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  1. alanch90
    The more i get to know about the winning MPF the more i´m convinced that the US Army picked the worser candidate. The selected MPF brings Abrams-level logistics requirements and assets to a "light" brigade. With that in mind, its kind of a self defeating choice when the point was to place as lower logistic burden as possible on these units. With such a high weight and complexity, picking an existing Abrams, stripping it of all the heavy armor modules and lightening the hull and turret as much as possible would have been a far cheaper and sound solution. After all, the GD MPF was chosen mainly because american decision making armor people are absurdly conservative. Not to speak about the 120mm gun being more preferable and capable for every single role over the 105mm, not to speak about the extra logistic chains just to feed that fosil gun. For example, the US doesn´t have a proggramable HE for 105mm, so it will have to re engineer the 120mm they are getting shortly. Again, needles expenditure. And then people wonder why they can´t get stuff even with that super inflated defence budget. In comparison, the XM-8 was engineered for the ground up to be light on logistics as possible. The crew can even take the power pack out of the tank without the help of crane or an extra vehicle. If the 105 was such an important requirement, the tank has an automatic case ejector so the gas toxicity wouldn´t be an issue.
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    How many? 2? 4? IIRC the plan for this year was 4.
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    Seems very familiar.
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    I should have rephrased it, because Meggit has made several autoloaders. Other people report that GDLS representatives stated an autoloader capacity of 19 rounds.
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    So far i´ve seen no indication that AbramsX is using the Meggit autoloader. Said autoloader is meant as a drop in upgrade for existing Abrams turrets while AbramsX uses a completely new and smaller turret. Given that the turret still has basket, i think its logical for them to mount an extra ammo rack to replenish the bustle autoloader there (that is, the side of the turret not to be manually used by the gunner). However this would surely be incompatible with longer 130/140mm caliber adoption. The turret armor modules are actually emptied, hence, act as spaced armor. That should be enough to protect the turret vs most of medium caliber threats and i think its the right call. Making the front turret armor modular and swappable would also be the smart thing to do as different operational environments will entice different protection levels. Another thing they could have done after getting the weight that low would be to add anti mine protection under the crew and/or add additional protection to the front hull roof. Both of these shouldn´t make the tank much heavier and likely still under 55 metric tons.
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    Still has APS and that will take care of the missile.
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    Any news on the status of state trials for the tank?
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    Yes but is ´LMUR´ its proper name? That would be a first for soviet/russian missile. Same thing for naming a vehicle as ´Baikal´. Its immediate predecessor, the Khrizantema, like all artillery vehicles, is named after a flower.
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    A few years ago we had gotten this: This is clearly the same missile as the LMUR/Izd 305 (because of overall shape, range, capabilities). In this material, it was referred to as "Baikal". Might that be the actual name of the missile?
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    Well spotted! Apart form the distinct color, that seems like an ultra cheap Svinets mockup. Unless its not meant to portray a Svinets? On a different note, no trace of the Sokol-V GLATGM.
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    The link is broken
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    The hull in the infantry section is higher, and together with the absence of the autoloader should make for a relatively comfortable seating positions, at least better than what you can get on BMP-2 and the like. Actually, BMO-T is a great starting point if you wanted to develop an IFV based on the T-72 platform. They could just remove the front fuel tanks, as they did with the BMP-T and Koalitzia, and place there a dedicated gunner and the vehicle/squad cmdr, at the right and left to the driver respectively. That should free up space in the infantry section for at least an 8th dismount (making a full traditional 9 men squad counting the cmdr). For weapons, just put one of those unmanned turrets we´ve been seeing for Kurganets or T-15 with a 57mm gun and to top things of, integrate an APS to the thing, like Arena-M. Oh and replace the Kontakt 5 with Relikt/light ERA combo and there you go, a perfectly serviceable, top of the line heavy IFV that you can build out of some of the thousands of T-72 hulls the russians have over there rusting. Should work very well within tank brigades and regiments until the Armata platform takes over some time in the coming centuries.
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    Thats gotta provoke some discomfort for those betting on the Borsuk.
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    Besides, he is talking about the Merkava with the added Trophy, which weighs about 2 tons if i´m not mistaken.
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    Is it me or the Ascalon isn´t significantly bigger than 120mm guns (unlike Rh130)?
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    Here (2:30), its from their official YT channel.
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    And 72 metric tones is almost 80 short tonnes, which is the weight (not clarifying in which tons) explicitly claimed by the israeli armored corps in several official publications.
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    Lets say that Rheinmetall gets his way and the MGCS program is cancelled (i bet that when they manage to secure the first client for the Panther, they will effectively torpedo the MGCS), what options does France have to modernize its tank fleet other than regain meaningful industrial capabilities to produce new tanks or radically modernize the Leclercs?
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    Comes mostly from Argentinian slang, its more commonly used as an insult to someone who is lazy, doesn´t work, doesn´t take care of his responsibilities (because presumably he is too busy jerking off).
  20. alanch90
    I would say it uses exactly the same layout from that OMT concept from last year (this year´s EMBT and Panther use it as well), 2 men in the hull, driver and "operator", TC and gunner in the turret hence justifying it being heavily armored. If that´s the case then the question would be where they put the huge fuel tanks that used to be besides the driver. That may point to ditching the turbine engine for good in favor of a hybrid powerpack.
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    That and the fact that they have different writings (the module that is closer even has its label painted over)
  22. alanch90
    New Leopard 2 variant announced for the Eurosatory. Looks like the same turret for the Lynx 120, among other novelties.
  23. alanch90
    99 percent sure its a rebranded DM-63
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    The link is down
  25. alanch90
    So this showed up today First glance, seems like a modified hull with extra periscopes which would be the case if the crew was to be taken out of the turret and into the hull. But on the other hand, the shape of the turret seems to be the same classic Abrams pre SEPv3.
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