FV510 Warrior

Warrior without its skirts

Customization for your mission parameters!

While the rest of the world was working on their own equivalent to the BMP, the Brits were busy with The Troubles. Funding was focused on the development of small arms, infantry and special operation forces doctrine, leaving projects like the challenger and FV510 in the dust.

Eventually, the Brits would release the FV510 Warrior to the world in 1988. Like other British vehicles, this was a heavy vehicle with the mobility of a crumpet, the armour of an egg carton, and enough firepower to level a small village before morning tea.

In Team Yankee

The FV510 Warrior is an infantry fighting vehicle designed to engage and destroy enemy IFVs with its 30mm autocannon while having enough armour to survive a peppering of autocannon fire.

British players may note the similarities to the Scimitar: this is a small-ish vehicle that can threaten almost anything on the field besides tanks. Essentially, you're trading the ability to spearhead and scout for some armour, transport capacity and filling out troop slots. Spearhead is key to the threat range of the Scimitar; allowing a platoon of Scimitars to immediately threaten your enemy's artillery and command units. This means your Warriors would usually be used on the defensive, given that most players would use spearheads to entrench infantry on the flanks.

As with other IFVs, the Warrior can take a Milan mount if you wish to turn a stationary, nigh-indestructible missile team into a fragile moving metal box of tank explodey goodness.

The uparmored warrior is a knife fighter, and boasting an assault value of 3+ it will quickly rack up kills in assault with applique armor covering it against most light anti-tank weapons. Get in there and get grinding!

IRL

IRL the warrior was created as an armoured transport to keep speed with British Tank units and provide armour and fire support. Armed with the 30mm RADEN autocannon and L7 general purpose machineguns, warriors have become the standard IFV of heavy infantry and mechanised regiments such as elements of the Rifles, Mercians and Foot Guards. Warriors would see service in West Germany, Desert Storm (where famously one was hit by a US airstrike killing its whole crew it happened to have driven off course slightly into an active killzone), Afghanistan and Iraq, still remaining as the main UK IFV.

As of 2020 the Warrior is undergoing upgrades. The 30mm RADEN will be replaced with a caseless 40mm cannon made by CTA International. A joint program between Nexter and BAE Systems. The same weapon mounted on the new General Dynamics Ajax. A recon vehicle based on the ASCOD APC. The Ajax itself will replace the CVRT. If this sounds like a roundabout way to grandfather in the ASCOD with commonality as an excuse. It probably is. Which is better than what the American military industrial complex is doing. As their developing a 30mm caseless automatic cannon instead of joining a program that is already years ahead. So their future combat vehicle won't be adopted until the mid 2030's. About five years or more after the Brits will deploy their own into combat.

It's like an FV432 with confidence issues.