Dane Johnson [email removed] writes:
>
> I've been watching the CNN feed from the Soviet Army assault on the
> Parliament building in Moscow, and the CNN correspondant keeps tagging
> these small, tracked vehicles as APCs...There are also larger wheeled
> vehicles which look an awful lot like ye olde standard TL 8 APC, so
> I was wondering if the commentator is justing flubbing or is the
> Soviet method of identifying armored vehicles that different from the
> US's? Or is that small thing really a standard APC that I just don't
> know about?
I haven't seen the CNN show, so I don't know exactly what vehicles were
present. But the ex-Soviet army has at least two types of APC; the BTR
and the BMP (probably with numbers after those letters). The BTR is the
wheeled type, and carries a heavy machine-gun in its little turret. The
BMP is the tracked one, with a larger turret, an auto-cannon, and in some
cases anti-tank missiles.
> >From a Traveller point of view, this could impact my vehicle
> designs :)
Right. DesignS - plural. :-)
- -----------------
[email removed] writes:
> Matthew Goldman:
> > Does anyone know the real story of why Mark Miller left GDW?
> Yep.
> > Is there anyone left at GDW who can spell correctly?
> Yep. I can even spell Marc's name correctly (he prefers it
> with a "c" rather than a k).
Ooh, nasty! :-) But see below ...
> John Harshman, another
> one, is now going for a PHD in Paleontology at UniChi.
PLEASE say he's found evidence of the Ancients! :-)
> > Is Mark dug in at a mysterious fortress waiting to be visited
> > by the "Arrival Vengance?"
> No. [shouildn't there have been a :-) after that?)
^
What was that about being able to spell correctly? :-)
- --
"Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott
Adrian Hurt | JANET: [email removed]
UUCP: ..!uknet!cee.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: [email removed]