no, this is a modelling error which I’ve reported. Scimitars turret and gun operation are all manual, the lower part of the periscoped and gunners sight don’t affect the ability to shoot on a real scimitar
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/QB81Y8uKREPX
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Yet when you inform Gaijin of an issue on a British vehicle they just view it and move on as if they never even saw the bug report.
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I was helped by people like gunjob and devilo6 with finding information for the report, hopefully if we all work together we can push gaijin to actually get declassified vehicles correct for everyone
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Would be nice but im not hopeful lol. I also found a source for all the proper L60 series engines and made a report of that too.
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Alot with its neutral steering fixed.
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just found your report and upvoted it, well done on finding sources
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Thank you. As for the L60 I think that’s the only source we will ever need lol. Its all directly from the Leyland Society and has everything the devs could ever ask for. I would really like to see that 840 BHP engine in the Mk10.
I was recommended by Jarms to have more than one source (yes even if its from the manufacturer otherwise it can be claimed to be “marketing BS” like a source on typhoon was yesterday) also make sure that you say which page the relevant info from the book or manual you use as your source is mentioned as the devs won’t read a whole PDF for a single change.
Full sources are accepted however arent always necessary, if applicable say what the books ISBN (or equivalent) is too
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speaking about british AFV engines or around the 1960’s, why so obsessed with “60”, L60 (Cheiftain, Vickers 1/3), K60 (FV432 Family), J60 (CVR(T) (atleast early CVR(T)s) and Fox)
Is there a code behind it, L60, K60, J60,
Just general piddling
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I always thought the L stood for “leyland” and J for "Jaguar but having a K for Rolls Royce throws that out the window. Then again the WD has always loved using almost the exact same designations for everything, just look at how many things are called the “L1”
One thing that could be done is to leave the Scimitar at Br 7.7 and raise the Fox to Br 8.0 or 8.3, since the Fox is clearly superior in terms of speed. Another interesting thing is to fix the mobility of the Scimitar, since it steers horribly, loses a lot of speed just by turning a little and turns extremely slowly.
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I originally made a report that fixed the radio systems being labelled as ‘FCS’, and on that report @da12thmonkey made a comment about the sight system with more useful information that you might be able to use:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/F2VWSfsulEOW
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Ill update my report with some of your sources in a bit, thank you
Good point and maybe it was a code suggesting civilian companies making military engines that’s just an idea though.
You’re halfway there, the number refers to the number of pistons. The letter is the manufacturer, execpt for Rolls Royce, who made a few different types of engines at this time, and gave each series a letter designation along with a number derived from the number of cycliders/pistons, (most famously the B series of WW2 use, and the C series of railway use, and the D series, though after this point the letters picked tended to be fairly random).
L60 = 12 Pistons
K60 = 12 Pistons
J60 = 6 Pistons
It might refer to the Cylinder count as all engines have 6 Cylinders, the L/K60 being opposed piston engines
Which may track as the CV12 of the Challenger 2 has 12 Pistons and 12 Cylinders, Not being an opposed Piston engine
My bad I ment cylinders, I should probably go back to bed lmao
Has the Scimitar’s awful driving model been fixed on dev?
No
They changed the modification from tires to tracks at least. Really shows they literally copied the Fox.
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