You are the Minister of Defense Procurement of the small Baltic Nation of Gallia and well there is a slight problem. Apparently despite being literally neutral for decades now, and despite being literally demilitarized also for decades now, your two large neighbors, the Atlantic Federation and the Eastern Imperial Alliance have decided that all of these pesky border nations aren't neutralized enough. Its believed like in the other threads, we have about five years minimum to prepare for some sort of direct foreign aggression by one, if not both, power blocs threatening us.
THANKFULLY your country is so small, neutral and demilitarized that no one is talking about neutralizing and demilitarizing your nation yet. They're going to target those bigger, thicker, and juicier countries to the South first while still treating you like pals and allies, probably in an effort to gaslit you into not being so neutral.
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As per the other threads regarding armored vehicles, naval equipment and aircraft, the current administration has decided that they don't want to be steamrolled by either faction because their ways of life are totally incompatible with the super awesome high quality idyllic quality of life they have going on right now. The good news is, money isn't a concern. The analysts have worked out due to responsible public financing they can requip their military with modern weapons in an easily afforded manner. Also good news, the Gallian military is highly trained, highly professional, and has invested extensively in next generation training systems, simulators, centers, instruction and generous benefits, pay, pensions and care for its professional all volunteer force as well as an extensive conscription/reserve system. So manpower and basic infrastructure issues aren't a concern either.
In this thread you'll be tasked with procurement of combat support equipment. Mainly that is artillery, air defense, engineering and logistical vehicles and thankfully, we have so many brilliant bids lined up and the Gallian government has issued us a nice guideline for us to follow in regards to what they've determined Gallia requires when it comes to providing for our defense. But since your the Procurement Minister, ultimately the decision is up to you.
Gallia has submitted an open bid for about 2,000 trucks and other truck sized logistical vehicles, 200 engineering vehicles, enough equipment for an integrated air defense system to cover their small country and at least 200 tubes of modern artillery (battery radars implied to come with tubes). Drones, Sensors and Multiple launch rocket systems are a bonus.
The Peoples Republic of Canadia
In an effort to avoid it's mandate of spending 2% of its treaty obligated defense spending, Canada is generously offering large amounts of Canadian military equipment for sale so it can plead that it has compromised its military commitments through their excessive Canadian kindness. The Canadian military industry is also desperately desiring new contracts since Canada itself ain't buying anything eh? The only main catch is Canada also wants us to import a large amount of homegrown Canadian terrorists, traitors and truckers and their families and make that problem go away eh.
Canadia is offering licensed production of the logistics vehicles, their offered LAV-1 and II models as well as production of their deadly and versatile ADATS missiles. Also for their C3 105mm Howitzers eh.
1000 M35 2.5 Ton Medium Trucks: Made with Pride in Canada eh? Licensed with pride to Gallia!
1000 Heavy Logistics Vehicle Wheeled: Canada, with Pride, is offering its most highly advanced... heavy wheeled truck design for us to use and produce under license.
2000 Iltis Light Utility Vehicles: Made with Pride in Canada! Licensed with pride to Gallia!
250 Assorted Civilian Semi-Trailer Trucks: Comes with free personnel and their families thanks to the Emergencies Act! No takebacks!
225 LAV-1 Armored Vehicles General Purpose: Made with Pride in Canada. Licensed with pride to Gallia!
> 75 Cougar Armored Recon:
> 75 Grizzly APC:
> 75 Husky ARV: Armored Recovery Vehicle
225 LAV-2 Armored Fighting Vehicles: Made with Pride in Canada. Licensed with pride to Gallia!
> 75 Bison 81mm Self Propelled Mortars:
> 75 Wolverine Air Defense Vehicles:
> 75 Bison Engineering Vehicles:
75 M113 ADATS: The ADATs is anti-everything and furthermore, Canada will happily license production of ADATs missiles to Gallia.
250 Javelin Man Portable Missile Launchers: Canada is generously offering us 250 fully upgraded and modernized Javelin Missile Launchers with several times that many missiles in a generous offering of... wait a minute. MANPADs?
