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Gun Ready reacted to SH_MM in The Leopard 2 Thread
Leopard 2A6MA3 via Ralph Zwilling (tank-masters.de)
Fitted with anti-RPG add-on armor developed by KMW at the glacis plate.
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Gun Ready reacted to LoooSeR in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines
Budget Cuts 3M
Proryv with shitbags in Melitopol
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Gun Ready reacted to Alzoc in Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) and Euro Main Battle Tank (EMBT)
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
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Gun Ready reacted to Alzoc in Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) and Euro Main Battle Tank (EMBT)
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).
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Gun Ready got a reaction from FORMATOSE in Tanks guns and ammunition.
Is that photo out of a "Bundeswehr" video?! Or where is the marker in the right lower corner coming from?
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Gun Ready got a reaction from Laviduce in Tanks guns and ammunition.
Is that photo out of a "Bundeswehr" video?! Or where is the marker in the right lower corner coming from?
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Gun Ready got a reaction from SH_MM in Tanks guns and ammunition.
Is that photo out of a "Bundeswehr" video?! Or where is the marker in the right lower corner coming from?
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Gun Ready got a reaction from CrappyHead in Tanks guns and ammunition.
Is that photo out of a "Bundeswehr" video?! Or where is the marker in the right lower corner coming from?
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Gun Ready got a reaction from Laviduce in Kimchi armoured vehicles: K1, K2, K21 and other AFVs from Worse Korea
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
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Gun Ready reacted to Wiedzmin in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines
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
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Gun Ready reacted to SH_MM in The Leopard 2 Thread
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.
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Gun Ready reacted to SH_MM in Tanks guns and ammunition.
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.
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Gun Ready reacted to FORMATOSE in Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) and Euro Main Battle Tank (EMBT)
Short video on the firing tests of ASCALON at the field firing range of Alcochete, Portugal :
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Gun Ready reacted to Alzoc in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)
Leopard 1 retrofitted with a 105 mm Cockerill turret :
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Gun Ready reacted to SH_MM in Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) and Euro Main Battle Tank (EMBT)
EMBT with new turret, Trophy-HV and modified hull.
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Gun Ready reacted to Serge in French flair
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.
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Gun Ready reacted to Wiedzmin in Explosive Reactive Armor
@SH_MM
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nLSVAhNL-6RWqrKljutWH5mJ1K3RMv5s/view?usp=sharing
1976-79 german ERA trials
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Gun Ready reacted to Collimatrix in Tanks guns and ammunition.
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.
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Gun Ready reacted to SH_MM in Tanks guns and ammunition.
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).
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Gun Ready reacted to mr.T in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines
So if the warhead is always at 90° how is it used in short range when its probably not flying over the target?
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Gun Ready got a reaction from Laser Shark in The Leopard 2 Thread
I believe that this stowage box is mainly for the hand weapons aso.