The Challenger 130 will most likely go to britain. Outside of the Challenger 3 with EPSOM armor and maybe some subtrees there is basically nothing that could be added. Plus its still on the basis of a Challenger tank.
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It won’t, it was made as a private venture in Germany by Rheinmetall.
Private venture to test out the new 130mm gun, yes. On a Challenger chassis. Its neither made for the german army nor did britain eventually choose the 130 for the Challanger 3.
It’s a demonstrator for the European market and that’s about it. In effect its part german, part british even if britain only provided the hull and power pack.
Germany has other ways to gain access to the 130mm with the KF51 and later on with the EMBT the 140mm Ascalon, britain doesn’t.
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tbh I wouldnt take what country the vehicle got passed to devs as considering we got like 4 f-35s each to a different nation when most nations each have like 2 variants of the thing
This is a meaningless argument, the same could go for the Vicker Mk.7; It uses a leopard 2 chassis.
And you just said it yourself, it’s a Rheinmetall Landsysteme demonstrator; Technology demonstration by Germany. Britain hasn’t even considered adopting 15L 130mm rounds, it is extremely unrealistic to give this to Britain.
Please do not spread misinformation. This was a player made suggestion topic that was passed to thr developers for consideration. Nothing more.
A suggestion being passed to the devs does not mean it will come to the game or only for the nationa it was suggested for, or even at all. All of that is down to the developers to consider and decide.
We haven’t announced any plans or anything rewarding this vehicle. It was purely a player made suggestion.
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All that I am saying is that britains future in war thunder is very bleak to say the least. The tanks they used are not future top tier material and the tanks they are adopting right now aren’t either.
I personally would like to see a somewhat balanced game between nations and one of the ways to achieve this is by giving britain a gun upgrade in the form of the german 130 even if britain only had minor influence on the programm.
Its a shot in the dark but if anyone thinks that the Chieftain 140 is comparable to the EMBT Ascalon then idk what to even say.
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British mains can beg for Australian and Canadian Abrams and leopard when they are not even a subtree but they have issue when other nation do the same
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It’s not bleak, Britain will be receiving Boxer module platforms like Germany either this year or next year since they’re in the program. We’ve already gotten the Block II from Australia. You just have to wait till they release it, whenever that is.
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isnt the challenger 130mm testbed hull privately owned by Rheinmetal?
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No? It doesn’t even exist anymore
It was a re gun of the Challenger 2 ATD that was then shown around for a bit before having the L55A1 put in
It is still here at the UK at Bovington somewhere
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That does not exclude private ownership of a hull, no?
From a legal viewpoint, someone must have owned it. Since the whole thingy was private venture (or at least as far as I know) and thus not done on the order of any goverment, and the demonstrator hull was fitted with new turret and repainted in the hexagonal camo, I doubt it was leased.
Who would be responsible for possible damages?
It was borrowed from the Challenger 2LEP after testing was completed in Germany.
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It wasn’t fitted with a new turret
It was borrowed by Rheinmetal by approval of the British MoD
It is a re guning of the Challenger 2 ATD the tank we have in game by the name of Challenger 3
It is not a new turret that is just add on stuff to make it look different
It was never owned by Rheinmetal
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Aight, fair. That answers the question I had.
Not borrowed, it was given and used a technology demonstrator for the potential LEP (Life Extension Program) for the Challenger 2, which was never touched with a two-foot pole after it was built because British MoD didn’t want anything larger than a 120mm gun. Rheinmetall merely showcases how they can upgrade the vehicle internally, and externally with their Land Systeme division gun, chempro and electronics. They were given either two or three to work off of, and one of them ended up as a demonstrator.
https://www.army.mod.uk/learn-and-explore/equipment/combat-vehicles/challenger-3/
So the demonstrator is purely German in design by Rheinmetall. As I said previously, it would make no sense for Britain to get a vehicle when they haven’t adopted and have been fairly public about not wanting 15L 130mm shells, as I previously mentioned.
Let me start this of, with that i believe that gajin should just be fair and add the Challenger 130 to both nations, no matter the circumstances.
those are 120mm tanks, pretty much nearly the same as challenger 3
they dont even exist
just as you claim the challenger 130, italy/hungary could claim KF51 since they are the service users soon
EMBT comes in 120mm and 1 140mm, the 140mm gets claimed by the french cause its their gun, more then germany.
The chally 130 isnt even comparable to half of the stuff you named.
Every tank with upscaled gun could be claimed by another country, just like you already doing.
The 140mm leos are last gen cannons as well and dont compare to the modern guns.
