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1 hour ago, Beer said:

 

When you don't use guided ammo the hit probability at ranges over 20 km is getting drastically reduced. When you need to fire just a few rounds and quickly disappear you have to do it from closer ranges to have a chance to actually destroy the target. For longer ranges guided ammo or a long sustained fire is needed which means that the long range guns bring real advantage only when used with guided rounds, without them not that much. 

No. 
accuracy is achieved until 3/4 of the maximum range. 

An article in English 

https://www.edrmagazine.eu/the-slovak-mod-selects-the-cv90-as-preferred-bidder-for-its-ifv-programme

On 2/9/2022 at 9:35 PM, RobertV said:

Somebody at Rubin OKB  had to much time on their hands and decided to do another take on "Strazh" proposal/concept of a submersible patrol and training vessel.  Displacement increased to 1300t  and overall length up to 72 meters.  Tops speed of 21 knots and a range of  4,000 miles at a speed of 10 knots,    Armament is a machinegun, what looks like a pair of kornet launchers and four 324mm torpedo tubes.  Additionally there are pair of hangers in the back for rotary winged UAV's and gear for boarding parties.

 

 

 

 

 

Is there any future for such a concept ?

In France, there was a similar proposal : SMX-25 

An interesting article about it (in French) :https://lefauteuildecolbert.blogspot.com/2010/10/chronique-de-strategie-et-tactique_18.html?m=1

Very good video about the next French pattern 

Purchasing Abrams MBT was one of the very very few option for Poland to reduce in a short piece of time there deficiencies. 
We have to remind they have many programmes to manage. 

First export success :

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2022/04/29/indonesia-will-build-turkish-fnss-zaha-marine-assault-vehicles/

3 hours ago, Lord_James said:

I didn’t know anyone still had or used propaganda ammo. I assume it’s asking the other side to surrender, or would it have disinformation/ slander to demoralize readers? 

South Africa. 

We are very strong in misunderstanding everything. 

6 hours ago, Lord_James said:

I thought this was standard… 

I thought this was under standard. 

https://newsonair.com/2022/04/13/demystifying-indian-armys-indigenously-developed-specialist-combat-vehicles/

Carmel will be the next step

ASCOD and ASCOD-2 are far from being the same. 

On 3/4/2022 at 7:37 PM, Ramlaen said:

 

Perhaps the lack of such an option is what made BAE noncompliant?

I don’t know. 
I truly believe there’s a market for such a light plateforme. 

4 hours ago, TokyoMorose said:

 

I see GDLS still manages to keep up their impressive DoD relations / DC lobbyist effort.

 

You'd think after how many times they had to redo the stryker and with their current global scandals it'd change things but nope.

 

I am curious though, how is a 34.5 tonne, MBT-sized vehicle requiring M88 Hercules wreckers and M1070 HET transporters to be added to the TO&E *more compliant?!?!*. What buzzword did the XM8++ not have?

Maybe, an MPF QRV can be developed and even can be used to support Bradley. 

On 2/18/2022 at 8:47 PM, LoooSeR said:

I think i see one of reasons why NLAW isn't popular:

Not popular ?

9 hours ago, CrappyHead said:

i've heard that even NLAW is distributed to civillian? lol i guess its like point and click solutions

Yes. It is. 
User friendly, target frightened. 

French press release about the Jaguar reconnaissance vehicle. 
https://www.arquus-defense.com/sites/default/files/2022-02/Dossier de presse - Livraison premiers JAGUAR - Roanne (VF).pdf

38 minutes ago, Lord_James said:

I do wonder, does the lynx have decoupled running gear like the Puma? I can’t find anything about it other than “lynx is highly modular”, but it only references her kf31 and 41 variants as proof… the Bradley is highly modular if that’s the measure they use. 

Classic running gear. 
Modular because the roof can be removed, and because they say « it’s modular ». 

The best thing to do would have been something like that :

Commonality is good but a dedicated rear engin Lynx chassis would have been far better. 
The legacy Lynx is too much high, too much heavy to carry such a turret. 

On 2/18/2022 at 5:48 PM, SH_MM said:

As for "less protection": protection is always relative to the threat. It does not matter if you have 200 or 500 mm of steel equivalent armor, if you face only anti-tank weapons capable of defeating 600-1,000 mm of steel. That is one of the reasons why the German Army in its (biased) assessement on the possibility of replacing the Leopard 1A5 by the ex-GDR T-72M1 tanks considered the latter tank's armor thickness advantage as irrelevant for actual protection.

At war, protection is statistical. 
You’re not only facing the highest threat but the whole one which starts with rifles. 
The more you can face, the better this is. 

I better understand :

Not a so bad idea :

- if the country is flat enough, rivers numerous and bridges spare. 
- if they want 6 men sections, 

- if the cost worth it. 

My bad, I was considering the T14 MBT of course.  

I love this peace of news. 
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defense_news_january_2022_global_security_army_industry/nexter_from_france_could_propose_modernized_leclerc_tank_for_replacement_of_indian_t-72_mbts.amp.html

I think Russian proposal for a T15 derivative is more likely to succeed.