uncropped pic shows turrets on the back with the autoloader module not mounted, showing wall between autoloader n crew compartment
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Seems to have worked. I really do hope they acknowledge the spall liner suggestion next but that feels like a pipedream.
Does the Aus Puma have it’s APS system?
Am I going insane or does this image pretty much confirm the turret is missing a significant amount of its armour?
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The Boxer?
It has an APS showing in the in game HUD, but can’t verify it works because Gaijin haven’t put the APS testing area in its Test Drive
But so far as it being the Australian Boxer’s APS, no, because it’s the wrong APS. Gaijin have modelled the whole vehicle based on the CRV demonstrator, not the actual CRV Block 1 or Block 2 that Australia bought and now use.
IRL CRV Block 2 is supposed to be getting Iron Fist instead of the StikeShield Rheinmetall put on the demonstrator. Also it should have a different turret and a bunch of other different fittings on the hull to be an actual CRV Block 2.
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Thanks still going to grind it out 😅
Same. It’s a nice vehicle. But after the pigs ear they made of the Gay Archer and Jaguar IS, gaijin seem to have developed quite a track record of modelling event vehicles for Britain, completely incorrectly.
But unlike the other two that were fundamentally not right, all they really need to do to fix this is rename it to reflect that it’s the Boxer LAND 400-P2 prototype, instead of trying to pass it off as a Block 2.
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where is the blowout/ejection port?
and how would it be competely sealed and seperated… it must be reloaded into the magazine using the reloading tray.
It’s quite evident from those pics Ajax is missing a lot of armour
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not really, the internal strcuture is modelled as 10-20mm of aluminum(??). We cant really see much else
I wonder if someone mixed up the seemingly triple layered armour arrangement on the PSO kit for the double layered standard (MCO) kit and decided the armour should be single layered???
The loading port is tiny. Feeding unlinked ammunition in one by one, and sealed behind a door inside the turret when not loading into the AHS
That square metal panel at the bottom and the black part surrounding is the face of the loading port drawer that pushes out into the turret interior though the aperture in the turret wall. The cylinder to the right is the motor that pushes the tray in and out
I don’t have pic inside of the Ajax turret citadel, but you can see the internal aperture in the WCSP turret here
Whole point of the Lockheed turret designs for both WR and Ajax was that the magazine and AHS was outside the crew compartment
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you can actually see the sealing port on the picture too
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Indeed, but like i said we would need to prove it has some kind of sliding door. And more importantly, some form of blowout panel.
The whole side casing for the magazine just blows off. The outer armour for the magazine is supported on these kind of outriggers, not welded or bolted directly to the side of the turret.
And you can see the seams where the box separates in Puffy’s photo from the turret shop floor
If something pens the armour and has managed to hit a round in the magazine, that whole part of the mechanical feed system is going to be buggered anyway. So there’s no reason to limit any kind of exposure to the feed system in the event of a catastrophic cook-off.
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Not much point in it if it can’t resist the standard round from a contemporary enemy recce vehicle.
I’d say that looks about 1/2 inch
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a report on boxer crv
[UK]Boxer CRV block 2 APS protected sector horizontally wrong // Gaijin.net // Issues
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Doesn’t it also have the wrong turret? As the actual block 2 should have the turret from the LF41 Lynx instead. Shouldn’t this be renamed to the land 400 demonstrator if it’s got the puma style turret.
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