Badger SV

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Introduction:
During the late 1990’s the SANDF was looking to replace the aging Ratel fleet with more modern ICV’s. In 2002 ARMSCOR issued a contact to four local defence companies which were given the task to design a new ICV for the defence force, this included development studies and full-size mock-ups being build. ARMSCOR however was not completely satisfied with the results and by 2005 open the contact to international companies, only giving one year to submit a proposal and budget for a new ICV. Due to the requirements only one bid was received, being the Patria ICV from Finland. The Patria ICV would however not be adopted as is and would receive various modification making it more suitable for the SANDF needs and the climate it would have to operate in, the Patria ICV would also receive a new name, being called the Badger. The Badger was different from the Patria, having received a dedicated bush protection kit to enhance its durability when used in the African bush. The Badger features a dual hull to increase survivability against HEAT and kinetic projectiles and can also be fitted with add on armour on the frontal arc of the vehicle and on both sides of the hull. The Badger also features a mine protection hull which absorbs the blast from landmine detonations. The Badger comes in 6 different variants, the one which will be focused on in this forum post is the Badger SV (Section Variant), fitted with the Denel LCT-30 turret. The Badger makes use of a Denel 30mm dual-feed cannon, housed in the LCT turret which can complete a full 360 degree rotation in 13 seconds with elevations from -10 to +30 degrees. The Badger’s 30mm can fire singe shots or make use of the rapid fire three round burst mode.


Specifications:

Main Armament: one Denel 30mm dual-feed cannon

Main Ammunition total: 400+

Ammunitions type: APFSDS, SAPHEI

Secondary: one 7.62mm MG

Secondary Ammunition total: 4 000

Crew: 4 (driver, gunner, commander, loader)

Combat weight: 28t

Engine: Scania Diesels engine

Horsepower: 543hp

Gearbox: Automatic ZF gearbox (7 forward, 1 reverse)

Top Speed: 104 km/h

Thermal/Night sight: Yes

Smoke grenades: Yes

Laser warning system: Yes

Primary sources:

-Surviving The Ride, written by Steve Camp & Helmoed Romer Heitman (Page 198-200)

-South African Armoured Vehicles “A history of innovation and excellence” written n by Dr Dewald Venter (Page 86-91)

-Denel Advance Modular Infantry Combat Turret brochure

Secondary Sources:

-Tank Ensyclopedia: Badger - Tank Encyclopedia

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Same gun i believe

Along with same turret baring the atgms on the side

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Looking real decent, +1

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+1

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This is the variant with extra ammo stowage in place of crew capacity, correct? That variant is a +1 from me

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+1, I hope they add ATGM’s to it.

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Very nice +1

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I don’t think so. Judging by the name, this sounds more like the Section Variant (SV), whereas the one with more ammunition is called the Fire Support Variant (FSV).

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I love SA vehicles. Everyone of them is unique (other then ollifant mk1)

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yeah, I definitely think the FSV should be the one we get in-game. The SV, or whatever the basic version is called, has 400 rounds which is really not much while the FSV has 6-800

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I 100% agree. The higher ammunition capacity would give the Badger FSV greater flexibility, since you wouldn’t need to reload at a cap as often.

Also, I wanted to add something I found regarding the gun. Apparently, the GI-30 (or EMAK 30) is fed via two hoppers, one of which contains 25 rounds and another containing 15 rounds, for a total of 40 rounds. The hoppers are reloaded by hand, which is kinda unique for a modern weapon system. The rate of fire is kinda slow, at 115 RPM, but its a closed breech system, meaning it’s theoretically more accurate than the Bushmaster (up to 4000m supposedly).

Denel also created their own indigenous ammunition for the GI-30/EMAK 30, that includes API-T, SAPHEI, and HE, and since it uses 30x173mm NATO rounds, it shares ammo with stuff like the A-10, CV9030, PUMA, and KF41, among others. Sadly, I can’t seem to find any concrete information on either the gun or the ammunition, aside from this one blog, so if anyone has any more information to add, that’d be very much appreciated!

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This would be very nice to have as a stopgap between the Warrior and the Desert Warrior!

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has denel considered mounting both ingwes and a 30mm together ?

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also at the Africa expo it was mentioned that a previously developed 8x8 chassis could be used instead of the patria. As issues with patria has led to delays for the badger programme

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They have done it but not for the badger
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Malaysia have this thing Deftech AV8 Gempita

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