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Afghani Army and Equipment

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Thursday, June 4th 2009, 10:29pm

Afghani Army and Equipment

Anyone willing to sell arms to Afghanis? I wanted Germans and Turks for trainers plus Russians for equipment but Russia bailed out. let me know if yo want to finance a losing war. :D

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Thursday, June 4th 2009, 10:34pm

I got so far the post 1936 Afghani army as six Infantry Division, seven mixed divisions (half infantry-half cavalry), the Royal Guards (Division (a mix of a lot of different types) and an independent cavalry brigade. I want at least the Guards and one or two divisions being trained following a german model.

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Thursday, June 4th 2009, 11:54pm

Italy has plenty of 6.5x52 ammunition and rifles and machine guns chambered for it to get rid of.

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Friday, June 5th 2009, 4:16pm

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Vukovlad" (Jun 5th 2009, 4:18pm)

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Friday, June 5th 2009, 4:18pm

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Originally posted by Vukovlad
Have you checked this?

http://niehorster.orbat.com/053_afghanis…istan_1939.html


Yes. That is the model I'm using for the Afghani Army. Right now is even larger than the Persian one, if that possible. :D

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Saturday, June 6th 2009, 12:46am

Apparantly Afghanistan ordered 10 Skoda T-11 tanks that were eventually delivered to Bulgaria

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Saturday, June 6th 2009, 12:51am

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Originally posted by Vukovlad
Apparantly Afghanistan ordered 10 Skoda T-11 tanks that were eventually delivered to Bulgaria

Yes, in 1940.

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Saturday, June 6th 2009, 12:53am

They were ordered in 1940 or delivered to Bulgaria?

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Saturday, June 6th 2009, 12:55am

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They were ordered in 1940 or delivered to Bulgaria?

Ordered in 1938 for 1940 delivery, my research said.

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Saturday, June 6th 2009, 12:55am

NWM found it:

The history of the production of the second delivered 10 tanks began in 1938, when Afghanistan ordered them in the 'Skoda' company, but armed with the more modern 37 mm L/47.8 gun, with factory name A-7, instead of the standard 37mm A-3 L/40 gun. The German occupation of Czechoslovakia stopped the deal.

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Saturday, June 6th 2009, 10:42am

The British have long had "advisers" in the country. I'd expect sizable numbers of Lee Enfields and some Vickers and Lewis MGs from the Great War. Certainly as other storylines have indicated private arms dealers pop up everywhere acorss the world selling British arms.

Therefore without offical sanction such British small arms might get to Afghanistan.

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Saturday, June 6th 2009, 1:51pm

The standard rifle of the Afghan army is the Lee-Enfield according to what I have read along the Martini-Henry among the irregulars