As a Thai, I'm glad someone talks about the Stingray. Even though It might be outdated, It still can do its job as a recon tank. though our MBT's could use some more modern equipment.
@@thedungeondelver It’s Ukrainian T-84 oplot and there’re about 50 of them but most of our tank force are upgraded Patton’s If you ask me it is still good enough, but it would be nice to have something new like the VT-4 that we’re importing.
@@quinndenver4075 Ground role reconnaissance vehicles still serve various purposes, and ones that are tanks provide an extra niche. Being a tank, they will be identified by hostile combatants as tanks. Thus, if support is called to eliminate said tank, then there will be less fire aimed towards real MBT’s.
@@damascus1111 how is that good? You don’t want your tanks fired on period regardless if they are light tanks or mbt’s. I’m sorry but for reconnaissance tanks are useless in todays world.
Hey could you make a video on the AMX-30? That'd be a pretty interesting video to watch. Btw, love your videos! I watch them as soon as they get posted
Yes please! One of my favorite MBTs with a very interesting history. It’s so unique and I’d love to see a video too. One of my favorite 7.7 MBT’s to play
it was put in the mantlet in ‘72 as a modification to modernize it and give it an ability to take down helis because I think they tried an ATGM but it didn’t work and the .50 cal was omitted because of the excess of 20mm’s from GIAT and the B modernization program.
If I've ever been interested in a video idea from you, it'd be fascinating to hear your thoughts on the WW1 K-Wagen and what tank history could have been like if they were actually produced and similar designs were considered by other nations!
Any chance for a dedicated video about the T92 light tank? There just doesn’t seem to be much information/content out there about it overall, and I’ve always thought it was just an incredibly cool design ever since I learned about it. I’d love to see a video from you delving into it.
Cancelled because aRmY wAnT fLoAtiNg, and other jokes acquisition tells itself to fuck up projects. I don't think too highly of the complex cut rear turret, but that is beside the point.
I always thought the Stingray looked really cool when I saw pictures of it as a kid. Stingray 2 was awesome in Mercenaries 2 as well. One of those random tanks I have a soft spot for and enjoy in games like AW.
Funny enough, when I first got War Thunder, one of the very first things I did was check and see if the Stingray was in the game in the U.S tech tree, either as a regular or premium, and was disappointed to see it wasn't. I actually first learned of it through _Mercenaries 2: World In Flames_ where it shows up as the tank used by the Universal Petroleum faction.
It seems that Gaijin has an aversion to anything vaguely Textron. The V-150 would be pretty obvious as to its inclusion, especially the ones with cannons. As if Italy needs to monopolize the 4x4 carcinogen market.
Ah...cheap and cheerful, then. So neat to see how tanks and other such military vehicles are so built towards, not necessarily raw power or efficiency, but purpose. We need a cheap tank to sell, make a cheap-but-good tank. Neat.
I never really cared for the LT line in Armored Warfare until I got to the Stingray 2. In one PVE match I showed-up my own teammates who were trash-talking me when they all died and I finished the mission solo. The Stingray 2 quickly became my favorite LT and I gained a new respect for the original and others in the line. It was like a kick to the gut when the devs changed the Sting 2 to a clipped autoloader and it didn't fit my style of play. The way the devs ruined that whole game was practically criminal.
@@blazerocker1734 >The way the devs ruined that whole game was practically criminal. To be fair, originally obosidian was doing ok, they focused too much on pve which probably killed the game short them, but then mycom took over and it was the end
@@wapniak666 Well, PVE was my favorite. I was getting lots of blue stars and having loads of fun and then they shifted focus to PVP, ditched arty, chose not to fix bugs that had persisted for more than six months and then they screwed with the steering of my Taifun II and refused to revert it back. I paid money for that tank destroyer and it was one of my two favorite TDs. That was all bad on its own but the increasing toxicity of players on the forums was the final push I needed to walk away. I loved that game when I first started playing but it was a mess when I left.
I've been crying for years for the Cadillac Gage plant to reopen and start producing this tank. They could be upgraded to be relevant on the battlefield.
@@naamadossantossilva4736 **grassy green 17 year old, whose grandfather used this engine to get from Africa to Berlin, on the way to completely back off the governor and flip over the tank on the straight part of the course, and bitch about reliability** "Clever girl..."
