aurens Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 The 2018 annual Strong Europe Tank Challenge began on June 3rd, and will last until the 8th. This year is the most diverse SETC competition so far: Team Britain - Queens Royal Hussars Challenger 2 Team Germany - Panzerbataillon 393 Leopard 2A6M Team France - 1er Régiment de Chasseurs Leclerc Team Sweden - Wartofta Tank Company, Skaraborg Regiment Stridsvagn 122 Team Poland - 34th Armoured Cavalry Brigade Leopard 2A5 Team Ukraine - 1st Tank Company, 14th Mechanized Brigade T-84 Team Austria - Panzerbataillon 14 Leopard 2A4 Team USA - 2-70th Armor, 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division M1A2 SEP v2 I'll get some more posts in here with info and photos of each days events when I have time. If anyone could provide details on the platoons and their units, that would be appreciated. Please, feel free to post info, photos and videos. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kingtiger Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 (edited) Sweden participates for the first time this year and has had a good start. They are leading 3 out of 4 sub-tasks performed and so far has the highest score on the offensive course, there are still more countries to do their turn but it does look good for Sweden. We might not win, but i doubt we will be last ones... Edited June 6, 2018 by Kingtiger 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marko Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 (edited) Not a very impressive score from the Queens Royal Hussars team I am hoping its the tank limitations and not the training. Edited June 7, 2018 by Marko 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingtiger Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Still better then the Ukraine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 6 minutes ago, Kingtiger said: Still better then the Ukraine. I have no doubts, to the professionalism and commitment of UK team. But i am wondering is it the fire control drills Used. Or is it the tanks fire control system and the two piece ammo thats slowing engagement times. The CR-2 does not score well in competitions although it has proven its self in combat conditions. From what i have read NATO trained forces place a very high emphasis acquiring targets quickly engagement times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingtiger Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Updated score, only UK defensive missing: Some nice pics of the strv122 during defensive OPS: https://twitter.com/ukrmilitary/status/1004819000122134528 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Apocalypse 31 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 That Abrams paint scheme is awesome! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin 7 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Good job Sweden so far 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisenschwein Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 And the Winner is: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 20 hours ago, Apocalypse 31 said: That Abrams paint scheme is awesome! Very 1960's 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grenny Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 5 hours ago, Eisenschwein said: And the Winner is: Sehr schön!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 (edited) 49 minutes ago, Gibsonm said: Very 1960's It actually reminded me of our WWII ETO theme, oddly enough, we are reverting back to our WWII-era dress uniforms now. Edited June 8, 2018 by Apocalypse 31 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusty Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Final scores: 1st place - Germany 1450 points 2nd place - Sweden 1411 points 3rd place - Austria 1321 points 4th place - France 1186 points 5th place - Poland 1151 points 6th place - United Kingdom, Queen’s Royal Hussars, 1140 points 7th place - USA 1100 points 8th place - Ukraine 950 points 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin 7 Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 What was the shootout about? On FB they said something about a shootout winner 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR2_Commander Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Did they sort out a score for the QRH in the defence or is that their final score less the defence shoot? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin 7 Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Disregard my question, it’s been answered. Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusty Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 On 11/06/2018 at 8:38 PM, CR2_Commander said: Did they sort out a score for the QRH in the defence or is that their final score less the defence shoot? To be honest I'm not sure, I haven't be enable to find a breakdown of the scoring for each team. And here's a list of tasks that were included, gleaned from the ARRSE forums, https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/cgs-upgrading-challenger-and-warrior.252210/page-161 3 shoot outs, platoon size 1 hand gun firing 1 tank recovery with NBC threat 1 IED attack, tank repair and wounded soldier 1 driving only by following the orders of the commander 1 find 40 targets and report them 1 manual firing using emergency mode There were apparently a further four tasks not listed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian90 Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 It seems that at SETC, Ukrainian T-84 tanks had some peculiar problems, like malfunctioning autoloader or strange vibrations of the main gun, wow never seen something like that! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted June 16, 2018 Members Share Posted June 16, 2018 "Broken" is the default state of a tank. A good crew will see to it that it is "less broken" on average, but it's a constant struggle. Think of the worst car that you ever had, then multiply. Keep that in mind next time that a used car dealer tells you that "it's sturdy like a tank!" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian90 Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 It seems from Ukrainian sources, that the fault was at the factory level. But perhaps indeed we see here a difference in maintnance training, while NATO crews are trained to deal with most problems their tanks have, Soviet and former Soviet countries tank crews need help from factory personel, I heard Ukrainian took such personel with them, and this personel not crew, tried to fix the problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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