The general media coverage of the Challenger 3 and AJAX has been pretty abysmal, so much misinformation and horrible takes
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clearly a 60mph MBT, nothing wrong there
The 60mph mistake was quite funny, i think that was the Daily Mail to nobody’s surprise
The Defence Eye article a lot of people use to cite the weight increase for the Challenger 3 is also complete slop, “…CV12 power has been upgraded to generate about 1,100bhp…”
Im glad to see they’re reducing the engine power, what an upgrade! It’s a shame so many people just went with what they said despite the entire article being full of misinfo and hearsay
maybe the 1100 figure is net and not gross?
I’m not sure, but I’ve never seen 1,100bhp said anywhere else
the article makes other errors too (and some really stupid assumptions), so I’m gonna say its a mistake
I did a write up about it here:
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There’s been horrendous takes, and lots of misinformation, somehow I wonder how defence correspondents get the job because often they make stupidly elementary mistakes that like… many WT players will be able to spot and argue against anything from incorrect stats, conversions or even just pictures and labels.
You also can’t overlook the horrendous quality of the actual media coming out of the MoD and government. So much of the current coverage of the British military has been straight up lies and complete overestimations in our credibility.
Some of my (least) favourite examples:
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‘War footing’
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The entire word ‘lethal’ as a whole
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‘No corruption or external influence was found’ - The guy now works for the company making the vehicle he selected…
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‘a significant improvement in the warfighting capability of the UK’s Armed Forces’ - You changed 27 targets to make it meet IOC.
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‘we are ready’ - No we are not
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‘I can with the assets available to me fullfill all existing and future requirements placed upon me by the Government’ - You’ve just withdrawn assets from key strategic and regional bases
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‘Ensures British strategic interests and defence is uncompromised’ - There’s plans for a new foreign military base next to ours?
Rant over before I get a ban.
Ive emailed TWZ numerous times to get articles corrected. And I’d rate TWZ as pretty good usually. UK Def journal is shite though.
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Yeah TWZ is normally pretty good, but UKDJ I rate the scope of the coverage but I think they don’t ‘catch’ errors in reporting coming directly from the MoD or other sources.
Sending my challenger 3 to the in-house tuning workshop to make it go 100mph.
I do wonder what it would take to make a challenger 3 go 100mph.
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It will take exactly one WhistlinDiesel.
without modifiying the powertrain its impossible
you’d need a new gearbox, a new engine, different final drive ratios, Going downhill on a 60% gradient and with a following wind
they would have mean 1,100 kW
George Allison will be very upset.
Eh?
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Well considering it’s done 80kph, 100kph could be possible with more power and more importantly composite rubber track ;)
Then just need another 60kph from somwehere to get it too 100mph
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light work xD