Boxer MGS First Impressions - Mobile Sniper Event - War Thunder - video Dailymotion

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Today we take a look at the Boxer MGS, which is the main prize of the Mobile Sniper event.  So join me as we take a look at its stats, give it a quick test drive and give my overall thoughts on how good of a prize it is in War Thunder.  Social Media ⬇️ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Toreno17 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/toreno5/videos   Game: War Thunder  ⬅️  #warthunder #boxer #mgs #firstimpressions #mobilesniper

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00:00Hello everybody, Trano here, and today we're going to be taking our first look at the Boxer MGS,

00:05which is the main prize of the Mobile Sniper event.

00:08So this is coming to the German Tech Tree at rank 7, battle rating 10.3,

00:13so the same battle rating as the Leopard 2A4.

00:16And as you can see, you've got your standard MG3 coaxial machine gun,

00:20and for your main armament you've got this 105mm Cockerill HP cannon.

00:25So it's got a 2-plane gun stabiliser, pretty good targeting speed,

00:29so 27 degrees in the horizontal to 26 degrees in the vertical,

00:33a reload rate of 5 seconds, and it fires 4 different ammunition types.

00:37So you've got your DM-12 HEATFS shell, the DM-512 HESH shell,

00:42and then your DM-33 and 63 APFSDS rounds.

00:46So you've got a good spread of ammunition types that you can use.

00:49The DM-33 is probably the odd man out because it just seems an inferior variant of the DM-63,

00:55but with the DM-63 in the HESH and HEATFS shell, you should be able to take down

00:59pretty much any enemy.

01:01And then looking at your modifications, it's got a laser warning system laser rangefinder,

01:06you've got thermal vision devices for the gunner and commander, and night vision for the driver.

01:11It can carry a scout UAV, and it carries smoke grenades to conceal the vehicle.

01:16Now moving on to the armour, it's not the most heavily armoured vehicle in the world.

01:20It's 15mm all round for the hull, but it does have some external armour.

01:25So at the front, you've got this high hardness rolled armour,

01:27but it's only 6mm thick, maybe 8mm in some areas.

01:32And for the sides, it seems to be fitted with quite thick composite screens,

01:37but they're only really effective against HEAT shells, against kinetic shells.

01:41It has a really bad multiplier, so this actually provides less than 38mm protection.

01:47The turret is a little bit better protected, about 25mm all round,

01:51but this is aluminium alloy.

01:53And although it does have some external armour, again composite screens,

01:57but it's not really going to protect you much, except against maybe IFV weapons,

02:01and even then it's going to be a bit of a stretch for it to provide that much protection.

02:06Looking inside the tank, there is a little bit more internal armour,

02:10about 5-15mm of RHA.

02:13You've got spool liners at the top here.

02:15You've got a front mounted 637hp engine.

02:19You've got 7 gears going forward, giving a top speed of 64mph.

02:232 gears going backwards to give a top speed of 11.7mph.

02:27And then you've got your standard crew of 3.

02:30So you've got your 2 guys in the turret,

02:32and then you've got your driver down here at the front.

02:35And then as for the optics, you've got your gunner with 3x to 10x zoom,

02:40and your commander with the same time zoom.

02:42And this does also come with a whole bunch of camouflages.

02:46So we're going to take this out for a quick test drive, just to see how it performs.

02:50So as you can see, it's got a very quick turning speed in the horizontal and the vertical.

02:55And we're going to just quickly test out the rangefinder.

02:57As you can see there, it does automatically adjust for the range.

03:01So that's always helpful.

03:02I'm going to take a shot at that tank over there.

03:06Quite good for long range shooting.

03:08Got our commander view as well.

03:11I've got that scout UAV which I mentioned earlier,

03:14so we're just going to set that to orbit.

03:16Put your coaxial machine gun.

03:18Carries quite a few smoke grenades, and they reload...

03:20Well, they don't even reload.

03:21You can just use them all very quickly.

03:24I've restarted just so we can show how the smoke grenades work when on the move,

03:28because we're going to take this up to a decent speed hopefully.

03:31We'll see how it performs on cross-country terrain.

03:33And it seems to be performing pretty well so far.

03:35So we're already up to 35 miles an hour,

03:39even though it's going over muddy terrain.

03:41Lose a bit of speed, but don't lose that much speed

03:44and quickly regains most of it.

03:46We can test out smoke grenades while moving at speed.

03:50Yeah.

03:50Unfortunately, if you're firing them at speed,

03:52you're just going to quickly outrun them.

03:54So they're only really going to be useful if you're standing still.

03:58And it does seem to be a very stable gun platform on the move.

04:02Not much movement, a tiny minuscule amount of movement

04:06while we're going at full speed, but it's barely noticeable.

04:12We can hit up there quickly.

04:14We can, doesn't do much damage.

04:16And yeah, you can see even though we're on muddy terrain,

04:18we're already up to 45 miles an hour.

04:20So this is a very quick vehicle.

04:23Very quick to turn the turret to engage enemies.

04:27Turning's a bit wonky at times,

04:29but it is a wheeled vehicle going at high speed.

04:31That is to be expected.

04:35Here is the driver's view.

04:37Yeah, so that is the Boxer MGS.

04:40And we take this back to the hangar.

04:42And so that is the Boxer MGS.

04:44And yeah, honestly, this seems like a pretty good prize.

04:47It's got a very good gun, very stable gun,

04:50very good firing platform, very fast.

04:53It's not got the best armour in the world,

04:54but it is an IFV type vehicle, so that is to be expected.

04:58And yeah, I think this will be a pretty decent prize for the Mobile Sniper event.

05:02Anyway, that's just a quick video looking at the Boxer MGS.

05:06I've been Tereno, and I'll see you next time.

Boxer MGS First Impressions - Mobile Sniper Event - War Thunder

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