The new 'MCV' Octo-Tank to defeat deflation?

[Taro Toporific]

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In order to boost inflation, the Defense Ministry brought out their new "MCV"--Maneuver Combat Vehicle (機動戦闘車 kidou-senntou-sha) at Sagamihara today as shown in the photo above.
The MCV, 8.45 m in length and weighs 26 tons (which is half the size and weight of opposition). It can cruise at over 100kph while firing its autoloading 105mm cannon and it also has a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun. Plans are to deploy the MCV in 2016. ---JIJIPRESSAFP2013
wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_Combat_Vehicle

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[matsuki]

Deploy...where? Tokyo Olympics?

Where is Coligny??

[Coligny]

I was sleeping...

And not that big on land warfare...

I'm really surprised that it don't have an Mrap V shape lower hull.

Because... These days... Scouting is for drones and anti tank is for Apache and A10's...

These vehicles meanwhile are much more suited against civilian unrest, or domestic counter terrorism (with loads of IEDs) Asymmetric combat where you are against enemy with high mobility/low firepower.

See this froggy VBC90... It's written gendarmerie on the side... And previous reglementations had it mandatorily painted deep blue (or Tardis blue if you prefer). The gendarmerie is the regular police force working outside of Paris/big cities. As of today not even remotely linked to the ministry of defense anymore. So it's basically more or less a crowd control vehicle...

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Edit, the bootom graph in Taro's post show it well: urban warfare.