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Sarcasm doesn't translate well on forums... or electronically at all... ... we really need a sarcasm tag...

... I would recommend you not do that. People who try that sort of thing tend to be dead...

Here's a modified saying that I say about history: History may not repeat, but it tends to either 1) rhyme, 2) parallel, 3) go in ways you can't fathom, 4) some combination of the above, or 5) all three at once...

From what I understand, the bioweapons are to ensure that 1) the decon teams are too busy with a short-lived but particularly nasty plague to mind 2, and 2) spread across the breadbaskets that the USSR wouldn't be able to secure in the post-exchange world so no one will be above subsistence...

The thing was, they were never Stalin levels of paranoid... which makes the USSR's paranoia actually scary.

Yeah, and that is out of pure and unadulterated spite. No, it's pure spite in the vein of 'from hell's heart I stab at thee!' magnified to omnicidal levels.

Eh, given that some of the plans of the Soviets included slating a few SSBNs with one of their tubes with spy sats and with explicit orders to destroy any other spots of civilization just out of pure spite...

Well, if it wasn't then the nukes would fly much sooner, by any reasonable account from what I can tell. That didn't fit thematically. ;) Remember, that was made in the early '90s, where the nitty-gritty of Gen1 stealth tech was still classified as hell.

Now that I've read through your synopsis of events, this is playing like a Technothriller version of ZDF's World War 3. Gorbachov and his reformists get removed from power, the hardliners prepare for war, and shit goes downhill from there. @Tiamat, have you watched that mockumentary by any chance?

It was 20, 13 damaged, 7 rendered destroyed/inoperative. Against something that is hamstrung against being effective because the leaders are afraid to get overthrown (aka 'coup-phobic'). Now extrapolate it to even a quarter (not half, a quarter) of Serbia's competence when it comes to keeping...

Mostly due to the fact that Iraq 'coup proofed' the vast majority of their army, and that is detrimental to one's war-making ability. It's telling that even with that sort of thing going in on the background that the Iraqis managed to give the A-10 a major kick in the keaster. Hell, even...

No, Trotsky managed to alienate everyone else within the USSR. Everyone knew that at the end of the day that Trotsky was the successor to Lenin, problem was that everyone hated Trotsky. No one else understood what was needed at the time than Stalin I'm sad to say. You forget that more often than...

That was Trotsky's plan, problem was that Trotsky had no friends in the USSR.

Wow, that speaks of some serious ignorance in logistics. If Lend-Lease wasn't a thing, the Soviets would be forced to split their industry to cover the lack of logistics which includes locomotives. I kid you not, Lend-Lease included locomotives which are an outright requirement for the USSR to...

Because 1) Stalin kept killing/Gulag'ing the actual experts and thus left him with only party leaders (Trotsky and Stalin were going to do the same thing, it's just that Trotsky was going to have the State take a more hands-off approach to the economy and leave it to the experts... as long as...

The reason that a 152mm cannon would be chosen is that... we're hitting the upper limit with current propellant technology. Quite literally. At the end of the day, there isn't much you can do with current smokeless propellant tech to increase gun power outside, well, making the guns bigger...

I'm sorry but my attempts at drawing are... very lackluster...

Good to know, given that I only heard HATE about it...

Wow, those things are like the energizer bunny then? Give them regular maintenance and they'll keep going, and going, and going, and going?

Well, I was thinking the vehicle that hauls around 105 and 155mm howitzers all day... like the Maltier artillery tractor.