Comments by "Retrosicotte" (@Retrosicotte) on "Production lines running hot to build Army's long-awaited Ajax fleet" video.

  1. It's not replacing jackal, which has its own, unique use. It's replacing CVRT.
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  2.  @jayspik6498  Except that is entirely incorrect. Ukraine is not a "normal" war, it's fought entirely differently because of very strange conditions imposed by its unusual setup.
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  3.  @furiousscotsman2916  Except for all your smugness you are completely incorrect. You said "one carries troops the other does not" about "AFV" and "IFV". IFVs are a specific kind of vehicle, that do carry troops. AFV however is just a generic acronym for all armoured fighting vehicles. Tanks, IFVs, APCs, Recce like Ajax, are all AFVs. All IFVs are AFVs. But not all AFVs are IFVs.
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  4. Recon hasn't been about "small and sneaky" in a long time. It's about being protected enough to encounter the enemy, and carrying enough comms, networking and high end ISTAR to coordinate the fires response.
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  5.  @furiousscotsman2916  It isn't an IFV.
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  6. ​ @furiousscotsman2916  AFV is any armoured fighting vehicle of any sort. IFV is a specific type of vehicle that blends infantry squad carrying under armour with supporting firepower larger than just self defence.
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  7. Take a look at what happens if you lose battles and have a good think.
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  8.  @gaptaxi  Again, you misunderstand the role of Jackal. Jackal is not a CVRT or AFV replacement. It replaced the Land Rover WMIKs in role, and is far better protected than them. Ajax is what replaces CVRT.
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  9. @@JimCarner Taranis was a test demo model and has nothing to do with the role Ajax fulfills. Also, RATO? That is the dumbest idea I've heard in ages.
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  10.  @gaptaxi  ASCOD is not 50 years old. And recce is not about being "small and sneaky" and hasn't been in a long time.
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  11.  @admiralmallard7500  It is based on an IFV, if you strip out the recce package it is one.
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  12.  @admiralmallard7500  The APC variant carries few people because most of its internal space is given over to large racks for heavier UAVs, ATGMs etc, rather than a combat squad. It's based on ASCOD, which has proven you can build an IFV on the chassis,as thats what it originally was.
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  13.  @jayspik6498  The only excuses are ones who think that this war is how NATO fights. Russia is losing, even on its own borders, against an enemy fighting it the way Russia WANTS to fight. Against NATO they'd be curbstomped so hard it wouldn't even have chance to become attritional from the deep fires and airstrikes. Ukraine is not NATO. The only problem is people who genuinely think Russia has any credibility left against the west when they persistently end up losing to a smaller nation using 80s surplus junk from the west...
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  14.  @airhabairhab  Except not.Ukraine is a war bereft of air superiority from either side, with very limited deep fires, no broad naval options, and both sides using mostly ancient equipment with only smatterings of occasionally more modern stuff. There's no truly modern fighters, heavy SEAD/DEAD, no mass launch of modern, substantial deep strike interdictions, no effective CAP, no SCALE of precision deep fires, nothing of all the stuff that actually makes Western nations as powerful as they are. Gulf War 1 from but a portion of NATO was beyond the scale of anything Russia has done, and that was only a fraction of NATO's power, 30 years ago.
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