No… no we do not… IMBT is the project that quite literally substituted the option that the 2A8 was supposed to be.
The IMBT is, as I’ve pointed with the official page from Leonardo up in this thread, the joint venture between Leonardo and Rheinmetall that will work on the new Italian MBT that is supposed to be a stop-gap to both make the Italian “tank” industry better and to move towards future project such as MGCS (that are already being nominated in our DPP and have funds already allocated for)
Did the entire HSTVL point go over your head?
I’m not claiming the HSTVL is from any specific date, so it’s not tied to service requirements.
However that IS applicable if you ARE going to claim that, say the BUK M3 as we see it in game is from 2015, despite the weaponry it uses in game still being in development, that makes it a 2025/26/27 vehicle until said missile enters service out of development
We can disagree all day long, it says online the parliament still wished to procure some for the fact of having something up to date.
They had disagreements with the manufacturer. I read that from what you posted but unless I glanced over it, and I doubt I did, it didn’t say anything about dropping it as an option entirely.
The “current plan” I can see from the parliament document says procurement by 2027.
No you just cherry pick what ever convenient and spray it with political bias why like any experimental vehicle like from AGS program is not from 2025 now.
It’s not a matter of disagreeing or not. It’s a matter of understanding and it seems like the message is not going through. Italy’s plan is to get a stop-gap option to work towards future projects. That stop-gap option was supposed to be the 2A8, until the agreement was not found between KNDS and Leonardo, turning it into a joint venture between Leonardo and Rheinmetall. I’ll try to find more up to date articles but that is from June 2024, a little early. I’ll try to edit this message with it.
Point to these please, my claims are always well estimated or sourced, and i don’t side with the faction who fabricates most of their military statistics
“The second green light from parliament was for Italy’s planned purchase of Leopard 2A8 tanks to replace its ageing Ariete tanks and make good on NATO commitments.“