No
I thought i was this was from a post ages ago.
At the International Armoured Vehicles (IAV) conference in January 2019, Rheinmetall revealed its Challenger 2 LEP proposal. This has a brand new turret with the L/55 120mm smoothbore gun. Although externally the new turret looks similar to Challenger 2’s existing one, Rheinmetall has taken an existing Leopard 2 turret and comprehensively re-engineered it. Ammunition storage is in an enlarged turret bustle and below the turret ring in sealed compartments. Rheinmetall plans to use the same sensors, fire control system and BMC4I solution as Ajax. While Rheinmetall’s Challenger 3 certainly looks impressive, it is likely to be much more expensive per MBT than the changes envisaged by the scope of original Life Extension Programme.
That turret looks more simmilary to Cr2 one, with internal layout, outside look and even things like rotation mechanism, controlls, placement of the periscopes, crew seats and there even is a bracket left for the dart over the rotation mechanism.
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Ahh ok fair enough.
well thats not quite correct, stealing would mean we take it for ourself
Ok, Vandalizing our tanks ;)
I imagine we have no idea what the gunner primary sight for the CR3 looks like?
I was meaning more what the gunner sees in the scope
I dunno
was this always 62.5t?
Yeah.
thought this and CR2E would have been given combet weights of 65t and 64t respectively
i think they forgot about them…
Haven’t seen this posted anywhere yet, I’m surpised as its quite cool
I’m also a bit confused as to why the LFP is covered up
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Its strange because on their more recent post its also blacked out (using some very high quality methods :p)
stupid question, was the LFP addon armour announced officially before the election?
If not it might be that they’re waiting for permission to announce the LFP addon, and that’s be delayed by the Election? Unlikely though tbh, they’ve had ages at this point
It was announced that contact for both Farnham and EPSOM was singed, but we have not seen it yet.
So I guess from these images we can confirm almost for certain that the Challenger 3 has been fitted with some new external armour, thats some great news