This is BMPT-K-64
It is exactly what I said it is. You have cotton in your ears or pillowcase over your monitor?
You said BMPT-64. It is not BMPT-64 but BMPT-K-64, a huge difference. Someone who pretend to be proffesional defence analist should know the correct designation code of each vehicle.
Maybe you should pay attention to what is said before you make a fool of yourself. Methos mentioned BMPT-64 as being heavier than Anders. I pointed out that it isn't even close to its weight.
You was talking about BMPT-K-64 not BMPT-64. Not to mention that weight is not protection level indicator.
BMPT-64 is better protected than currently existing WPB Anders technology demonstrator.
And what combat experience does Poland have compared to France? You were in Iraq slugging it out with Iraqi divisions? You are running around Africa fighting Al Queda and overthrowing dictators? You are in Afghanistan fighting Taliban? You are in Lebanon taking IEDs? My friend was in the VAB hit by Syrian mine... he survived thanks to wheeled IFV.
Our troops suffer more losses, and the very serious ones against big IED's thant French troops. SUrviving an ordinary mine is nothing, try to survive 100+ kg IED. We lost troops to such IED's even in designated mine protected vehicles. But what You can know about this with Your arogant France only focus.
Not to mention that VAB is outdated vehicle.
VAB MkII can carry 12 and swim through water. Cost 1/10th what WPB Anders does going millions of km instead of 30k and twice the range. Air transportable by tactical lift and logistics tail a fraction of this light tank. It also sports STANAG 4569 Level IV protection.
Swimming is seen as useless these days, instead if You wish to have a swimming coffin like BMP-1 or BMP-2. Besides what is this? In Your mind we should abandon our own ideas and purchase this outdated French made junk? No thank You, let the others do what they think is better, and most AFV's developing countries see French approach as inadequate to the threats in current and future battlefield.
Besides this to Your information, besides WPB Anders, our designers work on second future Universal Combat Platform, amphibious and with hybrid engine. So we really not need any "briliant" French ideas.
I am not saying the light tank is not a good idea, but basing all chassis on light tank is a mistake for poor military like Poland.
Maybe start to use brain? How well educated You are? You ended school at age of 5? WPB Anders is not a light tank genius, it is UCP - Universal Combat Platform. On one single platform there can be build multiple vehicles, from LT/FSV, through IFV, APC, C2, MEDEVAC, SPH, SPAAG, MLRS, ARV etc. etc. etc.
Are You even capable to comprehend idea of UCP?
Every major power at least has wheeled IFV component if not switching entirely like France.
We also have such component, KTO Rosomak (Wolverine), Polish version of Patria AMV. Tell me, what actually You know about Polish Armed Forces? Nothing?
Even Russia has approved the concept and building its future IFV on French wheeled chassis.
So in Your silly view on the world, everyone else also should?
I have served with Slovaks/Czechs in KFOR and they tell me how little their armour goes on exercise out of fear of wearing it out.
Hey, maybe look what budget they have, and what vehicles they use... BMP-1 and BMP-2 is hardly modern vehicle... and even more hardly new.
Our Army want to replace all currently used light and medium tracked vehicles with WPB Anders, this means also BMP-1's, MT-LB's etc. This is why WPB Anders is UCP, for production, training, components commonality between all variants and to reduce all possible costs.
They wished they had wheeled vehicles that run close to infinity. Cash strapped militaries would exercise far more as it cost less and no fear of breakage.
We are not they, we have KTO Rosomak, but KTO Rosomak allmost 1,000 of them, still we need tracked vehicle that can replace all other tracked vehicles besides MBT's.
IIRC Poland is a poor military that needs cheap and reliable units that can be kept running on shoe string budgets. 1000 Anders will bankrupt this military.
Our military is not poor compared to our neighbours besides Russia and Germany. And 1,000 WPB Anders is a great deal to support our own industry, we are investing in ourselfs.
What do You think? That we buy French crap when we have much better and modern KTO Rosomak, with multiple variant manufactured and even more during R&D phase?
So maybe a bit simpler.
1) We will have ~1,000 KTO Rosomak as our wheeled universal combat platform, multiple variants,
2) We want to have ~1,000 WPB Anders universal combat platform with multiple variants, majority will be IFV variant (appox 400 is needed to replace BMP-1) and specialized variants, LT/FSV variant might be minority or not even ordered by our military,
3) We will upgrade 128 Leopard 2A4 tanks to Leopard 2PL variant as a stop gap before new design will be avaiable,
4) We will purchase ~400 new Main Battle Tanks, preferebly our own design, not a foreing one manufactured on licence.
Is this is even understandable for You?
Nothing strange that nobody like French people... with their arrogance and ignorance.