LWS, more armor, DU armor, m829a4, better sights, APU, enhanced tracking, thicker armor plating for the turret, APS, and laser designation for friendly air craft.
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A8 also gets LWS, improved armor packs, thicker roof armor, APS, APU (nothing new), new ammo, its said an active drone defense (not specified). At least thats what they said on the rollout event. The one you saw is not final, some things are missing.
From what ive found there is no APU, it was prototyped but never produced on the leopard.
-Sep v3 Drone defense
Not to mention the same garbage leo 2a4 hull, unless they changed ammo layout which i doubt.
I see two images of the 2A8 one with a better commander optic and one with the older one, but its nice to see them try to get with the times regarding vehicle awareness.
- older optic
These are two different tanks, latter one no A8.
And whats an APU for you? In my world its an auxiliary power unit. Most tanks have this. That M1 pic loosk more like a wild prototype, rather than anything close to a service unit.
Thats the Norwegian Leopard 2A8NO
Thats the Leopard 2A7A1, which had its roll-out last year.
This is the actual 2A8 (Pre-Series) for the Bundeswehr;
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A nice tldr
APU allows the vehicle to run without the engine, the leopard does not have this ability.
Thx for helping with the confusion.
in addition to @I_MiikaL_I post above;
and according to online sources (and iirc some other), the 2A7A1 and 2A8 now have a 20kW APU.
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Could be added after the next few updates with something like the Strv 123 and the Abrams SEP v3 with trophy; and the upgraded ZTZ99 for china with their hard kill APS. When the Type 10 gets its modernization it could be added too, hopefully with fixed armor, it would get a defensive 30mm and an APS. Italy can have the C2 Ariete. France won’t get anything until the MGCS is fully in service.
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Thx i couldnt find anything on this. I only saw prototype images and never full production.
Are newer Leo2A8s capable of firing ammunition with variable fuse? Like time fuse or proximity fuse? Would be nice to the thing be capable of taking down hellis.
Still doesnt exist
France has the XLR, leclerc evolutiom and the embt series as possible additions
I mean the 2a7V already has time fuze DM11.
I think PSO as well?
Dont quite remember.
If you mean automatic programmimg trough irst lock thats another matter
I meant rather this
Thats 2 very different things xD.
2a8 did get new sights etc. But csnt tell if thw specific one is implememted
Eh, it is just that my wording was wrong.
Had it IRST, it would be more efficient with time fuse that you need to update yourself otherwise
But this was a Prototype Expo Camo, never used by the german army
They are scheduled to deliver next year, which will be after the new few major updates. ‘A few’ is 3 btw so it will be around the Christmas update for next year I don’t count the spring and summer updates because they usually hold any real value to other updates, as in nothing ‘majorly game changing was added’