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[Funk]

A think there still in active service as artillery tractors and supply transports and just no longer actively being used as tanks.

[Kot]

A think there still in active service as artillery tractors and supply transports and just no longer actively being used as tanks.

Then tell me when they stopped being tanks.

[VoidSlayer]

A think there still in active service as artillery tractors and supply transports and just no longer actively being used as tanks.

Then tell me when they stopped being tanks.

I think about 2 years before we sold them to the Russians... lol.

[Kot]

A think there still in active service as artillery tractors and supply transports and just no longer actively being used as tanks.

Then tell me when they stopped being tanks.

I think about 2 years before we sold them to the Russians... lol.

And WHEN we sold them to the Russians? 1918 then?

[VoidSlayer]

We were using them until 1925, but they were really little more then death traps at that point.

Really once we introduced the armored cars they were pretty useless.

[Sensei]

AS-DC29: An Arstotzkan device design to solve Moskurg's cipher. It is basically a Tiger's Whisper, with its own code card with the numbers 1 through 26. It uses a typewriter mechanism to stamp each number onto a ticker tape. The numbers on the ticker tape are the simple cipher version of the Moskurg message, which is relatively easy to solve by hand. In addition it includes a counter for each letter, displaying the frequency in which letters occur which helps solve ciphers faster. An average Arstotzkan officer is clever enough to use this to crack a Moskurg message in five to ten minutes. With a stolen code card, it can also act exactly as a Tiger's Whisper would, where communications officers must write down each letter as it appears. It is Expensive to make, and fits into a very heavy backpack.

In addition, you have converted the Model 3 Radio to metric manufacture, reducing its expense.

[Andres]

Wait, what the hell? DC29? That's not even the same name as the thing we tried to make. Also, we converted the Model 3 Radio to metric 2 years ago - the same year we made our cypher and started listening to Moskurg.

Spoiler: AS-EMC-Series A-Z (click to show/hide)

A series of electromechanical computers, designed to rapidly break Moskurgian codes and with another model, encrypt our own communications. Since we know the interior of the Moskurgian machine, this should be relatively easy.

Alternate variant is utilized to calculate artillery trajectories.

Revise our dive bomber to use 2 Oil instead or 3 Oil. If fuel injection and/or turbo can help achieve that goal, include them. If they don't, exclude them. Highest priority is decreasing Oil cost.

EDIT: Oh and guys, the description of our new machine specifically requires communications officers, meaning there's no point in making it cheap.

[VoidSlayer]

Wait, did we actually protect our own codes or did we just decode the enemy?

[Andres]

Both.

Glory to Arstotzka.

[tryrar]

+1 revision for dive bombers. If we can, also revise fighter engine using FI and turbo to achieve the same thing and get a small power boost.

[VoidSlayer]

Okay, we can give the AS-1924 to china, it is a light machine gun but inexpensive enough to field to all troops and light enough to be carried by one person, and I would argue our best anti emplacement weapon is our dive bomber or RPG right now, since the AS-1912 Artillery A is soooo old.  The RPG is cheap but the dive bomber is a fast bomber.

As to what to give the British, I am torn between the AS-MAT26-50 tank destroyer and the AS-M17A high performance motorcycle.

The two planes are basically the exact same thing with different equipment, we should be able to revise the engines on both at the same time.

[Kot]

Okay, we can give the AS-1924 to china, it is a light machine gun but inexpensive enough to field to all troops and light enough to be carried by one person, and I would argue our best anti emplacement weapon is our dive bomber or RPG right now, since the AS-1912 Artillery A is soooo old.  The RPG is cheap but the dive bomber is a fast bomber.

Actually, give the older MG to Chinese, they want it to be cheap and it's cheaper. Give the RPG to commies, they don't have good enough pilots really, and they mostly rely on infantry anyway.

As to what to give the British, I am torn between the AS-MAT26-50 tank destroyer and the AS-M17A high performance motorcycle.

Paint the motorcycle in tiger stripes and send it. Or send anything else really, just in tiger stripes.

[VoidSlayer]

The AS-24 is inexpensive...

[tryrar]

Either the motorcycle to the British, or go for Andres' pointed "gift" of the 1909 (prefer motorcycle). I agree with the rest as well(RPG to commies, and 1924 to Chinese)

[Kot]

The AS-24 is inexpensive...

1924 to Chinese

It's inexpensive for us. It costs 3 ore, while the old one costs 2. The cheaper the better.