Better come with Javelin, after playing the Jaguar the CTAS 40 isnt all that :(
Infantry closed beta still coming, still hope for dismounting Swingfire gunners to peak and fire with vehicle under 100% cover.
Though tbh the whole thing so far looks, kind of meh overall imo which is a shame, was hoping for at least some 50s-80s stuff for a western nation. I hope its not everything.
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it is half of the list
and this update is suppose to be larger than the last so I expect a part 2 of the list
True, though the nations i play most recently already on there so expecting not much xD
Heres hoping surprise SAAF line or India line! xD
heres hoping they add more low tier cold war jets like the supermarine 545
I love being vindicated but this is kinda bittersweet.
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To be fair ahaha, this is a rather novel issue to have.
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Yeah but its one of them where it was completely predictable. Like this thing has more Red Flags than Hollywood.
Built in two different countries with poor quality control measures?
Senior leadership gaining executive positions post-sale?
Lied about it being based on a ‘proven platform’ the platform was cancelled 2 years before the decision was made before even one prototype was made?
Made 1400 changes to the aforementioned ‘proven platform’?
Those are just my immediate thoughts give me 3 hours and i’ll have an essay better than the NAO has ever produced.
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people genuinely want infantry here?
I only want it for the swingfire gunner dismount, will be funny as hell firing from armour a corner into people.
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I think 11.0 will be doa (assuming it’s gun only) cause there won’t be a lineup for it, 10.7/10.3 should be fine imo as I’d likely run it in the 10.7 lineup, it’d be really fun at 10.0 to run with Shir 2 and Desert Warrior
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It’s fucking cursed that thing. If we were in the funny timeline, the warrior CT40 project would be restarted, or, even funnier, the 40mm ctas gun is put on a boxer and given javelins or something.
That was done.
Once by lockheed i think for the UK
And more recently geemany did it for the lolz
boxer thing cant happen as the ajax isn’t filling in an IFV role more its filling in the role the scimitar left which is recon
KF-41 isn’t suitable for our needs, different sized turret ring so you can’t just drop in our turret, not enough British components, not economically worth it for us, and we would consider it inferior to CV-90.
Better solution is really just CV-90 though we would have to talk to the Swedish government about our domestic manufacture as post FRES SV deal, Sweden made it so all AB defence companies have to do manufacture in Sweden. So BAE would struggle to force Hagglunds to approve UK manufacture, but then again. The future of Sweden’s naval fleet lies in British hands, so I think we can do a deal there. As the Visby’s are getting CAMM from us, the Luleas are half designed in the UK, and they’re assessing a joint procurement with Denmark for Type 31, provided FDI doesn’t win that competition. So we have leverage.
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I did however recently discover that a significant number of components for PUMA are manufactured in the UK including the armour blocks, suspension, in the near future the turret, and sensors. Company building the RCT30 also is involved in the CTA40 turret (not the gun itself).
It’s not really any more suitable in fact its less suitable than KF-41 but it at least has more UK manufacture and is A400M transportable.
So what you are saying is that the AV-8A, AV-8C, AV-8B+ and AV-8B(NA) should all be in the British TT?
As well as all the RR Merlin P-51s
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B-57s?
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Oh yes, forgot about those too
BAE don’t have anywhere to build it in the UK
The proposal for FRES was to assemble vehicles from kits, shipped over from Sweden, in Newcastle. BAE sold that site.
Their only remaining major manufacturing facility for land systems is the RBSL joint venture in Telford, which is busy producing CR3s and Boxers for the foreseeable future. And the Rheinmetall part of RBSL wont bid to assemble CV90s when they could be selling us Lynx.