CrashbotUS Posted June 9, 2016 Report Share Posted June 9, 2016 US, UK, Latvian, and Romanian units training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZloyKrolik Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 Does anyone have a link to an article about the American Military Liaison Mission that first took pictures of the T-72. Wasn't the officer later wounded or killed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 US has selected IMIs Iron Fist APS to protect light and medium AFVs. http://worlddefencenews.blogspot.com/2016/06/us-has-chosen-israeli-iron-fist-active.html Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 What happens when The Best Light Tank In The World gets hit with .50 AP? It gets improved ventilation. More hard target porn here, including what happens when an M60 gets hit with artillery fire. Meplat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashbotUS Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 Ah, the M577. Like to see what it looked like on the inside. Collimatrix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 1st M1A1SA Abrams tanks delivered to Morocco (222 planned overal number of tanks to deliver from US army stocks). Transportation of the first set of M1A1SA Abrams tanks to Morocco from US. Casablanca, 10/07/2016 © far-maroc.forumpro.fr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Meplat Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 What happens when The Best Light Tank In The World gets hit with .50 AP? It gets improved ventilation. More hard target porn here, including what happens when an M60 gets hit with artillery fire. That's a 577, but yeah.. Somewhere I have pics from the inside of a range target 113 that got tore up by a .50 cal. It was a fucking mess. A lot of the AP stuff went through both sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoooSeR Posted July 22, 2016 Report Share Posted July 22, 2016 M41 Walker Bulldogs in Bundeswehr Bronezhilet and Collimatrix 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 #Morocco confirms initial delivery of M1A1 SA Abrams tanks from #US (at least 150 ordered) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 USMC 4th tank battalion recent training with their Abrams tanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Collimatrix Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 M41 Walker Bulldogs in Bundeswehr Where are that Leo 1's rangefinders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SH_MM Posted July 30, 2016 Report Share Posted July 30, 2016 Where are that Leo 1's rangefinders? This is one of the 26 Leopard 1 prototypes of the second generation (build 1962), which originally was fitted with a ranging machine gun (12.7 mm; above the gun barrel) instead of a rangefinder. This was a dumbt idea and subsequently the prototypes were fitted with optical rangefinders just like the previous M48 and M47 tanks used by the German Army. T___A, Collimatrix and Sturgeon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 This is one of the 26 Leopard 1 prototypes of the second generation (build 1962), which originally was fitted with a ranging machine gun (12.7 mm; above the gun barrel) instead of a rangefinder. This was a dumbt idea and subsequently the prototypes were fitted with optical rangefinders just like the previous M48 and M47 tanks used by the German Army. Welcome, SH_MM! Interesting that early production Leo 1s would lack rangefinders, when the earliest prototype had sockets for them: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SH_MM Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 No, all actual production models had optical rangefinders. The tank from your photograph belongs to the pre-series production batch and was produced after the second generation of prototypes. However all first generation prototypes (build from 1959 on) had optical rangefinders, but can be identified by a number of other factors: much lower weight (designed to meet the 30 ton "Europe tank" limit, but actual prototypes were five to six tons heavier), lower armor protection (for example the glacis armor was only 50 mm at 45° instead of 70 mm at 60°) and 90 mm guns manufactured by Rheinmetall with muzzle brakes. The first generation of prototypes was never used in troop trials. On the second generation of prototypes the weight and armor protection was increased and the British L7A3 tank gun was fitted. Originally these prototypes had a ranging machine gun like the British Centurion tank, the only tank that used the L7 gun at the time the Leopard 1 prototypes were designed. As the performance of the ranging machine gun was bad, the prototypes were later fitted with new optical rangefinders. Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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