I once saw a real stingrey transporting on road one time (i live in thailand) it looks quiet cool i thought it was like VFM5 or something decide to look up and just realise this thing was unique cause thai is only country used it
I've been crying for years for the Cadillac Gage plant to reopen and start producing this tank. They could be upgraded to be relevant on the battlefield.
There was a guy on a Twilight 2000 forum I frequent that worked on the program when the second go at an AGS started up a few years back. One of the discussed variants was electric, with the space taken by the engine given over to a 4-troop compartment! Where the batteries and electric motors would have gone, I don't know. But they were serious about trying to get it selected. I bet you dollars to navy beans though they ramp up (no pun intended!) the hype for the Griffin and it never ever sees the light of day. They'll build a half dozen that we'll be talking about in 20 *more* years (well, you guys will, donno if I'll be around then!)
Stingray 2 with its packs and some turret electrics upgrades sold alongside a much cleaner up armored Commando would sell. A much faster than MBT production rate and ease of use in light of current events is free real-estate for sales. Yugo Hellcat exploiting goat paths to get behind artillery positions is meta now.
I could see these being a hit in Ukraine nice and light not to fussy nice gun would work well with the Ukrainian bmp. Throw on some more night fighting kits and Era and you got a scary convoy hunter
If I'm not mistaken BAE bought the rights and they used a modified design to compete on US Army MPF program. However, BAE wasn't able to deliver a prototype in time so it was disqualified. Therefore, GDLS Griffin II won the MPF program.
@@chesterlynch9533 "Unable to deliver a prototype on time." In light of reality, this sounds like some graft went down. Especially considering GeneralDynamics was involved. GD has been three decades late. Stingray 2 and M8 were done deals in the light tank role for DECADES.
Alright so, I found documents recently on an M2 Bradley with a 40mm CTA gun. In Wargame Red Dragon its called the Bradley COMVAT, I did some digging and I found grainy images of it with documentation, it used the ARES 40mm CTA gun, would be very cool if you made a video on it. Another thing how do you do your information digging? Getting Primary sources and the like? Ive always wanted to know how but no one really has anything on that sort of thing.
The MB-3 Tamoyo happened. Which is essentially a long dog. And the DK1. It makes a nice 25-30 tons cruiser chassis base with enough RHA to actually be a standard light tank.
i feel like air drop capabilities have been the death spell of every light tank project, and i believe that has only ever happened once in an actual combat zone.
Would love to see Stingray light tank and its variants. In the TT. M41 with stingray turret would fit well in the prem tree. Same goes for M551 with the same turret.
Could you explore on the different light tanks that were made due to the sudden demand on some countries? . In southeast Asia you would have Indonesia with their harimau and the Philippines with the Sabrah. While countries like China have the VT5 and India with a requirement to have a light tank for their units stained on mountainous terrain. It's interesting that light tanks started to come back despite the dominance of MBTs.
I really love the Stingray, definitely up there for my favorite tanks! I also really like the Stingray II, but it's more difficult to find info on that.
I have a really cool video showing the stingray's crew firing their guns at practice seen from behind the loader. shows the loader picking up vertical ready rounds and loading them, all relatively slowly. heavy and awkward unlike modern tanks with autoloaders or ammo in the bustle which has the right height and momentum. might still be online but I thought it was gone.
I dont know, i think this guy likes light tanks. FR tho, great video spookston! Will you ever look into the russian T-29 medium tank/unknown russian multi-turrets?
Knowing what we know now about modern Tank combat - rarely fights other tank, support infantry, move rapidly. I think the Stingray would do pretty well.
Showing alot of the M8 Buford AGS also. The updated M8 should have been selected as the MPF but i always suspected the fix was in for GDLS. Nonetheless i am glad we are getting Light tanks for our active an arng light infantry divisions.
Ok, what's so unique about economy and geography of my country, Thailand, that Stingray was purchased there and not anywhere else. It's basically just wheeled tank destroyer with no wheel. Spookston sold this light tank pretty well in this vid so there must be the other reason, right?
Well it's a light tank with a decent 105 (which still work in today's world) gun, cheap to buy and maintain (barring if you don't use them for jumps) and with some asterisks that put a stupid amount of USD into the thai market to dab on the CCP. At least those are some of the reasons from the top of my head.
