Cheers DM, I do appreciate your deep knowledge on this subject and will be sticking this sort of stuff in the top post.
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Which is extremely odd, as we have what appears to be an early Striker going by the lack of stowage, floation screen, and sight cover. (Early 1980s)
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I believe it’s modelled directly from Bovington’s Striker, 07FF56?
That one was delivered 18 Aug 1983, but seems to be modified to appear as a much older model eg. through the addition of the flotation screen, and the older missile controller’s sight/sight hood.
Edit; to be honest I think the pictures below are of two completely different vehicles.
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the one on display at bovington is 07FF56
You can piece together the plate from these two photos
Id check myself, not too far away from bovington, but I don’t drive lmao
They have in the past restored stuff to service introduction standard, rather than kept them as they received.
I’ll see if they have a Striker tank chat and see if they say anything about their one
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The merlinArchive page says 07FF56 had an ISD of 01/02/1977. I assume the 1983 date is when it was transferred from what ever unit had it originally
But yeah, if it’s the same vehicle in the Tank Museum it’s been totally back-dated with the bolt-on transmission cover, flotation screens, and reverting the Combined Sight back to the original periscope.
Speaking of which, the Striker we have in the game should probably have the sight model change to the Combined Sight when the TI modification is installed, similar to what happens with T-80s and other tanks in the game
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I was just doing research on the sights, do you know the difference between the two housings? I’m fairly sure the Striker as depicted in game should actually be MCLOS.
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The Combined Sight housing is a different shape with a chunky armoured cover. The Sight head inside is also rather different looking with distinct channels for the day and thermal sights
Video of the Combined Sight cover
The combined sight was installed before the SWIG upgrade
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I think the video may have given something away there. Good pictures, thanks.
That’ll be the one.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/striker-swingfire-sight-43-mk1-946858910
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Mr Donovan’s Striker appears to have an old sight fitted into a new housing.
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Hah! I was actually looking for that worthpoint link because I knew I’d seen it before and that it had the designation for the sight - which I couldn’t remember.
No.43 is indeed the original Swingfire optical sight and not the CS thermal sight
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So… would this be the CS, later mounted in the missile controller’s position on Striker? Being used in the dismounted role from FV438.
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Looks like it
And as-installed inside a Striker (same privately owned VRL354S/08FF07 shown in my other post)
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Personally I’d prefer Sabre as a premium. Didn’t the British add power traverse eventually on the Mk 2? Whereas the regular Scimitar never got it.
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Here is some info on some sights on the Scimitar (and maybe Scorpion). It also is a good visualisation of the different sighting systems. While not to specific on the capabilities and specs of each sight, it is a good overview.
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I was wondering if that was you lmao
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Could you please add my suggestion to the list?
Thanks :)
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Added, and then corrected!
One more remark, the Scorpion trialed both the Cockerill Mk.III gun and the Cockerill Mk.III A1 / Cockerill Mk 3 M-A1 gun.
Cockerill Mk. III gun with the typical triple-baffle muzzle brake seen on Cockerill guns, here on the Belgian prototype and the Malaysian Scorpion 90.
Cockerill Mk. III A1 gun with the MECAR single-baffle muzzle brake, here on the last stage of the British prototype and the Venezuelan Scorpion 90.
Evidently it doesn’t change much, as the difference is mostly in the gunbreach and the muzzle break, but it does mean that one can fire APFSDS-T and the other not.
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Lets talk about that missing amor lol.
Considerable amounts of frontal armor and turret armor just doesn’t exist as gaijin didn’t look into the hull enough.
I can tell you that is more than 35mm and it is flush all the way down until the floor after the radius.
CVR(T) family armor protection // Gaijin.net // Issues
More details and a full explanation here.
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