Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Cheeky British Armored Vehicle is Better Than You Think" video.

@JosephKano nope but it could be, it might only have a 7.62 on it right now but the Ukrainians have already shown themselves to be geniuses at field modifications, and they've captured a huge amount of Russian weaponry that I'm sure they could find a way to bodge onto this thing, like 12.7mm "Dushkas"
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@jules-9372 well bear in mind a lot of the other armoured vehicles it'd be likely to come up against aren't gonna be much newer than that
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@scottyotty2hotty he must've thought you meant the old L7 105mm tank-gun, that the old Centurion tanks put to such good use in the 40's-60's and that was indeed NATO standard for a while
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@scottyotty2hotty bad memories of the EM2/FN-FAL/M14/7.62mm thing with the Americans perhaps
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@cacwgm could even make a kind of makeshift Ukrainian Stormer or Striker out of it with a few ATGM's and/or Stingers mounted
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@robertkalinic335 it's accurate, powerful, reliable and we actually have it in service, with plenty of parts, tooling and ammo available. If it gets replaced by a belt-fed 40mm like it was supposed to then great, but it'll hold the line if not
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@johnathanh2660 with some add-on armour that I'm sure the Ukrainians are already working on it probably could handle older models of RPG's too from the sides or front, sacrificing some speed and lightness to get that way sure but it can afford to, and at that point it's as good as anyone can expect a vehicle like this to be, sure it still wouldn't handle an ATGM, drone-strike, landmine, IED or hit from a T90 but few vehicles could
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@johnathanh2660 agree with you but also make a point of my own, that a lot of the Spartan's current weaknesses can be solved through modifications and that the Ukrainians are fully capable of up-arming and up-armouring a Spartan, not saying they will but that they can, and might be prepared to accept some reduction in performance in exchange
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@Fordmister I hope you're right about the whole being a prelude to building newer better completely seperate tanks thing, but in the meantime the Challenger 3 will have to do the job, and may well end up serving a lot longer than expected judging by it's predecessor. I just hope they get a shift on building the thing and do make more than the pitifully few they're talking about
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