Category: Land Vehicle Construction

What armor to ensure the interim of Leclerc if the MGCS program were to be postponed?

These last days have probably been the most difficult concerning the Main Ground Combat System, or MGCS, program, initially intended to replace the Leclerc and Leopard 2 from 2035. Indeed, one after the other, several announcements have been made across the Rhine, leaving assume that this deadline would no longer be met. Thus, according to the Bundeswehr, the industrial obstacles facing the program today would now prohibit entry into service in 2035. A few days earlier Suzanne Weigand, the CEO of RENK, which designs and manufactures the very critical transmissions of French tanks and Germans, said in an interview that this same deadline…

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India relaunches a competition cut for a Leclerc Mk2 to replace its T-72

In 2015, New Delhi had launched a competition to replace the some 2400 T-72 combat tanks in service since the beginning of the 80s. The specifications then transmitted aimed to acquire a modern combat tank with a mass of 45 to 55 tons, armed with a 120mm gun or more, and equipped with modern sighting and communication systems. Due to the mass restriction, Western tanks such as the Leopard 2 and the Abrams were excluded, and 4 models were then considered: the Ukrainian T-84 Oplot, the South Korean K2 Black Panther, the T-14 Armata Russian…

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Is Ukraine assembling a breakthrough brigade for its upcoming offensive?

For several weeks now, many Western commentators have been waiting for the launch of the famous Ukrainian spring counter-offensive against the Russian system. However, this tends to be delayed. And the Janes analysis and information service may have pinpointed the reasons for this delay. Indeed, in a brief, the site announced that it had obtained certain information on this subject during the International Defense and Security Technology Fair (IDET) 2023, which took place a few days ago in Brno, in the Republic Czech. According to this information, the Ukrainian General Staff would wait for the 50 combat vehicles…

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Long-range artillery: the French are thinking about it, the German industrialists are anticipating it

Long-range artillery has become a critical operational issue for modern armies, its effectiveness in high-intensity conflicts having been widely demonstrated in Ukraine. And in this field, modern systems, such as the HIMARS from the American Lockheed-Martin or the Russian Tornado S and G, provide considerable added value over older systems, in particular due to their precision and a range unmatched by previous generation systems. In the West, only the United States had proven know-how in the field, the latter having developed the M270 MRLS which entered service in 1980 as a response to the Soviet Grad and Smerch.…

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MGCS program: the time for bad solutions is approaching for France

Only a few weeks ago, French planning for its combat tank fleet remained anchored on the start of deliveries in 2035, targeted by the Franco-German Main Ground Combat System or MGCS program, which was to enable to replace the French Leclercs like the German Leopard 2s at this deadline. This posture was then surprising, and even worrying, since many declarations across the Rhine seemed to point to a probable slippage of the program beyond 2040, and more probably 2045. Just a month ago, the acquisition by the Bundeswehr of 18 Leopard 2A8, a new…

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A month after being unveiled, the Czech Republic wants to acquire 70 Leopard 2A8 tanks

Just over a month ago, the Bundeswehr announced an order for 18 Leopard 2 heavy tanks from its manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, to replace the 18 Leopard 2A6s sent to Ukraine to support the war effort in Kyiv. If this order had been expected and even announced for several weeks, it nevertheless surprised the small world of armored specialists. Indeed, where everyone was waiting for the Leopard 2A7++ derived from the model sold to Hungary a few months earlier, the Bundeswehr announced that it was acquiring a new version of the tank, the Leopard 2A8, a model designed discreetly by…

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Assembly of the Polish version of the Chunmoo multiple rocket launcher has begun

A few days ago, while visiting the Lockheed-Martin factory in Camden, Arkansas, which assembles the HIMARS system, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak indicated that Warsaw's potential order of 500 systems American rocket launchers remained under discussion, even though for several months and the announcement in October 2022 of the order by Warsaw of 300 South Korean K239 Chunmoo systems, it seemed that the order of Polish HIMARS should be reduced to 200 copies . This statement has, in fact, created some questioning about the future of the Chunmoo command, which could seem threatening. At first glance, there is nothing…

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RCH-155, L52-Radhaubitze: Are the Germans bogged down in designing a mounted artillery gun?

As we have already discussed several times, the CAESAR truck-mounted artillery system from French Nexter is one of the weapon systems that has best demonstrated its effectiveness and concept of use in Ukraine. Indeed, while tracked self-propelled artillery systems like the Polish Krab or the American M109 suffer heavy losses against drones and the Russian counter-battery, the Caesars transmitted by France and now by Denmark, manage thanks to their great mobility, to avoid the ripostes carried out by the Russian forces, while ensuring precise and concentrated strikes requiring in fact fewer shells for a…

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The South Korean K2 Black Panther tank reportedly outperformed the Leopard 2A7 in the Norwegian competition

At the beginning of February, Oslo announced the selection of the Leopard 2A7 from the German Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, in order to replace its heavy tanks Leopard 2A4, at the end of a competition having opposed the German tank to the K2 Black Panther of the South Korean HRC. According to the Norwegian authorities, the two armored vehicles would have met the requirements of the specifications of the competition, both in terms of performance and budget, and the choice of the Leopard 2A7 was linked to political considerations and geographical proximity. One could then think that in these areas, the German tank and its South Korean counterpart had been on an equal footing. However, the interview made by the Polish site…

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Germany puts an option on 123 Leopard 2A8 tanks for €3 billion beyond the 18 units ordered

It will have taken time, but the €100 billion envelope announced by Olaf Scholz in February 2022 to modernize and rebuild the German armies is beginning to produce its effects. A few days ago, the Bundeswehr thus announced the order of 50 modernized Puma infantry fighting vehicles to complete its inventory and replace the Marders still in service. The order for 60 CH-47F Chinook heavy helicopters from Boeing also appears to have been authorized by the US State Department for the transaction for $8,5 billion. In the field of combat tanks, Berlin had already announced its intention to order 18 Leopard 2 tanks from…

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