Epic Off-Road Speed Basher Returns! New 2026 1/7-Scale Arrma Talion

It's bigger, it's faster, and I gotta imagine it's gotta be a whole lot crazier. The Arma fan favorite that vanished a few years ago is back. Check it out, guys. I've got the new Talion 6S BLX. This thing is capable of going 75 miles an hour. It's 1.7 scale now, and it comes ready to run. Coming up, I'm gonna show you what they changed on this truck. It's worth seeing. And then we're gonna take it out bashing and finish things up with a speed test. Let's get into it. There's the beast out of the box, and look at that thing. That thing looks fast just standing still. You gotta give Arma credit for creating some wild rides, and it's no wonder everybody wanted this thing back. It just looks killer. Now, you can see it's taking up a lot of real estate on the workbench. As I mentioned earlier, it is now 1.7 scale. Actually, here's the old box, 1.8 scale. There's the new box, 1.7 scale. The speed also changed, 75 miles an hour. Still a 6S-powered truck, but it's a little bit wider, a little bit longer. That body looks cool. They stretched it out. There's now some roof skids on the top, and a brace that goes down to the center section. So if you flip this thing over, it's just not gonna collapse the body. The front area is still pretty much the same. The hood has been extended, and then the rear has been extended a little bit to make up for the new chassis length. They still have the speed spoiler on the back. I like the little extra air work on that. Makes it look super cool. Like the two-tone graphics where you got the matte finish, the gloss finish, the bright signature red. I love that AXB styling. Just screams Arma when you see these things. Now, the one thing I was surprised to see is it still has body clips. So what do you guys think of that? Do you think they should've went to one of their clipless systems? Are you happy to see these clips here, which they're pretty strong, and they are still tethered, which is cool. So you're not gonna lose those clips, but I don't know. I'm on the fence about that one. There's a look under the body. They have some body protectors there, so nothing gets scraped up. And there's a look at the chassis, guys. Check that out. Look at the length of this thing. Let me spin this around. So I'm actually gonna go and show you a couple of comparisons with the old Italian, which is back there. But let's dig into the chassis. Actually, we'll start right off with the front bumper, which is their bash bumper, which is cool to see. It's got a skid underneath to help protect it. And actually, let me flip it up so you can see that new chassis. So just bash blast. We've seen that before. Some cool graphics. They moved a lot of the weight forward. Before I show you that, there is the rear skid that we've seen on the Craton EXP. And now look at the top. So here, look at that longer section in the rear. And then in the front, they turned the servo. The previous generation had the servo in line with the drivetrain, and the receiver was a little bit, the receiver box was a little bit farther back. So they moved all the weight forward on this, and they have this long rear section now. If you're gonna catch some air with this truck, I'm a little worried about this section. That's a large gap there with just the upper brace and the mid brace. So I'd say make sure you're a good driver before you go and launch this truck. Make sure you have your air control down. So as I just kind of pointed out, there is a new chassis bracing set up on this. So they used to have one solid tube going all the way from front to back, and now they have it split. So you got two chassis braces. They're a little bit higher up. You got the center pivot point here, and then it's got the EXP bracing, the machine chassis braces down below. Pretty rigid. They've got the EXP top plate for the steering and front brace set up over here to the battery mount. We've seen this before. It's adjustable, and then they have the heavy-duty straps, some mudguards along the side. And let's move on to the suspension now. So you've got the EXP machine shock towers, front and rear, nice thick red anodized, like the captured hinge pins. Got the long suspension arms with plenty of webbing up top, and then they go out to the pivot ball set up. So this is the new steering knuckle out there that they have. It's got the captured plates on the end, unlike the older screw style set up, and then it's got a really large bearing in there. And again, this suspension is a little bit wider. I actually took out my mega-sized pair of calipers just to check it out, and it is wider, so you gotta get that stability out of it along with the longer chassis. Just gotta give you more control with the speeds that this thing is gonna be now hitting 75 miles an hour. But they also have a new shock set up on this. So with the older Italian suspension, they had some silver springs on there with the shock collar down really low. Now they've got a firmer spring set up, like that they got shock boots on there. Absolutely massive shock, so the protectors on the top, these are all aluminum too, so they're gonna hold up. Got some heavy oil in this one. Look at how slow the rebound is on that one. And then the rear set up, strong arms down below, sway bars front and rear, and then they've improved the outer hubs. Those have a much larger bearing in them. Dual shear, as you can see, adjustable turnbuckles in the rear. And then they've got that wide tower with the laid down shock, so this thing is just gonna handle in the corners. Speaking of corners, on all four corners, they have the D-boots guitar tires that we've seen before on the Italian. No real changes there, and actually just, I wanna throw out that they had the front tires mounted backwards on this, so I actually flipped them around midway taking pictures of this thing. Now onto the drivetrain. Check this out, guys. They have the machined aluminum bulkheads. Absolutely awesome. Really improves the durability with this. Mounted inside are gear differentials, so you got a front, center, and rear gear differential. These are their limited slip differentials, and they give you different torque plates inside the package if you wanna go and adjust those, which, to be completely honest with you, I have never done, but I'm really excited about one of the changes