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This post has been edited 3 times, last edit by "howard" (Aug 18th 2008, 2:34pm)
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
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Originally posted by howard
Planned military budget is 50% of government operating budget.
Isn't that extremely high? I was under the impression that 15-20% was the more regular figure.
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "howard" (Aug 18th 2008, 2:23pm)
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
What would be Siam's figures from previous years? Still about 50%? If not, what services are lost with the budget change?
(I'm not asking to protest, I'm asking because it's apparent you've worked this out and can perhaps answer my curiosity.)
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
That's because "King's attempt at the world's biggest militarized yacht" wouldn't have sold, and was too wordy.
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FY 1936 budget spent so far.
150 Pullinger II's $3.3 million.
2 White Cranes $1.1 million
200 assorted trucks $2,0 million
100 Pullinger 1's with trailers $1.0 million
100 Skoda Siam tracks $1.0 million
10,000 rifles $1.0 million
10,000 SMGs $2.0 million
100 artillery pieces $1.0 million
200 mortars $0.2 million
12 FWS-84A Ente II fighters $1.2 million
12 FWB-84B Ente Ii bombers $1.5 million
100 RPGs BAM R-1 $0.1 million
Total so far: $15.4 million
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
Would you have figures for Bulgaria, perchance? (I couldn't read the link due to my current computer - have to read it at home.)
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Originally posted by Red Admiral
50% spending on the military is wartime level spending. For Germany, the USA and the UK it was around 60%. For peacetime, 10% is fairly ruinous. Isn't it better to build some roads and hospitals instead?
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Capital purchases of equipment are extremely small in comparison to a budget. Keeping the equipment working, training and manning it accounts for a far greater cost.
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That is FAST for a small heavy rocket aerodynamically balanced. Brushing through leaves is not going to stop it, nor are twigs or small branches. It will just smash through.
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Maybe? I don't know. That bomb is traveling at 1/3 the RPG's velocity, is un-powered, is not fin-stabilized and spinning, and if it hits something and FALLS down on you with its time tape still burning? Sayanara owasho......
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........and the grenade rolls back into my lap. I have to put the grenade in with the guys who occupy the bunker and who are doing their best to kill me.
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I think I stand a better chance, if I can aim a rocket into the bunker. It slams into the bunker even if I miss the embrasure from a hundred or more meters away. It impacts at more than eighty meters per second, buries itself and explodes with enough force to tear a four passenger car into steel confetti. The guys inside the bunker are going to feel it. They will be shaken up while I reload.
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For you see that the RTA:
a. is very short of mortars
b. is artillery poor.
c. doesn't have more than 30 or so gun-tanks.
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That Roo is a bonk bomb you showed me, not the standard Type 88 mortar bomb.
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The sons of heaven would take a bonk bomb and beat the fuse on their helmets to activate it, and then walk into GI Joe from Kokomoe. Three seconds and............. Yikes!
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No, you are right, but Avrit Singham, the Siamese genius who dreans this up in the storyline, has thought about using the rocket launcher as a cheap substitute for artillery, which is why he works on it. He thinks that rockets are a way for Siam to equalize the odds. He's a fanatic on the subject.
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I can see my Siamese rocketeers wearing chain mail hoods shirts and mail veils to protect their faces and upper bodies........
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I see questions not errors. Its made me explain in some detail my thinking about why I chose this solution based on Siam and the RTA as I sim it.
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