Re: Tracked Vehicles & Lots of Traffic

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. :-)

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[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? :-)

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