Love how they have designed the Cockerill 3000 series turret some fantastic engineering involved. And I sincerely hope they do a 120mm smoothbore version at some stage with the same features as the 105mm version but up armoured to STANAG level 5 protection. The modular design of the turret is excellent and would make manufacturing one so much easier. Using a tracked IFV chassis of around 35 to 40 tonnes with a Cockerill 120mm turret fitted would make a nice little medium tank. Extra ammunition could be stored in a modified troop compartment and loaded into the autoloader from a roof hatch if enough room is available. Or the autoloader can be loaded completely externally with the ammunition stored inside the modified troop compartment. A nice medium tank of around 40 to 45 tonnes based off a modern IFV Chassis with an autoloaded 120mm smoothbore gun would be well received I would imagine. The K-21 XC-8 120mm comes to mind as the starting point for this build with the 120mm smoothbore gun used as well as a 7.62mm coaxial MG mounted in the steel turret but with the turret armour at STANAG level 5-6 and also equipped with laser warning receivers connected to the smoke grenade launchers as part of a passive defence system with a hard-kill APS optional. Also the raised rotating main sight could be replaced with a RWS similar to the one on the Redback to keep the Hunter killer capability while allowing an MG such as a fifty calibre to be used. With the turret mounted on the Redback IFV chassis with an APU fitted instead of the K-21 chassis it was originally fitted on.. The rear troop compartment can be modified for ammunition storage so the autoloader can be loaded from outside the vehicle. A nice new state of the art medium tank with an autoloader and a weight of around the 40+ tonne range that is easy to design and build. 😎🇦🇺 Designed by Mark J Maxwell
Very potent and modular turret. Should add small size radar on turret to detect incoming UCAV. Now in future battle will be between UCAV verses armoured vehicles. With 105 mm bore gun anti aircraft missile can be easily fires. Second option two vertical launch short range SAM pair at back side of turret. Smoke grenade is obsolete in modern warfare.
Modularity always sounds great in theory, but in practice nobody ever really seems to use that feature. Take the interchangeable mission modules on the Boxer APC for example. I never heard of any of the armies using it, actually swapping out the mission modules.
Agreed however it's nice to have a 'family" of vehicles using as many similar parts. The modularity advantage is really only back at 3rd line maintenance when a specialised vehicle is knocked out/damaged and they take a more common variety of the same vehicle and swap the specialist kit into it to get it back in the field with minimal downtime. So maybe a week and not months. but it would still not be a common event.
What really matters is that there are lots of the same type of vehicle meaning easy training and repairs plus spare parts can be bought in mass or you can change vehicles for a long term changing battle field.
That is similar to the Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the US Army. The Germany Army is building some medium brigades using the various versions of the Boxer APC. Conceptually, it is similar in design although they do a Boxer RCH variant, which is a self propelled 155 m howirzer mounted on the Boxer platfoem
I don't see what the use for a 90mm can be when the same vehicle can use a heavier 105mm cannon, seemingly, for the same role as a support gun. I'm guessing it's because some countries still have a lot of 90mm shells? South Africa is known for having made use of AML 90s and Ratels, famous for the 90mm main guns. Am I missing something?
Que tal un blindaje pasivo ante misiles a base de agua solamente....piénselo el dardo de plasma que emite una ojiva Heat pueda ser minimizado con agua .Su efecto mortal sería minimo
La mejor medida anti-HEAT es simplemente soldar chapas de metal sobre la armadura real del vehículo para crear distancia entre el proyectil y la armadura real. Siempre ha sido el mejor método. Usar agua, cemento o bolsas de arena tiene básicamente el mismo efecto, solo que es más pesado. Los paquetes de armadura explosiva o sistemas que pueden interceptar proyectiles antes de que entren en contacto con el vehículo son todavía mejores que las chapas de metal, y pueden pesar todavía menos, pero estos métodos de proteger un un vehículo también son más caros y, al ser máquinas más complejas que simples láminas de metal, exponen el riesgo de que malfuncionen en combate.
@society You trying to sell to authoritarian strongmen? You still shouldn't advertise like that, you show it firing into bunkers because strongmen mind about appearance even more.
@society Sure, everyone knows that copypasta. The issue here is different -- this ad is in bad taste in the same way that an ad for an AR-15 depicting a mass shooting using the product would be in bad taste. Why would you do that?
Actually, in a different, older upload, there's actually a guy with an RPG-7 looking thing on the rooftop. It's just missing that portion of the 3D CGI that would have cleared it up. So yeah, bad advertising if it ever goes on Network Television.
ta greule , tu ne connais pas ce nouveau matériel ultra moderne , cette société belge centenaire est implantée de le monde entier , le département défense n'est qu'une petite partie de cette société
