Shooting at a vehicle turning in bypass

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A BU OT tracked vehicle is already in non-stopped bypass. There is an enemy squad in the hex with it. The vehicle expends one MP to turn and two MP to continue in bypass. For the second two MP it can be attacked at the new vertex where its CAFP will be placed. As the vehicle is BU, it could not be attacked by inherent FP. It can also be attacked at the previous vertex on the one MP spent changing CA. When it is attacked at the previous vertex while changing CA, is it considered in the previous hex or in the new hex? This makes a difference for range as well as eligibility for CC-RF and TPBF vs BU OT vehicle. This Q&A makes it sound like the attack is based on it being in the previous hex.

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D2.33 If a vehicle using VBM expends one MP to change its VCA in order to Bypass along a connecting hexside of its CAFP, would a Defensive First Fire attack initiated by that MP expenditure be resolved at that CAFP, and versus the same Target Facing that the AFV presented before the VCA change was made?
A. Yes. Add "A VBM vehicle making a VCA change cannot voluntarily end its MPh in that position: it must move to the next CAFP or
reverse into the new hex to its rear. If Defensive First Fired upon or Immobilized before it can complete its move, it is considered to be at the same CAFP and Target Facing last occupied before the VCA change." [Gen24.1; An95w; Mw]
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Agree, that one MP spent in "turning while in Bypass" is spent in the current hex.
 
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