I absolutely love the Stingray. I personally think it looks better than the M8 Buford and I played it in Armored Warfare and had a ton of fun with it I genuinely hope this tank gets put into War Thunder! It deserves to be recognized, along with both the XM8 and the Teledyne AGS
@@liemduongthanh8386 The Stingrays also sounded good and looked good packed up with their ready racks just spooging all over Tier 7's and 8's while the M8's had to deal with top tier bullshit, no lower front plate pack and a constant 5 second reload instead of the Stingray dump and run.
Any ideas about the FCS used in Thai Stingrays? I would assume a laser range finder and stabilized gun, but no thermals, only passive night vision, based on various videos I found. Any ideas whether Thailand ever upgraded these vehicles or are they still in the original configuration?
I think the problem with US light tank programs is they expect TOO MUCH from a light tank. It's an understandable predicament though, as they have filled it's tactical niche with other pieces of equipment that is now ingrained in doctrine. I feel like (And i'm not a tanker, thanks to my recruiter) US armored doctrine would need to be overhauled to make the request for a light tank more reasonable.
Not really. The tankette also is a thing forgotten. You can build ELC sized tanks for extremely easy transport / cross country. It's not hard to revive the Super Hellcat. Five seats means you can use seat 5 for whatever, like storing drones and meds. 10 ton trailers and pickups can pull ELC sized vehicles as well as airfare. Units have been saddled with overweight / oversized obesity for too long.
ya but gaijin will never add it as a tech tree vehicle the only way we'd ever see it would be as an event vehicle like the xm8 which sucks because it would be amazing to see in the tech tree before or after the hstvl
Hey Spook what do you think we can expect for War Thunder's 10th birthday? I'm hoping for Yugoslavian tech tree so there may be interesting content. Yugoslavia had a few variations of T 72 that could be added to the game (mainly domestic made M84 and Croatian M95 which is basically modernized M84 developed in '95 after Croatia left Yugoslavia) and I don't really see Gaijin shoving more T 72s in Soviet tech tree. That being said, there were also enough of domestic produced frankenstein vehicles to fill a tree with and even stuff like T 55 hull (iirc) with Hellcat turret.
I've been crying for years for the Cadillac Gage plant to reopen and start producing this tank. They could be upgraded to be relevant on the battlefield.
The Chadray, aka the Steve Irwin tank. Playing Armored Warfare- Stingray: **spots wild sweaty Marder** "let's poke it with a stick" **empties rack into Marder** Marder: [spotted rushing back using revenge whale charge SAPHE tactic] Stingray: "Crickey M8! She's an angry one!"
Im not spookston, (duh) but try CQC. The T-44 has pretty good armor for a medium, similar to the panther. There is a shot-trap, but its hard to hit. Try and rush german heavies or snipe. (May be wrong, as i main Isreal and the US rarely. Thats just what ive seen it beibg played effectivley.
"They were ramping their tanks, seeing how high they could go"
Sign me the hell up!!
Looks like them Thai Duke Boys are at it again!
What does ramping mean?
@@AshleyBlackwater Going off of a ramp and up into the air...
That is soldiering.
@@AshleyBlackwater What WWII history & gear said. In essence, they were JUMPING their tanks.
I always loved the look of the stingray. Cool little tank
It's basically MBT l i t e
Stingray 2 with its packs on is a lowkey looker.
It would have served well.
Only Thailand buy them through
As a Thai, I'm glad someone talks about the Stingray. Even though It might be outdated, It still can do its job as a recon tank. though our MBT's could use some more modern equipment.
You guys are getting some T80 or T90 variants in the MBT role now, aren't you?
@@thedungeondelver It’s Ukrainian T-84 oplot and there’re about 50 of them but most of our tank force are upgraded Patton’s
If you ask me it is still good enough, but it would be nice to have something new like the VT-4 that we’re importing.
Recon tank? Doubt that would be useful nowadays with drones, satellites, etc
@@quinndenver4075 Ground role reconnaissance vehicles still serve various purposes, and ones that are tanks provide an extra niche. Being a tank, they will be identified by hostile combatants as tanks. Thus, if support is called to eliminate said tank, then there will be less fire aimed towards real MBT’s.
@@damascus1111 how is that good? You don’t want your tanks fired on period regardless if they are light tanks or mbt’s. I’m sorry but for reconnaissance tanks are useless in todays world.