that they made to the differentials. They now have a more heavy-duty out-drive on this, and that was my big gripe with the previous Italian, and in fact, one of my dog bones is still sticking out of that truck. I gave up on it because I kept popping the front shaft out of it, and now with these heavy-duty out-drives, I don't think that's gonna happen. Well, knock on wood, it's not gonna happen. So all-metal gears on the inside of the driveline, of course, the diff cups are composite. You got sealed bearings throughout, CVs in the front, dog bones in the center, dog bones in the rear, and the center differential's also supported by aluminum mounts, and the motor mount is built into that. It's a sliding-style motor mount because you're probably gonna wanna swap pinions in here. They do give you a speed pinion, and then the pinion that's installed on it is just for general use. Swing back to the steering real quick. Twin belt-crank steering with the aluminum acronym bar. They have the metal arm on the steering cranks and aluminum servo horn. And we can get right into the electronics. So it now has the S665 servo, metal gear, high torque, and it's mounted to this aluminum plate. So again, sturdy. Right behind it is the 150-amp V2 Spectrum system. This is their heavy-duty A-scale setup. It's got a cat-pack on there. This one has the new aggressive firmware in it that we saw on the Notorious and the Kraton, and it is programmable too. Then right behind it, you got your motor that's encased in this heat sink. Comes with the cooling fan. It's their 2050 motor, their latest motor for A-scale. That's gonna give it plenty of torque to hit that 75 mile an hour speed. I should show you guys what else came in the box, which is back here. So they have the SLT3 radio system in this. It's got the Italian decal on top. Love it that they're doing that now. There's that speed pinion that I was telling you about, the differential plates. They give you some differential shims, some basic tools, decals, and of course, some instructions. Now it's time to talk about the Sticker Shock 829.99 for this ready-to-run, and it comes with a two-year limited warranty now. All right, guys, here we go. Time to see what the Italian can do. Let's just do some high-speed runs on the dirt first. This is stock out of the box. Got some good acceleration. This thing here is so good, guys. Just so sleek. Look at that. Full throttle rips. I love it. Good suspension. Through the bowl, yeah. That was pretty sick. I gotta do it again. It's pretty windy today, guys. Hopefully the mic isn't too bad. That is absolutely awesome. That is what this truck is about, is blasting through dirt. High speed, so sick. Up through the berm. All right, now we gotta launch this thing. There we go. Nice, smooth send. Some really soft dirt to land in. Another launch here for ya. There we go. Three, two, one. Oh, hit the dirt. Checked up. Let's fly off this way. Pretty smooth this direction. All right, here we go. Yeah, look at that thing just launch. Awesome. Back this way. Oh, super smooth that direction. This thing's a beast, guys. So happy it's back. What do you guys think? Should they have pulled it? I think they should've just tweaked the first one. Man, this thing is just a beast. Oh, power slides. Hit myself with dirt and rocks. Look at that. Just instant power out of the system. Love that. Look at that. Tell me that's not exciting. Yeah. Gotta see how well it works in the grass, guys. Oh, man. Jeez, that's just sick to see that type of flyby. One more hit here. Look, it's so light. Oh, man, it's so good. Switch up spots. Here we go. Nice and light up over that. Down to the bottom of the hill. Just gonna send it up. Whoa, yeah. Guys, that right there is what Italian is all about. Pure speed. Handles really good, too. Loving this truck. That's awesome. Army just builds a killer truck, guys. Flat out killer truck. And no problems with those front dog bones popping out of the cups. Worked good, except for that. And that's where I'm gonna end it. All right, guys, we're at Speed Run Road, and we are gonna see if this bad boy could hit 75. Let's do this. Road looks clear. Get on my driver's stand. And here we go. Already sounding mean. I think that's probably enough. Spin this around, and here we go. Roll into it. Tracking really straight. Listen to that monster go, yeah. Oh, man. Love this truck. Serious acceleration. All right, stop that. Reach 70. All right, we're gonna do a follow-up run. All right, here we go, guys. This thing screams. All right, we had to have hit it. I can barely see the thing. And we got 71. Time to wrap this one up, guys. I think Arma made the right move going seven scale with the Talion because it's an off-road speed truck. It needs stability, so that increased wheelbase and width really helped plant this truck along with the suspension tweaks that they made to it. Truck's got a lot of punch. As soon as you pull the throttle, it is roosting dirt, and it takes off hard. The only issue I had with it was going off the jumps. I need a little bit more punch for the correction. Maybe I go up a tooth on the pinion gear. Maybe I just throttle punch in the speed controller, but I was able to manage the throttling and get this thing to land perfectly. A lot, I had a few endos. The steering on this, I was pleasantly surprised with because usually when you increase the wheelbase of something, it diminishes the steering, but this thing could still carve a tight corner. Onto the speed test. I was able to get it up to 71 miles an hour in the area I was comfortable driving in. Dealing with a little bit of an eye issue right now. That's why it's kind of dark in here, but this thing definitely has the power in it. I think if you have a long straightaway, you'll be able to top it out at 75. It's gonna need a long straightaway, though. I really like the changes that they made to the truck in terms of durability, like the aluminum bulkheads, the better steering knuckles, the center bracing system, and overall, it's just a better handling truck. It is a significant improvement over the previous version, so if you love that truck, you gotta get one. You missed out on one. I think you can't go wrong with the new Talion. Just an absolute speed beast, as it was intended. If you gotta get one, I'll have links for it in the video description below, or hit up your local hobby shop.