From my old tweet that i have written sometime ago.
The M41GTI, short for ‘German Tank Improvement,’ was first unveiled at the 1986 Weapons Exhibition in Malaysia. It resulted from the collaboration of various West German arms companies, including Gesellschaft Für Logistics Service GmbH, Krauss-Maffei, Krupp Atlas, MTU, Wegmann, AEG, and Dil.
This upgrade project included replacing the original Continental AOS-895-3 six-cylinder air-cooled petrol engine with an MTU MB833Aa-501 six-cylinder liquid-cooled diesel engine. The fuel tank capacity was also expanded to accommodate 800 liters of diesel, up from the previous 540 liters of gasoline, extending the operational range to an impressive 600 kilometers. Additionally, it incorporated the Halon-1302 automatic fire extinguishing system, the same system used in the Leopard tank.
Regarding the main armament, it retained the 76mm M32 gun as before but with increased firepower thanks to the M331A1 HESH-TP-T ammunition, which had a muzzle velocity of 1257 meters per second. The tank also featured an ELAN-41 gun stabilization system by AEG and a Krupp-Atlas Electronic fire control system. It was equipped with an electronic digital ballistic computer, a monocular sight for day and night operations, and a laser rangefinder in the central targeting unit. The computer system calculated target distance, wind speed, temperature, ammunition type, and elevation angle for precise aiming. The machine gun on the coaxial mount was replaced from the previous M1919A4 .30-06 caliber to an HK-21E 7.62x51mm machine gun.
Germany tested this tank in Thailand and achieved satisfactory results. They proposed the improvements to the Thai army, but the M41 tanks were not upgraded to M41GTI by the Thai military…
thai and ASEAN tree would be cool to see ingame.im a sucker for light tanks. also i heard japan wont get VT4 Thai. if this is the case then why not replace it with singaporean Leopard. would be cool to see
True, to be fair though, this the most Japan has gotten than any update from what i can remember. Normally always 1 to 2 vehicles. Sometimes no air or no tank, just boat.
Yea i get that, but for the past 3 updates Japan has gotten atleast something unique. Type 99, 81c, tkx P, 15J etc. This time its a fancy F5E and copy paste prem. Its just a bit disapointing, same story with other nations too.
Actually apart from the F-5, this is by far one of the worst updates for Japan.
We are getting only 2 new vehicles, Type 90 doesn’t count, and the rest is visual update.
I don’t play naval nor aviation so there is literally nothing new for me that solery playing ground forces.
And to make it worse they made the best camo and decal premium contents.
The four last major updates were decent until now.
I play air and ground, so probably why I suddenly seem more ok with this update when I saw the F-5E FCU coming. May be copy/paste but has some good stuff. I do agree, ground this update looks a bit sad since its a complete premium that many of us Japan mains already don’t need. But at least its good to see players can grind with it and soon will see more Japan vehicles in ground instead of constant leopards, Abrams and Soviet tanks. Hoping the next update we get vehicles for normal TT. This one was more for new players willing to spend on premiums. especially me spending money for that jet to avoid grinding it
Does anyone have photos of the Igo-1-C bomb? I am trying to include in the suggestions all the unique aircraft weapons systems that Japan has. I have already submitted the GCS-1, and additionally, suggestions regarding the AAM-1 and AAM-2 have already been sent.
It seems that the arrangement of the engine and propeller shaft in the Type 98 Ke-Ni is incorrect. However, I was unable to determine the location of the fuel tank. I have reported this, but if you have any additional information or corrections, please let me know.
