Gun Ready

Leopard 2A6MA3 via Ralph Zwilling (tank-masters.de)
 



 
Fitted with anti-RPG add-on armor developed by KMW at the glacis plate.
 
 

Budget Cuts 3M 

 
Proryv with shitbags in Melitopol

An article with more technical details on the E-MBT presented at Eurosatory 2022 as well as some history on the program (starting with the 2018 version) :
 
https://www.edrmagazine.eu/knds-from-the-leo-clerc-to-the-e-mbt

Video of the new version of the EMBT presented at Eurosatory 2022 :
 
 
Lifted turret with the turret basket visible and some slow rolling (no shooting though).

Is that photo out of a "Bundeswehr" video?! Or where is the marker in the right lower corner coming from?

Is that photo out of a "Bundeswehr" video?! Or where is the marker in the right lower corner coming from?

Is that photo out of a "Bundeswehr" video?! Or where is the marker in the right lower corner coming from?

Is that photo out of a "Bundeswehr" video?! Or where is the marker in the right lower corner coming from?

Shells for T-14

Estimated better protection, multi fuel engine, high system reliability, best reputation within Leopard 2 user club including future enhancement strategies, common spare part supply via LEOBEN

there is difference between RPG-7 and AT-4/CG - fuse + AT-4 has support ring in nose part, so you can't shortcut fuse and damage cone, grenade will simply work
 


 

 
 

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.
 

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.

Short video on the firing tests of ASCALON at the field firing range of Alcochete, Portugal :
 
 

Leopard 1 retrofitted with a 105 mm Cockerill turret :
 

 

EMBT with new turret, Trophy-HV and modified hull.
 

For anyone interested in following Eurosatory 2022 exhibition :
https://blablachars.blogspot.com/2022/06/en-attendant-lundi.html?m=1
Blablachars blog will provide many posts. 

@SH_MM
 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nLSVAhNL-6RWqrKljutWH5mJ1K3RMv5s/view?usp=sharing
 
1976-79 german ERA trials 
 

No.  The stabilizing lift force provided by the fins is a function of angle of attack times fin area times airspeed squared.  The overturning moment acting on the rod is a function of the moment arm between the aero center and center of gravity times airspeed squared.  The stabilizing moment provided by the fins is a function of their stabilizing lift force times the moment arm between the fins and the center of gravity.  Thus, as long rods have gotten longer and longer, these competing effects have more or less canceled out and the fins have stayed about the same size.
 


Because the stabilizing force provided by the fins is a function of airspeed squared and the overturning force is also a function of airspeed squared, a long rod penetrator that's stable at one airspeed is stable at any airspeed.  The only exception is the transonic where lift coefficients and aero centers can jump around, but that's pretty much academic because an APFSDS long rod going transonic velocities isn't going to be killing very much.
 

Great find.
 
 
Yes, the photo in the borchure seems to be a photoshopped DM63. I guess Defence Munition International's spirit lives on.
 
Even the nametags are simple paper glued to the sabot... (enlarge image to see the color difference).

 

DM13 and DM12.

So if the warhead is always at 90° how is it used in short range when its probably not flying over the target?
 
 

I believe that this stowage box is mainly for the hand weapons aso.