I’ve seen people saying the BAe designed the CV 90120 we have in game, I want to ask if it could be added to Britain because there is no modern high calibre light tank for Britain rn. Yes there is the Rooikats (105 and MTTD) but those are from the '90s so no Gen 2+ thermals and I doubt we’ll ever see the Rooikat MTTD 120 (with Gen 2 Thermals).
What’s everyone opinion?
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BAE Systems Hägglunds, not Britain
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No. All CV90s including the most modern ones are developed by Hägglunds in Sweden (yes, even the CV90 FRES). That BAE bought them in the 2004 doesn’t shift the ownership of the vehicles to britain.
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I think we will just have to wait for the Ajax for modern light vehicles. When it stops shaking the crew to death.
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The UK did trial the CV90, so given the fact that hypotheticals have been introduced to other nations I can see no reason why not.
Would also like to see the Tridon (same gun as the M247 in a single mount) added to the UK and Sweden as an 8.7-9.0 ish SPAA on a truck similar to the Bosvart
Tridon is also Swedish and made by Hägglunds, not britiain.
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And owned by BAE…
BAE owns the company that made the bradley, is it also suddenly british? Just because you’re now a subsiduary doesn’t mean the parent company made the actual product.
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Well except that they’ve owned them for about 20 years before they produced it….
Not like they were building it for Sweden/any nation and then got bought out.
It’s literally a modernization of a Swedish project consisting of a Swedish turret using a Swedish gun on a Swedish truck chassi made in Sweden by the Swedish branch which is made up of the same Swedish company that built the first one and now you’re trying to stamp a British flag on it. You’re no worse than the brits who claim the NLAW is british even though it was designed and built by SAAB just because the british gouvernment asked them to build it for them as they lacked the know-how.
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Well I mean, it’s not a wholly “Swedish project” when it’s a UK owned company.
But if it makes you feel better they could call it a “produced under license” product since dozens of countries build/built L70 under license…. It’s also not much different than multiple variants of other vehicles that were produced by one country but used by another.
Almost exactly like the NLAW which is mostly built in the UK
Or the Boosvark which uses a 23mm gun 🤣
Your argument is that Ajax is American.
Britain doesn’t need another country’s equipment.
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The difference is that Ajax is in active service with britain, thus making it a completely valid addition to them. If they never adopted it and it lost the competition to say the CV90 FRES then yes I would say they shouldn’t get the Ajax, but that the CV90 FRES would be a completely valid claim.
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Other options exist, either Warrior based or the new Indian tank for a tracked light tank system. No need to steal a Swedish vehicle.
The Zorawar LT would be a far more interesting and unique option imo.
active service*
- Terms and conditions apply, potential date of service in numbers in 2030, pending further tomfoolery and cockaboutery
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So identical.
CV 90 series vehicles are in-service in Sweden and not in Britain, on top of being made in Sweden.
Oh, by the way… what you did is known as movement of the goalposts, and I adapted to your post’s logical fallacy instantly.
Stop with the logical fallacies.
It reminds me of someone who wanted to add the AW129 Mangusta to the British TT just because it was produced in Italy by AgustaWestland.
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UK definitely needs high-top tier light vehicle that’s actually good, so yeah, why not.
Like I said in my forum starter comment, the Rooikat MTTD 120 could fill the same role, just without the smoke grenades and other stuff but at least has Gen 2 Thermals
British main claiming some random ass vehicle, here we go again.
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