NS Military Realism Consultancy Thread Mark IX Spitfire

[Themiclesia]

How many sets of uniforms should a well-equipped, decently-funded, historically-aware unit have?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army_uniform

At least a dozen? Roger that.

[Palakistan]

How do you guys make your ORBAT's and chart structures for your military organization?

[Hurtful Thoughts]

gross

This is amazing and I love it.

Needs more TOS-1.

[Sediczja]

How do you guys make your ORBAT's and chart structures for your military organization?

Mostly in a preferred image editing program. I guess a spreadsheet program like Excel or Calc could work, too.

[New Roma Republic]

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[Western Pacific Territories]

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i hate taggers

[Laywenrania]

How do you guys make your ORBAT's and chart structures for your military organization?

Word has this "SmartArt" stuff or something like this, although I failed horribly in making an own decent ORBAT art.

tag

i hate taggers

and I hate people posting the same question every 20 minutes because they do not get instantly an answer...

[New Roma Republic]

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i hate taggers

What else am I supposed to do? I enjoy following the thread, but I have no questions atm

[The Akasha Colony]

i hate taggers

What else am I supposed to do? I enjoy following the thread, but I have no questions atm

You do understand that there is no need to post in order to bookmark or subscribe to a thread, right? Which is why tag posts are now technically considered spam by mods.

[New Oyashima]

No picture on front? Worst thread.

[Celibrae]

No picture on front? Worst thread.

I reckon we should devote a page to images...

[Chinese Peoples]

I feel obliged to share a RL fact.



This image, which depicts the riot police of the Republic of China (Taiwan), is often cited as an example where policemen use masks to conceal their identities, perhaps during the commission of atrocities. That is purely a misconception as their names would be visible on arm patches. If I recall correctly, the masks were added after an incident in the early 2000s when rioters pelted vials of highly corrosive acid solutions at policemen, causing severe and disfiguring burns.

And yes, while the ugly masks make them look like horror movie characters, they are effective in stopping the acid attacks.

[Palakistan]

I feel obliged to share a RL fact.

(Image)

This image, which depicts the riot police of the Republic of China (Taiwan), is often cited as an example where policemen use masks to conceal their identities, perhaps during the commission of atrocities. That is purely a misconception as their names would be visible on arm patches. If I recall correctly, the masks were added after an incident in the early 2000s when rioters pelted vials of highly corrosive acid solutions at policemen, causing severe and disfiguring burns.

It's also scary looking.

[Chinese Peoples]

I feel obliged to share a RL fact.

(Image)

This image, which depicts the riot police of the Republic of China (Taiwan), is often cited as an example where policemen use masks to conceal their identities, perhaps during the commission of atrocities. That is purely a misconception as their names would be visible on arm patches. If I recall correctly, the masks were added after an incident in the early 2000s when rioters pelted vials of highly corrosive acid solutions at policemen, causing severe and disfiguring burns.

It's also scary looking.

I'd say cheap looking (since the government wanted the cheapest everything), but if you think it's scary then I'm not one to dispute.

[The Corparation]

I feel obliged to share a RL fact.

(Image)

This image, which depicts the riot police of the Republic of China (Taiwan), is often cited as an example where policemen use masks to conceal their identities, perhaps during the commission of atrocities. That is purely a misconception as their names would be visible on arm patches. If I recall correctly, the masks were added after an incident in the early 2000s when rioters pelted vials of highly corrosive acid solutions at policemen, causing severe and disfiguring burns.

And yes, while the ugly masks make them look like horror movie characters, they are effective in stopping the acid attacks.

Such lame masks. They don't even have a super fugly tacky skull face painted on them.

[North Arkana]

A technical is a cheap, versatile, easily disguised platform for irregulars. It can mount heavy weapons from HMGs, light autocannons, mortars, recoilless rifles and ATGMs. It will always suffer from poor protection and will be less effective than a dedicated military jeep.

Your police are (usually) a civil service. They would try and maintain order in the civil populace and at best do their jobs. As civil employees of the government, they would probably surrender in event of invasion. They might be left to do their jobs, but it's unlikely if it's a routinely armed unit. Police commanders might be expected by an invader to collaborate.

No helicopter will reasonably carry "tanks", by which I mean MBTs. Few helicopters will carry scout tanks like Scorpion. Most heavy lift helicopters could carry a tankette like the Weisel, but would be better used to carry just troops, or possibly an artillery piece, jeep or light truck.
Civil evacuations would probably be done by military helicopter, diverting logistical units, and seizure of civil assets like buses, coaches and the like, as well as military trucks again probably diverted from logistical units.

A tank is forty, fifty, sixty tonnes of steel. Think of them as ill-equipped bulldozers with a gun.

So, on the topic of the police part, would SWAT teams (US SWAT, regularly engaged in urban ops against barricaded subjects and such) be a legitimate threat to military forces in urban combat, assuming the police decide to resist rather than collaborate?

Alternatively, would that not!Sten I was asking about be best chambered for pistol, PDW, or assault rifle ammo, because it would probably be issued to those who aren't as ready to deal with recoil as regular soldiers are?

