A Good Website for Military Equipment Info?

[yakaspat]

Can anyone recommend a good site with high quality photos and information on the military equipment currently used by various countries today? Janes wants me to subscribe, and the only other solid sites I can find are the sites put up by the individual country defense departments (US Military sites, Australian and British defense home sites, etc). Is there a centralized military hardware site? That's free?

I'd like to be able to learn more about the military equipment in the game and see photos of all the hardware...everything I can find online seems to be American-centric (plenty of stuff on F16s and A1s, but not much on other world power's hardware).

Thanks!

[George Geczy]

We use quite a number of sites, and I think Chris has already posted a list somewhere that he might be able to point to, but for free sites these two are particularly good:

www.globalsecurity.org

www.fas.org/man/index.html (much of the same content as globalsecurity, it was assembled by the same guy before he left the fas site)

And an excellent resource for Air Forces is the Scramble website:

www.scramble.nl

That should help get you started

-- George.

[Balthagor]

Actually, a really good one I've found is;

http://www.armyrecognition.com/

it has excellent information, much of it free.

[yakaspat]

Actually, a really good one I've found is;

http://www.armyrecognition.com/

it has excellent information, much of it free.

That ones very interesting...lots of material, but, god, what a horrible interface! And what's with the languages, the site seems to switch languages between pages? Thanks for the link though, it has lots of good info.

[Balthagor]

French in many sections

[Benos]

for russian stuff

http://www.aeronautics.ru/
http://www.vttvomsk.ru/eng/main/
http://www.army.lv/

for indian stuff
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/

for chinese stuff
http://www.sinodefence.com/default.asp
http://www.emeraldesigns.com/matchup/military.shtml (also tiwanese)

for everything else in between (mainly forums)
http://www.acig.org/
http://www.network54.com/Forum/211833
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/

have fun

[yakaspat]

for indian stuff
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/

Wow, I had no idea the Indian army was so web-savy.

[Andre_Trbojevic]

So countries do release military units they hold? That is literally the most idiotic thing I have ever heard of! If I owned a nation, I would sure as hell make sure my enemies dont know how to counter my equiptment and units!!!

[el_slapper]

So countries do release military units they hold? That is literally the most idiotic thing I have ever heard of! If I owned a nation, I would sure as hell make sure my enemies dont know how to counter my equiptment and units!!!

Nah, it is far more complex.

1st, you can't hide a full army. So even with poor intelligence, most of your hardware will be known by your neighbours.

2nd, it is very possible to give "tricked" info instead of perfectly accurate one. So instead of letting the neighbour finding itself what is & what is not, let's give him false - ore partially false - information.

3rd, pure secret is very bad diplomatically. Real world is not SR2010 world(read the scenario, many things have changed...). The economies are so interdependant than you don't want to go at war - even if the chances are you win. And hiding everything makes you a pariah : look at N Korea..... Roman used to say si vis pacem, para bellum. It works well if you are rather transparent (i.e. french army is divided into 16 brigades of 4 regiments each, including 1 mountain brigade and.....). If your neighbours have no clue, they will begin panicking. And might be tempted to solve the problem before you are too strong.

[Jan]

for info about russian hardware:

★★★ Russian Arms, Military Technology, Analysis of Russia's Military Forces

about russian armors:

Vasiliy Fofanov's Modern Russian Armour Page

for worlwide hardware:

http://www.army-technology.com/
http://www.airforce-technology.com/
http://www.naval-technology.com/
http://www.deagel.com/ (that one give also prices for most hardwares)



About naval hardware (with detailed technical infos):

http://www.navweaps.com/

about dutch submarines:
http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/

about french navy:
http://www.netmarine.net/eng/index.htm


PS: could a modo centralize all these links in one sticky and sort them by subject?


cheers,

Jan

[Balthagor]

At some point I'll transfer these to the wiki.

[Jan]

At some point I'll transfer these to the wiki.

could you create a page dedicated to online ressources on the wiki? then i'll add revelant links.

cheers,

Jan

[Balthagor]

I'll see about doing that next week, I'm mostly on holidays this week just doing minor web and e-mail checks.

[Jan]

have a nice rest

cheers,

Jan

[Balthagor]

I've copied the above links to various sections of the SupremeWiki, specifically within the Map section. That way they won't get lost.