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The Leopard 2 is equipped with two machine guns, one mounted co-axially, the other an anti-aircraft mount. German models use the MG 3 7.62 mm (0.3 in) machine gun; Dutch and Singaporean models use FN MAG 7.62 mm (0.3 in) machine guns; Swiss models use Swiss MG 87 7.5 mm (0.295 in) machine guns.
For example, the Leopard 2 armed with the 44 calibre long gun, has been sold to the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Finland, and other countries. [86] Egypt had manufactured 700–800 M1A1 Abrams by 2005, [ 87 ] and in 2008 requested permission to build another 125 tanks; their M256 main guns (the US version of the L ...
The Leopard 2A4's motor is an MTU MB 873 Ka-501 water-cooled V12 diesel engine producing 1,479 hp at 2,600 rpm, coupled to a Renk HSWL 354 four-speed automatic transmission. The running gear of Leopard 2A4 consists of seven dual-tired rubber road wheels and four rubber-tired offset track return rollers on each side, with the idler at the front ...
Switzerland's executive branch on Wednesday threw its weight behind a proposal to decommission 25 out-of-service Leopard 2 battle tanks that Germany's government wants returned to the German ...
The tank was based on the T-80's chassis, using a new turret, and was armed with an LP-83 152.4 mm smoothbore gun. A variant of the tank utilizing a rifled 152mm armament was never completed. Like most Soviet tanks, the gun offered poor depression, and the LP-83 offered a slower reload despite the presence of an autoloader. The traverse rates ...
Germany has signed agreements with Italy, Spain and Sweden on the development of a successor to the Leopard 2 tank, German business daily Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday. If confirmed, the deal ...
The FLW 100 has a maximum gun depression of –15° and a maximum elevation of +75°. It can be armed with a single 5.56 mm or 7.62 mm machine gun and is intended for combat ranges up to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). [3] The optronics of the FLW 100 are located in a container mounted behind the ammo box, located left of the gun.
On the M1 Abrams it is clamped to the bore evacuator, [citation needed] while on recent variants of the Leopard 2 it is mounted on the frontal turret armor. [citation needed] The system is manually loaded and fired electrically, with firing linked to the trigger of the tank's main gun.