[Laywenrania]

So, on the topic of the police part, would SWAT teams (US SWAT, regularly engaged in urban ops against barricaded subjects and such) be a legitimate threat to military forces in urban combat, assuming the police decide to resist rather than collaborate?

Alternatively, would that not!Sten I was asking about be best chambered for pistol, PDW, or assault rifle ammo, because it would probably be issued to those who aren't as ready to deal with recoil as regular soldiers are?

Military will probably engage with armoured vehicles (edit: and planes and artillery etc). I've doubts that SWAT will be equipped with modern anti-tank ammunition.

[The Akasha Colony]

So, on the topic of the police part, would SWAT teams (US SWAT, regularly engaged in urban ops against barricaded subjects and such) be a legitimate threat to military forces in urban combat, assuming the police decide to resist rather than collaborate?

Define "legitimate threat." Even a regular beat cop with a sidearm can kill a soldier, so they're a "threat."

But even US SWAT teams lack the heavy weapons that infantry squads usually carry as a matter of course, and even if you have the really militarized ones rolling around in old M113s or surplus MRAPs, they don't have anything on a Bradley or Abrams.

[Crookfur]

A technical is a cheap, versatile, easily disguised platform for irregulars. It can mount heavy weapons from HMGs, light autocannons, mortars, recoilless rifles and ATGMs. It will always suffer from poor protection and will be less effective than a dedicated military jeep.

Your police are (usually) a civil service. They would try and maintain order in the civil populace and at best do their jobs. As civil employees of the government, they would probably surrender in event of invasion. They might be left to do their jobs, but it's unlikely if it's a routinely armed unit. Police commanders might be expected by an invader to collaborate.

No helicopter will reasonably carry "tanks", by which I mean MBTs. Few helicopters will carry scout tanks like Scorpion. Most heavy lift helicopters could carry a tankette like the Weisel, but would be better used to carry just troops, or possibly an artillery piece, jeep or light truck.
Civil evacuations would probably be done by military helicopter, diverting logistical units, and seizure of civil assets like buses, coaches and the like, as well as military trucks again probably diverted from logistical units.

A tank is forty, fifty, sixty tonnes of steel. Think of them as ill-equipped bulldozers with a gun.

So, on the topic of the police part, would SWAT teams (US SWAT, regularly engaged in urban ops against barricaded subjects and such) be a legitimate threat to military forces in urban combat, assuming the police decide to resist rather than collaborate?

Alternatively, would that not!Sten I was asking about be best chambered for pistol, PDW, or assault rifle ammo, because it would probably be issued to those who aren't as ready to deal with recoil as regular soldiers are?

for a not!sten to actulaly work it needs to use plain old pistol ammo. Rifle ammo would be too much for a simple blowback/api action to handle and PDW ammo is well not quite as good as advertised.

If you wanted a cheap made from bits of pipe rifle calibre weapon you would need a not!VG1-5

[Korouse]

It's also scary looking.

I'd say cheap looking (since the government wanted the cheapest everything), but if you think it's scary then I'm not one to dispute.

They literally look like hockey masks with some protective layer over them.

[Dostanuot Loj]

What is the effective power out put in watts of a Care Bear stare?
And along those lines, how many Care Bears would be needed to provide an effective CIWS defense against anti shipping missiles on something like say a Burke?

4srs gaiz, lgit ?

[Imperializt Russia]

No picture on front? Worst thread.

Working on it.

I feel obliged to share a RL fact.

(Image)

This image, which depicts the riot police of the Republic of China (Taiwan), is often cited as an example where policemen use masks to conceal their identities, perhaps during the commission of atrocities. That is purely a misconception as their names would be visible on arm patches. If I recall correctly, the masks were added after an incident in the early 2000s when rioters pelted vials of highly corrosive acid solutions at policemen, causing severe and disfiguring burns.

And yes, while the ugly masks make them look like horror movie characters, they are effective in stopping the acid attacks.

Know what else would help with that?

Shoulder patches can be removed.

So, on the topic of the police part, would SWAT teams (US SWAT, regularly engaged in urban ops against barricaded subjects and such) be a legitimate threat to military forces in urban combat, assuming the police decide to resist rather than collaborate?

SWAT groups, if organised, brought into the military chain of command, equipped and concealed and directed against lightly-protected rear area assets, would be a potent threat to wider military operations.

However, this is the job of special and irregular forces anyway, so you arguably don't need these personnel. They're well equipped but prominent and not militarily capable so they're obvious targets for pacification.

[Palakistan]

So what is your opinion on the Brigade Combat Team? Is it a viable warfare unit for power projection?

[The Akasha Colony]

So what is your opinion on the Brigade Combat Team? Is it a viable warfare unit for power projection?

Given that power projection is literally what it is designed to be optimized for, one imagines so.

[The Nuclear Fist]

What is the effective power out put in watts of a Care Bear stare?
And along those lines, how many Care Bears would be needed to provide an effective CIWS defense against anti shipping missiles on something like say a Burke?

4srs gaiz, lgit ?

G0 away Nairna