So here we are now and germany has effectivly 0 claim to their own developed tanks, cause countries that didnt have part in it claim them for themself
As we already have shown with sources, the challenger 130 was in fact developed as a tech demonstrator specialy towards germany
"The main objective for Rheinmetall is the MGCS programme, in which the 130 mm competes against Nexter’s 140 mm proposal. “ The way ahead - EDR Magazine
I still dont understand how this misconception came to be, there was never proof of that.
its a weird wish/claim that british started to justify claim over the vehicle
as already stated italy could pull the same thing you are doing.
except it being german
and yet you yourself compare it to 120mm tank and justify it being worse then 120mm tanks
but how is that the fault of germany?
You have no one to blame but your own MOD for that, that shouldnt make you desperate and start claiming vehicles you never had hands on.
And that matters how? There is several modification of leopard 1s and leopard 2s that were developed by other countries.
Leo 2 ruag swiss
Leo 2NG turkish
Leo 2 Apsis /EODH Greece
And several more, all those modifications are private ventures of companies, but germany doesnt claim that we developed them. We had no hands in them. They are proud developments of their own countries. Germany had no hand in them.
On the other hand there is Leo 2 revolution, Strv122, Leo 2a4M Can, 2E, 2Hel. Those are all proudly german developed. Cause they are german developed versions, yes even Strv122. And then licensed for production.
You have to stand proudly to your countries achievment and let it go when its not the case.
The tanks shoudl go either go to their developer/user nation or if they are not in the game.
To the nation that developed the base version. As it has been the case with 2a4m can and 2PL
In the case of the Challenger 130, Uk doesnt fullfill any of those roles. since the developer nation is germany even if its not in service.
in fact as we already have shown you, its developed specialy for germany and the stake in the MGCS project.
lets be honest, that has never been the case and likely never will be.
Just look at the current state of the game.
And what are countries like japan, israel, sweden supposed to do then, that have absolutly no option for an upscaled gun?
Italy arguably the KF51 130mm just as you are claiming the chally 130.
Is britian in any way better then those countries and deserves a better treatment?
Was already answered by him previously as well, but then yet again.
Its only right that the actualy developers suggestion gets forwarded.
Following the official suggestion forum rules, the chally 130, shoudl never have been allowed to be suggested for Uk in the first place and the mod that handled it did a mistake there.
You say that like the actual regunning is an easy thing to do with its auto loader as well.
The tank was given to rheinmetall for the Challenger 3 project, when that was done, it was loaned to Rheinmetall so that they accomplish their own seperate goals, of producing a proof of concept for germany.
The irony being that you actualy provided us with the proof of that, while trying to deminish germanys participation.
During the time of the loan, the ownership changed to Rheinmetall itself, where they modified the challenger towards their own specifications to show it of to germany.
Honestly, i find it sad that the british playerbase needs to change several facts about a vehicle to justify it being their own.
There was people that claimed the whole thing was done in the UK, while we needed to proof in fact it was done in germany Unterlüß.
There is claims that it was done by RBSL, which never has been the case or proven.
Britains needed to so desperate to do the irrelevant claim that the base vehicle is in ownership of britain. Which is completly irrelevant cause we are talking about the specific modification.
Neither does the fact that it is a challenger matter.
There is no uniqueness for mbts anymore.
Abrams, Leos, T-series are spread in so many trees. There is nothing that makes the Challenger unique that should take it outside of those rules
Honestly british players should be happy a lot of german players no matter what would throw them a bone and are for the equal addition to both nations.
In the mean time they twist it and try to deny it to germany.
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If the gun is enough to make it a German tank, the British tech tree can get every royal ordnance l7 vehicle in game. Leopards, turm, Japanese 105(I think), 105 Abrams etc.
Gonna be a very full tree.
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so the compelte turret remodel doesnt matter?
Implementing the gun and autoloader is an easy feat that anyone could do.
So why didnt britain do it themself?
This unique greece Leopard is completly german cause they only replaced the 120mm with a 105mm which no one else did?
Did britains actualy develop those variants of the vehicles and modify and or built them?
No? well to bad. Its not the fact that the cannon is german.
Its the fact that germany modified the vehicle to be able to actualy use it and it was done specialy with the mind of advertising it toiwards germany
Stop disregarding the accomplishments of other nations because you dont like the reality.
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It can easily go to both as a premium, event or squad vehicle which has been done in the past, it wasn’t adopted by either nation as a production model but as a test bed. Both countries have a claim the hull is british the gun and fcs are german. I would honestly rather see a prototype and full production variant of the chally 3 in the british tech tree than another tech demonstrator akin to the 3TD.
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