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  1. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    This concerns the FV4201 Chieftain, not the FV4030/4 Challenger 1.
  2. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    As the French proverb goes : " Drunk as the whole Poland". :) What militarysta is trying to say, is that he is too drunk to give a detailed answer. :rofl:
  3. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    This might help to make your own idea about that : In this old but nice short film you can see a Stridsvagn-103 prototype defeating a Slpprj m/61 105mm APDS at combat range (fired at point blank for test reason but with a reduced propellant charge). Pressure, temperature, air quality sensors...
  4. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    Too bad that their new Leopard 2A7 still uses the old WBG-X thermal camera. :dude: So, it would be the first tank of the Bundeswehr that features a Battlefield Management System ? Inserting Kontakt-5 reactive elements in the glacis of a T-72B3 at the UralVagonZavod tank plant. (on 16min25...
  5. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    So, Scutum tiles contain explosive materials ?
  6. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    Distinguish chinese tanks between them and their subvariants is way too hard, I give up ! :hair:
  7. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    According to me, the RB 57 has several interesting points : The advantage to be a fire forget missile (using the RB 57 is rather simple). Its inertial guidance renders it unjammable and also renders the user undetectable before the launch. It's also based on proven technologies as the RBS...
  8. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    Perhaps that the metallic frame had to be removed and thus not present on this well-known picture. But if you take a look at the height of the edge of the rear module, just at the left of the cylindrical thing which is above the chains and balls curtain, you can observe that there is a...
  9. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    This looks more like a painted metallic frame with bolts whose purpose is to keeping composite armor modules together. Take a look at the gun mantlet, its armor still has rectangular holes. BTW, nice video.
  10. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    On the page 168, they also talk about steel-glass-steel armor arrays and multiple steel and aluminum plates combinations developed by the Ballistic Research Laboratory in 1972. The BRL was not idle at that time. Does these shapes sound familiar ? :troll:
  11. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    Finally, my vision of the kvartz, sand rods, sandbar (whatever you call it) was not too far from the reality. http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/land-forces/208-main-battle-tanks-armour-technology-460.html#post866366 IMHO, it's a very primitive but cheap composite armor package. Even the BDD...
  12. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    Are we sure that the Soviet T-72A uses the same armor package as its export counterpart ; the T-72M1 ?
  13. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    Jaroslaw, what are your estimates regarding the level of protection of the turret side of this Merkava ?
  14. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    @ Damian Thank you for the translation, but what is this light yellow text saying ? Does that matches well with the leaked protection levels of the T-90MS ?
  15. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    That sounds interesting, although I can not read Russian.
  16. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    I'm leaning towards the second hypothesis.
  17. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    The term Chobham is cited several times (see page XI, 10 according to Scribd ) in the FV4030/4 Challenger's technical manual (which dates from June 1983). Tank, Combat, 120mm Challenger - Part 1 Automotive System
  18. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    :cerealspit: Are you referring to the Improved Turret Armor package ? It was planned for M1A1 & M1A2 deployed to Iraq, allowing them to have an increased protection against hollow charges but the project was cancelled since the advent of the M19 ARAT-1 and M32 ARAT-2 ERA from the TUSK kit...
  19. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    Marc Chassillan talks a lot in this video. The woman who works for Nexter gives also a lot of information about the AZUR kit. If you are interested, I can translate some parts. No love for the C1 Ariete and the Leclerc. :why: I never viewed the JGSDF's live fire demonstration from this angle.
  20. Sovngard

    Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology

    So, each ballistic side skirt consists of two parts, the outside face (which are hanging straight down, on the picture) creating a hollow space between both panels. The Leclerc uses a quite similar system.
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