Hey could you make a video on the AMX-30? That'd be a pretty interesting video to watch. Btw, love your videos! I watch them as soon as they get posted
Yes please! One of my favorite MBTs with a very interesting history. It’s so unique and I’d love to see a video too. One of my favorite 7.7 MBT’s to play
The version with a 20mm co ax
Yes AMX 30 PLS
This^
it was put in the mantlet in ‘72 as a modification to modernize it and give it an ability to take down helis because I think they tried an ATGM but it didn’t work and the .50 cal was omitted because of the excess of 20mm’s from GIAT and the B modernization program.
If I've ever been interested in a video idea from you, it'd be fascinating to hear your thoughts on the WW1 K-Wagen and what tank history could have been like if they were actually produced and similar designs were considered by other nations!
I swear those tankers saw that footage of the BT-5 doing that long jump and went "hey, I've got an idea”
Any chance for a dedicated video about the T92 light tank? There just doesn’t seem to be much information/content out there about it overall, and I’ve always thought it was just an incredibly cool design ever since I learned about it. I’d love to see a video from you delving into it.
Cancelled because aRmY wAnT fLoAtiNg, and other jokes acquisition tells itself to fuck up projects. I don't think too highly of the complex cut rear turret, but that is beside the point.
Nah, he does only videos about stuff he wants in the game and use his CC status to push and push the idea
@Real_Claudy_Focan mm, I wonder why he would do videos on things he likes, it's almost like he does videos on things he has passion for
I always thought the Stingray looked really cool when I saw pictures of it as a kid. Stingray 2 was awesome in Mercenaries 2 as well. One of those random tanks I have a soft spot for and enjoy in games like AW.
A crime that they cancelled the third mercenaries game. Few games scratched the itch that the first two did
the mercenaries games were goated
The Stingray's turret was also marketed separately for retrofit installation on the hull of the M41 Walker Bulldog and M551 Sheridan.
Funny enough, when I first got War Thunder, one of the very first things I did was check and see if the Stingray was in the game in the U.S tech tree, either as a regular or premium, and was disappointed to see it wasn't.
I actually first learned of it through _Mercenaries 2: World In Flames_ where it shows up as the tank used by the Universal Petroleum faction.
That game was bad ass
It seems that Gaijin has an aversion to anything vaguely Textron. The V-150 would be pretty obvious as to its inclusion, especially the ones with cannons.
As if Italy needs to monopolize the 4x4 carcinogen market.
Ah...cheap and cheerful, then. So neat to see how tanks and other such military vehicles are so built towards, not necessarily raw power or efficiency, but purpose. We need a cheap tank to sell, make a cheap-but-good tank. Neat.
/Looks at Stingray, looks at M8, looks at Stingray again/
_Hold on a second..._
I swear Cadillac just drew XM8 from memory to create the stingray. I don't understand how it looks exactly like FMCs tank.
Finally, someone that talked about the Stingray
i loved stingray (and its line) in armored warfare, shame the game ended up dead
Stingray, Buford, and Thunderbolt are my favorite light tanks, but yeah your right
It just can never go bellow 4k damage, its so good.
I never really cared for the LT line in Armored Warfare until I got to the Stingray 2. In one PVE match I showed-up my own teammates who were trash-talking me when they all died and I finished the mission solo. The Stingray 2 quickly became my favorite LT and I gained a new respect for the original and others in the line.
It was like a kick to the gut when the devs changed the Sting 2 to a clipped autoloader and it didn't fit my style of play. The way the devs ruined that whole game was practically criminal.
@@blazerocker1734 >The way the devs ruined that whole game was practically criminal.
To be fair, originally obosidian was doing ok, they focused too much on pve which probably killed the game short them, but then mycom took over and it was the end
@@wapniak666 Well, PVE was my favorite. I was getting lots of blue stars and having loads of fun and then they shifted focus to PVP, ditched arty, chose not to fix bugs that had persisted for more than six months and then they screwed with the steering of my Taifun II and refused to revert it back. I paid money for that tank destroyer and it was one of my two favorite TDs.
That was all bad on its own but the increasing toxicity of players on the forums was the final push I needed to walk away. I loved that game when I first started playing but it was a mess when I left.
I saw these during Armed Forces day in Thailand. They still look new compared to what the rest of the army has.
