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Well damn, didn’t know this was a thing. Gonna jump ship lmfao.
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Gonna be another GHPX with only America and Russia. That’s why I like war thunder, has lots of nations.
As long as it’s realistic I’d play an Abrams, real shame no Challenger though, us brits are a bit niche. You never know though Operation Granby or Op Telic DLC would be cool. I don’t know why but saying those operations names with DLC after made me laugh. Imagine serving in a war and you have some gamer say it would be cool to get DLC of that lmfao.
I think we have the best names for everything we give a name to.
I want our next tank to be called Champion, the thought process being the Challenger finally won. Challenger 4 would be too many Challengers.
I love how our next jet fighter will be called Tempest, WW2 throwback. Imagine we named a new jet Spitfire.
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They should call it the Chud
I do hope the MOD starts looking into a proper new tank once Challenger 3 fully enters service.
Perhaps using a modified Challenger 3 turret on a newly built hull would be a good start.
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I’m wheezing
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or if our next tank after chally 3 goes to a old WW2 name
Like Comet, or Cromwell
Hell maybe even cavalier, Crusader or centaur
absolutely
The challenger hull is… antiquated these days, dare i say obselete
Our country can’t keep living in the past, I feel we as a nation are doomed to nostalgia (not making any political point really more just culturally). We need a new tank named for a new era, I say Champion because it hasn’t been done before and it sounds supreme while still starting with a C.
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One-Shot Basher
I can’t see them calling the new tank the Crusader purely for political reasons, imagine trying to export that to anywhere in the middle east just to start
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I agree it should get a new name entirely, Champion isnt too bad. It does set up some pretty harsh jokes if it loses competitions though
You say this like challenger exports have been particularly successful in the first place.
As long as there’s a leopard in existence I suspect the export of any other tank will be… limited.
Well the only place the Challenger 2 was exported to was Oman and the Challenger 1 was intended for Iran, later going to Kuwait
All middle eastern countries
The MOD do claim there is some export interest, with Oman being the most likely candidate as they already use Challenger 2s
Not really, we’ve seen pretty good export interest in the K2 and Abrams in recent years
if they can make the Challenger 3 based vehicle cheaper than the Leopard 2 based competitors, which are ridiculously expensive, they have a decent chance
A single Leopard 2A8 can cost 20-34 million Euros, which is just obscene. The Czech Leopard 2A8s were 34 million for EACH vehicle.
For context, the cost per Challenger 3 is around 12.5 million, that includes the entire cost of developing and testing the vehicle as well. Obviously the cost is lower as the hulls are reused, but the entire turret is new and most hull components are new or upgraded. In terms of bang for your buck, it’s a lot more cost effective, even if the programme was to double in cost somehow.
That to me is part of the appeal, I always laugh when people call Challenger challenged just for the obviousness of the insult.
from what i gather RBSL is more interested in exporting the turret than a whole vehicle? like being able to fit it to other NATO hulls was mentioned a few times
Yes, although RBSL have said they can technically fully restart Challenger 2/3 hull production if needed, that is very unlikely though.
Just like the Polish AS KRAB is an AS90 turret on a South Korean chassis, they may attempt to do a similar thing with the CR3 turret. Now its NATO compatible, it has a lot better chances to be sold than the CR2 which was just a logistics pain in the a*s.
That’s why the rest of the Allied Nations that could, followed the British armour recipes.
It’s so silly.