Most likely they wont have stingers. Problem is stinger launchers arent getting produced anymore. They would need to retrofit the stinger launchers of older vehicles. Thats why they are searching/testing stinger alternatives
without working ahead the skyranger 35 would be more or less an ifv. With the better pen of the 35 it should be quite lethal
do you have any idea on what alternatives they have yet?
would be nice if EU countries would develope their own new manpad or further develope mistrals.
Shoulder launched Iris-T :)
Mistrals and starstreaks are the most likely I think
yeah it uses startstreaks and mistral
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“im you but better”
Well, the tower is now modeled on the Vilkas, and the chassis was already modeled on the Merkavas.
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Why not give Israel its Namer IFV with the ability to explore and launch drones? After all, they should have received the spikes first…
What does Israel receive? an M113 TOW (I have the two Chinese ones and the North American one and it is probably the most useless vehicle in the game) and a second M109 exactly the same in less than 3 months after receiving the previous one.
I don’t know whether this would count as a light tank in game, because it very much is a different sort of IFV to what we’re used to.
It’s possible that it would be classed as a TD, which would likely mean it wouldn’t be able to launch drones.
i would love for this to be added but honestly not even the goddamn barrel launched missiles are ingame for the merkavas yet
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think of it as the PUMA its classified as an AFV
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To be fair France got theirs as a premium.
The best reward for this one looks like the battleship.
naval is the less played gamemode so i dont think its gonna be used too much, wait nvm i confused the ship with the plane, the 2 hours of sleep arent going too well on me
AFV means Armored Fighting Vehicle, which is what nearly all ground vehicles in the game are.
If you mean IFV, then yes, Namer with said turret irl is indeed an IFV, but Gaijin has shown to not much care for what the real role of a vehicle was and more for what role it fulfils in the game.
IFVs are no formal class of vehicle in War Thunder, hence you can see one IFV be classed as a light tank (such as PUMA or KF-41) while others are classed as SPAA (such as AMX-10P and SUB-1-II)
These vehicles are very nimble and fit the designation of light tank in the game because of it combined with their armament, Namer does not since it is unreasonably armoured for an IFV and it’s mobility is a far cry from other IFVs.
For much the same reasons why I doubt BMPT-72 would be classed as a light tank I think the same for Namer. More likely it’d be classed as a tank destroyer in game.
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well irl i saw the PUMA classified as an AFV not as an IFV
It’s both.
It’s an AFV cause yk, it’s in the name.
It’s an IFV because it is meant ti carry infantry and support them after dismount
yeah its really weird why not just call it AIFV
Come to think of it, that is how modern IFVs are often referred to.
You’re right!