I mean the pack puma is great, also the normal puma since they gave it the turret traverse buff is stupid good now.
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Since the early 1980s Henschel Wehrtechnik has been developing, as a private venture, a family of wheeled armoured vehicles that can undertake a wide range of roles on the battlefield.
These are the TH 200 (4 x 4), TH 400 (6 x 6) and the TH 800 (8 x 8).
All these have a hull of all-welded steel armour construction that provides guaranteed protection from small arms and medium machine gun fire. For improved protection passive and active add-on armour is available.
All vehicles incorporate a new type of suspension consisting of a double trailing arm independent wheel suspension, the kinetic properties of which give considerably improved mobility in rough terrain. The negative lead angle of the springing reduces the vertical and horizontal acceleration when driving rapidly across obstacles so that the physical load on the crew is lower compared to vehicles equipped with rigid axles. All vehicles also feature power steering.
Early in 1998, Henschel Wehrtechnik stated that all development work on the TH 200 (4 x 4) and TH 800 (8 x 8) had stopped but that the TH 400 (6 x 6) was still being marketed.
Details of the complete TH family of wheeled armoured vehicles were given in Jane’s Armour and Artillery 1997-98, pages 202 to 203. Of the three members of the TH family, only the TH 400 (6 x 6) has been built.
There is no German Army requirement for the TH 400 (6 x 6) armoured vehicle.
Description
The hull of the TH 400 is of all-welded steel armour construction with the driver’s compartment at the front, fighting compartment in the centre and the power pack at the rear.
The driver is seated in the centre and has a single-piece hatch cover that opens to the right. In front of this are three periscopes, the centre one of which can be replaced by a passive periscope for driving at night.
The power-operated turret is in the centre with the commander and gunner on the right and the loader on the left. The commander has a raised cupola with a single-piece hatch cover and observation periscopes. In front of the cupola is the commander’s stabilised panoramic sight.
The gunner is seated in front of and below the commander and has a roof-mounted sight and a sighting system coaxial with the 105 mm main armament. The loader has a single-piece hatch cover that opens to the rear and a roof-mounted periscope.
Main armament comprises a 105 mm rifled gun which is fitted with a fume extractor and thermal sleeve with a 7.62 mm machine gun being mounted coaxially to the left. Mounted either side of the turret is a bank of four 76 mm electrically operated smoke grenade launchers that fire forwards.
The rear-mounted power pack can be quickly removed as a complete unit for field replacement.
Suspension is of the independent type using trailing arms and the drive train is within the hull for maximum possible protection.
Standard equipment includes power steering and a central tyre pressure regulation system that allows the driver to adjust the tyre pressure to suit the type of terrain being crossed, even when the vehicle is moving.
Variants
Although the prototype has a three-man turret armed with a 105 mm gun, the chassis has been designed to accept a wide range of other weapon systems, such as anti-aircraft guns or missiles.
Heavier turrets could also be fitted to the TH 400 chassis according to Henschel Wehrtechnik, including a three-man turret armed with a Rheinmetall 120 mm smoothbore gun.
Then Rheinmetal bought company and
Some years ago, the then Thyssen Henschel developed a complete family of wheeled armoured fighting vehicles as a private venture called the TH-200 (4 × 4), TH-600 (6 × 6) and the TH-800 (8 × 8). Details of these were given in Jane’s Armour and Artillery 1997-98.
Development work on the TH-200 and TH-800 stopped some years ago and Thyssen Henschel subsequently became Henschel Wehrtechnik and development work on the TH-400 continued.
With the acquisition of Thyssen Henschel by Rheinmetall DeTec, the vehicle became the H-400 and, in early 2000, the former company became known as Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH.
More recently the designation of the vehicle has been changed yet again to the R-400.
As of mid-2004 there were no plans for the R-400 to enter quantity production. The vehicle has however been used as a testbed for other Rheinmetall company subsystems.
Description
The hull of the R-400 is of all-welded steel armour construction with the driver’s compartment at the front, fighting compartment in the centre and the power pack at the rear.
The steel armour provides protection from small arms fire, shell splinters and medium machine gun fire. For improved protection passive, possibly explosive reactive, armour is available as an option.
The driver is seated in the centre and has a single-piece hatch cover that opens to the right. In front of this are three day periscopes, the centre one of which can be replaced by a passive periscope for driving at night.
The three person (on the prototype) power-operated turret is in the centre with the commander and gunner on the right and the loader on the left. The commander has a raised cupola with a single-piece hatch cover and observation day periscopes. In front of the cupola is the commander’s stabilised panoramic sight.
The gunner is seated in front of and below the commander and has a roof-mounted sight and a sighting system coaxial with the 105 mm main armament. The loader has a single-piece hatch cover that opens to the rear and a roof-mounted day periscope.
Main armament comprises a 105 mm rifled gun, which is fitted with a fume extractor and thermal sleeve with a 7.62 mm machine gun being mounted coaxially to the left. Mounted either side of the turret is a bank of four 76 mm electrically operated smoke grenade launchers that fire forwards.
The rear-mounted diesel power pack can be quickly removed as a complete unit for field replacement.
