Several Capellan regiments in 3025 are also known for heavy use of the Commando. I would assume defectors and mercenaries play a large role in that as well.
The Deployment section says the Lyrans "recently" sold the license, and the Upgrades section says the Jihad-era Taurian variant is based on the -W7. The "recent" license can't be 3049 (because 3049 wouldn't count as "recent"), and the entry doesn't mention Taurian use of the -W8.
I do not want to sound condescendant, and if my answer makes me appear that, i apologize.
Now, we go part by part, as Jack said:
TRO:3039 is an in-universe document created as a companion to the War of 3039 book, made by Caradoc Trevena. In page 4, Fotch attach it as a letter to Victor Steiner Davion set in3073.
Several years ago I passed to you an historical treatise covering the War of 3039 compiled by General Caradoc Trevena. At that time, General Trevena also sent me a rough draft of a manuscript to act as a companion volume to that work.
The letter in the War of 3039 book again from Fotch to VSD, tell Victor to take it to the SL conference in Tharkad, so i assume its set in 3061, the second Whitting Conference ( i can be mistaken here). He refers to Trevena as General, and i assume Trevena got that rank after the 2nd Star League Army reformed, by the time of Operation Bulldog if i am not mistaken, 3059.
So, we can assume that the "
rough draft of a manuscript to act as a companion volume to that work" was made around 3059 or little earlier.
With that settled, now we advanced to the Chippewa question.
We know the introtech version is the -W5, and that the Star League had an advanced version with pulse lasers and DHS, the -7W. We also know, from the Chippewa entry in page 216, that the Dell factory was destroyed in 2805, and that "
Before the Third Succession War, Bowie rebuilt the Chippewa line on Alarion.". By the tech level of the time, the -W7 is impossible, so we can assume that they are talking about the -W5.
Now, in Upgrades, we have this quote: "
Prior to the Clan invasion, Bowie had changed to the version that the Star League had upgraded to, the W7."
Then, i think i found the center point of our discrepancy. In Deployment, it keeps the 3SW mention with this line: "
Recently, the Taurian Concordat has been licensed to manufacture the Chippewa. Bowie officials figured that they were going to make the fighter anyway and they could use the money to start redesigning the Chippewa."
Because of this is that i assume that the Taurians buy the licence "
Prior to the Clan invasion" and Bowie "
use the money to start redesigning the Chippewa" to upgrade their -W5 line to the -W7 Star League standard.
A little later in the Upgrades paragraph it said this: "Prior to the Blakist assault of Alarion, Bowie had upgraded the W7 to a W8." I think its here were you assume that the taurian money was spended to redesign the model. I interpret that the money was used to improve the line from -W5 to -W7.
Now, after getting the licence, the Taurians began to produce their own production, the -W7T.
I think there are leads to support BOTH positions, as if you check the MUL, the -W8 have a intro date of 3068 (The Wob assault Alarion in the 3069), and the -W7T have an intro date of 3069. As a final note, the taurians build both he -W5 and -W7T.
This is a similar case with what happened during the taurian Royal Thunderbolt and Marauder, and i would love to see a writer to clarify this. Again, i am sorry if my writting is difficult to understand, English is not my native language, but i am trying to improve.
