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The FV103 Armored Personnel Carrier also known as the Spartan CVRT is the British Army’s light tank / reconnaissance vehicle. Created during the Cold War so Britain could downsize their force it is now being sent to Ukraine where 35-40 CVR(T)s are being transported. It has a crew of 3 soldiers and 4 dismounts. It was used in the counter offensive in Kharkiv.
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CVR(T) Scorpion 76mm/Scimitar 30mmr was designed as Recce screen in case 3rd Shock Army came over the IGB. 76mm gun was removed because the obturation was inadequate and it gassed its crew when it fired closed down. There was an Engineer version, a REME Recy version Samson an Ambulance version Samaritan, A command vehicle Sultan and the Anti-Tank version with Swingfire. Sometime in the late 80''s early 90's they were all converted to diesel . Great bits of kit but needed properly up armoured .
do they have a heater? or are mr. buddys or some gasoline heater being sent with them?
I used to be a conscript driver of a scimitar of the belgian army in 1988. One section was a scimitar (2.1) and a scorpion (2.6)
These vehicles were considered obsolete by then. They were great fun; a scorpion had the biggest blank cartridge of the complete NATO.
If you fired this it gave a lot of confetti.
Imagine when you load a blank, fill the barrel with cow-shit and then fire to some american soldiers during an exercise, the amount of mail (on paper) was imaginable.
So were told not to do this on our FTX excercize, i remember we were waiving our arms at the A-10 that killed us and he waived back with his wings, cool
Well I think the FV103 perfectly represents Britain. it’s a small little tank that really can’t do much or hold much and there are very many of them and it’s extremely long so that it’s more likely to topple over on its side if it goes through any roughage. sending a few of them over to the fake war in Ukraine can really help them feel like they still have an empire.
7:55 Of course it has to be 300, obviously.
damn small, so i'd rather just risk a truck to deliver anything.
armor/gun are too little for anything more then anti-personnel.
it's good to send the thing over to help, but it's soft cavalry at best.
Makers of War Thunder have indirectly sponsored the russian proxies: https://www.thegamer.com/gaijin-entertainment-russia-anti-ukraine-sponsor/
I suggest you stop taking their contracts
It is my dream to own a Scorpion light tank, but l'll take a Spartan in a picnch.
we need to send them more of these things. preferably some with something a bit bigger than a 7.62 on top.
So is the wiesel next ?
If you don't know, gaijins are russians who made this sponsors` military game in russia and now they still operating in russia also they said that they are "out of politics". I mean, all russians who didn't condemn this war must suffer from canceling in free part of world. Don't advertise them.
Nice little tank ,you got speed It’s the only thing it’s gonna safe this tank ,and maneuverable.
"Next stop, Crimea" – 'nuff said! 🤠 (If it was US, it would be Belgarod first, then Crimea, but we probably wouldn't stop at Belgarod.)
The Ukrainian logistics core must be clawing their eyes out with the massive variation in equipment they have 😆 like Humvees, M113, BMPs, And now this and I’m sure I’ve missed probs my a dozen vehicles
Can you do a video on the AMX-13 series, it be a perfect topic for this channel. It's a 1950's French light tank that at one point had a 105mm autoloading gun on a ball-style turret, but was and is still used for everything from an IFV, tank destroyer, mobile AA, ATGM platform, a bridge-layer, a MRLS, even a prototype self-propelled 155mm howitzer.
I love these little tanks. I built the Scorpion and Scimitar model kits.
It would be wonderful if Ukraine could transition over to Western equipment at a faster rate. Its current former Soviet equipment is likely to run low on ammunition which is primarily made in (ruZZia, north korea and china). Therefore, the sooner the Ukrainians can transfer to Western tanks and guns with their standard NATO ammunition the better off they will be vs the aggressive, imperialist, war-mongering ruZZians. What other equipment do you think Ukraine needs?
