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.
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.
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
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😬
Spoiler
Lineup not looking good either (?)
I’m almost at the end though
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.
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.
Yeah, the German truly are leading the project.
KNDS France making a whole ass new turret, German side slapping their existing 2A7 hull under it, and that suddenly becomes German. Not to mention that the EMBT is actually showcased in the French part of the KNDS exhibition
its a fact, dunno what you want to fight there
Besides that turret is nice, if france still cant develop a chassis doesnt change much either.
And again germany is the lead for the embt /mgcs project as a whole. That includes the turrets
