I just thought this version may be the single prototype
It is. Only one TH400 was built. It is also the only of the TH to exist, as 200 and 800 never made it to reality.
Kinda, apparently it’s in private collection in a village in the Netherlands, but it’s pulled out and driven around the village for events and such.
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What a… wholesome fate for an AFV prototype
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Just do it Gaijin. The Dorito was atleast made somewhat. “Dreams come true”.
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Used to be operated for OPFORs
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Finnish IL-28 01 “Nikita”.
In 1959 Finland bought two IL-28s from the USSR, one standard bomber variant and one R i.e. recon variant. With one more order for two R variants later on.
They were perfectly well suited for Finnish Air force needs which were primarily, recon, mapping, aerial radiation measurement and maritime recon.
What I am suggesting here is that the baseline bomber variant is added for Swedish tree after Saab 105G since thats the bomber/strike line.
Now some might comment about the fact that Finland didnt utilize freefall bombs on these. Well yeah, neither did Germany and we are WELL past the line where that actually matters for WT.
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Given the state with Gaijin and Finland youll be lucky if they even gave it ammo or fuel lmao.
PGL12
Type 625 (PGL625?)
HQ-17A
ZTZ99A (GL-6 Hard-kill APS Derivative)
VT4/Haider
ZTQ15
ZSL92A
ZBL08
ZBD86A
ZBD03
…and many others…
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Don’t wanna be a nerd, but thats a AE, which is the same as A, just export ))
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I’m just curious but why do China and Russia make these very similar MBT designs instead of just refining one design. Not hating on any one just curious
For sure, that’s why I posted the AE because it’s the same thing practically 🤙
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You mean why don’t they refine the designs together?
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No I mean individually why doesn’t Russia focus on one MBT like t80 and China focus on one MBT like ztz99. I know they both export a lot of them I don’t know if that has anything to do with it and I’m just using those two tanks as examples
this still not in game is just crime
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The point with Russia is they do produce one main battle tank for the most part and it’s the T-90M while upgrading legacy hulls of T-72’s and T-80’s because they have thousands of them. By bringing them to modern standards along with new production T-90M’s, they have a way to rapidly build there tank forces up. Not to mention there’s also some parts commonality between the T-90 and T-72 which allows for easier production. While Russia does upgrade T-80’s to the BVM standard, that’s a stopgap until more T-90M’s can be produced as the T-80BVM is expensive to operate and maintain.
As for China, they have the ZTZ96A/B because it’s a lot more simple to rapidly produce alongside the more complex ZTZ99A which the ZTZ96 supplements it. The ZTZ99A is China’s main battle tank while tanks like the VT4 are inferior and are tailored to the export market to generate more revenue. Anyways, by building quantity in the ZTZ96’s and at the same time producing the quality ZTZ99A’s allows them to rapidly expand there tank forces.
Summary: Cost effectiveness is key to slowly build up quality vehicles alongside rapid quantity vehicles.
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Chinese IS focusing on 1 design i.e ZTZ -99 for domestic.
VT-4 is for export variant: abit modular and not constrained by PLA requirement.
both have roots dating back to ~Type-90II.
(ZTZ-96 dates back to the ambitious 122 project, but their “domestic Leopard 2” doesn’t happen and the hull design gets reused & updated for type-88 and type-86 and finally to 96, during which they get to inspect T-72 & T-80 for which Type-90I → VT-1 → ZTZ-99)
Russian T-72/80 combo came from the fact that, 64-80 series were comparatively expensive, so needed a cheaper sidekick a la '72. Now Russia is/was only focusing on T-90.
(ignore the renewed T-80 derivative news for now)
Actually both current MBTs dates back to T-72. 1 is a direct upgrade sort of and the other copied+inspired by.
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Patria AMV XP with Hitfact 120mm turret.
XA-185 TOW
Would have ITOW, TOW-2 and TOW-2A missiles as choices.
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God, I hope it would come with upgraded mobility compared to the ITO XD
It should, gaijin just seems to have made wheeled vehicles very badly.
Somehow also fked up CV90s mobility too.
IRL the 180 series pasi’s are quite nimble, even the heavier 200 series ones.