot someone just shout...!

Sweden

wigam, Commander Military Command Gotland
zeiss, Chief of Staff, Military Command Gotland
brm_3k
vesku
John(txic)
Sapper_Boots
Grumbler
Iwo Jim
RedDevil
Jadpanther
Stonefire

USSR

Epoletov, Commander Leningrad Military District
Borogonets
POLYS
KraMax
VLOM
shortreengage
Asidun
Bobah
General_SP
Artou
Grin
Thexder

Grin and Thexder have been added to the Soviet Team.

2 Wulfir: For increase of alertness of armies I ask to give one map for WinSPMBT for training Russian commanders. :smg: