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Generally speaking, yes.
It's a hohol-thing, you wouldn't understand.
Yeah, shit keeps getting loose all the time. All the shit.
Maybe muh infinite debt economy and based lolberg kikes really did their number. Now infinite "growth" is already finalized and all products have been made to break down everywhere.
Thanks mutts.
Guys, I do appreciate your right for shitposting. But there's no way I'm gonna let this fake leaf to get away with his revealing.
Dear fake leaf, please be so kind as to prove you at least live in Canada.
Is Ukraine the Canada of Russia?
Most importantly it is more reliable solution and on top of that it is part of engine family with lot of users on multiple different vehicles. That means that it will have future upgrades and certain support in future.
It has 1 second advantage over UAE version with MTU engine in 0 to 32km/h. Most tanks have that advantage in the first second, due to tanks having insanely high torque engines. Tanks don't have wheel spin issues that might come up with sports cars due to more grip area and gargantuan weight.
It needs to use rather exotic materials due to rather extreme compression with that turbo. It is has 2/3 displacement of typical tank engine.
Amen. Whole engine screams about solution seeking a problem. When it comes to technical details and engineering, it is brilliant idea, potentially a bad one in practice… like it turned out to be.
As whole Leclerc is victim of end of the Cold War. That alone cut French orders to half or less of what was originally planned. Even earlier on GIAT lost the Spanish deal to KMW with Lince that eventually turned out into Leopard 2. That happened mostly due to licensing issues. Spain was originally supposed to get a substantially lighter heavily modified version Leopard 2 called Lince, in the end they got pretty regular Leo2A5 variant with couple Spanish specific modifications to keep costs down with increased parts commonality with rest of Leo2's. Then in 90's Germans simply flooded the market with surplus Leopard 2A4's at 10th of their actual cost. They had thousands of tanks they didn't need and by selling 'em they could at least ensure spare parts business for KMW.
My guess is that break even point for SACM and later on to Wärtsilä was somewhere around 2000 units sold. By the time serial production of Leclerc started and it entered service it was obvious that they weren't going to get even close to that number.
I wish.
France had around 1500 AMX-30 MBT + all the variants (SPG, SPAAG, SAM, Recovery, Engineering, even fucking tactical missile launchers) in total it was around 2500 chassis.
426 Leclercs were ordered, variant included (recovery only. In fact not even enough recovery Leclercs to retire the AMX-30 recovery vehicles)
Out of those not even 260 are in line the other have either been mothballed, cancelled or sold (the French army pretend they have 426 despite the fact that no-one really know how much of the original order was fulfilled and the fact that there is only 4 tank formation with them at 60 tank each).
Get on my level pleb.