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dassie -> RE: Did Nato build the wrong tanks for a war in Europe? (6/10/2014 4:07:18 PM)
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Just Fellow up on my thread.
All tank are build with different Need and "history" in mind.
WW2 influence have always been a underling through on the tank design and concept.
The France tank designer learn that armor and gun are not necessarily the most important thing, speed and communication is just as important a factors. learn from France defeated from Germany, the France tank post war designer vow to never again be out speed and out communicated.
France tank from amx-13 to amx-30 are all the lightest of the NATO nation main battle tank and even the Leclerc a
post cold war design is geared toward communication and speed.
(one of the reason the France-West Germany common tank project split in to amx-30 and leo-1 later on one of the
reason is the speed vs armor. through this is also other reasons.)
The Germany tank designers learn from WWII that the tank is more than just armor and gun and communication, The reliability , uniformity of armor (not have 4 or 5 tank in service at same time), and finally the number unit can be build is also (Most?)important.
The west-Germany tanks have trend to stay in the middle and not overwhelmingly favor any of the three aspect of
tank design(firepower, mobility and protection). the leo 1 and leo 2 both have good all round performance.
the leo-2 didn't use gas turbine engine and have less armor than Challenger and Abram(not by too much) for this
reason.
( gas turbine are very fuel 'heavy' plus heavy armor gave very heavy weights , some thing germans remember well
about what happen to tiger 2 in WW2)
more thread on USA and British will come tomorrow, got work next day, need zzz)
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