The beginning of something new - Leopard 1

[@BobAbc0815]

Little did the Allies knew that the real Kraut Threat was the Beetle.

[@RamenNoodlePackets]

Top notch quality like always, cheers friend.

[@bobiwt]

@@RamenNoodlePackets Thank you I appreciate it

[@rs5974]

Incredible work!

[@bobiwt]

@@rs5974 Thank you!

[@ivancho5854]

I just heard today that a new engine for the Leopard 1 has been developed by Rolls Royce for Reinmetaal. They will replace the ageing MTUs as they are now out of production. The new engine will be able to be fitted to all of the Leopard 1 variants, will be a plug-and-play solution, delivers more power, is lighter, fuel efficient and has longer service intervals. I didn't expect this development of this old Cold War hero. Long live the Leopard 1. 👍

[@hammerblockREAL]

goated channel 🗣🗣

[@bobiwt]

@@hammerblockREAL Thanks 🫡

[@alexanderversluis3478]

just 1 little mistake , the gunmantlet is not to prevent overheating, but one sided cooling by wind . the guntube if cooled on one side wil deflect , so accuracy is improved with a gun mantlet. ( gun barrel named up to kaliber 40mm biger kaliber then its named guntube)

[@bobiwt]

@@alexanderversluis3478 Thank you for adding this!

[@cathulhu-q7y]

its not a gun mantlet (thats the covering plating at the base of the gun, where the gun and turret interface via the gun cradle), its a Barrel Shroud

[@blackteamask]

Lets go new Video!

[@Recat6217]

Plz Sprut next

[@konakona420]

Very interesting, now make vid on m-84 variants!

[@FirstDagger]

The e in Porsche isn't silent. It is Porscheh, not Porsch.

[@bobiwt]

@@FirstDagger Thanks for pointing that out. Although I already know that. I speak German myself. I just chose the „English-speaking“ way to pronounce it. But still thanks for saying I always appreciate corrections in my pronounciations! 👍

[@Galil-aces]

@FirstDagger lol it’s a hot topic here in America with the car community but yea generally the average people here just call it Porsch

[@FirstDagger]

@@Galil-aces And the average person calls anything that has tracks as tank.

[@Galil-aces]

@@FirstDagger yep and there are videos explaining that as well sir this is KZbin👍

[@FirstDagger]

@@Galil-aces And you are content keeping the average at a low level it seems. People like you who relish in mediocrity and use it as an excuse are the worst.

[@sergiom9958]

First!

[@IS400-z6h]

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[@Galil-aces]

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[@adamesd3699]

This is the tank Ukraine is now getting.

[@itsericzhou]

Still better than the challenger 2(talking about the 1A5). Can’t wait for challenger fanboys to come at me

[@bobiwt]

@@adamesd3699 Yeah

[@mrchambers31]

@@itsericzhouShame the British Army dont have experts like you to advice what tanks to buy

[@cathulhu-q7y]

@@mrchambers31 well, looking at how Chieftain entered service (about the same time as Leo1), the procurement tended to ignore the experts and procured something local. Similarly but worse was how things with Challenger 1 and 2 turned out. Here the Thatcher administration actively intervened in the design and procurement process, cutting funding and setting up demands to procure exclusively domestic solutions at the cheapest, even if the domestic solution is worse but cheaper, even though better and especcially NATO standarised solutions were availible (the RH120 smoothbore gun, optronics and firecontrol systems from Texas Instruments, Renk gearboxes, MTU Turbodiesels etc) The result were excessively expensive and drasticly underperforming tanks with no NATO compatibility, requiring a completely separate logistics chain (wich is again more expensive)

[@itsericzhou]

@@mrchambers31 in all fairness, it was good enough during the Cold War. But cmon really? 1200HP engine when Abrams and leopard have 1500 while weighing basically the same? That could be upgraded. Hesh… basically a watered down frag round with better Armor performance(heat exists????). Why not use smoothbore like the rest of nato? Right, stupid hesh. Irl aiming for weak spots like the lower glacis isn’t done but it increases its chances of being penned. No blowout panels which is crazy since it’s manually loaded. Anyone who talks about how wet storage is the same thing should ask the t62 how that goes. Wet storage will prevent smaller pieces of shrapnel from setting it off as well as delaying the cook off time when the tank catches fire. Doesn’t do shit when tungsten flying at Mach fuck goes through the round. Ukrainians have criticized its lack of dedicated fragmentation round because hesh isn’t very effective against infantry in a trench. It’s not even modern day engineers fault either, it’s the fact that Britain has drastically cut military spending since 91 and its left the military to make do with what they have since they can’t afford to design and procure new tanks