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Transport and Comms will not help a lot when only a few dozen people know about the exchange and are ordered to keep everything to a single secure dropship while on transit and to a very secure shoot-on-sight facility afterwards. Telepaths are harder to counter but they are few, every other...

Problem is that the EIA is years away from establishing an intelligence network in any other BT policy, they are starting from zero against agencies with centuries worth of justified institutional paranoia and (in this specific case) the support of Comstar own counterintel to ferret out any spy...

Between The Tuskegee Airmen and Red Tails I actually recommend the former. I felt that in Red Tails they added too many unnecessary elements for drama while the former decided that the struggle of the black pilots could rightfully carry the movie by itself.

Yeah they did. But I mean about the first days of the invasion before the japanese made concerted efforts to reinforce the displaced garrison. It was a practical impossibility, but I bet more than one observer remarked that if the Marines had been able to cut off the japanese retreat during the...

Also as a form of industrial espionage. See something good in the joint project, add something similar (but different enough not to get into a patent dispute) to the Leo2.

Also there was the Guadalcanal effect. The US Marines who took the island initially didn't have enough troops to pursue and erradicate the local garrison, so the japanese had enough of a foothold to launch harrasement and intelligence patrols, receive reinforcements on a safe(ish) location...

Although it should be added that the Foxbat did accomplish its primary mission. Their existance helped to deter SR-71 flights in a number of occasions, which were both a constant political headache and a legitimate problem to Russia's strategic security by giving the West too clear of a picture...

Still deterrent enough to cover for small acts of piracy. No one wants to discover the hard way if the Iranians would rather shoot a missile against the nearest unprotected city of your regional allies instead of a battlegroup covered by Aegis systems. That said any excuse to increase sanctions...

And that the crews have much higher chance of walking out of a damaged of destroyed vehicle, and with them the training (both the general one for the use of armored vehicles under NATO doctrine and the specialized one for the operation of Leopards 2) and experience they can use as soon as a...

And basically from a political group that needs to be bribed to support their own armed forces instead of doing it out of actual patriotism or practicality.

Also massed missile strikes against soft targets, like Russia has been doing against civilian infrastructure, but also against local supply depots and other targets that are not important enough for a theatre defense system or that are vulnerable to sudden strikes such as airports or bridges and...

Name of the fic?

And the opposite is also against the operator (I refuse to call that poor GI 'pilot'), the noise coming from below you while trying not to crash at night must have been disorienting as hell which is particularly concerning since the plataform was very dependant on the operator use of...

I wonder if the new turret got other advantages apart from weight, for example how fast is the autoloader and how many kinds of different ammunition you can select from the magazine.

BT tanks are really impressive compared to some others, but the setting itself does its best to cripple them compared to the mechs. So for their specific tonnage armored tracked vehicles from other settings where they are more relevant are better to illustrate the chart even in the few occasions...