Sergei Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Bah, LeClerc is just an ugly box no different from Abrams, Challenger, Ariete or Leopard (except that it is powered by Wärtsilä). Designers these days have no eye for aesthetics or originality, Israelis and Russians excepted. I'd much rather see the beautiful AMX-30. Then of course the 'little tanks'. ERC-90: and AMX-10 RC: But my favourite is the tiny AML-90. It's just so cute!!! <3<3<3 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Sergei, what is that monstrous piece of equipment in the link in your sig? Is it even real? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 We are theoretically interested in having modern day French and Italian forces in CM:SF 2 at some point. They are so incredibly ignored by wargaming that it would be a thrill to have them in. Our problem is we have other things which more people want to see first, so there is definitely competition for resources. Which is why neither the Italians or French are making into CM:SF 1. As for French in Normandy, that should be fairly easy to accomplish at some point. Definitely not in the initial release, definitely not in either the 1st or 2nd Modules. If things go well they will be in the 3rd Module along with a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff that is too big and/or too out of place to go into the other Modules. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow, made in Germany. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I also doubt any WHEELED vehicle should try to mount a gun designed for an MBT, just a thought MGS has the advantage of firing a squash-head HE round as its primary round. That round actually produced less muzzle energy than a smoke shell! So MGS is effectively a medium-pressure gun like the French guns, with the marginal ability to blast a full-charge KE round, if they don't mind rattling some teeth loose in the process. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 But if that is what they really wanted couldn't they have used a much shorter/lighter gun? It would have left a lot more room for ammo. They could always hang a javelin off the side of the gun mount for the odd bit of emergency AT work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RommL Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Equipment is obsolete on these pictures. Leclerc VBCI César VBL Here what we have, put to leaves the VBCI that has just go out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patboy Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Romml ; Rêve pas, mais peut être aurons nous des chars Hotchkiss pour la bataille de la Fière! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RommL Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Romml ; Rêve pas, mais peut être aurons nous des chars Hotchkiss pour la bataille de la Fière! I do not dream! If we have not any French in CMSF 1, ourselves in will have surement in CMSF II or a france MAY-JUNE 40. It is beautiful to dream! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 But if that is what they really wanted couldn't they have used a much shorter/lighter gun? I've got piles of reference on the great U.S. 90mm light gun contest of the 1980s. There were some very promising 90mm medium pressure guns being offered, but the rug got pulled out from under the project when the 'sexier' extra-long-recoil 105mm tank gun concept appeared. The funny thing is a major 'selling point' was ammo commonality, but by the time MGS got fielded 105mm was so out of date they had to go offshore to get new ammo made for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 It does just seem like one of those classic can't kill a bad idea development things. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flanker15 Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Equipment is obsolete on these pictures. VBL Ohhh we have just got to get these in the game! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 That's just a screen capture from Mad Max, isn't it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flanker15 Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 I was having a look at the current French army and read about the new Felin system which is like the infantry upgrade the US was doing but seems to have stalled. They're actually sending this stuff out on the field apparently which means that standard French soldiers will be covered in hi-tech stuff if they keep going. Helmets with HUD and NV built in, infantry weapons with NV/thermal/helmetlinked camera sights as standard, computer systems intergrated into the armor that links every solider into a network. It sounds like the stuff from the GRAW games but apparently it's real and they're equiping it now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RommL Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 It is true that the system felin appears in our army. The VBCI is conceived to receive this system. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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