Does the leclerc have a method to fire while hatches are open or does it always require the positive overpressure to prevent fumes from coming back into turret after firing?
Why shoot with open hatches ?
Most modern tanks have been, it allows the crew to quickly pop up, utilize small arms such as top mounted 7.62 machine guns or .50 cals or just to survey the surroundings. Until recently, no tanks had serious 360° cameras or situational awareness sensors of any kind. Knowing what is around you is quite important.
Pivoting or turning too tight on certain terrain or obstacles can throw or damage the track, ultimately leading to loss of vehicle over preventable cases where all that needed done is a quick peek to ascertain what you’re driving around.
afaik it will be a leclerc with 120mm ASCALON and EMBT with 140mm ASCALON
just when we were not far from running out of MBTs, Nexter saves the day X)
Leclerc ASCALON
EMBT first version
EMBT second version
EMBT 140 ASCALON
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How will the ascalon compare in perfomance to the current german gun
Also Leclerc ascalon is basically the XLR no?
I think it will probably be a XLR with the ASCALON 120 instead of the CN-120-26, XLR refers mainly to a new armor package, so it is kinda unrelated
The new ASCALON 140 should compare relatively close to the 130 RHM, although there is possibly more room for improvement on the ASCALON gun (especially regarding the chamber pressure). So basically, likely more future proof.
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oh boy
The main advantage of the Ascalon is that it uses telescopic ammunition. That means that they can make much longer rods for their APFSDS, and the length of the rod directly correlates to the penetration for a set muzzle velocity.
However, these things apparently are so classified even the name of the round is currently classified
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Welp boys, after a month of heavily grinding France almost from scratch (I had grinded till 5.3 years before and then put it aside), I now have French top tier.
Wish me luck since according to everyone here I might need it😬
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Nice, btw you can easily uptier your mephisto, works well even against russian, same for amx 40, amx 32 and amx 30 super harder but still works.
But yeah would advice you to continue spaa line and go up to ito, it’s really easy to do kills with it.
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Okay will do that, thank you. I don’t think I’ll add the AMX-30 Super though since I can’t imagine it performing well with the OFL 105 F1 at 11.7, and after getting the Roland it won’t be effective at researching rank 8
Cannon is so massive. Crazy to think that it weighs the same as an L/44. Is that a 20mm coaxial I spot? And the ARX 30 turret? Also Diamant APS? Very cool.
Who know, the mephisto could have HOT 3s soon TM, meaning they could go through ERA like butter. We’ll see
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Diamant naming is dead. The project and APS is now called Prometheus (which is a good AF name. French really doing some good naming schemes)
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Man… it’s so hard to keep track when it’s so classified. Like why…?
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What I see is :
- A beautiful autoloaded 140mm canon (ASCALON 140) ;
- Decent hull armor thanks to Leopard 2A7 hull ;
- Loads of depression (probably -10° to -15°) ;
- A 20, 25 or 30mm coaxial canon ???
- A placeholder commander sight (I expect PASEO to take its place) ;
- Prometheus APS ;
- A M781 30mm canon on top of the turret for anti-drone capabilities (now called ARX 30 by NEXTER) ;
- Perhaps radar modules in the turret ?
Looks VERY spicy 😍
If anything, it shows how little the Germans are needed in this project
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Feel free to take away the 2A7V hull and well, that’s the decent armour gone :^)
Two can play this game btw:
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ah yes, you are naming it and completly forgettting it again
Besides that genius you are completly ignoring that germany has the lead in the mgcs project development and the embt
And in return france has the lead in the air system the fcas
So yeah… your tank that shows how little germany is needed. Is LEAD by the germans, great job
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