Another update for the tree! A little of everything this time, 11 new vehicles with a lot of unique stuff. Also a good bit of general improvement to the tree, including a some better pictures for the lower tier vehicles, showing them in use instead of as museum pieces, renaming of a few vehicles, and shuffling round a few ranks and BRs.
Mediums/MBTs
M4A4, Jordan ( Rank III, Jordanian Line)
I hate to start this of with a bit of copy-paste, but it turns out Jordan very reclusively operated the M4A4 in small numbers, which is perfect for providing a solid bit of armour to the earlier lineups in the tree.
M60 Phoenix 2006 (Rank VI, Event Vehicle)
A later variant of the M60 Phoenix, with a fully re-designed composite turret, exhibited by KADDB at SOFEX 2006.
M60 Phoenix LEDS(Rank VII, Jordanian Line)
M60 Phoenix equipped with the Swedish Land Electronic Defence System (LEDS), an Active Protection System (APS), with both soft-kill and hard-kill capabilities. Also gets a .50cal.
Al-Hussein (Eager Lion) (Rank VII, Premium)
A Jordanian Al-Hussein (Challenger 1) MBT, decorated as a vehicle taking part in the Eager Lion exercises. Essentially this trees equivalent to the Challenger DS, M1 KVT, or Type 90 Fuji.
Armoured Cars
Rooikat (Pre-Series) (Rank VI, Premium)
A vehicle from the pre-series batch of the Rooikat production run, each named for one of the Musketeers. Nothing super unique but a nod to the history of the vehicle.
Tank Destroyers/IFVs
CMP 17pdr (Rank III, Jordanian Line)
Jordanian 1950s armoured car derived from the WW2 Canadian Military Pattern (CMP) truck, with a rear-mounted 17pdr taken from a field mount. Essentially a wheeled Archer, its a very unique early Jordanian vehicles that well represents the level of improvisation that was necessary in the country at the time. Also seems like it would be buckets of fun to play.
DAF M102 105mm (Rank III, Jordanian Line)
Jordanian self-propelled artillery piece consisting of an M102 howitzer on a 4x4 DAF truck chassis, capable of firing HE and very low velocity (~500m/s) 105mm HEAT. No fancy nonsense like a stabiliser or laser rangefinder.
Class 2C (Rank V, TD/IFK Line)
A prototype constructed during the Rooikat demonstrator phase featuring a front-engine, rear troop compartment, and the turret from a Ratel 20.
SPAA
Ratel BAU-23-2 (Rank IV, SPAA Line)
Jordanian modified Ratel with the turret of a Ukrainian BTR-84. Armed with twin 23mm 2A72 autocannons in an enclosed turret with large 200 round magazines. I’m a full-time Ratel hater but I must admit this thing is pretty cool.
Cougar VADS (Rank IV, SPAA Line)
Jordanian Cougar Mine Resistant Armoured Patrol (MRAP) vehicle armed with the turret from a M163 SPAA, without the radar. Would be an excellent gunslinging-only SPAA, not like the radar does much for the M163 anyways.
Dzhighit (Rank VI, SPAA Line)
Jordanian twin IGLA-S launcher mounted on the back of, of course, a toyota pick up. Makes for a simple and bare-bones early missile-only SPAA. I’ve got no idea how to say the name.
Coming very very soon (maybe) (please)
Umkhonto Ground Based Launcher
With the most recent leaks indicating that top-tier multi-vehicle SAMs are on their way, the time may soon come to add South Africa’s most modern SPAA, the Umkhonto Ground Based Launcher (GBL), to the tree.
