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    The new British Streetfighter II tank optimized for urban warfare

    The new British Streetfighter II tank optimized for urban warfare

    Smart move as humans are increasingly in urban areas and that is where battles are going to occur. The "X-ray vision" is a game changer for the tanker. Until now when the tank was buttoned up the driver and the tank commander had an extremely limited view of what was outside of the tank.

    In 1989 or 90 when I was in Korea as an infantry guy during one of our joint exercises with an armored unit, the tanks were doing a tactical road march buttoned up. Two Korean girls were crossing a bridge as the tanks rolled up. The driver and tank commander of the lead tank didn't, couldn't, see them. The girls got turned into hamburger under the treads of an M1A1. Horrible.

    And I have heard of tanks running sleeping infantry soldiers in field exercises. Especially in the winter when some dumb infantry guy thought it was smart to get warm near the engines.

    he British Army recently showed off a new concept for a Challenger 2 main battle tank optimized for urban operations, dubbed Streetfighter II. The vehicle has an Israeli-made IronVision distributed vision system, which allows the crew to see in all directions even while riding inside with all the hatches closed and a mock-up of a launcher for the increasingly popular Brimstone anti-tank missile on top of the turret.
    Elements of the Royal Tank Regiment evaluated the Streetfighter II tank during exercises at Copehill Down earlier in January 2020. Copehill Down is one of the facilities within the U.K. Ministry of Defense's expansive training area on Salisbury Plain and is set up to simulate what British forces refer to as Fighting In Built Up Areas, or FIBUA. In the United States, this is more commonly known as Military Operations in Urban Terrain, or MOUT. The British Army first began the Streetfighter project in December 2018

    "One of the primary goals of Streetfighter is to identify capability gaps between ourselves and potential enemies and then to recommend technical solutions for those areas of possible tactic overmatch," a member of the Royal Tank Regiment, identified only as Captain Quant, said in an official video presentation regarding the trials, seen below. "These are in areas like lethality, survivability, [and] situational awareness."






    The Streetfighter II tank, which carries a blocky brown-white-bluish gray camouflage scheme reminiscent of the ones that British Army armored vehicles stationed in Berlin wore toward the end of the Cold War, builds on the original prototype that the British Army created for the program when it began just over a year ago. The most significant addition is the inclusion of the IronVision system, which Israeli defense contractor Elbit first unveiled in 2018. The company says that it has been working with the British Army to integrate IronVision on the Streetfighter II vehicle since January 2019, according to Jane's 360.

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