The FLW 100 can be fitted with a LAZ (Lafetten Abhängiges Zielfernrohr) 200 or LAZ 400 sensor unit. The LAZ 200 features an uncooled thermal imager with a native FOV of 8.7° and a resolution of 1,024 x 768. According to Rheinmetall, its manufacturer, the LAZ 200 can detect NATO standardized targets at a range of up to 8,700 metres and identify them at 1,700 metres distance. The LAZ 400 meanwhile features a more powerful cooled SAPHIR 2.6 MWIR thermal imager with a native FOV of 2.75° and a sensor resolution of 640 x 512. This offers an improved detection range of over 14,000 metres and an identification range of up to 3,000 metres. Both the LAZ 200 and LAZ 400 also feature CCD daylight cameras and laser rangefinders. Based on photographs from the event, the LAZ 200 sight is currently used on the Boxer RCH 155.
However due to Rheinmetall reworking their website back in 2022, finding the site where this info originates from seems to be a job impossible as the links are gone.
I think about this daily. At this rate I will not live to see Argentine planes or some German jewels that we should have had a long time ago.
We have already received most of the base platforms available on the ground and in the air. Adding vehicles would be just copy, paste and modify.
The helicopter TT should get more love now with the new push to investigate them with ground vehicles.
Imagine if after being forgotten for 3 years, we received the new rank VIII with the same vehicles that started rank VII (2A5 and the MAN truck lol).
My hunger for more stuff for the German TT is reaching new cosmic levels.
The most popular nation in WT receiving 1 or 2 vehicles every 3 months>>>> FYG.
Where’s all the money that Escargot has been making? They can’t afford to have more vehicles developed at the same time?
Especially if they outsource their development it’s a quicker process then building up their internal team.
It would actually be quite easy to develop an internal team for making 3d models, at least of tanks.
Iirc theres some large portable laser 3d scanners available that can get a highly detailed scan of large tank sized objects. Which can then be turned into models in game way faster than doing it from the ground up hoping the measurements are acurate.
(Sta1/2 turrets back in the day).
Like $50,000 for the equipment and $60,000x3 a year for a team to go out to museums and get some scans.
Obviously a lot of work would still need to be done to smooth the models out seperate the parts and all that, but significatly less than doing it from scratch.
I think they use some type of scanner. I have a custom hangar mod that allows me to walk through the hangar and I can “enter” the inside of the vehicles. The vehicles are also modeled inside (it is not a high quality modeling and lacks textures, but they are modeled).
In real life I had the opportunity to enter the interior of the TAM and TAM 2C and in the game they are modeled as they really are. Things such as baskets, radios, cannon chambers, driver’s chair or steering wheel, consoles and handlebars, etc. are modeled.
I think the interiors were scanned, no doubt. Therefore, the exteriors were also scanned. Surely the low quality interior modeling is to avoid creating a file that is too heavy.
