Hello, and welcome to my discussion of the inaccurate removal of thermal sights from the BTR-3E1 in the Thai subtree in Japan’s research tree in the ‘Heavy Cavalry’ update.
I have already talked about this before in the Machinery of Discussion page.
I am talking about this as I am Thai-Irish and it disappoints me that a Thai vehicle is getting nerfed, let alone artificially.
And kind of unrelated to this topic, but Thailand looked for a different vehicle to the T-84 Oplot-T due to delivery issues, and decided on either the T-90S, K1A1 and the chosen VT4, meaning that the Royal Thai Army could have operated Russian tanks, along with having proposed ordering Su-30s in 2004.
This is a screenshot of a declassified document mentioning the thermal sights of the vehicle, with one translated in English, one translated into Russian and the original Ukrainian document.
While it is for the Shturm-S turret, which despite having some differences with the Shturm-M, It appears most of them are visual differences and have none or minimal difference in performance.
English translation:
Russian translation:
Ukrainian original:
Instead of this nerf to the thermals, I would recommend changing the number of Barrier ATGMs from 6 to 4 based off official information from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence as shown below (circled in red):
Sources
Spoiler
ODIN (has information based on declassified military documents)
ODIN - OE Data Integration Network
Source of the declassified documents for BTR-4 and BTR-3 (In Ukrainian):
https://.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/%D0%92%D0%9F-7-0003.01-%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F-%D0%91%D0%A2%D0%A0-34-%D1%82%D0%B0-%D1%96%CC%88%D1%85-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%96%D1%96%CC%88.pdf