Well it's posted above a couple of numbers up, but, this video has been always been helpful when
STRIX seems to come up every couple of years or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhd1d2sW_3I
I see an
M-60A2/or A3 and what looks like a very late model CENTURION MBT a couple of times in the video though the M-60 appears to be the same from a different angle. Also remember they blew up many of there own
T-72 tanks both in stationary and remote operated modes in various terrain environments. The Swedes where also looking to the development and possible fielding of the Russian
T-95 BLACK EAGLE in the further development of the
STRIX 120mm mortar round.
Again as a further reminder, this weapon drove the need of the Swedes to have the Germans heavily modify their LEOPARD/
STRV tanks as they did. The STRV is still one of the best, if not still the best, top armored tanks in the world. Simply put if they can develop a weapon system like
STRIX, then in time why couldn't someone else do it and possibly use it on them?
STRIX and the
STRV tanks just about "go hand in hand" to each other.
Every experiment needs a "
control point/or data point" maybe this will be that, and again maybe not.
There are about five videos out there that I'm aware of/or was. One of them I'm did show the T-72 testing I'm pretty sure which was about 5 minutes long.
And I'm sorry I can't remember which T-72 variant/or upgraded variant the Swedes operated with though this would have some bearing on the test results, as I believe theirs had ERA added before the end of their operational career as I remember.
Regards,
Pat
