'04 Armada hits the scene with medium flexing 90 waste ARV. It was aight, but the fact that the 5 were behind it made it cool.
'05 Armada starts building in a real factory (Elan), quality goes way up, materials change and the ARV still medium flex sells out in October.
'06 Armada moves production of wide skis to Atomic factory in Austria, makes all new ARV that is much lighter than AR5 and is softer than Invaders, it looks cool but sits on shelves because the soft flex is feared by wide ski enthusiests.
'07 EXACT SAME SKI AS '06, new graphic, still softest 90ish waist ski ever, especially now that the Anthem has officially been killed. Seriously folks this ski is Fun but makes the PR feel like an Explosive.
The best ARV was the '05, by far.