To better cope with mines & IEDS, the “redesigned” (it’s really just a reduced in size stowage) has become a thing with the 2A6M in ~2006/7, so no, the Strv 122A would not have it.
Okay 3rd Question, has there been any developments in regards to new ammunition or is the m95 still the most modern shell used by the swedish army?
For the time being it’s just M/95 as there have been no mentions of them acquiring DM83.
finally came around to redoing the history,
i now got acess to the Leopard 2 Gesamtwerk by Tankograd which covers the 122 in more detail
Also we really have STRVC/D in game and not A/B
I think there is already a report about that
Big news everybody
https://www.hartpunkt.de/schweden-kauft-leopard-2-a8-und-modernisiert-bestandsflotte/
Sweden buys 44 Leopard 2A8 tanks and modernizes 66 more
Some of the modernizations have already started
Do I get any points for parkour?
Is the thermal resolution on the 122’s correct? Even with upgrade packages such as 122C/122D? Feels crazy to me that Sweden would be running old thermal imagers in this day and age
Sadly i think they are correct. The 122’s have been electronically behind for a quite a while.
The upgrade A/B is just mine protection and climate units for international service.
The C/D is mostly a maintenance thing where they changed the communication systems and some “wear and tear” parts (likely things like gaskets/oil/filters/batteries/etc).
( https://www.fmv.se/globalassets/dokument/om-fmv/fmv-ar18-bilaga-1-faststalld-slutversion.pdf )
I assume 123A has new thermals when they mean “new night vision”?
It would have been pretty obvious considering they would have needed to install new thermals.
Most likely the attica as example
for all sense and purposes its a strv brought up to leo2a7v standards
And no its not likely to be added anytime soon, the damn thing just got handed over.
And its more likely for sweden to receive a norwegian 2a8 and the strv123a being forgotten all together
Additionaly strictly speaken the strv123a should have worse armor then the strv122 in game according to gajins logic
I would assume so, the Swedish term “mörkersikten” (roughly “darkness sights”) is sort of an umbrella term that means both night vision and thermal vision at the same time (sort of).
Not sure what you mean.
From the 123 thread:
i am aware, still gotta convince gajin of that.
Them understanding sth we said all the time is a different matter
the appearance of the commander thermal changed between 2a5/6 to the 2a7v as far as i am aware
Oh, he was asking if the 122 got upgraded thermals, which i don’t think it did.
yes, to which i stated the upgraded thermals would have been noticeable from the outside
Ah gotcha. I’m currently down with a cold so i’m sometimes kind of slow lol.