75 M109A4 155mm Self Propelled Guns:
100 C3 105mm Towed Close Support Guns: Made with Pride in Canada! Licensed with pride to Gallia!
2 Spy Drones:
Fourth Polish Peoples Republic (in Exile)/Warsaw Treaty Organization
Turns out that the other Fourth Polish Republic is actually a pretender government that happens to control the territory of Poland and rule over fake Poles. The true Poland exists and is sustained by the generosity of the Russian backed Eastern Imperial Alliance and under the guidance of its brother Slavs. And Gallia is in a rare position to help recognize the true Polish government and join the fraternity of Slavic Nations. Are Gallians even Slavs? Ehhhh don't think about it. Just think about what an investment in the future Gallia will be making by securing its Eastern Border, by aiming all of these wonderful Eastern Weapons Westward against the true enemies... and the imposter Fourth Polish Republic.
The Fourth Polish Peoples Republic (in Exile)/Warsaw Treaty Organization might not exist as a country per se or even be recognized as a legitimate government but they still have an arsenal as thousands of patriotic Polish (or whatever) emigres spend their time in outdoor camps in Siberia taking tender care of large amounts of surplus munitions and vehicles. Everything is licensed to build, except that Czech crap.
2000 Star 266 ZAOP Medium Supply Trucks
16 Mi-8 ZAOP Supply Helicopters
200 War Miner Engineering Vehicles
75 Sopel AAA Vehicle: Thanks to the lack of radar fire direction they cannot be jammed or HARM'd. Very smart.
75 WZT-Newa-SC SAM: 10 Batteries of Polish Modernized S-125 SAM's.
75 Hibneryt Zur-23-2S AAA Vehicle: Equipped withe Strela Missiles and 23mm Autocannons. Great value.
100 2S1 122mm Gozdzik Self Propelled Guns: License to Build.
100 152mm Wz.77 DANA Self Propelled Guns: This Czech built Self Propelled Gun is the pride of the Polish Peoples Republic Military so no license, sad.
10 2S7 Piwonia 203mm Self Propelled Guns: License to Build.
60 Zhuk RS-ZO MLRS: License to Build.
40 V2 Scud Rocket Launchers:
Red China
Red China sees you... and they're offended that not only have you not clearly picked them for any of the previous procurements yet, but that some people actually referred to Taiwan by name, actually acknowledging its existence and worse, implying it's an actual country with an independent foreign and defense policy... hilarious. Thankfully the Chinese people are willing to overlook your offenses and the hurt that you have caused Red China and it's proud ancient superior people and are willing to offer you a generous largesse of the finest of Chinese military combat support equipment to support the noble little Gallians in their struggle for global relevance. No license on anything as per usual, just standard replenishment contracts and instruction manuals.
1,000,000 Bolt Action Rifles
10000 Motor-Tricycles
2000 SX-250 Cargo Trucks
2000 Supply Utility Trucks
500 Beijing BJ212 Light Utility Vehicles
250 Construction Dozers:
200 Gatling Tanks:
200 Gatling Cannon Base Defense Turrets: Able to Detect Stealthed Units as Well!
100 Rocket Defense Turrets:
400 Inferno Cannons (Self Propelled):
Japan
Japan, as is known, has a longstanding ban on exporting arms abroad but after close examination of the Gallian situation have realized an exception can be made for 'combat support equipment.' The Karin Motor Company is willing to open a large Motorworks factory in Gallia to specialize in the production of their trademark 'Rebel' Pickup Trucks in hopes of breaking into the European market. All missiles guided and otherwise can be licensed for construction in Gallia, with the exception of the Patriot Missiles used in the Falcon MLRS Turret.
1000 Chugata Cargo Trucks:
5000 Karin Rebel Pickup Trucks:
>2000 Rocket Pods: Main purpose to fire "signal flares."
>2000 Dual Scorpion Rocket Launchers: Launches two larger "guided signal flares" in tandem.
>1000 Laser Beam w/ Swarm Missile Weapon Pods: Main purpose to fire "homing signal flares" and heavy duty welding.
200 Commercial Engineering Vehicles: All civilian vehicles.
75 Falcon MLRS Turrets: Purely defensive.
75 Kairyou HAWK SAM Launchers: Purely defensive.
100 M270 MLRS: For engineering demolitions work.
50 Sea Buster "Anti-Ship" Missile Launchers: Also purely defensive.
Mittelafrika
The Kaiser of the powerful African Confederation known as Mittelafrika is aggressively engaging in an ambitious imperialistic foreign policy known as 'Dark MAGA.' As part of their desire to Make Africa Great Again, they are determined in making Africa an exporter not just of basic valuable resources, but also of refined products and what products sell better then weapons? Hearing of Gallia's plight and sympathizing with it, the Kaiser of Mittelafrika will happily supply Gallia' with combat support equipment not only to help Gallia, but also to help publicize their rising arms export industry in the near future against rivals like the Atlantic Federation or Eastern Imperial Alliance... as well as Red China and the USA. Plus having Europeans killed by Mittelafrikan products sounds delightfully ironic. They are offering licensed co-production of all of theirhigh quality products except the Dragonfly drones, which are proprietary.
