i've been working on building a faction for an Anime inspired roleplaying game (details can be found here)
one thing i've been trying to do is use real world stuff to fill out their military.. partly to make them more distinct from the official groups in the setting, and partly because real world stuff is much cooler than the things i can come up with.
but i've found it tough to find info on some things. especially concept works and where some things are built.
so i'm looking for suggestions on tanks, jets, helicopters, missiles, and so on made in the following regions, and ideally from between 1980 and about 2004 or so. concept stuff and actually built stuff are both acceptable.
Poland
Lithuinia
Estonia
Latvia
Kaliningrad
the Caucusus region
Komsomolsk-on-the-Amur
i know about some of them, like the helicopter factories in the Caucusus and the Sukhoi factories in Komsomolsk-on-the-Amur, but i'd like to know what else is made there i could use to flesh out this faction.
what i've been using so far:
Humvee's - kaliningrad (based on the fact a civilian Hummer factory was built there in the last decade..)
PT-91 Tawrdy MBT
PT-94 Goryl MBT (though i couldn't find actual images or artwork of it..)
KTO Rosomak (which i've basically described as a knock off done after the original source was lost)
PZA Loara and Loara-M
Mi-24 Hind
Mi-28 Havoc
Su-27 and derivatives
there are also BMP-1's, Mig-29's, F-16's, and such which they had but can't replace.
(note: being anime inspired and an RPG, i'm hand waving some aspects of distributed manufacturing to simplify things.. basically on the idea that the advanced technology of the setting could simplify manufacturing somewhat, and some of the major production sites could be upgraded with a more complete, all in one place production set up. i'm also assuming that a sufficiently determined technological society can produce a knockoff of something faster than inventing something new from scratch, ala Iran and China.)
one thing i've been trying to do is use real world stuff to fill out their military.. partly to make them more distinct from the official groups in the setting, and partly because real world stuff is much cooler than the things i can come up with.
but i've found it tough to find info on some things. especially concept works and where some things are built.
so i'm looking for suggestions on tanks, jets, helicopters, missiles, and so on made in the following regions, and ideally from between 1980 and about 2004 or so. concept stuff and actually built stuff are both acceptable.
Poland
Lithuinia
Estonia
Latvia
Kaliningrad
the Caucusus region
Komsomolsk-on-the-Amur
i know about some of them, like the helicopter factories in the Caucusus and the Sukhoi factories in Komsomolsk-on-the-Amur, but i'd like to know what else is made there i could use to flesh out this faction.
what i've been using so far:
Humvee's - kaliningrad (based on the fact a civilian Hummer factory was built there in the last decade..)
PT-91 Tawrdy MBT
PT-94 Goryl MBT (though i couldn't find actual images or artwork of it..)
KTO Rosomak (which i've basically described as a knock off done after the original source was lost)
PZA Loara and Loara-M
Mi-24 Hind
Mi-28 Havoc
Su-27 and derivatives
there are also BMP-1's, Mig-29's, F-16's, and such which they had but can't replace.
(note: being anime inspired and an RPG, i'm hand waving some aspects of distributed manufacturing to simplify things.. basically on the idea that the advanced technology of the setting could simplify manufacturing somewhat, and some of the major production sites could be upgraded with a more complete, all in one place production set up. i'm also assuming that a sufficiently determined technological society can produce a knockoff of something faster than inventing something new from scratch, ala Iran and China.)
