The Italian-American: B1 Centauro 105s evaluated by the US, 2000-2002

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Absolutely unnecessary and not domestic -1

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Just like the whole Hungarian “subtree”

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Absolutely not, the USA does not need a vehicle that they have only tested, otherwise if we consider all the vehicles tested by the various nations we would have enormous TTs. The suggestion is then wrong from the start because the Centauro tested in the USA has the plate and insignia of the Italian Army, you would make better use of your time if you made suggestions of the LAV 600 105 and the V600 Commando, so you would have two other wheeled vehicles to put alongside to M1128.

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And the rest are extremely expensive FOMO paywalled event vehicles lol

Careful, get ready to get flagged by the community for talking like that. Oh btw can I interest you in the highly popular idea of adding the Centauro to the USSR tree? Apparently according to russian players its desperately needed, but how DARE US players have it too. USA is OP didnt you know! USA bad 🤬 Americans are bad

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The Russian and American TTs don’t need the B1 Centauro, get over it, it won’t be added to either TT.

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Would be fantastic if neither got it, but get over it? Come on man. Look at both posts. Dont be so dense to the community bias/internal hate. You cant just ignore it because thats why were at where were at, with the entire US tree being nerfed since inception

The problem is American players arent like Russian players where they put in effort to undercut the other to further live West/NATO bad cope fantasies

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Btw this when?

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Also do not forget about this

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The suggestion for Russia is also a majority No. The issue with giving out centauro’s is that it is one of Italy’s few truly unique top tier vehicles. For such a small tech tree, we shouldn’t be handing out those few unique vehicles unless there’s a really good reason. A stronger reason than “they trialed a couple of them”. The US has their own similar vehicles which can be added. They already have stryker, theres still LAV 105, Cadillac Gage V-300 and V-300A1, a version of the V-150 with the cockerill 90, and a version of the LAV with the stryker turret, just as far as anti tank gun armed armored cars go, and probably a thousand other tracked light tank options

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They already have stryker, theres still LAV 105, Cadillac Gage V-300 and V-300A1, a version of the V-150 with the cockerill 90, and a version of the LAV with the stryker turret, just as far as anti tank gun armed armored cars go, and probably a thousand other tracked light tank options

Sure would be nice if Gaijin actually gave the US TT some of those instead of the current situation where we have a whopping two wheeled vehicles in the entire TT

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Yeah but America isn’t alone there. Italy is basically the only nation to get more than one proper tech tree wheeled light tank at top tier and that’s mostly because their entire armored doctrine relied on them

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US and Soviets out here about to snatch all of Italys wheeled vehicles

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chill bro, the F-15 is not even in the game

No thanks. When there are plenty of American wheeled/light vehicles that can also be added around the BR (± 0.7) I’d rather not add an Italian vehicle only trialed.

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  6. LAV-105, 9.7
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Why exactly are the LAV-25 and Stryker Dragoon 9.X tanks? All they’re armed with are the 25mm and 30mm guns respectively?

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Honestly I was really tired and totally misread it, but was also affirmed in my belief when I got some insane reasons as to why it should happen

The Dragoon is nearly identical to the 9.7 VBCI-2 which features the same turret.
The LAV-25 is quite similar to the 9.0 Type 87 RCV, though with slightly decreased mobility and a lower fire rate. However, the LAV also features a thermal sight, moderately improved frontal protection, and higher penetration.
The LAV-25A2 improves on the LAV-25, adding second-gen thermals, a laser rangefinder, electro-optical tracking system, and slightly improved survivability.

The original LAV-25 had first gen thermals?