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The Rheinmetall Panther KF51. The KF51 is based on the hull of the Leopard 2A4 and thus has a conventional MBT layout, with the driver at the front, the turret in the middle and the engine at the rear. The driver is seated in the front right of the hull and is provided with a single-piece hatch above their position in the roof of the glacis ...
At the 2016 Eurosatory, Rheinmetall presented an MBT Advanced Technology Demonstrator on the basis of a Leopard 2A4 Evolution hull. [9] This would later become the Panther KF51 . Meanwhile, at the 2018 Eurosatory , KNDS unveiled the European Main Battle Tank (E-MBT), a hybrid combining the hull of a Leopard 2A7 with the lighter, two-man turret ...
Rheinmetall's turret design had a rounded shape and was armed with a 3.7 cm gun above the 7.5 cm gun, while Krupp's turret was more rectangular and had the 3.7 cm gun mounted beside the 7.5 cm gun. Both turrets were also armed with a co-axial MG-34 machine gun, along with the two sub-turrets at the front and rear of the tank.
Muzzle of a Rheinmetall 120 mm L/55 tank gun on a Spanish Leopard 2E. The Rheinmetall Rh-120 is a 120 mm smoothbore tank gun designed and produced in former West Germany by the Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH company. It was developed in response to Soviet advances in armour technology and development of new armoured threats.
The Panther carried more ammunition and had a faster firing cycle: for every 1–1.5 shots of the IS-2, the Panther and Tiger could fire 3-4 times. [140] With the addition of a semi-automatic drop breech over the previously manual screw, [ 141 ] this breech modification increased the IS-2's rate of fire to 3-4 rounds per minute.
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