Some points about the new french VBCI:
- missing versions:
As far as I know, they are not yet in service, but will be before 2015, which is the limit year for the end of all VBCI deliveries
VBCI VCI: already in-game
VBCI "Rang Eryx": missing, in service before 2015
VBCI VPC: missing, command vehicle, in service very soon, if not already; command vehicle for mech and armored (Leclerc) regiments; armament: only a 12,7 mm machine gun
VBCI "Rang mortier": missing, with a 81mm mortar, before 2015
VBCI ???: long range AT version, missile unknown after the end of trigan/AC3G-MP missile. Waiting that french army chooses a new missile to replace the Milan 3.
- armor: the armor of the VBCI is sayed to be class 5, which mean resistant to 14,5mm and whith restrictions 20/25mm. The in-game armor seems a bit weak for a class 5, and its the same than the AMX-10 one or the Stryker. In fact, even it is a wheeled VCI, it weights 26T, when AMX-10 is 10/14T and Stryker 16/18T. Seems to me that more than 10T more should appear a bit more in armor, but I maybe wrong: I have a doubt about the Combat/Empty weight of the vehicles above...
Hope that could help, but I won't cry if you think, there is no reason to do such improvement, with so few precise datas...
Sources:
- Wheight:
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/amx/
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/vbci/specs.html
http://www.army-technology.com/proje...ker/specs.html
-Armor/Versions/Armament:
http://www.pes-edition.com/fantassin...SSIN_16/11.pdf
in french:
http://www.chars-francais.net/archives/vbci.htm
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