The suspected all-up combat weight will be somewhere around 76t as far as I’ve seen. So yeah it makes Boxer bridgelayers (which were already worse than our Titan bridgelayers) completely redundant as they don’t have the capacity to support that sort of weight.
It also leaves virtually no wiggle room for Titan bridgelayers who’s limits are ~78t.
Not a clue where all the weight is coming from given I thought they were potentially going to be making the turret lighter? But I suppose given their solution to a poor hull was slapping more armour onto it… I’m not sure what we expected. It’s one of those where it’ll probably be viewed as good enough but I’m 100% sure this thing is going to get stuck way more than any NATO contemporary.
I really wish BAE would take some initiative like Rheinmetall and just self-fund a new hull like Rheinmetall is doing for the KF-51.
(Having read further down @AblativeKitten’s summary is more detailed than my slight ramblings from bits and bobs i’ve seen).
It caught me after cyberpunk crashed during an annoying boss fight lmao, so I was already primed to be annoyed lmao
Im also a sucker for the option to do some light research.
also figured if Im going to bitch about sourcing Id better get my own ducks in a line. Would have triple sourced but I was genuinely a bit pissed off at that point, figured 1 was enough.
Tbf all previously developed hardkill APS are designed around destroying atgms flying at high speed, not a quadcopter floating in or flying at most a few hundred kmph.
I do wonder how hard it would be to tie the sensors of an APS to a remote weapon station with an automatic shotgun in the mount. We’ve seen plenty of footage of drones being brought down by single or double barrel skeetshooters, radar guided automatic shotguns with hundreds of rounds surely would be a fairly efficient means of negating the light drone threat?
