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View Poll Results: Which is Your Favorite T2K-era APC/IFV
M2 Bradley 25 24.75%
Warrior 5 4.95%
Marder IFV 6 5.94%
BMP series (Please specify which version in thread) 4 3.96%
M113 series 10 9.90%
AMX-10 0 0%
LAV-25 40 39.60%
Bison 1 0.99%
BTR series 3 2.97%
VAB 0 0%
OT-64/SKOT 1 0.99%
Other (Please specify in thread) 6 5.94%
CV90 0 0%
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Old 01-21-2011, 12:11 PM
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The South African's Ratel (with its siblings the Belgian Sibmas) and second the South African Casspir.

Always found that these had a terrific look and the Casspir was 20 years well ahead of everyone else.
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Sorry for the thread necromancy. I was looking back through old polls and saw I hadn't voted in it -- and forgot voting bumped the thread.

Anyway, I went with the M113. Not because it's value in combat, but because it's a simple machine (relatively speaking) that kinda floats and has decent fuel economy. Oh, and hold s a lot of people and cargo.
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CV90 all the way. Granted its rare in the T2K timeline, but its well protected and as a firepower level that can scare older tanks.
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Make mine a Marder, had a chance to run with one on a exchange tour...nice, very nice!
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Didn't the Marder have a remote mini-turret dual 7.62 MGs behind their main turret?
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Didn't the Marder have a remote mini-turret dual 7.62 MGs behind their main turret?
Single MG3 in the remote turret, another on a co-axial mount with the 20mm, duel feed cannon, a Milan mount for those "oh shit its a tank" moments, and four firing port Uzis for the guys in back.
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Didn't the Marder have a remote mini-turret dual 7.62 MGs behind their main turret?
On early models. It was removed on later models. Not sure why. It might be due to the addition of extra armor around the troop compartment. That's why the later version don't have troop firing ports anymore.

I do dig the Marder, though. I like it's low profile.
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The Marder places second on my list, mainly because of its lack of carrying capacity. When they upgraded it to mount the squads MILAN, they had to kick the squad size down to 5 to make room for the missiles, which left the dismount numbers rather short. Some say they fixed that in later versions, but since I have seen some sources that say yes, and some that say no, I can't place it any higher than 2nd. Granted, troop capacity is a weakness in all IFV's, but the Marder takes it to an extreme. The upside is, is that it defines what well armoured means for IFV's.
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