Such an underrated tank
I've been crying for years for the Cadillac Gage plant to reopen and start producing this tank. They could be upgraded to be relevant on the battlefield.
I'm glad you finally did a vid on this tank, I remember the first time reading about this tank in Bill Gunstin's Modern Tanks book encyclopedia
The tank isn't badly designed... until the enlisted get to it, then no design is good enough.
"Idiots are very clever"
@@naamadossantossilva4736
**grassy green 17 year old, whose grandfather used this engine to get from Africa to Berlin, on the way to completely back off the governor and flip over the tank on the straight part of the course, and bitch about reliability**
"Clever girl..."
I once saw a real stingrey transporting on road one time (i live in thailand) it looks quiet cool i thought it was like VFM5 or something decide to look up and just realise this thing was unique cause thai is only country used it
Love the vids. I can't ever get enough of them. Keep up thr great work!
2:46 the screen blurs as though you were to show us an image, but it isn't there
Played us like a damn fiddle
Stingray is such a badass name
I've been crying for years for the Cadillac Gage plant to reopen and start producing this tank. They could be upgraded to be relevant on the battlefield.
There was a guy on a Twilight 2000 forum I frequent that worked on the program when the second go at an AGS started up a few years back. One of the discussed variants was electric, with the space taken by the engine given over to a 4-troop compartment! Where the batteries and electric motors would have gone, I don't know. But they were serious about trying to get it selected.
I bet you dollars to navy beans though they ramp up (no pun intended!) the hype for the Griffin and it never ever sees the light of day. They'll build a half dozen that we'll be talking about in 20 *more* years (well, you guys will, donno if I'll be around then!)
Stingray 2 with its packs and some turret electrics upgrades sold alongside a much cleaner up armored Commando would sell. A much faster than MBT production rate and ease of use in light of current events is free real-estate for sales. Yugo Hellcat exploiting goat paths to get behind artillery positions is meta now.
I could see these being a hit in Ukraine nice and light not to fussy nice gun would work well with the Ukrainian bmp. Throw on some more night fighting kits and Era and you got a scary convoy hunter
If I'm not mistaken BAE bought the rights and they used a modified design to compete on US Army MPF program. However, BAE wasn't able to deliver a prototype in time so it was disqualified. Therefore, GDLS Griffin II won the MPF program.
@@chesterlynch9533 "Unable to deliver a prototype on time."
In light of reality, this sounds like some graft went down.
Especially considering GeneralDynamics was involved. GD has been three decades late.
Stingray 2 and M8 were done deals in the light tank role for DECADES.
My favorite light tank tbh. It’s just so beautiful
My favorite tank period, glad I got to work around one
Alright so, I found documents recently on an M2 Bradley with a 40mm CTA gun. In Wargame Red Dragon its called the Bradley COMVAT, I did some digging and I found grainy images of it with documentation, it used the ARES 40mm CTA gun, would be very cool if you made a video on it. Another thing how do you do your information digging? Getting Primary sources and the like? Ive always wanted to know how but no one really has anything on that sort of thing.
This is a great question bc I would also like to know where you get your primary sources
1:34 catboy armor
Man, I do wished that M41 did get modernized upgrade besides Taiwan models. I love the M41 which it was designed for its role.
The MB-3 Tamoyo happened. Which is essentially a long dog. And the DK1. It makes a nice 25-30 tons cruiser chassis base with enough RHA to actually be a standard light tank.
2:52 Stingray at home 💀💀💀
i feel like air drop capabilities have been the death spell of every light tank project, and i believe that has only ever happened once in an actual combat zone.
You are welcome for the reminder.
Would love to see Stingray light tank and its variants. In the TT.
M41 with stingray turret would fit well in the prem tree. Same goes for M551 with the same turret.
I've always had a soft spot for this little fellow.
I have wanted this in WT for ages.
BTW I've seen a picture of the RTA Stngray with slat armor :)
4:32 BMP straight up tanking a HESH round
the power of LOG
Could you explore on the different light tanks that were made due to the sudden demand on some countries? . In southeast Asia you would have Indonesia with their harimau and the Philippines with the Sabrah. While countries like China have the VT5 and India with a requirement to have a light tank for their units stained on mountainous terrain.
It's interesting that light tanks started to come back despite the dominance of MBTs.
