Requests/Issues

Tridente class submarine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tridente_class_submarine The Tridente class, also designated as U 209PN, is a diesel-electric submarine class based on the Type 214 submarine Apparently, both Portugal and El Salvador have ordered them ANW HUD 4 v1.1b9

Harbin Z-19 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_Z-19 "The Harbin Z-19 is a Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force attack helicopter." --Wikipedia This is an updated version of the Z-9. Is it different enough to need its own database entry? ANW HUD-4 v1.11

Piper PA-28 Cherokee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Cherokee Hey, a day without me proposing new platforms is like a day without sunshine. Descriptive text for database: One of the most popular civilian utility aircraft in the world. Seats four (pilot and three passengers). ANW HUD 4 v1.1 b10

Saab 340 AEW&C (aka S-100) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_340 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_340_AEW%26C "The Saab 340 AEW&C is a Swedish airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft;a variant of the Saab 340 aircraft is designated S 100B Argus by the Swedish Air Force." --Wikipedia Also used by Thailand and U.A.E. (I thought I had requested this earlier but I checked and could not find it.) ANW HUD-4 v1.11

Piper PA-18 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-18 With 15,000 built and employed by more than a dozen armies and air forces, this should probably be added. Descriptive text for database: Widely produced two-seater aircraft often used for bush flying. It is also operated by armies and air forces around the world. ANW HUD 4 v1.1 b10

Te-1 rocket propelled mine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te-1_rocket_propelled_mine I imagine a mine like this can be modeled much like the Mk 60 Captor, since it is triggered and then launches itself at its target. Made by China, and apparently exported (as the EM-52) to Iran (and maybe other places, too). ANW HUD 4 v1.1 b10

ARTY BM-27 Uragan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-27_Uragan "The BM-27 Uragan (Russian: Ураган, 'hurricane'; GRAU index 9P140) is a self-propelled multiple rocket launcher system designed in the Soviet Union. It began its service with the Soviet Army in the late 1970s, as its first modern spin and fin stabilized heavy multiple rocket launcher. This system is capable of launching 220 mm rockets from 16 launch tubes mounted on the rear of a ZIL-135 8x8 chassis. This vehicle is extremely similar to that used in the FROG-7 free flight rocket system....The BM-27 can use HE-Frag, chemical, or scatterable mine (PTM-3 or PFM-1) submunition equipped rockets all of which are …

Beriev Be-12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-12 I'm not sure how I missed this one (unless I submitted already and then messed up when I searched for it)... ANW HUD 4 v1.1 b10

ARTY M270 MRLS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System "The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is an armored, self-propelled, multiple rocket launcher; a type of rocket artillery. Since the first M270s were delivered to the U.S. Army in 1983, the MLRS has been adopted by several NATO countries. Some 1,300 M270 systems have been manufactured in the United States and in Europe, along with more than 700,000 rockets. The production of the M270 ended in 2003, when a last batch was delivered to the Egyptian army." --Wikipedia Another widely produced and widely distributed MLRS system. A six-vehicle battery would have RoF (I'm assu…

Nanchang CJ-6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanchang_CJ-6 Description: Normally used by the Chinese as a basic trainer, but capable of being armed with machine guns, bombs, and/or rockets, or of serving as an observation aircraft. With more than 2,000 built since 1960, and many in the hands of private citizens, it is not inconceivable that some could end up being used by insurgents, drug lords, or terrorists. ANW HUD-4 v1.11

Iranian submarine Fateh class http://www.payvand.com/news/11/oct/1053.html Editor's note: platform inclusion delayed until more data are provided

Andres Bonifacio class frigate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres_Bonifacio_class_frigate ANW HUD 4 v 1.1 b7

Harbin SH-5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_SH-5 Only a few of these were built, but it might be worth including...giving the Chinese a bit more of an edge with maritime patrol... ANW HUD 4 v1.1 b10

Fajr-3https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajr-3 "The Fajr-3 Artillery Rocket (Persian: فجر-۳‎) is an Iranian multiple-launch artillery rocket, a third-generation Katyusha rocket. Fajr means 'dawn' in Arabic. The 5.2-meter long, 240 millimeter-calibre Fajr-3 artillery rocket has an estimated range of 45 kilometres or 25–30 miles, weighs 407 kilograms, and carries a 45-kilogram warhead." --Wikipedia Exported to Syria, Lebanon, and Hamas, it seems. Assuming a six launcher battery, probably RoF 2, Capacity 72, DP 12 (per rocket, not per barrage). ANW HUD-4 v1.11

Kongbang class Air-Cushioned Vehicles (ACV) http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/acv.htm http://jsw.newpacificinstitute.org/?p=4115 Description: North Korean air cushion vehicle capable of transporting a platoon of soldiers. (It is unclear how they are armed, but one photo shows what looks like a heavy machine gun or an automatic cannon. Maybe the 2M-7 twin 14.5 mm. HMG? Should landing craft like these have the troops as a loadout, the way helicopters do? Is there a way to model this in H3? Maybe just build the troops as a one-shot cannon with a big warhead (60 DP for a platoon?) and a two-mile range? In any event, the North Koreans have a LOT …

de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-3_Otter Again, no rush, but this is one of those aircraft that shows up EVERYWHERE so it wouldn't hurt to eventually have it in the database ANW HUD 4 v1.1b9

Canadair CP-107 Argus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CP-107_Argus "The Canadair CP-107 Argus (CL-28) was a marine reconnaissance aircraft designed and manufactured by Canadair for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and Canadian Forces (CF). In its early years, the Argus was reputedly the finest anti-submarine patrol bomber in the world. The Argus served throughout the Cold War in the RCAF's Maritime Air Command and later the CF's Maritime Air Group and Air Command." --Wikipedia (Retired in 1982.) ANW HUD 4 v1.1 b10

SSM Fajr-5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajr-5 "The Fajr-5 (Persian: فجر-۵‎, meaning "dawn-5") is an artillery rocket developed by Iran in the 1990s." --Wikipedia Used against Israel by Hamas. Also in the hands of Syria, Libya, etc. ANW HUD-4 v1.11

Sin Hung/Ku Song class small torpedo boat http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/asiapac/n_korea.htm http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/p-sinhung.htm Description: North Korean torpedo boat. The North Koreans have a zillion of these! Okay, maybe more like 100. But they have a lot. Or, at least, they used to (they may have been retired by now...it's hard to tell). Yeah, laugh now, but I think twenty of these things popping up all at once might give a South Korean destroyer captain a very bad day indeed. ANW HUD-4 v1.11

de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_...HC-6_Twin_Otter Again, no rush, but this is one of those aircraft that shows up EVERYWHERE so it wouldn't hurt to eventually have it in the database ANW HUD 4 v1.1b9