Swedens already filled with niche vehicle abilities that are left to rot. What’s one more, besides we already have the lynx which can have two drivers and no gunner or a gunner and commander and no driver, who else want that kind of experience?
Real, but seriously though, only articulated vehicle that can’t do anything, a SPAA with thermals and a Laser rangefinder that can’t be used with the RCWS 50 cal. Hull aiming that doesn’t work, multiple WW2 and cold war vehicles missing Radar/IR gun sights.
What another niche button keybinds for them, could just use hull aiming as the toggle or the radar keybinds to change it into car mode.
Adding the button isn’t the problem, making sure that the thing actually works is.
Look at the ELC 901. The ability to turn the turret completely while stationary sounds like an easy addition, but it probably would be way more trouble to add than it’s worth…
There was a single prototype gunship variant, the Messerschmitt Me 323 E-2/WT (Waffenträger, also called „Nashorn“)
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If we go for iconic vehicles, the only ones coming to my mind are the Bob Semple Tank (hopefully with 37mm gun modification) and the BV-141. Given that the BV-141 has had a playable usermodel on WT Live since July 2016 and we had a plane last year, this is the most realistic bet in my opinion.
Other promising candidates have been flat out denied by Gaijin like the OI and Su-47 Berkut.
Some other odd balls that come to my mind woud be the Leduc 022 for france, a ramjet interceptor prototype, but my suggestion for it is still stuck in approval hell.
The BV 141 is indeed a realistic possibility for DCT, unless the assumption of no repeated nations holds. As I have said before, I believe this assumption is reasonable given DCT’s special status compared to other events, but I could be wrong.
Even if the Su-47 were not denied, it would still be far too recent to be viable for DCT.
It was very likely requested since the early days of the game. It seems precisely like the sort of vehicle that would be discussed many years ago on the old forum. I make the point elsewhere in this thread that the more important aspect of the popularity requirement seems to be how long it’s been requested for compared to simply how heavily it’s been requested.