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I was chatting with my boss the other day and were talking about OP FOR for armoured exercises and the way that SHQ's lav's will one minute be friendly, and the next we're being criticized for not picking up on the "BTR" in the tree's.
Back in the 90's the School of Armour in Puckapunyal used a couple of M113 MRV's with red star's painted on them. The MRV at that stage was obviously an (almost) obsolete vehicle but the use of it meant that the crew's of vehicles had a definite enemy vehicle to look out for and this (apparently) greatly aided training value for all involved.
He mentioned an idea, or perhaps more a theory, that what with our military being over in Iraq and Afghanistan, the purchase of a troop's worth of BTR's or BMP's wouldn't be a totally unfeasible idea. While a fairly radical move, the purchase is more then possible and at least over here has a little bit of precedence in that the Army has brought over a T-72, BMP-1 and a host of Iraqi Chinese made AFV's.
What do you Armoured chap's here think? Is it a crazy idea? Or, with the political situation with Iran especially, a decent idea?
I love the thought of being posted to Enemy force troop at the school and crewing eastern bloc AFV's and i also love the idea of not having to worry about being bumped by the ASLAV that 5 minutes ago was friendly. At the same time, qual-ing on these vehicles and manning them is a HUGE issue.
I'd love to hear some feed back.
Ta blokes,
Hales
Back in the 90's the School of Armour in Puckapunyal used a couple of M113 MRV's with red star's painted on them. The MRV at that stage was obviously an (almost) obsolete vehicle but the use of it meant that the crew's of vehicles had a definite enemy vehicle to look out for and this (apparently) greatly aided training value for all involved.
He mentioned an idea, or perhaps more a theory, that what with our military being over in Iraq and Afghanistan, the purchase of a troop's worth of BTR's or BMP's wouldn't be a totally unfeasible idea. While a fairly radical move, the purchase is more then possible and at least over here has a little bit of precedence in that the Army has brought over a T-72, BMP-1 and a host of Iraqi Chinese made AFV's.
What do you Armoured chap's here think? Is it a crazy idea? Or, with the political situation with Iran especially, a decent idea?
I love the thought of being posted to Enemy force troop at the school and crewing eastern bloc AFV's and i also love the idea of not having to worry about being bumped by the ASLAV that 5 minutes ago was friendly. At the same time, qual-ing on these vehicles and manning them is a HUGE issue.
I'd love to hear some feed back.
Ta blokes,
Hales