Which atm is at rock bottom, I wonder why they are now buying the Gripen instead of the F-35’s
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Eh, the whole “exchange” thing was just marketing jargon in my opinion. Just an excuse to placate Canadian, Commonwealth, and British players.
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Modern US-Canada relations? The same ones where buying an F-35 is a national security risk(so they’ve been in a review void)? The same ones that have led to domestic production/industry and the military dying as they sabotaged them as often as they can?
Also, it’s “Tank, Cruiser, Grizzly”, not M4XX. Back to my point one, only relation is it’s on a tank that was based on the Sherman, and even then it’s only on the Grizzly due to a lack of need(else it would have been on the Sherman V and like).
I did, I just saw excuses on why the US needs a vehicle they rejected without testing and never served in anything near them, over stuff they built. I saw no reason for the Skink other than letting Gaijin be lazy and US mains’ usual claim of Canadian vehicles as domestic to them.
Well, we don’t know that yet, they’ve yet to say something, but the full order has been up in the air for months now, the only thing we know of is the order that’s too late to back out of.
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It shouldn’t have taken the US getting the Skink for the UK to get a vehicle; it was one of 3 operator nations of(Canada, UK and Netherlands). When the version in-game has been a fake vehicle for years, spreading misinformation.
Indeed, an “apology” for giving into US mains crying about a vehicle they have no claim on. Despite the UK getting a vehicle they should have had for years and one the US never should have had.
Gotta love a Band-Aid on an issue they created. Don’t implement any mid or upper tier US SPAA’s for years, sees a lot of US players complaining about no good SPAA’s - copy-pastes Skink because those same US players don’t know domestic options exist.
Even out of those 8 20mm options I listed, that’s not even all of them. That’s also not including all the other potential US based SPAA’s that use .50’s, 40mm’s, or other gun systems.
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And many of them are likely better AA than the Skink, as it’s a 4.7/5.0 AA at 5.3(as all it has going for it is not being open top). Making the one point in this agreement void, as the US has many 4.7/5.0 options, as seen by the BRs guessed earlier.
Even the T85 with the quad Hispanos will be better than the Skink at AA work.
- Belt fed, instead of 30 round mags.
- Better rate-of-fire.
- Better velocity.
- Better selection of shells. Both for better AT and AA performance.
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“Modern US-Canada relations” is the US threatening to ruin their economy, annex them and sell them downright worse tech because they want to
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Not quite true - they have already committed the funds for 16 of 88 - that much is a done deal and it’s too late to do anything about it
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