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Today we’ll be taking a look at the Stingray, an American-designed light tank that was exported to Thailand.
Stingray: A Light Tank for the USA & Japan (Thai variant) at Rank VI
At a glance:
- 105 mm gun with HEATFS, HESH and APFSDS shells
- Stabilized gun with a laser rangefinder
- Light armor, but with a good top speed
The Stingray light tank was designed by U.S. company Textron Marine & Land Systems (previously Cadillac Gage) as a private venture in 1983, with the goal to export it to other countries. The tank was revealed in 1984 with Thailand showing interest at the time. 106 Stingray tanks were purchased by the Royal Thai Army in 1987 and have been in service since 1990. Thailand utilized the Stingray in 2011 during conflicts with Cambodia, however it did not see any actual active combat.
Despite other countries showing interest and even testing the Stingray on home soil to see how it performed, no further exports for the Stingray occurred. This leaves Thailand as the only operator, where it is still in service with them today.
Introducing the Stingray!
In the next major update, the Stingray light tank is joining Japan’s rank VI, helping to add in some capability that was previously lacking. The Stingray is also joining the US ground forces tree, since the designer and manufacturer is American company Textron Marine & Land Systems. Let’s dive into the details of this interesting light tank!
The Stingray may look oddly familiar, and that’s because it is similar in nature to the British VFM5 light tank, already in the game. It features a similar turret with a fully-stabilized LRF 105 gun that can fire HEATFS, HESH and two APFSDS rounds, all backed up by a laser rangefinder. Supplemented is a 7.62 coaxial machine gun and a .50 cal on the turret roof, allowing you to shoot down trees that get in the way, bushes and low-flying helicopters!
Interesting: The Stingray was tested by a few countries, mainly Malaysia, Ecuador and Chile. However, these countries did not opt to purchase the vehicle, leaving Thailand as the only operator.
Classed as a light tank, the Stingray can zoom around the map at a max speed of 67 km/h. This allows you to position the Stingray in advantageous positions before the enemy get there, flank and hunker down thanks to the -10 degrees of gun depression.
There’s four crew members in the Stingray, however they’re not protected by very thick armor. Since the Stingray is a light tank, you shouldn’t be expecting to survive many shots once you’re hit. The armor is at best able to protect against machine gun fire and that’s about it. Bare this in mind and keep your armor hidden where possible!
As mentioned in the first paragraph, the Stingray is coming for both the Japanese ground forces tree as a Thai vehicle and also the USA tree. The Stingray will certainly help Japan, providing some tracked firepower and another vehicle for lineups at and around rank VI. Let’s welcome tanks from Thailand to the game!
That’s it for this one! The Stingray is coming soon and so are a few more Thai ground vehicles. We’ll be checking another one of them coming soon in a future dev blog, so stay tuned for that. Happy battles ahead!
Please note that this vehicle’s characteristics may be changed before it is added to the game.
You can greatly speed up the research of the Stingray with these packs:
- M1A1 HC "Click-Bait" (Rank VII, USA)
- Premium account for 20 days
- 2500 Golden Eagles
- Type 90B "Fuji" (Rank VII, Japan)
- Premium account for 20 days
- 2500 Golden Eagles
Comments (51)
Comments will be premoderatedI'll never forgive him for Steve Irwin
Steve wouldn't want that. He loved them all
So US company is enough to add to the US tree, but German company not enough to add KF-41 to the German tree? Can you at least be consistent...
not really worth begging for the kf41 till they fix its aps. at the moment the spike puma is leagues better in every way shape and form at the same br
"since the designer and manufacturer is American"... Please remind me who designed and manufactured mig-21-93, as well as KF41?
The difference being Germany already has versions of both of those vehicles. Sooooo.....
So if the US is getting a stingray because a US company manufactures the Stingray, does that mean Germany will finally get a KF-41 after, what, 1 1/2-2 years?
One can dream
The difference being Germany already has a version of the vehicle.
That's great. We need more tanks like this. Hopefully the VT-4 will make his way into the Thai sub-tree!
Its kinda funny that the US tree will finally be getting a TT Stingray but the actual LT that was selected & type-classified by the Army, as the M8 Buford, is locked behind an event wall.
Finally a cool and unique vehicle
*XM8 and CCVL watching from the corner*
Bstgunner, It's unique in the fact that it's being added to the tech tree, unlike the XM8 and CCVL.
With the Stingray being added like this, does this mean that vehicles like the Begleitpanzer 57 would also be added to the Swedish tree? It doesn't belong to a specific country and instead belongs to a German and Swedish company who co-produced it.
the US finally gets a light tank and it's not a premium or event vehicle?!!!
dont jinx it
Out of curiosity, no hate of course but when you guys wrote "were adding it to U.S as well because design and manufacturer is american" why didn't this apply to germany with the hungarian KF-41? Thank you!
The difference is that Germany already has a version of the vehicle.
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