Why Don and I enjoy OOB work so much...
Looking back at
Post 493 above on the
BADGER, Ref 1/
6 variants, Ref 2/
5 variants and Ref 4/
9 variants.
Carry ranges from
6-10 troops (Though that ref did indicate it would be a tight fit @ 10.) for the "
Section" variant.
Now I'll lean on Ref 1 for those numbers as listed on the bottom of their article as
4 crew + 7 troops.
The "
Support" variant won't have a ammo issue as well, it'll
only carry a two man
dedicated ATGW team attached on very one of the type, also from Ref 1.
5 less seats/troops make a lot of room for extra
30mm rds. and whatever their
ATGW teams carry.
I'm leaning on
Ref 1 for the
BADGER because of the listed
Bibliography though the refs are all good, the one that caught my eye was the following: "Smit, A. 2018. Interview with
Badger, project manager Denel. Date 9 Feb. 2018."
This is why, though I compared them against my sources, this ref. was so important to me in unraveling the
SADF MBT issues as submitted for the
last patch, it was the
SADF and
SA industry interviews that were important to me
plus they also included/used a couple of others I had
independently researched myself.
So here's that Ref 1 again.
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/moder...-africa/Badger
It's always good to have a "
tie breaker" if the situation warrants.
The bright side is it's only, actually now 4 years behind schedule. better then
ARJUN at 30 years I suppose!?!
Daughter is "kidnapping"
CINCLANTHOME for a week so I'm off to bed to send them off.
Thanks Don!
Regards,
Pat
