I honestly have to admit I had never heard of the BvS-10 Viking until I heard that 28 of them are going to Ukraine.
They look so fricking weird, like why is it in two parts, what's the point?
Is the BvS-10 actually any good?
I honestly have to admit I had never heard of the BvS-10 Viking until I heard that 28 of them are going to Ukraine.
They look so fricking weird, like why is it in two parts, what's the point?
>like why is it in two parts, what's the point?
what do you think homosexual? look at the picture.
Theoretically, the two halves give it better offroad performance. Where a singular framed vehicle could get caught on a crest potentially and thus get stuck, the more flexible halves of the BvS will roll over it. I don't know how well it actually performs in practice, just the theory behind it.
okay that's really interesting, would this also help in muddy terrain?
Look at
at the 5 minute mark for your answer.
yes
>muddy terrain?
Wherever a soldier in boots can go, this can go, and even more besides.
Yeah. A man will leave his boots behind, stuck in the mud way before these things stop going through.
Basically everybody who ever used its predecessor loved them.
this, they're fantastic
Holy shit they're cute
Odd descriptor for a military vehicle but It's the best that comes to mind
that dude on the MG3 must be a homosexual. how could you be behind an MG3 and not be smiling?
>unless he's sad that he's now allowed to shoot it when the photo was taken
It's designed for snow and other terrain which nearly any other vehicle will not be able to traverse. It has extremely low ground pressure, matched only by the CVRT. The British used it to excellent effect in the Falklands, where peaty terrain negated nearly all other kinds of vehicles and even foot soldiers. They've also used it in the desert. Primarily, it was designed for use by the Icelanders and Swedes, in terrain where even a foot soldier needs snowshoes and skis to not sink in. Yes, its ground pressure is less than a man's foot.
Would it be safe to drive on people with it?
Had my leg driven over in the snow once. It was fine.
They can go anywhere.
i still can't believe the level of moron that goes into the threads where people expected russia to be able to invade through geography that looks like that
1 conscript lays down, the next down steps on him and lays down, creating a bridge
That's Sweden tho.
well yes some people think that russia can somehow invade sweden even when the mainland mostly looks like that
With a BvS, you can go anywhere you want.
It's one of the very, very few vehicles that can drive on genuinely muddy soft ground or on snow without bogging. Tanks are too heavy so they're almost roadbound in Ukraine in the wet season.
Unfortunately nothing like that can carry armor. Wheeled vehicles like Stryker are making traditional tracked vehicles obsolete but tracks still win for unamored light vehicles.
>Wheeled vehicles like Stryker are making traditional tracked vehicles obsolete but tracks still win for unamored light vehicles.
this makes literally no sense
What anon presumably means is that for anything in the <35-ton range, 8x8s such as Stryker Dragoon are becoming better choices than tracked, being able to carry similar armour protection but with better operational mobility; however, for light unarmoured vehicles around the 5-ton mark, tracked vehicles such as the BvS10 Viking here can still beat wheeled vehicles because no 5-ton unarmoured wheeled vehicle can go where the BvS10 goes.
Stryker is a good demonstration of why wheels for a tank-armored AFV are a bad idea; lack of support meant its own gun was damaging to fire and it couldn't do off-road worth shit.
>They look so fricking weird
Black person they're cute as shit
just look at it
They are the shiznit for mountain and arctic warfare.
have some Royal and BvS kino
How much of an upgrade are BvS-10 to BvS 206?
The BvS 10 can carry much more and has decent armor (the 206 is a fiberglass hull)
Sounds nice, love how the 206 can be used in civilian stuff aswell such as S&R.
The BvS 206 is a chibi, practically unarmoured infantry carrier, picrel. The BvS 10 can carry support weapons, is faster, resists 7.62 Soviet, has identical ground pressure, and can carry additional modular and cage armour.
Black person I'm a rabid no guns/gun grabber and yet i know that calling something 7.62 Soviet is moronic. Can you kindly inform me if this thing is Mosin proof, AK-47 proof, Tokarev proof or fricking Nagant proof?
nta but '7.62 soviet' is usually shorthand for 7.62x39, everything else is specified, typically.
That being said more specificity is ideal, whether something can or cannot stop a PK is an important distinction
>I'm a rabid no guns/gun grabber
clearly
Soviets use the 7.62x39mm cartridge, NATO 7.62x51mm, the former is shorter and less powerful
>Mosin proof, AK-47 proof, Tokarev proof or fricking Nagant proof
all of them; the strongest weapon on that list is the AK-47 which uses 7.62x39mm which the Bv206 can withstand at a range of 50 metres
>all of them; the strongest weapon on that list is the AK-47
hownew.ru
the "most powerful round" there is 7.62x54mmR, a full-power rifle cartridge used by the Mosin, Dragunov, and PK machine gun. It's the eastern equivalent to 7.62x51.
lurk more before posting dumb shit like that again or go back to where you came from
5-round bolt action can kiss my ass, and Dragunov and PK are not on the list anon gave, frickface; learn to read
It's still the same round, meaning it has the greatest chance of penetration, which is the factor here. If it's rated for an AK, a Mosin will get through
Now you learn to read
>Can you kindly inform me if this thing is Mosin proof
>Can you kindly inform me if this thing is Mosin proof
Yes
Now frick off, twat
You are legit moronic and illiterate
>Soviets use the 7.62x39mm cartridge, NATO 7.62x51mm, the former is shorter and less powerful
Oh my god we're reaching lows I couldn't even have imagined.
>the Bandwagon Sky Dad
did reddit slash atheism name this vehicle
"With Sisu you can go anywhere" he said out loud.
>what's the point?
Coolness factor.
I remember how our idiot driver managed to get our nasu stuck in the middle of the wettest swamp in finland
That's the thing about vehicles with extreme off-road capability, when they finally do get stuck it ain't gonna be in a nice place.
wtf, these things are amphibious too? like a literal swimming tiny train?
Of course they are. They are not very fast while swimming, but they are amphibious.
it's like a militarized marsh buggy
>what's the point?
extremely low ground pressure, especially on the models that come with plastic chassis. This type of vehicle might actually be one of the most successful Swedish military vehicles ever made and is thus very underrated
why does it remind me of the gama goat?