I really love the Stingray, definitely up there for my favorite tanks! I also really like the Stingray II, but it's more difficult to find info on that.
I have a really cool video showing the stingray's crew firing their guns at practice seen from behind the loader. shows the loader picking up vertical ready rounds and loading them, all relatively slowly. heavy and awkward unlike modern tanks with autoloaders or ammo in the bustle which has the right height and momentum.
might still be online but I thought it was gone.
We had one of these parked outside our barracks at OSUT in Ft. Knox, Kentucky. They look pretty nifty.
4:31 that is the first time I’ve seen the log on the back of the BMP actually do something.
Uh, Spookston, there seems to be a missing graphic at 2:45
The screen goes blurry, and you mention something technical, but no image appears.
finally somebody talks about it!
The world likes to pretend we don't exist. **does illuminati tell**
Maybe a video on the newest Chinese light tank?? Looks like a well rounded machine with a bussle autoloader and decent anti-chemical armor
I dont know, i think this guy likes light tanks. FR tho, great video spookston! Will you ever look into the russian T-29 medium tank/unknown russian multi-turrets?
One of my favorites, light and lethal while being useful to smaller militaries.
So it was like buying a car from the manufacturer which allows you to pick and choose lots of things before ordering.
Oh yeah; I remember seeing this thing in the book "Tanks of The World".
"...like the M24 Chaffee."
M41 Walker Bulldog: "Hey! What about me?"
At 2:45, the screen blurs but no picture is shown.
that shot on the BMP shows that log is still the best armor.
I was completely expecting another HSTV-L vid
Would love video on Cold War French light tanks. They were overall excellent, and it would be nice to hear more about them
A video on the UDES XX-20 or the Lockheed/Forscythe Articulated light tank would be cool. I’d love to see one of those ingame lmao
Knowing what we know now about modern Tank combat - rarely fights other tank, support infantry, move rapidly. I think the Stingray would do pretty well.
Have you ever considered covering the Walker Bulldog? I can't remember if you have before, but it's quite a fun tank.
Gotta love that BESH doing absolutely nothing at the end of the video
its the nod light tank!
The subnautica background music is fire 🔥🔥🔥
Showing alot of the M8 Buford AGS also. The updated M8 should have been selected as the MPF but i always suspected the fix was in for GDLS. Nonetheless i am glad we are getting Light tanks for our active an arng light infantry divisions.
You should really try out the new VBC, I've been having a blast with it.
Imagine submitting a light tank for US Army trials that can be penned in the rear by a M14
Could you make a video on the EE-T1 and EE-T2 Osorio MBTs? The T2 variant succeeded in beating the Abrams in a competition in the 80s.
2:40 Spookston, have you been losing sleep? You seem to have misplaced an image here.
I was just watching one of your videos
The Stingray is a really fun LT in Armored Warefare tbh.
I remeber the stingray in a wheeled hull i play it in armored warfare
slowly, spookston is coming closer to talking about the pl-01
you can play the stingray in mercenaries 2, its the tank of Universal Petroleum
Would love to see the Stingray and Stingray II make it into WT
Like the next abrams video
Are you gonna to make the next gen tank
Like
The T14 Armata
And the E-MBT and KF51 ?
3:28 that looks cool af. Any info on this model? I can't find anything online
I'm actually astonished the Stingray hasn't been added to WT yet, tbh
I like how everytime im in the hospital spookston yplaod
Ah the stingray, the PMC’s choice of tank
Missed a meme by having the stingray opening theme when the tank was driving
Meanwhile, men of culture playing Crocodile Rock.
Ok, what's so unique about economy and geography of my country, Thailand, that Stingray was purchased there and not anywhere else. It's basically just wheeled tank destroyer with no wheel. Spookston sold this light tank pretty well in this vid so there must be the other reason, right?
Well it's a light tank with a decent 105 (which still work in today's world) gun, cheap to buy and maintain (barring if you don't use them for jumps) and with some asterisks that put a stupid amount of USD into the thai market to dab on the CCP. At least those are some of the reasons from the top of my head.
