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On 12/15/2020 at 8:11 PM, LoooSeR said:

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I need to know , why do they not put ERA blocks behind jammers? Where is the hindrance?

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European Commission investigates Romania for acquisition of Piranha V vehicles from General Dynamics

by Romanian Reporter - Friday, November 13, 2020 1:40 PM

European Commission investigates Romania for acquisition of Piranha V vehicles from General Dynamics

 

The European Commission informed the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about a new pilot procedure to investigate the purchase of Mowag Piranha V Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV) from General Dynamics.

 

In this regard, the Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS) has requested several documents concerning the Piranha V deal, through which the Ministry of National Defence contracted 227 of 8x8 transporters with a total value of €868 million.

In 2017 the Romanian Government, led at that time by the PM Mihai Tudose, issued the Government Decision 852/2017 which regulated the direct acquisition of the IFVs from the Swiss subsidiary of the American company General Dynamics, with a derogation from article 346 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which stipulates that "any Member State may take such measures as it considers necessary for the protection of the essential interests of its security which are connected with the production of or trade in arms, munitions and war material; such measures shall not adversely affect the conditions of competition in the internal market regarding products which are not intended for specifically military purposes".

 

In the first year (2018), the company GDELS (General Dynamics European Land Systems) was supposed to deliver the first batch, consisting of 36 vehicles, out of which 6 to be manufactured and assembled at Bucharest Mechanical Factory (Uzina Mecanica Bucuresti), a subsidiary of the Romanian state-owned defense company ROMARM. The delivery of those vehicles has not started until June 2020.

The 8x8 Piranha V is the latest model of the widely used wheeled armored vehicles series developed by GDELS-Mowag. Denmark was the first country to use Piranha V beginning in 2017, followed by Spain and Switzerland, and now Romania. According to the contract signed on January 12, 2018, almost 200 will be produced in Romania at the ROMARM factory.

https://www.romanianreporter.com/articles/5fae8ccd4259f53967183f9a/european-commission-investigates-romania-for-acquisition-of-piranha-v-vehicles-from-general-dynamics

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4 hours ago, BaronTibere said:

I believe earlier on (mid century) they provided more power than electric drives but seems like at least by the mid to late 80s pure electric drives were able to deliver similar speeds.

 

I believe most of the Soviet tanks in WW2 had electric traverse and it was pretty fast.

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8 hours ago, Henschel said:

Can I ask a basic question here?

Nowadays, many tank has changed from hydraulic drive turret to electric drive turret because of fire hazard. Does hydraulic drive turret have any advantages over electric drive turret?

 

Generally speaking, with the crude electronics of the time hydraulics were smoother, more powerful, and more reliable.

 

The Sherman is an interesting vehicle from this perspective, as it was initially produced with either a hydraulic or electric drive depending on the vehicle. But the Oil Gear designed hydraulic drive was so superior in performance and reliability that it became standard for all. And of course by the 50s, basically everyone had moved to hydraulic for these reasons despite the issues of a hydraulic drive. Reliability was the biggest issue, and would not be fully solved for electrical systems until the development of solid-state electronics. And once those came about, you start seeing the trend back towards electric drives that continues to this day.

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