they will add another 40 t80u slop before they make any leo somewhat accurate
Does not help that one of the main sources used for exact detailing of not only the abrams current armour and the leopards in reports may be classified
(The swedish trial reports according to Rickard himself are classified and were not meant to be on the internet)
They are. The fact they’re available is due to the author’s mistake, in all honesty, Gaijin should not be allowed to use them, but they do, and still fail to use it properly, as all Leopard 2s underperform armor wise. ALL OF THEM.
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The Rheinmetall Waffentechnisches Handbuch (1977) states a 10 rounds per minute fire rate for the Rh120 with assisted loading mechanism, which means the Leopard 2K reloads 0,7s too slow ingame and the PT16 should have a 6s backup reload. Also, note the gun 2 rows below :)
Currently cooking up a report for Leo 2K (T 11) lacking the loading assist, so that comes in handy.
As for PT 16 / PT 14 mod., I was told that reloading with depleted autoloader ready-rack on such mbts that do not have additional ammo stowage in the basket wont be added to individual vehicles but, if it all, added to all at once.
In addition, the loading assist on PT 16 / PT 14mod. slightly differs from that on T 11, as it also serves as a bridge between the breech and automatic magazine, likely rotates the tray upright after each shot (so the gun has elevation-freedom, since there is no mention of the tray being stabilized/auto-aligned with the gun like on T 11) and retracts the “arm” back to standby-position.
Whether it has additional 120mm stowage in the basket (like on 2K), idk. That would be necessary for a “2nd stage ready rack” though.
There are barely any figures outside of what the WTS presents.
I can ask around whether they’d let me in it to take pictures of the interior, but I doubt it tbh…
Yeah, a recent case was with the Centauro 2, where one of the main selling points of the vehicle was the reloading of the gun from a ready rack separate from the autoloader.
I hope it will be implemented as soon as possible
I wanted to test whether I can add a second-stage ready-rack on a user-vehicle anyway, so ig I might aswell try that when I find the time for it today.
In theory, it should be possible but i do not know whether I can add individual modifiers to such rack/individual shells (e.g. to have shells 1-9 autoloaded but 10-16 manually loaded but both replenishable, the modifiers exist, but I am not sure whether they can be individually applied or only inhereted)
Will report back once I figure sth out ig