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Chieftan tank sales to Israel, 1968 ...

i saw a video concluding all Chinese mbts and i saw thisi searchrd a bit and found this image had appeared on the internet since 2 years ago. only thing i know is that its based on a 72a chasis and i couldnt find more info. anyone knows more about this??really interested.

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/185cohm/the_panzer_87100/ https://fighting-vehicles.com/tanks/pz-87-leopard-2/ Note: The KWS (Kampfwertsteigerung) III program, also referred to as KWS Stage III, was formally cancelled in 1995. Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if both the...

Hello and good day to everyone. This thread was created in order to gain info about the new Italian army MBT and IFV projects currently in development. Background: Since 2023, Italy started to look for new solutions for modernize it's armored compartments. The program aim to acquire two type...

T34 Heavy Tank Developed in 1945 as a modernization of the T30 heavy tank. The vehicle was equipped with the 120 mm T53 gun and the new Continental AV-1790 engine. Because of the decline in heavy tank development after the end of World War II, the T34 never entered service. The prototypes were...

On 20.5.1952, Ministry of Defense industry of USSR organized a meeting with tank constructors and with the marshal of tank forces, I.S.Bogdanov, to discuss the future of armored forces development. The result of this meeting was a set of tank requirements from 18.6.1952. The resulting tank was...

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This is really M1E3 concept?

I can't find any thread on here regarding the Nemesis MBT, a British project with some US/Commonwealth contributions. https://tankhistoria.com/experimental/nemesis-mbt/?utm_content=cmp-true This article makes mention of a variety of considered versions in both the mounting of the gun...

Latest concept design for K3 came out and I felt it is good time to post general summary on the development of the tank. Shown in the background, visual image suggest it will use 130mm gun, and has cockpit module similar to Russian T-14 Armata. History The goal of the XK3 project is to...

NORINCO where photographic evidence is provided View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-948QapG9qU https://thedeaddistrict.blogspot.com/2020/10/chinese-next-gen-mbt-that-is-currently.html 2 Men crew layout is the most interesting part. Some additional info https://arca.live/b/gaijin/39247626...

In the story I am planning, I would love to feature planes' fights and infantry fighting vehicles' fights. I tried to look for myself but the research result were somewhat small or didn't correspond to what I was looking for. Since I am not an aviation or aereospace engineer, military or...

The recent war really invalidated the design of the T-72, put future supportability in question and show cased unimpressive performance in general The demonstrated Performance rhetoric (actual performance is fixed, the discussion surround it changes): 1. Graphic videos of losses is available to...

So I have been looking at various late cold war tank projects (abrams block 3, Panzerkampfwagen 2000 ect) and one thing that keeps popping up but which i can not find any information about is the mbt-90 program, aperintly Germany figured 3ed times a charm (after mbt-70 with the US and mbt-80...

Who would it effect western tank design? Now for those that don't know heres a thread that tanks about the T-74 https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/project-101-t-74-and-rival-70s-soviet-tank-projects-object-450-480-225-226-780.8240/ But he TLDR is that the T-74 was one of the contestants...

https://militaryleak.com/2021/06/05/indian-army-issues-request-for-information-for-1770-medium-weight-tanks/ https://militaryleak.com/2021/06/28/indian-army-issues-tender-for-1750-new-infantry-combat-vehicles/

https://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/files/mas/press_release-australia_21-40_cn.pdf A step towards Australia's future Heavy Armoured Capability: 75 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams MBT; 29 M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicles; 18 M1074 Joint Assault Bridges 6 more M88A2 Hercules Still to go through formal Govt...

I'm coining this the Anatolian Leopard, as it features turret of Turkey's Altay MBT mated to the Chassis of a Leopard 2 A4. Featuring, L44 Cannon from Leo2A4, modern FCS and E/O, RCWS, APS+radar, LWR and full 360 IR/CCD camera for situational awareness. Not much else is known about this...

Hi All, I’ve trawled the internet but can’t find cast iron differences between the Shir 2 and the Challenger 1. One website elluded to the fact that the Shir 2 had equivalent of 325mm armour and Challenger 1 had more, around 500mm. Seeing as the dates of introduction were very close, would this...

As we know the Russians managed to standardise their tanks forces in the 60s and 70s on two designs: The T55 and later the T72. What tank should NATO have chosen if politics had been no object?