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There are four variants - the CTV comes in General Purpose, Heavy Guns Carrier, and Close Combat Weapons Carrier, while the CSV is a Utility vehicle that can carry a shelter (the Shelter is sometimes mentioned as a fifth variant, but that just seems to be kit that the Utility can have). Only three vehicle platforms exist, because the Heavy Guns Carrier is a package configuration for the General Purpose vehicle. As an M1278, the Razorback is a CTV, General Purpose vehicle platform, Heavy Guns mission package. The base vehicle is defined as having an A-kit armor package, while a B-kit of modular armor can be added, as well as an anti-RPG cage. They can use various turrets and remote weapon stations, with possible payloads including (but not limited to) M240 or M2 machine guns, the M230 30mm chain gun, TOW missile launchers, and Mk 19 grenade launchers (I'm sure other weapons can also be fitted, but those are the ones I've either seen pictures of or seen mentioned in writings about the vehicle). We've got beaucoup possible weights, since there are four variants that can each be bare or uparmored, might or might not have a cage, and can have different mountings with different weapons. Even when hard information starts coming out on weights, there'll need to be good detail to specify exactly how it's configured (armor package, weapons station, and weapon) or else it won't be maximally useful data. As a spitball estimate, if the Razorback is properly up-armored and armed, it's probably close to 8 tons without cargo.
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Now I do not have first hand experience with them, but as I was getting out they were starting to field them, and some of the units near mine had them. Talking with some of the troops that did have them, the biggest issue they all had was that they were small. By that they were saying that there was less room inside, and they could not carry near as much stuff as the HMMWV. The numbers that I heard was that you could only fit about four troops, maybe five if you cram them in, and about 1/4 of the total weight.
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That raises an interesting question. Perhaps the guy who wrote up Razorback was aware that internal stowage space was limited in size and wrote the stats to reflect that?
It also begs the question (but this is a "can of worms" type question) of listing internal and external stowage as separate figures rather than just dumping them both into "cargo". That would make things a bit more realistic but it's a lot of extra work and not something I'd encourage unless you really want to do it. |
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