Different company. VW own the automobile brand Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.
The luxury car marque was divested from the core business of Rolls-Royce plc’s engine/power-plant manufacturing during the 1970s.
Perhaps amusingly, Vickers were the ones that bought the Rolls-Royce car brand and sold it to VW in the late 1990s. Then a year later, Rolls-Royce (engines) bought Vickers to obtain their maritime propulsion business.
There is nothing we can do about it. Under the retarded operation of the Master of the Ministry of Defence, the United Kingdom will fall into a situation without infantry fighting vehicles after the retirement of the FV510.
We are steadily falling into the risk-aversion trap, in which we attempt so hard to design the perfect vehicle (to avoid dead soldier headlines) that we end up having zero vehicles on the battlefield. Yes a Javelin team can deploy from Boxer and destroy a tank or gun IFV provided conditions are correct, have fun trying that when a company of them have night marched up and are coming at you <2km at full speed.
@DevilO6 2 more coming, that might be intressting for us
At this point and time I probably should have bought the entire series XD
There are 2 on Warrior and it’s variants that I will get when my money allows me to XD
I was also reading through chobham armour by William suttie. And did you know in 1987 they started the pip program to upgrade challenger 1s.
But during the pip program they drew up a few concepts of what challenger 1 upgrades could be and one of those concepts was to upgraded challenger 1 with a 140mm gun !!