Like i compared it to, does US and russia need all thise planes?
Questionable, here i refer to the KF41 and gsjins statement it wont be priotised because its non an in service vehicle in germany.
It might end up with only hungary and possibly italy receiving their 120mm versions and germany not getting them.
In the mean time the nature of the embt project makes it a pure prototype for both france and germany and an inservice preference csnt be done
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Is the 1st picture from today? Since the text on cannon is not in the 2nd picture.
I mean, the 120mm gun with SHARD would penetrate more than DM53.
I am not sure about that, since the ascalon has a lot less energy.
The 140mm ascalon has as much penetration as german 120mm dm83
DM53 is a fairly old round by this point.
Better comparison is DM73
“We have a muzzle energy of 17-20 MJ" Ascalon: Nexter’s solution for the MGCS main gun - EDR Magazine
“Given that a current DM53 APFSDS has an energy output of nearly 13 MJ”
This is a quick comparison, with old ammo
If you realy want i can try looking the exact sources / you can do the rest with dm83 calculations etc
well there is a good bit of room for improvement which is good
Of course, just talking about the state right now,
That thw 140mm /120mm isnt as good as people think it is
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Got a source for the “lack of energy”? Last time I checked a 120mm cannon has a pretty significantly smaller chamber volume than a 140mm so how could the cannons even have the same amount of pressure?
Man is extrapolating based on completely unrelated data.
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You are aware the rheinmetsll l/55a1 is build for extremely high pressure right?
Besides that i stated official interviews forbthe sources the muzzle energy of the ascalon weapon just are small
You are aware the rheinmetsll l/55a1 is build for extremely high pressure right
Relevance to your claim about 120mm ASCALON?
Besides that i stated official interviews forbthe sources the muzzle energy
For the 120mm ASCALON? Do show.
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i stated the one for the 140mm ascalon they work on the same principal, either way the cannon is in its infancy state and not good enough for actual implementation yet.
Important part is the yet.
If the 120mm has already the same or better performance then the 140mm it would make no sense and you wouldnt need to upgrade
Before you continue waffling, could you just provide a source that states the 120mm ASCALON has the same low pressure as the 140mm ASCALON? Considering the latter has 2.5x the chamber volume of the L/52, I would be very excited to know how a 120mm could defy physics and achieve a similar chamber volume that would result in such a “lack of energy”.
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rather you prove the performance of the 120mm
can you do that? because i gave relavant data already
What data? You said 120mm ASCALON looks similar to 140mm ASCALON therefore they should perform the same, truly a genius.
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You didn’t provide anything of value lol. You just whine around saying “I like Germany so Germany is better, source : trust me bro”.
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me literaly giving sources about the ascalon performace ah yes i am only whining
That’s for the 140mm ASCALON lmao. It’s a different cannon which has a much larger chamber volume than the 120mm (not much of a surprise I would think). What are you on about?
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u dont understand jesus, go believe what you think.
I dont see you giving any counter sources
I have soruces saying the rheinmetall 130mm has more energy then the 120mm ohhh how does that work
Seriously if you believe size reduces the power necesarily you are just plain wrong