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French Army Leclerc tank navigating a course during exercise Strong Europe Tank Challenge in 2017. The Leclerc has an eight-cylinder SACM (now Wärtsilä) V8X-1500 1,500 hp Hyperbar diesel engine and a SESM (now Renk AG) [22] automatic transmission, with five forward and two reverse gears. The official maximum speed by road is 71 km/h and 55 km ...
The French 2nd Armoured Division (French: 2e Division Blindée, 2e DB), was commanded by General Philippe Leclerc, one of the best French tank commanders. General Leclerc joined the Free French forces after the fall of France and adopted the Resistance pseudonym "Jacques-Philippe Leclerc".
The DCL comes as a replacement for the AMX-30 D in the role of a recovery and repair tank for battle tanks over 50 tonnes. Nexter designates it DNG ( Dépanneur Nouvelle Génération , "next generation repair"); the French Army uses the term DCL ( Dépanneur du Char Leclerc , "Leclerc tank repair").
Leclerc Evolution is a French prototype of the enhanced fourth-generation main battle tank (MBT) developed and manufactured by the KNDS France. The project was presented during the Eurosatory 2024. [ 1 ]
This first stage, for a total cost of nearly €5.1 billion (FY2017), includes the replacement of the VAB by the VBMR Griffon, the replacement of the AMX-10 RC, ERC-90 Sagaie and VAB HOT by the EBRC Jaguar, the modernization of the Leclerc tank as well as the development of a unified combat information network to ensure the coherence of systems ...
The current generation of tanks using autoloaders (Russian T-72, T-80, T-90 and T-14, Japanese Type 90 and Type 10, Chinese Type 96 and Type 99, South Korean K2 Black Panther, French Leclerc, Sino-Pakistani Al-Khalid MBT, North Korean M2020, Iranian Zulfiqar and Karrar) all weigh between 45–55 tons.
The French, for their part, funded the construction of a lengthened Leclerc turret armed with a 140 mm smoothbore gun. The T4 turret was unveiled in 1996. The T4 turret was unveiled in 1996. In September 2016, the T4 turret was mounted on a former Leclerc MARS recovery vehicle and christened with the name of Terminateur (Terminator).
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