Well, its gone afaik
Plate on it is DR 12 AA, you can try tracing it if you want
I think you do still need a tank for when tank-stuff needs doing - that need of a big armoured box that can route around with a big gun won’t disappear any time soon. However if you have £X billion to spend on armour - do you…
a) Spend a decent chunk of it on a fire-support-vehicle. Not a tank and thus not able to do all the tank things. You might need to buy a tank later to cover that gap in capability.
b) Spend your money on a tank. Which can do fire-support as well as all the other tank-type things.
Some states obviously see the need to go for a bit of option A and a bit of option B. Other nations are happy to stick with one or the other. Britain falls into the latter option - probably a reasonably sensible one given the limited pot of money the Army has access to relative to the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.
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i cant find info on it but it seems real
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Unlike something else cough cough
its a vismod
like what the M1 KVT is in game
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I was thinking more along the lines of the Ukrainian Challenger 2.
The MoD is neither lazy nor calculating
just cheap, though that’s not entirely their fault: the explanation risks running a little to political, though if you want to play a small game try to find years where rumours weren’t swirling of something being scrapped to save costs from the tank fleet, the AH-64s to the Royal Navy.
Warrior and CVR were supposed to be replaced by AJAX something like a decade ago but the entire thing kept hitting problems and delays. There wasn’t really any urgency to replace anything with the end of the Cold War.
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no clearly i was on about something else
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it is a very interesting find
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I found it by chance, for some reason it was marked as Vickers mk7 on the Russian Wikipedia, I looked closely and remembered what mbt 80 looks like. And I thought that this was an imitation of the weight of the armor on the tower, but on the sides?
yeah i saw that to
It seems to be just a Centurion that was made to look like a Russian tank
maybe as a disguise
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Someone called it a Polish modification, I even believed it until I remembered that Poland was in the USSR all through the Cold War
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it will remain a mystery then i just can’t seem to find anything on it
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If we can find if it still exists and then we can work out where that photo was taken then we could figure out something about it.
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It’s just like the Vickers mk3 (m) in ROMORA. When I saw it, I couldn’t find absolutely any information on Russian websites either.
But thanks to the War Thunder community, which really wants to add it to the game, I was able to know more about this modification
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it seems it was used to test millimetre wave radar
We don’t know what it is, but we need it in our tree
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