Good job. My main concern is that I’m not sure you can dismiss the British evaluation based purely on the date. The report on the British evaluation states that Britain told GIAT that the armour was unacceptable and in response GIAT proposed an up armoured Leclerc turret, but that still only offered 430 mm KE protection (against the UK requirement for 500 mm).
A later report sates that GIAT had accepted their improved turret design still fell short of the UK requirement and that rather than proposing another new version themselves they instead proposed that the UK could produce it’s own composite armour arrays for the Leclerc turret. After evaluating this possibility Britain apparently concluded that meeting the UK’s protection requirement “would not be possible without a major redesign of the turret", which would take “some years”.
So Gaijin may take that as evidence that even improvements made after the UK evaluation are unlikely to bring turret protection to the 650 - 700 mm quoted in the report, at least not for the S1 version.
I really don’t care if the preproduction s1 doesn’t get changed because of the « Swedish trials » but the s2, XXI and azur should get 100% the better production armor it has in real life.
British testing occured between 1991-1992. Shortly after the first Leclercs were delivered to the army in December 1991 (although never put into service), work began on a new armour package. We can’t know specifically, but the French themselves weren’t happy with the Leclerc and it wasn’t until 1997 that it was deemed suitable for military activity and accepted into service after “industrial intervention”. This gives about 5-6 years for further development.
According to French documents, only T1 tanks were sent abroad for testing, this includes the UK trials I believe. A quick way to figure it out is that T1 tanks don’t have the rubber side skirts bellow the regular metallic side skirts. T2 tanks received some I,provements, but only T3 batches where usable (and only as recovery vehicles). In 96-97, France finally received their T4 and T5 with armor, better turret traverse, engine fixes… that where the first actual batches to be accepted in service by the DGA under the S1 series of Leclercs
Also, I just wanted to share with you guys all the bug reports that haver been made since mid Novembers by us (mainly wareta and bossman). Updated up to the 26th of December as of now.
I think their requirements in general for modern vehicles are too strict. We know some stuff is clearly false and can prove it but the hard data they want just isn’t available because the vehicles are classified.
Gaijin.net // Issues armor (Improved report disproving Swedish and UK trials as relevant sources) Rejected again, we are working on year another revision of the report
They rejected it? I haven’t seen any activity regarding it so far from the devs or techinal mods, unless it was discussed on some other topic rather than here.
Fuel explosions, fuel explosions. Fuel explosions with fuel inside the explosion causing an explosion of fuel. Fuel with explosions on fuel that is exploding causing a fuel explosion.
Honestly, why did this one get rejected, the fix could be as simple as making the belt size be a multiple that fits into 950 nicely. Like 95 round belts. It’d change basically nothing in terms of burst length when using the coaxial.
We have received MP from Smin telling us what they did not want to accept. Basically to much speculation (which we are working on), and they absolutely don’t want a single Russian source, even if it’s to confirm information given by other sources.
So for now it’s just back to trying to push for mobility and firepower.
We already have an idea of what it’s supposed to be, we just need to replace the Russian sources. Which is easier said than done.