30 M142 HIMARS (GMLRS 90 kms & ATACMS 300 kms)
200 K9 Thunder Howitzers – Poland Logistics & Servicing
100 K2 Black PantherTanks – Poland Logistics & Servicing
100 K239 Chunmoo MLRS – Korean 80 km – 200 km
1,000 Oshkosh & Polish Logistical & Tactical Vehicles
2 THAAD – Integrated Air and Missile Defense System
6 NASAMS – Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System
500 Humvees /500 IFV JLTV
Drones – Unlimited (S/M/L) Short Medium and Long distance – TB2 Production in Ukraine
4,000 Ukrainian. Stugna-P ATGM – Production in Ukraine – Exported to Baltics & Poland
2,000 Javelins + 8,000 misilles
5,000 NLAWs
2,000 Piorun MANPADS – Polish for logistical reasons
FA-50 Fighter South Korean Fighter Jets – Same as Poland (50)
6 Neptune Coastal Defense Systems – Ukrainian 280 KM
100 French Ceasar Wheeled 155 mm Howitzers
200 Polish Rosamak IFV turret with 30mm ATK-44 chain gun, UKM-2000C, and two Spike-LR ATGM
100 Israeli Atmos Wheeled 155 mm Howitzer
100 Polish AHS Kryl 155 mm NATO-compatible self-propelled wheeled howitzer
2 Patriot Missile Defense Systems
100 German PZH 2000 Howitzers
25 AH-1Z Viper gunship helicopters
25 Eurocopter Tiger helicopters
25 Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters
100 M109A7 howitzers
200 South Korean K21 Infantry Fighting Vehicles
Counter Battery Radars
100 Zuzana 2 wheeled SPG
Plus a large NATO base
My uncle had a de-militarized Skorpion. Thing was amazing, cramped inside, though. But drove and handled like a little sports car. I imagine these will handle the terrain, there, well.
So this has nothing to do with the video, just the sponsor. Didn't someone who works for one of the governments featured on the game leak a bunch of classified documents about one of the tanks to win an argument about the game on Reddit or somthin like that not to long ago??
Only a British AV can be 'cheeky.'
The German Wiesel is way smaller 😝
Bro said ending their rule in places like india and hong kong like we didn’t hold onto HK till 1995
thx
Fabulous little unit …great to see their excellant design is still relevent
1st class thanks for sharing
You have a good channel man, nice job.
In Ukraine its light weight probably helps a lot against heavier ruSSian tanks when rain had the ground turning into morass. Where the heavyweights get stuck, it probably still speeds over the mud.
As always a simple thank you to help out your comment section ! Thank you Chris
I learned to drive tracked vehicles in Spartans, Sultans, and Samaritans, driving on the streets of London. They were great fun to drive and easy to maintain compared to some AFVs. To tighten a turn you had to put your foot down, which was a bit counter-intuitive, but once you got the hang of it they handled very well.
Even a small vehicle can be perfected over time to a quite useful piece of equipment.
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That mobility in muddy conditions could be helpful in the fall & winter to come.
Small enough to be deployed from the back of a land-rover.
How about a vid on all the suicides in the US military and its ill performing equipment…..how about a vid on that…..genius.
Lol, nice use of the Arma 3 footage here. Seems like a pretty badass little vehicle.
As a x crewman of these excellent vehicles I did not see why the British got rid of them and as for speed we would put a blown fuse in the governor and you could get 70mph easy
England should stay out of Ukraine. This is not your neighbor with whom Russia is at odds !!!
7:05 Poor Ukraine. Everyone is dumping their surplus equipment and first generation vehicles on them and expect gratitude.
Exactly like when people donate their old cans of corn and green beans to a homeless person. You want to help someone hungry? Buy them meal replacement bars or cases of ENSURE/ BOOST/ NUTRIMENT shakes.
But no one does because thats expensive. So instead we give them what we already have – What we have and DONT WANT.
PS. HIMARS and MANPAD stingers say hello
germany's weasel recon vehicle: my brother from another mother.
I might have missed it in the commentary but the CVRT group of vehicles were all converted to Turbo-diesels, late '80/early'90s, using a Cummings engine. This only slightly altered their performance.