800 ZIL-130 Supply Trucks:
500 Armored Dump Trucks:
500 Battle Buses:
200 GAZ-3937 Vodnik HMMAV:
1000 LYT2021 FAV Light Utility Vehicles:
200 Bull Tank Bulldozers:
200 Quad Cannon Half-Track:
150 PILA MANPADS:
50 SA-18 Igla Emplacements:
20 Radar Vans:
100 G6 Mobile Artillery Vehicle:
80 Rocket Buggies:
20 'Honest John' SSM Launchers:
400 MQ-27 Dragonfly Quadrotors:
GI Joe
These Real American Heroes want to thank Gallia for not choosing Terrorists or Communists and as a reward are willing to open up their hearts and armories to the brave Gallians, rewarding their armed neutrality with the latest and greatest of Western combat support equipment that can be approved for export. In return they'll ask for a secret coastal underground/sea base from which they can base out their missions to protect the world from EVIL supervillainy stuff. The best part is that they are willing to license to build munitions for all of their unique weapon platforms with the exception of the Heavy Artillery Laser.
The obvious questions are many. What is the range of these missiles? Are these rockets even guided? What is the detection range of that radar? How come all of the vehicles have open access to crew areas? Those are all great questions and sadly, answers are all classified. Just remember, GI Joe doesn't compromise on quality when it comes to fighting the bad guys and inspiring the next generation of young Joes into becoming RealAmerican Heroes!
500 Rapid Fire Motorcycles (RAM):
2000 Weapon Transport Vehicles:
1000 VAMP Multipurpose Attack Vehicles:
20 Toss N' Cross Bridge Layers:
180 Bomb Disposal Vehicle:
100 V.A.M.P. II Attack Vehicle:
25 Equalizer Air Defense Tank
25 Heavy Artillery Laser:
25 Slugger 175mm Self Propelled Artillery Piece:
100 FLAK Field Light Attack Cannon 105mm:
100 EX700 105mm Mountain Howitzer:
25 Wolverine Armored Missile Tank:
50 Towed Mobile Missile System:
25 Remote Piloted Vehicle:
50 Man Portable Radar Station:
Choose wisely Minister.
THANKFULLY your country is so small, neutral and demilitarized that no one is talking about neutralizing and demilitarizing your nation yet. They're going to target those bigger, thicker, and juicier countries to the South first while still treating you like pals and allies, probably in an effort to gaslit you into not being so neutral.
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As per the other threads regarding armored vehicles, naval equipment and aircraft, the current administration has decided that they don't want to be steamrolled by either faction because their ways of life are totally incompatible with the super awesome high quality idyllic quality of life they have going on right now. The good news is, money isn't a concern. The analysts have worked out due to responsible public financing they can requip their military with modern weapons in an easily afforded manner. Also good news, the Gallian military is highly trained, highly professional, and has invested extensively in next generation training systems, simulators, centers, instruction and generous benefits, pay, pensions and care for its professional all volunteer force as well as an extensive conscription/reserve system. So manpower and basic infrastructure issues aren't a concern either.
In this thread you'll be tasked with procurement of combat support equipment. Mainly that is artillery, air defense, engineering and logistical vehicles and thankfully, we have so many brilliant bids lined up and the Gallian government has issued us a nice guideline for us to follow in regards to what they've determined Gallia requires when it comes to providing for our defense. But since your the Procurement Minister, ultimately the decision is up to you.
Gallia has submitted an open bid for about 2,000 trucks and other truck sized logistical vehicles, 200 engineering vehicles, enough equipment for an integrated air defense system to cover their small country and at least 200 tubes of modern artillery (battery radars implied to come with tubes). Drones, Sensors and Multiple launch rocket systems are a bonus.
The Peoples Republic of Canadia
In an effort to avoid it's mandate of spending 2% of its treaty obligated defense spending, Canada is generously offering large amounts of Canadian military equipment for sale so it can plead that it has compromised its military commitments through their excessive Canadian kindness. The Canadian military industry is also desperately desiring new contracts since Canada itself ain't buying anything eh? The only main catch is Canada also wants us to import a large amount of homegrown Canadian terrorists, traitors and truckers and their families and make that problem go away eh.
