Centauro I 120 SQUADRON vehicle for the USSR tech tree

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Considering very little else other then the general look and the fact it sports a 115mm gun taken from old T-62s are publicly known as far as i can tell, i don’t believe my conclusion to be unreasonable considering how recently the vehicle seems to have been manufactured, the availability of relatively cheap and powerful engine on the international market, the availablity of advanced munitions for the 115mm gun.

Unless you have more information about the vehicle that i am not privy to ofcourse and you’d care to share it?

Either way none of that changes anything, the BTR-115 could be worse compared to the GAZ-AAA(4M) for all i care and i would still not support the addition of a Centauro I 120 to the Soviet tech tree.

It doesn’t offer anything unique and it doesn’t offer much needed and lacking capability either so i see no reason for it.

The other vehicles i mentioned however, the 2S14, BTR-100 and BTR-115 all offer something unique at the very least.

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As I said…BTR-100 is meh but BTR-115 looks like as pretty viable option instead of Centauro 105 or maybe even 120 if it will get appropiate ammo.

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There are some unconfirmed infomations that BTR-115 doesnt use APFSDS at all.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/cuba/btr-115.htm

In that case, it is ruled out as an option.

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So far 2S14 Zhalo looks as best option tbh. That thing with rapid-fire 85mm cannon (20-25 rounds per minute with automatic loading machine) with 3BM-31 APFSDS doesn’t look bad at all. I would say BR 9.3 stuff.

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