Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: graper@BRL.MIL (MTSD/FIO) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: comments to sci.military articles Message-ID: <1990Nov21.223201.22165@cbnews.att.com> Date: 21 Nov 90 22:32:01 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Graper Brad P (MTSD/FIO) there was an article on about 17 Nov about M1/M1A1/M1A2 deployment; one of the comments made was that the M1s coming from FRG were M1A2s. That's incorrect. No M1A2s have been produced yet. The Army is still pondering whether we want M1A2s; in the meanwhile, the Saudis are buying severall hundred M1A2s as part of the arms package deal just ap[proved. M1A2s are expensive beasts, due to the extensive changes in the electronics. All of the tanks in FRG are M1A1s. M1A1s all have 120mm guns, NBC collective prtection systems (including microclimate cooling) and improved armor. also: i have a comment to another posting, <1990Nov17.014235.27311@cbnews.att.com Brigade Commanders are Colonels in brigades which are with a division. Brigade Cdrs are BGs when they command a separate brigade, or a brigade which is deployed separately from the parent division (like 1st ID (FWD)) Thanks.