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  • Originally posted by DeV View Post
    Think the Boxer comes in around €2m each so possibly
    The Lithuanian contract for 88 was estimated to be around €400m.
    The Romanian contract for Piranha V was €895m for 227 units. They will have slightly lower vehicle production costs due to local manufacturing/assembly.

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    • We want MBTs?

      Ask the lads with UNDOF to go for a little hike

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      • Originally posted by DeV View Post
        We want MBTs?

        Ask the lads with UNDOF to go for a little hike
        https://twitter.com/aahronheim/statu...300465153?s=21
        Finders keepers?
        Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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        • Originally posted by DeV View Post
          We want MBTs?

          Ask the lads with UNDOF to go for a little hike
          https://twitter.com/aahronheim/statu...300465153?s=21
          ?? ????, ???? ????. translates as a sure, it's gonna be grand

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          • Originally posted by Graylion View Post
            ?? ????, ???? ????. translates as a sure, it's gonna be grand
            And this board doesn't support unicode :( How stoneage of it ...

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            • Turret for 105 mm gun for both direct and indirect fire from Cockerill

              The Cockerill 3105 turret is a modular and flexible weapon system, part of the John Cockerill Defense 3000 series.


              Can be mounted on a Piranha III. This would make a nice universal fire support vehicle.

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              • would it have been worth the DF's while to convert the Scorpions to Scimitars?

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                • Originally posted by GoneToTheCanner View Post
                  would it have been worth the DF's while to convert the Scorpions to Scimitars?
                  I assume as the hull hadn’t received upgrades would have a similar issue with obsolescence there too.

                  The Rarden cannon uses a manually fed 3 round clip of ammunition.... commonality with rounds for the MRVs (not sure)?

                  They wouldn’t have much life in them either. The U.K. upgraded 50 Scimitars to Mk2 around 2011 (Scimitar turret on Spartan chassis and upgrades in many systems). Some of these may have subsequently been sold to Latvia

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                  • Soldiers are testing two tank prototypes at Fort Bragg, but only one is destined to become the Army’s new light tank.


                    light tanks are on the way back in the us..... put us down for 10-15 lol
                    Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

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                    • Originally posted by GoneToTheCanner View Post
                      would it have been worth the DF's while to convert the Scorpions to Scimitars?
                      Originally posted by DeV View Post
                      I assume as the hull hadn’t received upgrades would have a similar issue with obsolescence there too.

                      The Rarden cannon uses a manually fed 3 round clip of ammunition.... commonality with rounds for the MRVs (not sure)?

                      They wouldn’t have much life in them either. The U.K. upgraded 50 Scimitars to Mk2 around 2011 (Scimitar turret on Spartan chassis and upgrades in many systems). Some of these may have subsequently been sold to Latvia
                      As Dev says, it made sense for the BA to wadi their scorpion (with its mediocre gun) and focus on the Scimitar. The Rarden cannon was also in use on the Fox scout car, and when that was withdrawn from service, there was plenty of Rarden ammo to go around. Some Scorps gained old Fox turrets and became Sabres. Warrior also used the Rarden, so it made logistic sense for them.
                      CV90 should have been our chosen path post Scorpion. You could have replaced each scorp on a one for one basis, and with dismonts the back seats, there was no need for the APCs or soft skins in the ORBAT. Just an armoured recovery vehicle.
                      For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                      • Well there's likely to be 19 CV90s on the market soon, albeit in need of upgrade/modernisation, as the Dutch have contracted to upgrade their fleet less 19, so who knows, maybe an opportunity...

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                        • Originally posted by ias View Post
                          Well there's likely to be 19 CV90s on the market soon, albeit in need of upgrade/modernisation, as the Dutch have contracted to upgrade their fleet less 19, so who knows, maybe an opportunity...
                          DoD would probably say they don't have enough garages...
                          'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
                          'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
                          Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
                          He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
                          http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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                          • "We can't buy things in odd numbers so we'll pass."
                            For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                            • ah, the cynicism is strong with these people...

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                              • If you wait until next Tuesday there’s likely to be several hundred Warrior APCs for sale, one owner but thrashed constantly for the last 30 years or so...
                                'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins

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