Hey guys,
So recently I have been doing research in to interesting vehicles and I came across the Moldovan/Transnistrian vehicle called the BTRZ-127 Bumblebee
Here is the thing, I want to write a suggestion for it but I don’t know if I should. The BTRZ-127 is a troop carrier and as sources state its armor is meant for machine gun fire. Its main weapon is a 12.7mm machine gun. That’s exactly the reason why I don’t know if I should make a suggestion for it, technically it will have up to 32mm of penetration but will it really be able to do anything in game?
Do you guys think it would be fun as an event vehicle or a battle pass vehicle?
Here is some images for reference
Spoiler
Also here is a video I found about it
Spoiler
https://youtu.be/xB4-55BNz90?is=J54S1_zcL9o4Ug-D
Modern vehicles with only machine guns or grenade launchers shouldn’t be added at all imo. They will end up in rank I and just seem completely out-of-place. It should be restricted to only 1940s~ vehicles at most, i.e. stuff like the Willys MB or Ford GPW with Brownings.
3 Likes
Probably vehicles like these would be naturally reserved to the infantry mode if ever researchable vehicles is made available, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, and many others probably will be added if considered.
but its not really modern is it. Its built by a unrecognized country with barely any resources to sustain itself, so i think it has every right being rank I-II
The GMZ-3 tracked minelayer, which the “Bumblebee” is a modified version of, was introduced in 1984. At best, you can trace it back to 1960 with the original GMZ-1 since the GMZ-2 and the GMZ-3 are modified and largely visibly similar versions of the original vehicle, and you could maybe stretch it back to the SU-100P which the GMZ-1 was based off of.
The conversion of the GMZ-3 into the BTRG-1247 occurred in 2015.
It is absolutely modern, even if it is relatively rudimentary in how it was converted – though, that’s part of the reason why they decided to use GMZ-3 for the conversions, since the space that was normally reserved for mine carrying could easily be converted into a space for troop carrying.
Modern APCs like this just shouldn’t be added unless they actually have a cannon. Opening the floodgates for modern APCs with just machine guns or grenade launchers would be opening the door for dozens of modern vehicles to start infesting rank I and early rank II, which is the only place where guns like that are even workable.
1 Like
