Challenger 2 MBT - Technical data and Discussion (Part 2)

Which is being remedied like I said.
Though 2 years still doesn’t feel right seeing it was start of 2024 the Cr3 td was added no?
Or has time flowed past.

Irregardless of that his comment makes it out as if it has been 5 or 6 years the way hes emphasised on it.

When in reality it’s either barely 23 months or marginally over.
There are bug reports open and still there from over 5 years ago for many vehicles.

Spall liners were added in December 2023 with the Air Superiority update

Spall liners got added in 2023, it’s almost 2026

We got the mobility buff, I think that’s it

Direct Buffs:
Horsepower
BN CITV zoom change (slightly increased max, reduced minimum)
3TD + BN target Tracker

Indirect buffs:
HESH KE damage (upcoming)
Decompression

Nerfs:
2E .50 traverse (inconsequential)
(Not CR2 specific) Spall liner effectiveness adjustments
3TD LWS removal

Bassically only the Horsepower though, the rest are fairly minor or inconsequential (bar decomp) or 3TDs LWS removal. Nothing for the whole series at once though

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I’m still waiting for the mantlet to be positioned correctly.

Literally game breaking.

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Anyone know what the thing mounted on the right hand turret cheek is in this photo?

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Part of the exercise laser tag equipment iirc forget the proper name

System without the nets


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Im now imagining all the crew wearing the laser tag vest that light up and flash when hit

Not fair off how it works, I just forget the system’s fancy name

i wonder if we’ll ever get the medusa when they run out of things to add

Direct Fire Weapons Effects Simulator (DFWES)

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dont the germans have something like this except it just looks like a big smoke launcher

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Pretty much everybody in NATO has some version of one. They’ve been around since the US military developed the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) system in the 1970s, and MILES has sort of become the layman’s term for them.
Tactical Engagement Simulation Systems (TESS) is how similar systems are are referred to in general terms nowadays though.

Ours is made by Saab. It’s been renamed from DFWES to Instrumented Live Training – Direct (ILT-D) now though, because we’re also getting a parallel system for area fires (artillery, minefields etc.); inventively named Instrumented Live Training – Area (ILT-A)

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Thank you! I’m an accredited dumb-ass so acronyms sometimes go over my head lmao

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Challenger 3TD just lost its laser range finder🙏🙏🙏

Surely laser warning system? Not the rangefinder?

Lost LWS, LRF is still there

LWS came back erroneously after autotrack was added

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What harm does it do having it…it’s a prototype meanwhile in the aircraft side we havs dual 120 pylons and a Su-30 using a Radar it was never tested for…

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It didn’t have it IRL, and that is visually evident

“Challenger 3 TD” in game is actually Challenger 2 LEP 2019

if we had an actual Challenger 3 Prototype it would have an LWS (depending on which CR3 prototype they choose, earlier ones didn’t iirc)

I mean the MoD did that as well, used the existing demonstrator for the CR3 announcement