Oh in close range too, it’s nice then.
are you sure that it is 2kg of HE? because the quotes that i have seen it is talking that the warhead weight is 2kg, which means that the explosive mass is actually lower probably around the same as on the spikes
More importantly the 40mm CTAS gun will be ingame!
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Not really familiar with the performance of the 40mm CTAS, but I hope it’s APFSDS shell is at least of comparable performance to slpprj m/90 if not better.
Mostly sending a reply to keep this page alive as, but also the Devs need to see this a lot; Nobody who plays France wanted Leopards, they don’t help, we want our Leclerc to be fixed. Personally, I would love that ‘All Leclercs should have a top speed of 90kmh’ and ‘All Leclercs missing Hyperbar’ because they’re the best supported reports and would be SUPER fun
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It’s French, Gaijin will make it 35.3 just to spite us
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I saw that the CTAS40 should have better APFSDS, as well as overall better ammo selection too, but it’s up to Gaijin to put it in correctly
The only Leopard I actually wanted was the Leopard 1 3105
I think it looks really goofy yet would be a decent addition to the 9.3-9.7 range considering it has really good thermals, good gun depression, an autoloader, spall liners, and a VERY good APFSDS shell (M1060CV), and it’s on the agile Leopard 1 chasis.
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Honestly same. When BeNeLux was added, I realized what I wanted; The Cockerill turrets. Weird Boxer MGS, which is a Belgian turret on a half-Netherlands chassis, was only added to Germany, but whatever (gib vextra 105 ofl 105 f2 to make up for it, gaijin)
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It’s always funny seeing people theorize about what vehicles might be added with an upcoming subtree, all the unique and diverse options, just to get 99% copy/paste.
Given Cv9040 ammunition breadth and performance is not entirely on par with reality, I’m quite doubtful they’ll give France good ammunition.
40mm APFSDS-T ammunition: Capable of perforating up to 140 mm of homogeneous steel (RHA) at 1,500 meters, according to data provided by CTA International.
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Roughly as expected then. Both may be 40 mm but the bofors rounds are HUGE compared to other 40 mm vairants, and especially compared to telescoped ammo which trades propellant for size.
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afterwards we will see what Gajin gives us but the documents do not lie
some more documents on the vbci mk2
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If you want precise penetration estimations for the CT40, this excellent EBRC Jaguar suggestion sums it up :
TLDR : According to the old 1999 US army test, we would get 166mm at 0m for the APFSDS round.
However, based on the OP calculations from modern photos and given that the APFSDS used at the time were smaller than the ones used today (219mm length in 1999 vs 255mm length today), it is plausible that with today’s munition estimations, the round would be able to pen up to 192mm at 0m. Of course, it will be up to Gaijin to decide which projectile will be used.
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Figures in the region of 140mm penetration through RHS at 1500m. For the dart
This again is publicly available information
If Gaijin make it anaemic then it dooms all future French, British and Italian IFVs
Italy doesnt use the 40mm CTA just us and the french
And as said before the CT2000 has 2 darts one from the 1999s and s recent one thats longer…
We also know from the US trials that even the oldest APFSDS outperformed the 40mm bofors so the longer penetrator should have even better penetration
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We do but this is Britain and France…so