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Italy: After failing to reach an agreement with KNDS over the procurement and domestic production of new Leopard 2A8 tanks and support vehicles, on 3 July 2024, Rheinmetall and Leonardo announced they would establish a 50:50 joint venture to produce KF51 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles as part of the Italian Army Main Battle Tank (MBT) and ...
'Object 148') is a Russian fourth-generation main battle tank (MBT) based on the Armata Universal Combat Platform. The Russian Army initially planned to acquire 2,300 T-14s between 2015 and 2020. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] By 2018, production and fiscal shortfalls delayed this to 2025, [ 16 ] before Russia announced the apparent cancellation of the ...
The most significant change from Challenger 2 to Challenger 3 is the replacement of the Challenger's main armament from a 120 mm L30A1 rifled main gun to the 120 mm L55A1 [18] smoothbore gun (which itself is an upgraded version of the L55 fitted to the Leopard 2A6/A7 family of main battle tanks) giving commonality with other NATO members ...
The tank is equipped with composite armor that is believed to be on par with ones equipped on third generation main battle tanks and is possibly modular in design. [4] Parts of the turret appear to have armor up to 10 cm thick to defend against top attack munitions. [15] Compared to the Songun-915 tank, the commander sits in the right side of ...
Leclerc XLR, French fourth-generation main battle tank (in production); EMBT ADT140, French-German enhanced fourth-generation main battle tank; Main Ground Combat System, French-German project of new generation main battle tank and other tactical military vehicles
The armaments of the tank will include 120 mm smoothbore main gun (ATGM-capable) and two small-calibre machine guns. The tank will have a modular design, enabling the tanks to integrate new technology with time. The volume occupied by electronics package is less when compared to earlier Arjun tank variants.
This is a list of main battle tanks, and other vehicles serving that role, in active military service with countries of the world. A main battle tank (MBT) is the type of powerful, heavily armoured and highly mobile tank which is the backbone of a mechanized land force.
The "Armata" Universal Combat Platform (Russian: Армата) [8] [9] is a Russian advanced next generation modular heavy military tracked vehicle platform. The Armata platform is the basis of the T-14 (a main battle tank), the T-15 (a heavy infantry fighting vehicle), a combat engineering vehicle, an armoured recovery vehicle, a heavy armoured personnel carrier, a tank support combat vehicle ...