Eurosatory 2018: GDELS unveils four new armoured vehicles
http://www.janes.com/article/81036/eurosatory-2018.....d-vehicles Citat:The ASCOD Medium Main Battle Tank (MMBT) was shown armed with the Leonardo HITFACT turret sporting a 120 mm smoothbore main gun, a 7.62 coaxial machine gun (MG), a 7.62 mm pintle-mounted MG and a 12.7 mm MG-armed remote weapon station on the roof.
Citat:Manuel J Serrano, the senior director for tracked vehicles at GDELS, said that the MMBT’s gross vehicle weight (GVW) of 42 tonnes was particularly attractive to customers in the Far East whose operating environment puts heavier 60- to 70-tonne main battle tanks (MBTs) out of favour.
Euro Main Battle Tanks Unveils by KMW and Nexter Citat:EU tank breaks cover
After being kept under wraps, the French-German KNDS Group (Krauss-Maffei Wegmann + Nexter Defense Systems) has unveiled its first joint project, the EMBT, or European Main Battle Tank. Essentially a technology demonstrator, with further development, “the EMBT is a short-term response to the operational need of the market for high-intensity battle tanks”.
The EMBT consists of the KMW Leopard 2A7 MBT platform fitted with the Nexter Leclerc MBT turret. The two elements were integrated at Nexter’s facility at Roanne, where Leclerc production was originally undertaken. Since then, the EMBT has undertaken mobility and firing trials, the latter performed in Portugal, with 22 rounds fired from the 120mm smoothbore gun.
The standard Leopard 2A7 has a three-person turret armed with a manually loaded 120mm smoothbore gun, whereas the Leclerc turret is fitted with a 120mm smoothbore gun fed by a bustle-mounted automatic loader.
The Leclerc turret is lighter and more compact, which reduces the combined weight by six tonnes.
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Nije slucajna pustinjska sema, Oman je izgleda kupac
Citat:According to the Pulse News website, South Korean Defense Company Hyundai Rotem Co. could sell 76 K2 Black Panther Main Battle Tanks (MBT) to Oman, a deal that could reach an amount up to $884.6 million. The desert version of the K2 Black Panther was unveiled by Hyundai Rotem during the Defense Exhibition DX Korea in September 2018.
According to industry sources, in July 2018, Hyundai Rotem has conducted trial tests with an upgraded desert variant of its K2 Black Panther main battle tank in Oman. The upgraded K2 is in sand color and equipped with a shade on top of a turret. The tank is also equipped with a new air conditioning system with a fan mounted on the right side of the turret. The company has developed the desert version of the K2 in several months to adapt the tank for hot and dusty desert conditions, and especially focused on developing an exhaust system to cool the engine.
