Serge

Reactive liquid armor when?

It's add-on armor.

The USMC has their first JLTV now.

An opinion piece published in the Revue de La Défense Nationale from Marc Chassillan : 130 or 140mm for the future ?
http://www.defnat.com/e-RDN/vue-tribune.php?ctribune=1161
In French. 

An opinion piece published in the Revue de La Défense Nationale from Marc Chassillan : 130 or 140mm for the future ?
http://www.defnat.com/e-RDN/vue-tribune.php?ctribune=1161
In French. 

New turret from EOS and Elbit Systems.

Brochure

Was linked on otvaga, from Military Modelcraft International. Inert block/container of BRENUS ERA.

Longer German version:
 

It will take me a while to get to the point. I still want to add the major components such as the ammunition drum, autoloader, fuel tanks, etc. to the model.
I am currently stuck on the fuel system, which is giving me problems.
 
I used Sketchup to model the tank.  I plan to create horizontal crosssectional 2D slices of the hull and turret at 10 mm intervals  that i will colorcode and then save as a image file. I will use Matlab and its  image processing abilities to process the 2D slice images, stack them and generate a 3D matrix that then can be visiualized in many different ways (e.g. heat map,etc.). The color coding is necessary to denote different zones (e.g. composite array, structural steel, ballistic steel, fuel cell, air gaps,etc.)
 
I want to to do this for 7 different frontal aspect. (+30,+20,+10,0,-10,-20,-30 degrees). Given the that the hull and turret are about 2000 mm in height and the slice spacing of 10 mm , i would have to generate 200 slices per aspect, totalling 1400 individual slices that would have to be exported, colorcoded and imported into matlab to be processed. 
 
Currently i am not sure on how to speed up the process without having to   figure out how to create many slices at once using a Ruby script in Sketchup. I do not program regularly and when i do it is usually Matlab/C++ based and  not  Ruby based.
 
So i can either go brute force on the 1400 slices or increase the slice spacing in order to decrease the number of slices to be processed.
 
Anyway this is what i have so far dealing with the fuel tanks on the Leclerc:
 

The mystery tank is supposed to be a reservoir needed for the turret traverse mechanism. Yet the book Le System Leclerc states that there is a fuel tank in the (upper hull) in the back section.
 
The mystery tank:
 

 
the book article:
 

 
Translation:
With a total capacity of 970 1, Group 1 includes a structural tank positioned in front of and above the undercarriage ammunition barrel,  one structural tank behind the driver, three plastic tanks at the rear of the frame and another plastic tank at the top of the frame rear of the chassis. Group 2, on the other hand, has 285 liters distributed between one structural tank on the Left Front and one on the front right.
 
There are a couple of issues with this translation:
1) There is no mention of a fuel tank next to the ammunition drum and it does not say that the top of the ammuntion drum is partially covered.
These images hint at a fuel tank next to the ammuntion drum and also that the ammuntion drum is only partially covered on the top:


2) The fuel tank that is supposed to be at the back can not be identified on any of the images. I thought it was the mystery tank but i was told that that was not the case. Here the two plastic fuel tanks can be seen as well as the structural fuel cell behind the driver. I am not sure what the structure behind the ammuntion drum is.

the early Leclercs had a fuel capacity of 1255 liters. This jumped to 1300 liters with the later Leclercs. Currently i am stuck around 1100-1200 liters in my model. I am looking for this other fuel tank and appreciate any constructive input criticism so I can cover the other 100 liters.
Feedback, suggestions or corrections would be greatly appreciated.
 
 

Challenger 2 + MUSS APS being tested as part of the British MEDUSA program.

MOWAG Taifun :
 

 
 
Source ?

The CRAB is no more on track. 

something like this video

https://www.facebook.com/USAYPG/posts/2452964074731423
 

AMX Leclerc Series 1 Special Armor distribution in the hull and turret (not including the spaced heavy side skirts). Once the model is complete i will use it to do some vulnerability modelling along the lines the data presented in the Swedish Tank Trial diagrams:
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

XM732 with a LAV-300-90 turret