A new African Army?

[Serbiak]

First of all: I know that posting pictures and information is not even close to develope the army for PR.
It´s just an idea for the time after the new modded armies are finished.

(I thought of starting to help with some modding and developement work, but I still have to learn it since it sure won´t be easy) I might try something and see if I´m able to do it and if so, if you appreciate my work .


I think it would be great Idea to introduce an African Army, like an African Union Army. I only found weapon systems from South Africa though but they might be the most advanced army in Africa anyways.

My Idea would be to let the African Union fight against Rebels similar to the Insurgents and or conventional armies. The fights could take place in a new jungle terrain as well as in the desert or the veld.

I think it would be a good idea because a big percentage of the conflicts and wars in the world take place in Africa.
List of ongoing conflicts 2007-current by world map - Wikipedia


Just let me know What you think.


Here is what the army could look like: (According to the information I found in the internet all of the following is used by the South Africa army)


The Pistol: Vektor SP1
Modern Firearms - Vektor SP1 and SP2 pistols




The Assault Rifle: Vektor CR-21
More info for the CR-21 here: Modern Firearms - Vektor CR-21 assault rifle
and here: Vektor CR-21 - Wikipedia




As well as the CR-21 with the 40mm Vektor grenade launcher:



A taste of the scope:




The Shotgun: MAG-7
Modern Firearms - Shotgun MAG-7



Or: Neostead Shotgun
Modern Firearms - Neostead shotgun




The Mashine Gun: Vektor SS77
Modern Firearms - Machinegun SS77




The Sniper Rifle: Mechem NTW-20
Modern Firearms - NTW-20 Sniper Rifle



Or: Truvelo .50 sniper rifle
Modern Firearms - Sniper Rifle Truvelo .50



They both are designed to be anti material guns so they probably are not useful for PR.




Vehicles and Aircrafts

As for the tanks, helicopters, jets, armored vehicles and missiles I found this page: South Africa Weapons

Again: it only shows the military arsenal of South Africa.



Fighter Jet / Bomber: Cheetah C (which is retired)
Cheetah- C
Cheetah Specifications




Or: Saab JAS-39 Gripen
It has been developed in different versions (one with two seats).
JAS-39D Gripen
JAS-39C Gripen





Transport Helicopter: Super Lynx 300
Super Lynx 300 gallery
Super Lynx 300




Attack Helicopter: Rooivalk
Rooivalk Attack Helicopter
Rooivalk Specifications
Rooivalk gallery




Main Battle Tank: Olifant
Which is the modernised version of the british battle tank Centurion.
Olifant MK 1B - Main Battle Tank
Centurion Tank - Wikipedia



Or: Tank Technology Demonstrator [TTD]
Which is supposed to replace the Olifant in 2009.
Tank Technology Demonstrator [TTD]




Jeep: Scout RG-32
RG-32M



Or: RG-31 Nyala which is used in Iraq as well.
RG-31 Nyala - Wikipedia




APC: Casspir
Ugly as hell but wow read the facts.
Casspir



Or: Ratel IFV
Ratel IFV - Wikipedia

[DeltaFart]

Post this in the PR Community forum, maybe someone will consider making this into a community mod, other than that, I'm not sure if this will make the cut

[Maxfragg]

the point is, that there are already enough community factions, so don't think that something like that will happen also i have to admit that there are some nice weapons

[Rudd]

I was always interested in both an AU and UN faction tbh (or EU faction LOLz!!). A long time ago a dev mentioned a Somalia map was in the mix, but I think it was dropped. - even if it wasnt dropped I dont think they were making a new faction for it.

[LtSoucy]

get a mod team togather and try to make it, I don't think the devs will spend there time on this now.

[Maxfragg]

btw, the Rooivalk will be in next AIX release and the Nyala has been made for canadian faction

[[R-COM]Darkpowder]

Similar ideas have been presented in the past. Personally i think that an african uniion army would be interesting. It would be a good excuse to see a dominance of black soldiers - as seen previously in vanilla BF2. ( i don't care what the politically acceptable phrase is of the day )

The Ethiopian army are currently heavily featured in fighting with insurgents involved in somalia, and this and future engagements would be interesting.

China vs. African factioned army would be interesting, considering the huge chinese influence in africa at the moment.

Also interesting would be MEC vs. this faction considering the Quatar factor in Somalia at the moment.

Something along the lines of the ETHIOPIAN ARMY has..

1 - Relevance in todays conflicts, and involvement with insurgency
2 - Duplication of a lot of "Russian" (sic.) equipment, allowing little work to achieve the majority of the army loadout.
3 - Potential for interesting insurgency style maps, with re-skinned Militia Faction tanks and armour to make up the majority of the force.
4 - Nice assymetric potential with high tech armies deployed with little armour vs. older design african formations.

Military of Ethiopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

T-55's/T-62's/T-72's
BMP1/BTR's
BRDM's
SU-27's and SU-25's (frogfoots)

AK47 & G3 as std infantry weapons
PKM/DSHK Mg's

A few soldier skins with a couple of maps should equip this quickly i would say as a faction.

[DeltaFart]

not to be racist hahaha, but first pic the guy look like dave chapelle

[AnRK]

We do need some African representation, I think South America ids pretty desperate too. I think when a couple of community factions are complete then maybe something will happen.

That equipment roster is a bit of a mashup of the old, new, cheap and very ****ing expensive though isn't it?

Originally Posted by DeltaFart

not to be racist hahaha, but first pic the guy look like dave chapelle

That's not racist! He proper does though, just a bit older and obviously has seen some horrible shit in his time.

[Sirsolo]

I like all the info but IMO, a Canadian Army with some F/A-18 Hornets would rock more. =)