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Bundesheer 2035

This mod brings the Austrian Armed Forces into your game. While many mods add factions that use equipment comparable to today's armies, this mod was designed to fit into the vanilla Arma 3 2035 timeline. This means you can expect to see AUG A3s instead of A1s, night vision goggles and improved body armor.


Lore
While most NATO countries saw their economy take heavy hits with the uprising of CSAT, Austria stayed completely intact. This was heavily influenced by Austria's neutrality which had attracted many international companies to use this country as their headquarters, notably eastern oil companies. Combined with good relations with Russia, these factors allowed Austria to become an important economic power in europe.
This went on until 2028, when unknown paramilitary forces who were inspired by the altian civil war entered the country covertly and began a siege on the city of Vienna. The military, which had not been overhauled like experts recommended the government to do in 2019, was unable to get the situation under control. Artillery guns were too inaccurate to be used, soldiers didn't have proper body armor and experience with urban combat was almost nonexistent. After seeing that the problem was too big, the government allowed trusted foreign soldiers to help. After the insurgents were defeated and the foreign forces left, the government decided to use the overflowing money from recent years to properly upgrade the Bundesheer. New tanks and APCs were bought from NATO, MRAPs and IFVs from a german company. Armed helicopters were bought for the first time ever. The standard issue rifle was replaced by a more modern version. New special forces units were established: Inspired by the already existing Jagdkommando special forces, soldiers who joined the new Stadtkommando got expert training in urban combat and use of CQB weapons like SMGs and shotguns. The Zivilschutz was founded as an unarmed unit, consisting of engineers, medics and other humanitarian personnel.
After many years, the Bundesheer executes many operations all over the world with a few conditions: They do not attack any military personnel, only insurgents that want to damage governments. This way Austria provides help for countries that aren't able to fight off dangers themselves, just like Austria was once, while still remaining neutral to NATO and CSAT.

Content
This mod brings one new faction named "Bundesheer". All units that are available in the vanilla NATO faction (e. g. Rifleman (AT), Asst. Autorifleman) are also available for this faction with their own gear. This means that you do not need to place units to see what they are because you can just look at the name and immediately know what the unit is.
Under the "Men (Special Forces)" tab you can find the Jagdkommando (JaKdo) units. These all use suppressors and other special gear.
Under the "Men (Urban)" tab you can find the Stadtkommando (StKdo) units. These wear black and have weapons appropriate for close range combat. This means SMGs, more grenades and dark uniforms.
Zivilschutz (ZiSchu) units share the same tab as the normal soldiers but are marked with an "(unarmed)" tag. These do not have any weapons and are more fitting for scenarios were IDAP could play a role.

Important Note: I did not create most of the items/vehicles in this addon myself. Most of them are from other addons. I only merged them all into a faction. This does not mean that I was lazy! Making a faction is more work than I thought.

Additional Information
This mod is compatible with Dynamic Recon Ops (DRO).
This mod was not created with Alive ORBAT creator. It does not depend on any scripts to spawn units.
You are allowed to use this mod in your scenarios. Just mind the dependencies.
You are allowed to use this mod for your own mod (like I did), just add it to dependencies
You aren't allowed to redistribute this mod, not even if you changed something. If you want something changed, either ask me or make a personal copy just for yourself.

Known Issues
There is currently one error message with the Pandur APCs. If you spawn one, it will tell you some strange error. This is not my fault, the error comes from the mod that adds the APC. Just remember that this error doesn't break anything. You can just click it away.


That's it! Be sure to report any bugs or issues you come across below. Same goes for suggestions. I am happy to discuss changing loadouts or groups. Just ask!