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Last year the Swiss Festungsmuseum received two Panzer 87 prototoypes: RUAG's Leopard 2 MLU with full add-on armor kit and a variant with partial add-on armor kit.
 

More on Samyang's website
http://samyangct.com/lab/
 
Seems that the side armor of the K2 is designed to stop 30 mm APDS (or "00 mm" APDS) along the crew compartment and 20 or 30 mm AP ("00 mm" AP) at the rest of the hull/turret.

Last year the Swiss Festungsmuseum received two Panzer 87 prototoypes: RUAG's Leopard 2 MLU with full add-on armor kit and a variant with partial add-on armor kit.
 

Last year the Swiss Festungsmuseum received two Panzer 87 prototoypes: RUAG's Leopard 2 MLU with full add-on armor kit and a variant with partial add-on armor kit.
 

https://www.defense-korea.com/web/prdct/view?CMPNY_SEQ=&PRDCT_SEQ=817&pageIndex=1&pageUn
 

On SHARD:
https://www.edrmagazine.eu/nexter-120-mm-shard-towards-tailored-apfsds-solutions
 
Key points:
there will be two SHARD rounds (SHARD Mk. 1 and SHARD Mk 2) SHARD Mk. 1 uses old double-base propellant, SHARD Mk 2 will utilize much higher pressure one SHARD has a longer penetrator than OFL F1 and F1B+ and is made of a new D10 tungsten carbide (this seems like a mistake from the author?) alloy from Plansee the sabot design and the fact that it is seated further down the barrel allows the SHARD catridge to contain more propellant (US did that already earlier...) accuracy is close to 0.2 mil at 1,500 m - much better than OFL F1 overall performance increase (for SHARD Mark 2 over OFL F1B+?) will be 20% SHARD Mk. 1 is to be fully qualified by 2022

The chamber volume of a 120 x 570 mm smoothbore gun is 10.2 litres. So ASCALON's would be ~20 litre-ish (while basically the whole sabot of APFSDS rounds would be included in that).

The chamber volume of a 120 x 570 mm smoothbore gun is 10.2 litres. So ASCALON's would be ~20 litre-ish (while basically the whole sabot of APFSDS rounds would be included in that).

The chamber volume of a 120 x 570 mm smoothbore gun is 10.2 litres. So ASCALON's would be ~20 litre-ish (while basically the whole sabot of APFSDS rounds would be included in that).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DNrjyzgh40GOQvp-1ZiT2tFqhz-4wLpa/view?usp=sharing
 
Leopard 3SL report if someone interested

It is a screenshot from Nexter's ASCALON testing video (available on YouTube and the earlier posted tweet).

No, the size of both guns is pretty much comparable. Also both of them have the same quoted weight (3,000 kilograms). The breech block of the current ASCALON prototype is bigger than Rheinmetall's, but it is supposedly to be changed in the future.
 

 
I guess the polygonal shape of the thermal sleeve make the barrel appear thicker, so the gun might seem shorter/smaller in relation to that. However the overall length of the ASCALON gun (including muzzle brake) is greater.
 
 
Not entirely for scale, just estimated based on the rough figures given for barrel lenght.

No, the size of both guns is pretty much comparable. Also both of them have the same quoted weight (3,000 kilograms). The breech block of the current ASCALON prototype is bigger than Rheinmetall's, but it is supposedly to be changed in the future.
 

 
I guess the polygonal shape of the thermal sleeve make the barrel appear thicker, so the gun might seem shorter/smaller in relation to that. However the overall length of the ASCALON gun (including muzzle brake) is greater.
 
 
Not entirely for scale, just estimated based on the rough figures given for barrel lenght.

Supposedly the first buyer is Indonesia for the Leopard 2RI.

Not sure if it was stated here already, but C. G. Haenel's lawsuit was dismissed, thus the planned purchase of the HK416A8 as part of German Army's G36 replacement program can move forward.

Not sure if it was stated here already, but C. G. Haenel's lawsuit was dismissed, thus the planned purchase of the HK416A8 as part of German Army's G36 replacement program can move forward.

15.2.1978, bergepanzer concpet studie, requriment was to have same as  Leo2 engine compartment and hull bottom level of protection 

Hot3 precursor
 

https://gdls-nextgen.com/abrams-next-gen-2/

The bar code is different (used in the autoloader to determine which round is loaded), the brochure shows the OFL F1B (same bar code).

The bar code is different (used in the autoloader to determine which round is loaded), the brochure shows the OFL F1B (same bar code).

Other photos of the ASPIS-NG armor mock-up: