Not that you have to weigh in, but what’s your opinion on claiming a vehicle is from said date, despite being under development and not ready for service yet?
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