Canadia is offering licensed production of the logistics vehicles, their offered LAV-1 and II models as well as production of their deadly and versatile ADATS missiles. Also for their C3 105mm Howitzers eh.
1000 M35 2.5 Ton Medium Trucks: Made with Pride in Canada eh? Licensed with pride to Gallia!
1000 Heavy Logistics Vehicle Wheeled: Canada, with Pride, is offering its most highly advanced... heavy wheeled truck design for us to use and produce under license.
2000 Iltis Light Utility Vehicles: Made with Pride in Canada! Licensed with pride to Gallia!
250 Assorted Civilian Semi-Trailer Trucks: Comes with free personnel and their families thanks to the Emergencies Act! No takebacks!
225 LAV-1 Armored Vehicles General Purpose: Made with Pride in Canada. Licensed with pride to Gallia!
> 75 Cougar Armored Recon:
> 75 Grizzly APC:
> 75 Husky ARV: Armored Recovery Vehicle
225 LAV-2 Armored Fighting Vehicles: Made with Pride in Canada. Licensed with pride to Gallia!
> 75 Bison 81mm Self Propelled Mortars:
> 75 Wolverine Air Defense Vehicles:
> 75 Bison Engineering Vehicles:
75 M113 ADATS: The ADATs is anti-everything and furthermore, Canada will happily license production of ADATs missiles to Gallia.
250 Javelin Man Portable Missile Launchers: Canada is generously offering us 250 fully upgraded and modernized Javelin Missile Launchers with several times that many missiles in a generous offering of... wait a minute. MANPADs?
75 M109A4 155mm Self Propelled Guns:
100 C3 105mm Towed Close Support Guns: Made with Pride in Canada! Licensed with pride to Gallia!
2 Spy Drones:
Fourth Polish Peoples Republic (in Exile)/Warsaw Treaty Organization
Turns out that the other Fourth Polish Republic is actually a pretender government that happens to control the territory of Poland and rule over fake Poles. The true Poland exists and is sustained by the generosity of the Russian backed Eastern Imperial Alliance and under the guidance of its brother Slavs. And Gallia is in a rare position to help recognize the true Polish government and join the fraternity of Slavic Nations. Are Gallians even Slavs? Ehhhh don't think about it. Just think about what an investment in the future Gallia will be making by securing its Eastern Border, by aiming all of these wonderful Eastern Weapons Westward against the true enemies... and the imposter Fourth Polish Republic.
The Fourth Polish Peoples Republic (in Exile)/Warsaw Treaty Organization might not exist as a country per se or even be recognized as a legitimate government but they still have an arsenal as thousands of patriotic Polish (or whatever) emigres spend their time in outdoor camps in Siberia taking tender care of large amounts of surplus munitions and vehicles. Everything is licensed to build, except that Czech crap.
2000 Star 266 ZAOP Medium Supply Trucks
16 Mi-8 ZAOP Supply Helicopters
200 War Miner Engineering Vehicles
75 Sopel AAA Vehicle: Thanks to the lack of radar fire direction they cannot be jammed or HARM'd. Very smart.
75 WZT-Newa-SC SAM: 10 Batteries of Polish Modernized S-125 SAM's.
75 Hibneryt Zur-23-2S AAA Vehicle: Equipped withe Strela Missiles and 23mm Autocannons. Great value.
100 2S1 122mm Gozdzik Self Propelled Guns: License to Build.
100 152mm Wz.77 DANA Self Propelled Guns: This Czech built Self Propelled Gun is the pride of the Polish Peoples Republic Military so no license, sad.
10 2S7 Piwonia 203mm Self Propelled Guns: License to Build.
60 Zhuk RS-ZO MLRS: License to Build.
40 V2 Scud Rocket Launchers:
Red China
Red China sees you... and they're offended that not only have you not clearly picked them for any of the previous procurements yet, but that some people actually referred to Taiwan by name, actually acknowledging its existence and worse, implying it's an actual country with an independent foreign and defense policy... hilarious. Thankfully the Chinese people are willing to overlook your offenses and the hurt that you have caused Red China and it's proud ancient superior people and are willing to offer you a generous largesse of the finest of Chinese military combat support equipment to support the noble little Gallians in their struggle for global relevance. No license on anything as per usual, just standard replenishment contracts and instruction manuals.
