Hello everyone,
everyone knows Leopard as the German main battle tank, that won the competition and became a mass-produced vehicle, used throughout Europe. However, there is this impression that apart from the Leopard, the Germans did not develop anything else on the tank field in the 60′s. That is not true. Check this out.
This is the Blohm und Voss company proposal for a main battle tank, developed in the 60′s and patented in 1970, as found by Vollketten (Patent Application No. #2066169 from 21st April 1970). Its full name (in the patent) is “Armored Vehicle with Low Silhouette”.
The patent concerns the setup of the vehicle, specifically the fact that the very narrow turret is unmanned and the gun within (105mm Bordkanone, looks like a L7 clone, plus what looks like a 20mm autocannon on turret side) is fed via an autoloading mechanism from the ammo storage, located below the turret. The crew is located in the front and controls the main gun remotely. The engine is in the rear. The main requirement of the vehicle was to be as low as possible and thus easily concealed, since, according to German data from testing various vehicles, the tank duel only takes a short time and the decisive factor in it is how low a silhouette the tank has, since a taller tank can be detected several seconds earlier, allowing the other tank to fire off the first round.
Furthermore, the testing experience showed that tanks suffer most of the hits in turret, making the turret as small as possible a priority in order to complicate things for the enemy. Hits in the turret do put the crew at risk as well and so the proposed solution provides the crew with maximum protection from enemy hits by placing it in front of the vehicle, together.
There are no exact data for the vehicle available – the problem with German archives and such is that pretty much everything more modern is secret or “Bundeswehr only” and thus, it cannot be published. It’s however an interesting insight into how the German engineers were thinking.
perhaps a premium tank?
Dat ammo rack
Not in the turret though.
T44 explodes frequently because its packed into the turret.
Third T10 German Medium tank?
Too modern probably……
Not too modern, but very little is known about it.
There are three nearly identical soviet T10 Mediums, Having three very different T10 mediums for germans would be great. And WG has already extracted info from Bundesarchiv so its not impossible
Have any one asked on RU server about possibility that this tank can be implemented in WOT ?
WG knows about, it, currently there are no plans as far as I know.
It has a major flaw of not being russian. If it was there would be legions of Yuri’s goons crawling in Bundesarchiv searching for any info. Alas, its german
Yet another glas cannon autoloader, just what the game needs. Nice find SS, but a leo pta with an autoloader? Not a good idea, though the lack of a clip could just make it a pta alternative. Still bad in terms of crew deaths and increasing camping.
390alpha in a 3shell clip, would be quite exciting if you ask me
The way I understand, the loading mechanism is not drum fed, super fast firing like in french tanks, but similar to the soviet auto-lading mechanism in soviet tanks (T-64 and later soviet MTB).
I think it look more like STB-1 level of fire-power, with size and handling of a light tank.
Might get bad view range from Wargaming due to its design composition.
such diversity, much beauty, so unique wow…
too bad it doesn’t look like a t54 so it cannot be implemented into the game
Still more excited about the insane Borgward Leopard that has about 0% chance of ever appearing.
http://www.panzerpower.de/bilder/leo1/entwicklung/borgward.jpg
Reminds me of the British comres 75?
Fuck Leo P – This is our new tier 9 medium… With the very low silhouette the gun depression will be similar :-) Nice
While you said there isn’t a whole lot of exact data available, is there any speculation as to a general estimate of the height of the vehicle?
No..autoloaders…just no.