We do, actually. They specialize in equipping post-collapse American armies and are very good at it.
I recognize people have concerns about their reliability as a supplier, but they are very much good at intefacing and modernizing the american descended army. They are our synergy bonus for rolling high on two actions, so very much good at filling parts of our armament orders. I will also note we have an elite division based on legacy US hardware and most of our specialized equipment used by the ordinary soldiers probably being some stuff pulled from an old arms cache or bought from a guy who knows a guy who looted an army supply depot way back. I expect staying close to US developed systems to be an option with benefits for our army development, as importing a bunch of unknown technology takes time and a lot money.
Nitpick. That's not a post collapse army in America, aka Chicago and new York. That's say Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and etc.
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We also have a brigade of M1 tanks and Bradleys, not a division.
Our guns, small arms and supporting arms like mortars are probably old American howitzers though..
Similarly, our Technicals are likely armed and equipped with American gear, although we seen RPG 7 being used for our manportable AT gear.
F16Vs are from Victoria and can be serviced via help of NCR, although how much use they can be, as well as how reliable an ally they will be is unknown, depending on our quest choices. But we already started screwing NCR over at the Revivalist conference.
So regarding New York, how easy would it be for Victoria to bypass New Yorks defenses?
Depends on the Russians. We simply don't know how fast or how far Russia is willing to rearm Victoria.
We can expect Blackwell army to be less idiotic in nature, as the hardcore Rumsford believers died in the civil war or will have learnt to keep their views quiet. Having said that, an entire culture beliefs don't just... Disappear like that.
In the next 2 years or so, Victorian forces should be very green, don't have the elan to push forward and remain cohesive after suffering heavy losses and they really can't afford heavy manpower losses, which may restrict their operations and affect their doctrine.
The presentation we gave to Congress was that if we bought fully foreign arms, we can possibly attack Victoria in 5 years, this when they are at their "weakest" and haven't recovered from the civil war/Erie campaign.
It is not, no. But the ways by which any of them might be delivered are quite limited, with how comprehensively ruined the continent's infrastructure is. There's a reason why we're scrambling to secure the Mississippi, and why the Revivalist Council's biggest current megaproject in the works is to get even a single highway or railroad to connect to the NCR by land.
The Miami faction, pirates in the Carribbean may make trade through the Panama problematic and lastly, Brazil/Peru and other Central/South American states may be looking to annex New Orleans. So yeah... The naval route from Europe is safest.
Sadly, France got destabilised by Alexander before he died, so one of the premier army/Airforce exporters of Europe is currently problematic for us to source arms from.
Germany in this timeline must has rearmed successfully but who knows? Maybe they fucked it up and wasted the time Poland bought, just like IRL right now Vis Ukraine. Italy a mess but they another potential source for frigates and there's always good old Sweden.