1,000,000 Bolt Action Rifles
10000 Motor-Tricycles
2000 SX-250 Cargo Trucks
2000 Supply Utility Trucks
500 Beijing BJ212 Light Utility Vehicles
250 Construction Dozers:
200 Gatling Tanks:
200 Gatling Cannon Base Defense Turrets: Able to Detect Stealthed Units as Well!
100 Rocket Defense Turrets:
400 Inferno Cannons (Self Propelled):
Japan
Japan, as is known, has a longstanding ban on exporting arms abroad but after close examination of the Gallian situation have realized an exception can be made for 'combat support equipment.' The Karin Motor Company is willing to open a large Motorworks factory in Gallia to specialize in the production of their trademark 'Rebel' Pickup Trucks in hopes of breaking into the European market. All missiles guided and otherwise can be licensed for construction in Gallia, with the exception of the Patriot Missiles used in the Falcon MLRS Turret.
1000 Chugata Cargo Trucks:
5000 Karin Rebel Pickup Trucks:
>2000 Rocket Pods: Main purpose to fire "signal flares."
>2000 Dual Scorpion Rocket Launchers: Launches two larger "guided signal flares" in tandem.
>1000 Laser Beam w/ Swarm Missile Weapon Pods: Main purpose to fire "homing signal flares" and heavy duty welding.
200 Commercial Engineering Vehicles: All civilian vehicles.
75 Falcon MLRS Turrets: Purely defensive.
75 Kairyou HAWK SAM Launchers: Purely defensive.
100 M270 MLRS: For engineering demolitions work.
50 Sea Buster "Anti-Ship" Missile Launchers: Also purely defensive.
Mittelafrika
The Kaiser of the powerful African Confederation known as Mittelafrika is aggressively engaging in an ambitious imperialistic foreign policy known as 'Dark MAGA.' As part of their desire to Make Africa Great Again, they are determined in making Africa an exporter not just of basic valuable resources, but also of refined products and what products sell better then weapons? Hearing of Gallia's plight and sympathizing with it, the Kaiser of Mittelafrika will happily supply Gallia' with combat support equipment not only to help Gallia, but also to help publicize their rising arms export industry in the near future against rivals like the Atlantic Federation or Eastern Imperial Alliance... as well as Red China and the USA. Plus having Europeans killed by Mittelafrikan products sounds delightfully ironic. They are offering licensed co-production of all of their
800 ZIL-130 Supply Trucks:
500 Armored Dump Trucks:
500 Battle Buses:
200 GAZ-3937 Vodnik HMMAV:
1000 LYT2021 FAV Light Utility Vehicles:
200 Bull Tank Bulldozers:
200 Quad Cannon Half-Track:
150 PILA MANPADS:
50 SA-18 Igla Emplacements:
20 Radar Vans:
100 G6 Mobile Artillery Vehicle:
80 Rocket Buggies:
20 'Honest John' SSM Launchers:
400 MQ-27 Dragonfly Quadrotors:
GI Joe
These Real American Heroes want to thank Gallia for not choosing Terrorists or Communists and as a reward are willing to open up their hearts and armories to the brave Gallians, rewarding their armed neutrality with the latest and greatest of Western combat support equipment that can be approved for export. In return they'll ask for a secret coastal underground/sea base from which they can base out their missions to protect the world from EVIL supervillainy stuff. The best part is that they are willing to license to build munitions for all of their unique weapon platforms with the exception of the Heavy Artillery Laser.
The obvious questions are many. What is the range of these missiles? Are these rockets even guided? What is the detection range of that radar? How come all of the vehicles have open access to crew areas? Those are all great questions and sadly, answers are all classified. Just remember, GI Joe doesn't compromise on quality when it comes to fighting the bad guys and inspiring the next generation of young Joes into becoming Real
500 Rapid Fire Motorcycles (RAM):
2000 Weapon Transport Vehicles:
1000 VAMP Multipurpose Attack Vehicles:
20 Toss N' Cross Bridge Layers:
180 Bomb Disposal Vehicle:
100 V.A.M.P. II Attack Vehicle:
25 Equalizer Air Defense Tank
25 Heavy Artillery Laser:
25 Slugger 175mm Self Propelled Artillery Piece:
100 FLAK Field Light Attack Cannon 105mm:
100 EX700 105mm Mountain Howitzer:
25 Wolverine Armored Missile Tank:
50 Towed Mobile Missile System:
25 Remote Piloted Vehicle:
50 Man Portable Radar Station:
Choose wisely Minister.
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