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Because it will be used as a light tank in WT more than anything else, as it, and some countries deviate from conventional norms of AFV development, while using terms to describe vehicles according to their doctrine.
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because gaijin doesnt designate things correctly a lot of the time
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That incorrect designation made TAMs cost less SP and have scouting.
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turned a 9.7/10.0 MBT into a 9.3 rat on roids.
I hate seeing TAM tanks as i know the thing will just ignore a L23 dart no matter what
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Look at the mass and the armor. Both are relatively low.
MBT’s for the most part are significantly heavier with thicker armor than 50mm.
It’s more in line with a light tank or possibly a light spg.
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Because Gaijin is a Russian company and Russians generally didn’t use the term MBT during the Cold War, and because of that there is no classification of “MBT” and every MBT gets classified as a heavy, light or medium tank to match Soviet designation
TAM should be a medium tank.
Yeah I saw its weight
I think gaijin multiplied the TAM’s weight by 0.5
Multiplied? You mean reduced by 0.5t ?
The real question is … why is the TAM in the German TT?
It’s an Argentine produced vehicle with some German design input. But Germany was never involved in it’s production.
Marder hull, german turret iirc
Vt5 is also an mbt but classed as a light tank in game. Just gaijin being weird.
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They aren’t shipping the hulls from Germany though. Entirely produced in Argentina and not exported.
Huge stretch to add it to the German TT.
German Design though and there’s no Argentine TT in the game
So maybe it should not be in the game then?
Every military vehicle in existence does not need to be represented in War Thunder.
gaijin often classifies stuff as they see fit. gaijin does not care about realism. the m18 hellcat for example is not a light tank. its a tank destroyer. the italian P40 is classified by the italians as a heavy tank, but its a medium in the game. sometimes realism needs to make way for gameplay, because its more fun. you thought war thunder was historical accurate? lol.
Based on Marder hull but different in many aspects.
Both hull and turret were developed by Thyssen Henschel.
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That could not be more wrong.
The entire vehicle (ofc excluding cannon, fcs etc.) was developed by Rheinstahl AG’s (later: Thyssen Henschel) subdivision HENSCHEL Wehrtechnik and the initial batches produced in germany entirely before the TAMSE plant was fully established in ~1980.
A lot of TAM’s in service still use the Rh 105-30 cannon, which was used in said initial batch of vehicles and even those built at TAMSE as their attempts to build the L7 under license didnt really go as far as they initially intended.
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They can literally just rename it to TH 301 and you have the exact same vehicle under a different designation (although TH 301 did see various design changes from 1979-1994, early versions were still virtually identical to the production series of TAM)
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“It is important to note that the TH 301 was not the prototype or predecessor to the TAM, but in a way, a subsequent development. This myth has been propagated by poor research and can be found in books such as TAM: The Argentine Tanque Argentino Mediano by Juan Carlos Cicalesi and Santiago Rivas, published by the prestigious tank-specialized publisher Tankograd. This myth is even more prevalent in online sources.”
Rename it then, because it’s not a TAM.