The Swedes are moving to the 35 MM Bushmaster as their next main gun, so I guess they did indeed see that it can be made better. That said, the main actual advantage the CV90 has over the BMP2 in Finnish service is that it doesn't have the ergonomics of a sardine can.
Sweden is just dollar store Germany.
And yet Sweden has the better military kek
Doesn't count for shit when they sell their people out to niggers and ragheads.
They also have, pound for pound, a more dynamic and useful defense sector.
And the following cultural collapse and pussification.
Think of machine guns and rounds, like a fat person thinks of cake. It's not the quality, but the quantity. A fat person(The horde of charging huns you want dead) isn't going to be satisfied(dead). With just one slice of the best cake(bullet) in the whole wide world. They might be a little satisfied with a little bit of cake(bullets). But you want them to be really satisfied(all dead). So you fling as many fucking pieces of cake(bullets) in their direction, as fast, and as violently and with as little stoppage as possible.
Fine. I'll consneed the IFV. But as a naval AA gun like the Bofors MK 4?
Degrees of ineptitude are still the construction of failure.
I mean yeah. Most militaries are a joke. It's just in degrees. But you're correct in that there's only 4 real titans left that actually know what the fuck they're doing.
Conscription doesn't make good soldiers, it just makes a lot of soldiers.
The problem that vast majority of European countries that transitioned from conscription to an all-volunteer force is that these militaries are not capable of wielding a serious amount of soldiers in the first place and encourages a culture where national defense is the business of some bottom-of-the-barrel sucker, rather than a serious part of the societal fabric. It also encourages politicians to actually be sensible with their plans for war because it's now a cause for the whole people, rather than something that happens elsewhere. France and Poland that were mentioned here are exceptions to this but they are also run by governments that make a serious attempt at asserting themselves on global stage rather than just being yes-men to some boss in DC/Moscow/Brussels.
And I agree with you but the lack of any usable budget and the vehement hatred of anything perceived as being "too American" are the issues there.
I disagree, war is the continuation of politics by any other means and politicians can rarely be accused of caring about their people or nation.
I don't know enough about that to make an informed opinion but from what little I do know the Poles and Frogs seem to have a far greater sense of national identity and pride (beyond the "comparing themselves to America" that most other Euro nations tend to do) and so that probably has a lot to do with it. It also helps that France still has legitimate colonial holdings to fight over and the Poles have an absolutely vociferous hatred for both their neighbors.
With the sheer amount of 30mm cannons the US military is strapping on vehicles for drone duty, I'd say the spirit of the M3 Lee lives on. The Abrams X concept is literally this, except the 120mm is turreted and the 30mm on a RWS
Knowing military procurement, I actually doubt that the 20/30mm RWS we see on concept tanks today will make it on to production vehicles.
Smaller cannons on tanks besides the big one have always been a on and off thing tbh. For MBT's, the Centurion MK 1 had a 20mm Poleston besides the 17 pounder for a bit
