Extra units

[tovi]

Terrorists.

Paratroops.

Militia.

[Balthagor]

Already gotten, check the other post...

http://www.bgforums.com/viewtopic.php?t ... forum=2&10

[prime_642]

Not sure if you have this already but i believe there was consideration of an interceptor version of the SR-71 Blackbird. I believe it had a bay that would open and drop missiles for high speed combat or a gun for low speed combat. probably would have been the fastest interceptor out there but it never got going so...

[Balthagor]

I have kept track of this and it will be included when I do the fictional units. Thanks for checking though.

[MrWhite]

Technically not a fictional unit a SR-71 was bilt and was able to shoot down F-111 Drones at 85,000 feet while the F-111 was treetoping at 300 feet... "Consitently" The Blackbird was able to engage at several 100 miles out these planes as well... This would be the most formidable weapons platform to date if it wasn't for LeMay being pissy that it was eating into his B-70 budget back in teh 60's he orginally ordered 20 SR-71s a month 10 of a interceptor variant and 10 of the Bomber variant but after the intelligence community was able to determine that current russian bomber resources were no where near building a plane that would need an SR-71 counterpart, Lemay scrapped everything and only start constructing Reconciassonce 2 seat version of the SR-71... This in comparison to the CIA SR-71 use side looking radard which allowed for a SR-71 to pear several hundred miles into the Soviet Union instead of having to overfly...

Anyways SR-71 Fighter and Bomber variants would be expensive for one reason as far as research goes...

The SR-71 was built around Titanium, you have to have new tools jsut to make these hich in the modern day is pretty easy but it's still expensive to use only Titanium tools and specialise cutting tools that didn't oxidize Titanium like No cadium tools.

Anyways it would still be worth it, but still expensive even in 1960's dollars teh SR-71 was costing 25 Million a piece... Key that for inflation it will take a lot but reduce part for updated mfg techs and better mass production abilities, still an expensive platform but a very good idea when you consider even today AA would be hard presse dot hit a Mach 3 90K feet aircraft...

[iamnick]

they should add su-37's

[Balthagor]

Su-37 is already in.

[Vesson]

Australia's air defence composes only of the RBS-70, and the Rapier missile batteries. Rapier's look very much like the hawk graphic wise, and the RBS-70 can pretty much be represented by the stinger (the rbs70 is a sit-in tube launched missile which is hand guided visually so would also have about the same stats if not worse than the stinger). The Rapier is a bloody old heap of rubbish, but because its so old it uses valves rather than electronics and can hence resist nuclear emp effects. It would have similar stats to the Hawk with updated missiles on board i'd say.

At the end of the day I'd accept the hawk & stinger with a name change

I'm not aware of any Australian army initiatives to update its air defence capabilities (mainly I think because Australia completely outclasses all of its neighbours in airpower). So these units should be incredibley rare on the Aust map... the only airdefence the army has today is the 16AD in Adelaide. ---> 1 battalion comprised of Rapiers & RBS 70's. Oh, and theres a reservist unit, the 111th AD, which uses RBS 70.

I now expect to start the game with those exact units & designations

Can someone enlighten me as to whether the air force maintains any different air defence units? I don't think it does.