This is one of the few tanks that used an 8v92 ta
dude listening to You when drunk is an ultimate sober test
I absolutely love the Stingray. I personally think it looks better than the M8 Buford and I played it in Armored Warfare and had a ton of fun with it
I genuinely hope this tank gets put into War Thunder! It deserves to be recognized, along with both the XM8 and the Teledyne AGS
Stingray and stingray 2 both do better than m8 for me, at least at the tier
@@liemduongthanh8386 The Stingrays also sounded good and looked good packed up with their ready racks just spooging all over Tier 7's and 8's while the M8's had to deal with top tier bullshit, no lower front plate pack and a constant 5 second reload instead of the Stingray dump and run.
Any ideas about the FCS used in Thai Stingrays? I would assume a laser range finder and stabilized gun, but no thermals, only passive night vision, based on various videos I found. Any ideas whether Thailand ever upgraded these vehicles or are they still in the original configuration?
I think the problem with US light tank programs is they expect TOO MUCH from a light tank. It's an understandable predicament though, as they have filled it's tactical niche with other pieces of equipment that is now ingrained in doctrine. I feel like (And i'm not a tanker, thanks to my recruiter) US armored doctrine would need to be overhauled to make the request for a light tank more reasonable.
Not really. The tankette also is a thing forgotten. You can build ELC sized tanks for extremely easy transport / cross country. It's not hard to revive the Super Hellcat. Five seats means you can use seat 5 for whatever, like storing drones and meds. 10 ton trailers and pickups can pull ELC sized vehicles as well as airfare. Units have been saddled with overweight / oversized obesity for too long.
it looks like a m24 chaffee drawn from memory
Thai tanker love stingray for it ease of maintainance high speed and low ground pressure
Can you do some videos on British tanks maybe?
ya but gaijin will never add it as a tech tree vehicle the only way we'd ever see it would be as an event vehicle like the xm8 which sucks because it would be amazing to see in the tech tree before or after the hstvl
The VFM5 is available in the British tree and that is a version of the xm8 designed to be cheaper
They made two production types of this tank and the first one sold triple digits. Stuffing them as event vehicles is just an asshole move.
@@tunasalad6891 but w/o IR sight always making the difference
At 4:30 did you just eat a Challenger 2 shell with no damage to show for it?
"historically, the us has really bad luck with light tanks, there are some fine examples of course"
gigachad chaffee
What are the differences between the Stingray and the VFM5, and was the XM8 Greyhound just a Stingray, but with an autoloader?
Please talk about the cadillac commando ifv series of vehicles
Hey Spook what do you think we can expect for War Thunder's 10th birthday? I'm hoping for Yugoslavian tech tree so there may be interesting content. Yugoslavia had a few variations of T 72 that could be added to the game (mainly domestic made M84 and Croatian M95 which is basically modernized M84 developed in '95 after Croatia left Yugoslavia) and I don't really see Gaijin shoving more T 72s in Soviet tech tree. That being said, there were also enough of domestic produced frankenstein vehicles to fill a tree with and even stuff like T 55 hull (iirc) with Hellcat turret.
you know the tank is reliable when the whole scandal it was involved in was seeing who could ramp the shit outta it
I like playing it in AW. I'd love to see it in WT
Stand By.
For Action.
(Anything can happen in the next half hour)
Would be interesting to see you play the Puma in uptiers, 5.7?
There is a reason we do not talk about... _That._
This would be a nice addition to the US tree
Please play the Eland90 spookston
What about the stingray II?
I've been crying for years for the Cadillac Gage plant to reopen and start producing this tank. They could be upgraded to be relevant on the battlefield.
The Chadray, aka the Steve Irwin tank.
Playing Armored Warfare-
Stingray: **spots wild sweaty Marder** "let's poke it with a stick" **empties rack into Marder**
Marder: [spotted rushing back using revenge whale charge SAPHE tactic]
Stingray: "Crickey M8! She's an angry one!"
@@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 armored Warfare enjoyer spotted, opinion tolerated
Spookston do you have any tips for grinding Russian ground or air I’m at the T 44 for tanks and Yak 9T for air.
Im not spookston, (duh) but try CQC. The T-44 has pretty good armor for a medium, similar to the panther. There is a shot-trap, but its hard to hit. Try and rush german heavies or snipe. (May be wrong, as i main Isreal and the US rarely. Thats just what ive seen it beibg played effectivley.
@@blu5021 ok thanks I’ll give it a try I’m normally quite passive so maybe it’s a good idea
@@blu5021 try to remember the basics of cqc
@@badgermcbadger1968 sure, lemme just pull out my notes.