Modern Unit Graphics

[Tanelorn]

I'd simply note that anyone who wanted to draw the units we're seeing in action today will probably be seeing a scenario of them once things end and we know how the story goes. Bayraktars, different volunteer fighters, Ukrainian soldiers holding western MANPADs, "Z" and "V" tanks, etc... Neptune missiles, a tractor from the gates of hell... Zelensky... Definitely on the "eventual" wish list.

 

[Tanelorn]

Small but deadly, the NLAW.

 

[Patine]

Awesome! Ukrainians! Any chance of slipping in those BTR-3 and BTR-4 I mentioned, humbly, earlier?

 

[Tanelorn]

Awesome! Ukrainians! Any chance of slipping in those BTR-3 and BTR-4 I mentioned, humbly, earlier?

What do you mean, "humbly"? I don't get it.

 

[Patine]

What do you mean, "humbly"? I don't get it.

Oh, I just had asked if you could put it on your docket, but no rush, and my other usual and typical use of deferential and non-demanding language, which I made a couple pages ago.

But, that you greatly for these!

 

[Tanelorn]

You are welcome Pat. I must have missed that, did you PM me?

 

[Patine]

You are welcome Pat. I must have missed that, did you PM me?

No, I didn't PM you. I think it just got lot in a busy posting period on this thread a few months ago. Thanks again!

 

[typhoon353]

The K9 Thunder Self-Propelled Howitzer has seen considerable export success. In addition to Estonia, Finland, and Norway, the base variant has been built under licence by Australia as the AS9 Huntsman and India as the Vajra, while Turkey uses the chassis with an indigenous turret as the T-155 Firtina and Poland with the British AS-90 Braveheart turret as the AHS Krab:

 

[Fairline]

Hello Fairline. Do you intent to draw someday or add in this set the CAESAr which is in highlight nowadays ?

Hadn't thought about it. I have very mixed feelings about the conflict in Ukraine, so we'll see.

Here's the Stryker family of wheeled APCs:

 

[Dadais]

I have very mixed feelings about the conflict in Ukraine

So do I, and I'm not really in modern scenarii either.
Howether, some other designers are, and I found this unit's concept pretty interresting in modern warfare thus in any modern scenario, providing a mobile canonglass unit.

Whatever, much thanks !

 

[Fairline]

Understand. In truth, I wasn't even aware of the CAESAr until you linked to it. Has it replaced the AMX-30 AuF1 as France's SP artillery gun?

 

[Dadais]

Understand. In truth, I wasn't even aware of the CAESAr until you linked to it. Has it replaced the AMX-30 AuF1 as France's SP artillery gun?

Hard to say, as our French army is proud to be able to do anything ... on a tiny scale and not for long.

Officially, it seems to add an intermediate solution between "mobile" field guns and heavy armored SP guns.

On the uses subject, we only had about thirty AuF1 left 6 years ago, and the last public development plan did only set the objective to get more than a hundred CAESAr (while other SP guns are on stock)

In the end, while the mobility gain is obvious in compare with heavy armored Sp guns, it proved on the field to have superior mobility to fields guns too, performing safer and with good aim under bombing threat.

My guess is it shall in the end replace it considering the modern warfare changes (with many low-cost highly destructive drone devices and the need for mobility) ?

 

[Patine]

Hard to say, as our French army is proud to be able to do anything ... on a tiny scale and not for long.

Well, they do tend to get up to their forays in their former colonies (and former Belgian ones) in Africa that the Anglo-Sphere media tends not to mention much.

 

[Fairline]

German compilation with some updates, recolours and a couple of new-uns. I've included tweaked versions of Typhoon's Puma IFV and Tanelorn's Gepard:

 

[civ2units]

Great to see the german armours. The Bundeswehr has a lot of them, though most of the units are not ready to use.

 

[civ2units]

There is one tank missing: The brand new KF51 Panther from Rheinmetall. Would be great to see this unit in your compilation too.

 

[typhoon353]

Tweak of Tanelorn's Patria:

 

[typhoon353]

The recently unveiled South Korean KF-21 stealth fighter is expected to begin flight testing later this year. It bears a strong superficial resemblance to the F-22 Raptor, but is closer in size and performance to the F-35 and F-18 Super Hornet:

 

[Patine]

Say, has anyone made any post-WW2 dedicated tank destroyers, like the Soviet ASU-57 or the ASU-85, or the Russian 2S25 Sprut-SD, or the U.S. M56 Scorpion, the (weird-looking) M50 Ontos, or the M551 Sheridan, or the West German Kanonenjagdpanzer, or the Raketenjagdpanzer 1-4, or the British F4V38 Swingfire or the FV102 Striker, or the Chinese PTZ89 or the PTL02. I think I may have seen a Centauro or a Pandur II somewhere around, and the others may be in certain big collections, but the whole vehicle type of post-WW2 dedicated tank destroyers just became notable as conspicuous for their absence. Thus, this is one of those, "would be a nice addition to the assets on this site if a graphics artist has a spare moment, but no pressure or demand," things.

 

[typhoon353]

Quick mod of Fairline's Stryker into the Canadian LAV III. Also used by New Zealand as the NZLAV.