Leopard 2 Main Battle Tank How it Works with modular Space Armour Leopard 2A6 Loepard 2A4

For those interested i will deepdive into the purpose, design and use of the added spaced armor present on a6 variants and variants after.

When this spaced armor was designed it was designed with specific care to both the design of Russian apfsds and the design of Russian tanks as these are interlinked.
We start with the Russian shells and their limitations which lead to the design choice of the Leopard 2's added armor.

Modern Russian tanks use autoloaders, specifically a carousel, this autoloader design along with the compact design of Russian tanks comes at a very niche cost.
Because of Russian tanks compact interior, having an autoloader that was loading the entire shell in one stage became impossible, instead the solution (as with many other tanks) became to separate the ammunition into two stages, the propellant and the shell itself.

This allowed the autoloader to fit and work within the tanks confinement, however as size is an issue the length of the penetrator rod CANNOT be increased further without making the autoloading impossible. It is because of this that the Russians moved to a larger gun on the T14 Armata.

Now how is this important?
Well the penetrating power of a modern APFSDS Directly correlates to the length of the rod, as such the Russians are locked into a limiting roof regarding their shells penetrating power as all of their modern tanks use guns with a calibre of 125mm.

Now how does this tie back to the design of the Leopard 2's added armor?
The design is quite ingenious in it's simplicity. Since it was known that the Russians had locked themselves into this dilemma of rod length German tank designers knew the upper limits of rod length that could be acheived with the Russian guns.

The added armor was then designed so that the space between the original composite armor and the new added armor was longer than the longest rod length possible to acheive with the Russian main 125mm gun.
This means that no matter which apfsds the Russians use the same result is acheived.

When the rod penetrates the spaced armor it is ensured that the rod will have space within the gap to rotate off axis, meaning the rod will NOT impact with it's penetrator in line with it's velocity vector.
This in turn nullifies almost all of the penetrating power of the rod making the front of the Leopard 2 turret impervious to any possible Russian ammunition UNLESS the Russians change the main gun of their tanks.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk!

Is it true that some leopard 2s were knocked out in the Ukraine front?

Hoće li se još proizvoditi ili će proći kao F-117 ?

operational range is wrong its 500km

Stealth can be sawn with laser reflection search system also on drones
and shoot with sub rockets rockets or metal beam ring accelerator gun

See blind man shooting at world...

Metal beam ring accelerator cannon not only the end of the ship navy.
With 2kg-2g Pb 0.1-0.001c 30000-300km / s energy from needle-thick shells with 40t to 400g fired at 5000km/h, every ship can break through the armor. LHC CERN 0.99999999c with 7000 times increased relativistic mass gold, lead, Hg ions.
Without wear and tear, continuous fire without recoil and detectable bangs and muzzle flashes and beams cannot be traced like lasers and radar finders
Separately from cannon in real time providing target data also from stealth (jet) objects, rockets, grenades, drones, satellites (GPS) etc. with el. mg. Fine correction for aiming, high frequency matrix can also be shot.
Ring size up to 10m radius like Ferris wheel can also be rotated vertically or flat on ships from hill to coast etc.

although Leo 2 is one of my favorite MBT I do question why don't they add blow out panel for the ammunition in front hull? I know they try to reduce the chance of cook off by using new fire resistance propellant but that doesn't really insure the crew safety when it does catch on fire, so I have no idea why they don't add those because the ammunition just sit there unprotected either maybe some thin metal sheeting but that's all about it

after your butchering of the name "Rheinmetall" i can't take your research seriously anymore, after not even getting the name correct

too bad the germans didn't win, though,.....

Great graphics and presentation, but please use better language: "all this power is powered by".

Main leo 2 issue - ammo rack next to the driver in lower frontal hull ( as an ex tanker, mine main objection to the design)

You can watch the footage of Robotino if you want to see how it doesn't work at all

Ada Indonesia 🇮🇩 nya coy 😅

"Modern Tank"
Doesn't even have a Autoloader

Thats the fun part - It doesn't.

I'm so glad you explained how a steering wheel works, had no idea

Wrong , the apfsds dont rotate on a leo . The fin are there to stabilized like an arrow so it dont need rotation

Jeez. The background music was obnoxious af

I am a driver on the leopard 2A7 in the danish army. Its a beast to drive.

They don't seem to be able to cope with stabilized bullshit ;)

They burn like firecrackers when destroyed by Russians. The Russians love taking them back to Russia as trophies. Thanks Germany :)

Destroy 6/2023

It doesn't.......

Jak ukázali Rusové, tak skvěle hoří a zničit ho není těžké, to už se ostatně prokázalo v Sýrii

фашисты, вы опять пришли к тому, чтобы немецкие танки воевали против российских? только в этот раз без США и Великобритании с Францией.

А кто-то смотрит чтоб знать куда бить

I like the fact that everyone just brags about their tanks, when in reality it easily be destroyed, 30 of those have been lost till now.

The Russians say leos burn well

No need for missiles, a $30k drone is enough. So much glorifications for the Western weapons and 2hst happened? Pretty sure both, Germany and Britain regret sending them, the USA will regret too.

russia destroyed this tank easy 🤣

smeće

and now, 6 months later, we find out that the leopard-2 tank is not adapted to combat operations against Russia. To date , the defeat of the British tank has been recorded - the same fate will befall the main US tank Abrams . The money invested in these expensive military toys was thrown to the wind . Many people are not sorry to realize that clashes are interesting , not human lives . - Template thinking and pre - prepared public opinion through corrupt media - make you hate Russia , and who among you has been to Russia and what does he know about this country not from the stories of corrupt media ? - I think there are not many such people . Think about the world and the world will come to you, fight for peace with those who deceive you and the world will thank you.

Горят,как спички на Украине.)

wait wait wait a tiger hull and a panther turret what?

😂😂

I don't know how it works, but it burns very nicely in the Ukrainian fields! They should put a sign on it "Do not use against Russians"

Terminator but with people in.

I hope that your episodes will be subtitled into Arabic in writing. This is because your content is interesting and will increase the number of your followers a lot. Thank you

How it works? According to Ukraine war... it doesn't.

The tank to avoid by all means.

"Expendable material" like everything in the army, very vulnerable to landmines and air attacks,
it is excellent when there is no one to resist it, tanks are today "clay pigeons" on the battlefield.

Те самые "не горящие" танки? Невероятно!

And yet they burn like a Zippo in Ukrania

Гордый защитник убийц детей и стариков Донбасса

😂❤🎉😢😮😅

How it Works. Put on the Battlefield. Watch Russians Burn Them.

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