I must say… its quite odd that a country would go through all that effort to design a brand new turret for a tank built in 1948, and not make a new hull to go with it, or atleast improve the composite package the hull received.
That is one thing i have never quite understood about the Olifants, the protection is just kinda… All over the place, the massive gaps in the composite on the turret of the MK1B and Mk2 are especially noticeable.
But, i feel like there was more they could have done to the MK2 as it ended up being built, there was nothing stopping them from extended the composite package further down to cover the turret ring and such.
The Hull protection wouldn’t play in as much if Gaijin would MODEL the thing correctly with the Frontal Ammunition rack being filled in by a Fuel tank.
From what i can find most of the Olifants past the Original Mk1’s have never used the big frontal hull racks, as they wanted to extend the range of the tanks as much as they could, so they filled in that entire space with Fuel, and made use of the floor racks, and constructed new Racks around against the hulls sides next to the Turret basket.
the Swedes did a Similar thing to their later Centurions, and the Israelis. Both of which the South African’s copied to develop the Olifants so.
Pls gaijin even with nerfed irccm @Smin1080p_WT pls do u know anything about it?
Is there any chance it will come in the upcoming update?
There is like 5-6 platform that can take this missile
Money and potential opponents (Before the collapse of the USSR)
In addition, from 1990 to 2007, the Aorta program was carried out to replace the Olifants and, in parallel, a program to modernize these tanks.
The first proposal was first frozen and then cancelled (Leo 2A4, Challenger 2E and Leclerc participated). The second proposal was made partially (Mk.1B), since there is no need for a complete modernization
The South African 120 and 140 were going to use the same breaches, the idea was that they could just swap the barrel over to the 140mm version when ever the time came that they needed that extra power. Much like the American 140mm gun, it was just a barrel swap away from becoming a 120mm gun.
I personally would rather keep the Swiss vehicles in an independent Alpine tree, so I think that the EMBT ADT140 would make for a good large-calibre autoloading MBT, with the German Leopard 2 140 as a lower tier alternative.
I think the Leopard 2 A-RC 3.0 would be a better choice, its a little more Standard in its it design than the ADT140. Similar concepts, But the A-RC is a bit less overboard.
Very interesting, and on the original forum suggestion for the 12.8cm APHEDS shells we now have on the Maus, there were mentions of a multitude of other German APDS shells in development for all sorts of cannons, and even this alleged “nuclear” HEAT round.
If we can have prototype vehicles, then perhaps we can also have more prototype ammunition as well.
Yes, but they need to be at least produced and/or tested. I already asked a mod.
And a gun in game, most of these rounds were for other bigger arty systems.