The R-400 incorporates a new type of suspension, consisting of a double trailing arm independent wheel suspension, the kinetic properties of which have considerably improved mobility in rough terrain.
The negative lead angle of the springing reduces the vertical and horizontal acceleration when driving rapidly across obstacles so that the physical load on the crew is lower when compared to vehicles equipped with rigid axles.
Standard equipment includes power steering and a central tyre pressure-regulation system that allows the driver to adjust the tyre pressure to suit the type of terrain being crossed, even when the vehicle is moving.
Variants
The R-400 is now being promoted as a modular concept capable of taking advantage of the wide range of turrets, weapon systems, fire-control systems and other subsystems available within the Rheinmetall DeTec Group of which Rheinmetall Landsysteme is now a key part.
Turrets now being offered include:
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Rheinmetal Landsysteme turret armed with 105 mm smoothbore gun. Prototypes of the R-400 had a 105 mm rifled tank gun
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Rheinmetall Landsysteme E4 two-person turret with internally mounted, fully stabilised 20 to 30 mm automatic cannon
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Rheinmetall Landsysteme E8 one-person turret with internally mounted cannon up to 30 mm in calibre. There are various stabilisation and fire-control options
Weapons now being offered include:
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Mauser 30 mm MK automatic cannon
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Mauser/Oerlikon Contraves 35/50 mm weapons systems
Fire-control systems being offered include:
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Rheinmetall Defence Electronics AOZ
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Rheinmetall Defence Electronics SEOSS
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Rheinmetall Defence Electronics FAUST
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Rheinmetall Defence Electronics MOLF
Command and control systems include:
- Rheinmetall Defence Electronics ACE (Army Command and Control)
Self-protection systems include:
- Modular self-protection system MASKE from Buck Neue Technologien
That’s an E-11 Blaster
Yay, another German wheeled light tank, yay!
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Not really a fan of more modern/Cold War vehicles but I’ll try to get it.
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Pakpuma is ultra rare and expensive premiun and puma even with the turret rotation buff is not enough and is rank 2.
Germany is the only nation with no accces to scouting vehicle TT in rank 3.
Gut
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Is the name going to be fixed too?
It should be TH 400, not R400 as it uses the TH 301 turret and given the description of the original post, it doesnt seem like the ingame variant is supposed to represent the post- Thyssen Henschel aquisition version?
Read my text please above.
That still doesnt change that the version they seemingly want to add shouldnt be called " R400 " but " TH 400 "
The Leo 1A5 turret was fitted in 2003 and it really doesnt seem like that the TH 301 turret was used while under the “R400” designation. If anything (and given it’s the version they wish to add), it’d be “H400” instead;
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Ok, there First they called TH-400, then H-400, and then R-400,
Differences between TH-400, and H-400 is pretty much company name only.
Later on when RH bought company. H-400 were modified with RH stuff and renamed into R-400. That’s why its R-400 not TH-400. TH-400 Is pretty much stock prototype, and this is equip with some modern early 2000 modern stuff.
Said modifications (or “modern stuff”) would be what exactly?
The images that gaijin shows do not indicate any noticeable difference to the regular TH 301 (1985/86 ed) // TH 301/A4 (1996 ed.) turret - aside from the “box” on the mantlet ofc, which still sticks out as rather odd but I do recall seeing something similar on TAM’s, either way it doesnt change much.
In this case, I do not really care about other versions of the vehicle itself but solely about the one that gaijin wishes to represent, which appears to predate the aquisition and subsequent name-changes - atleast according to the Jane’s article you copy & pasted previously (Jane’s A&A 2002-2003, Article: Oct. 2001)
- Rheinmetal Landsysteme turret armed with 105 mm smoothbore gun. Prototypes of the R-400 had a 105 mm rifled tank gun
- Rheinmetall Landsysteme E4 two-person turret with internally mounted, fully stabilised 20 to 30 mm automatic cannon
- Rheinmetall Landsysteme E8 one-person turret with internally mounted cannon up to 30 mm in calibre. There are various stabilisation and fire-control options
Weapons now being offered include:
- Mauser 30 mm MK automatic cannon
- Mauser/Oerlikon Contraves 35/50 mm weapons systems
Fire-control systems being offered include:
- Rheinmetall Defence Electronics AOZ
- Rheinmetall Defence Electronics SEOSS
- Rheinmetall Defence Electronics FAUST
- Rheinmetall Defence Electronics MOLF
Command and control systems include:
- Rheinmetall Defence Electronics ACE (Army Command and Control)
Self-protection systems include:
- Modular self-protection system MASKE from Buck Neue Technologien
These are turrets that may optionally be fitted but never were.
The only turrets that were fitted to the vehicle were the TH 301 (or TH 301/A4) and Leopard 1A5…
There were 3 turrets total in this models.
The south african one doesnt really count, as it’s a different chassis (Class 1)
Otherwise, aside from TH 301 and Leopard 1A5 - I would not know of any other turrets that had been fitted? Feel free to correct me, e.g. by sending images of the third turret.
Rooikat / South African Prototypes like Class 1 had German Technical Assistance, but their are not same.