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My country is in serious need of transportation. To be more specific, military transportation! I have a giant military (i have puppets) and i can't move them around. I always have to rely on allies. I am inquiring about purchasing what i need. Something that can pack a big load and is efficient with time. So if i want to deploy 100,000 troops this way with some AA guns, i can do it behind our own lines without fighting a war of our own! Just thinking ahead...We have failed miserably with logistics!

If i want to move 100 tanks from one place to another, i have 2 transport trucks for the military..I don't want to use my rigs or other civilian stuff. I am going to deply 1,000,000 troops to an island (or a 100,000 whatever works best) to crush the insurgency. I will have to depend on allies. My troops will have to walk hundredas of miles to get place to place if a serious war breaks out. Take civilian vehicles etc etc..Because we have limited trucks.

Rubberduckistan could sell you 20 of these (used) http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/an124/index.html#specs for 2B£, includes spareparts and full logistics support.

For troop transports I would suggest the tried and true M113-A3 armored personnel carrier. It holds 9 infantrymen and has a crew of 3, it is included with a 7.62mm machine gun. These will cost you $1.2 million per. Top speed 55mph.
http://tanks2go.com/United_States/images/USm113-1.jpg

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As far as unarmored troop transports, I suggest the FMTV Truck ,which cost $125,000 apiece, takes 3 crew and holds 18 fully equipped infantrymen or up to 10,000lbs of cargo.
The downside is that they are unarmored but there is provision for a 7.62mm machinegun on the cab.
http://federalvoice.dscc.dla.mil/images/030521pic/fmtv_2.jpg

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For transporting tanks, might I suggest the Heavy Equipment Transporter System (HETS) It takes 2 crew to operate but has a 6 man crew cab.These will run you $325,000 a piece. Top speed 65mph
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/het-with-m1-offset-s.jpg



Phoenix Dynamix can provide you with all these items at the wholesale prices listed above.

WA offerings (quotes and specs available upon request).

- ULAs: "Ultra Large Airlifters" Modernized airlifter-type airships (ie, some aerodynamic/lifting body design features to allow for greater speed and payload). Largest versions offered carry up to 1000 tonnes with smaller variants bearing 600 and 220 tonnes. A smaller patrol version only has a 20t capacity but is focused on bearing detection and monitoring equipment for border patrol, mine clearing operations, and the sort. One version bears several hundred long-range cruise missiles for use as a mobile defensive bombardment platform. Limited speed (under 130mph, not accounting for jetstreams and wind patterns) but can land almost anywhere (basically any location that has a flat space as large as the cargo deck footprint...can even land on water).

- PelicanULTRAs (Ultra Large TRansport Aircraft): Supermassive aircraft that use the WIG effect to produce a large payload capacity and long (transcontinental) ranges. 2 models, the C-200 PelicanULTRA and the C-100 AlbatrossLSTRA. The C-200 has a payload capacity of 1,400 tons (2.8M pounds) of cargo [5x that of the Autonov 225 with only 2x the external dimensions]. The LSTRA (Large Scale TRansport Aircraft) never passed the late prototype stage although they have closer external dimensions to the B-747 (albeit with a significantly greater lift capability). Most versions include passive self-defense systems with some advanced models being armed with more active self defense/offensive systems. Limited speed but still more than 3x the speed of the ULAs. Require large airfield.

- TSV/HSV (Theater Support Vessel/High Speed Vessel): Wave-splitting Catamarans, these units bear troops, gear, supplies, and materiel across medium and short ranges with high efficiency and at high maintained speeds. They are capable of long-range (transatlantic) passages without refuelling at top speed but are best at local ferrying. Very cheap for their capacity and capabilities.

- High Speed Sealift. Specialized, massive long-range transport vessels meant to ferry huge amounts of equipment over long ranges. Use various techniques to boost speed.

- CV-1 Condor VTOL transporters. (Relative) High speed, but massive and short-ranged VTOL transports. Able to land a great deal of materiel in a dangerous combat environment. This and strike variants of this family of VTOL craft are used for heavily opposed Marine Corps landing ops by the IDF. Lands dozens of troops or more than a dozen vehicles in the thick of battle. Includes armament systems of great variety...the attack version being a literal "flying tank" that can suppress almost any potential enemy forces. (OOC: based loosely on the Aerial Hunter-Killers of the Terminator series future scenarios).

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Ground Transport: 2.5 ton or 5 ton trucks should do the job. Can be relatively easily produced at a local level (taking basically large commercial 2-axel trucks and making them open- or soft-topped.