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Captain
Big news? UK, US, and Germany should come together and combine their best characteristics of their tanks into one super tank? /Dream

Well, the US & Germany briefliy did so in the '70s with the
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project. Wich laid out quite demanding aims. A 152mm gun, a gun launched ATGM and a crew completely housed in a massive turret.
Rather quickly, after cost overruns first Germany and a little later the US withdrew from the program. Eventually, the Leo2 and Abrams came out of that program, though.
 

Equation

Lieutenant General
Germany and NATO can always bring back this bad boy concept to life.o_O:)

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Miragedriver

Brigadier
The Pars armored family frows with the NSSF Turkish Savunma Sistemleri

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(Defensa.com) The Turkish producer of armored NSSF Savunma Sistemleri (owned by the private Turkish conglomerate Nurol Holding and the US subsidiary of BAE Systems) extended family Pars wheeled armored with the development of the 4x4 configuration. The multitasking highly mobile amphibious vehicle was designed for surveillance missions on the battlefield, anti-tank combat and command and control operations. It has a low thermal signature and a water-resistant hull. The Pars 4x4 offers a weight / power ratio of 25-30 horsepower per ton, a length of 5 m relationship., A width of 2.5 m., A height of 1.9 m., A maximum road speed 120 km / h and a range of up to 700 kilometers.

The vehicle is available as a command and control station with remote control weapons armed with a heavy machine gun of 12.7 mm., Tactical patrol a protected weapons station operated manually with a machine gun 12.7 mm. 7.62 mm machine gun. or 40mm automatic grenade launcher .; recognition equipped with an electro-optical sensor mounted on a telescopic mast and anti-tank launcher equipped with a single station or guided missiles, armed with guided Roketsan OMTAS KBP Instrument Design Bureau and Kornet-E missiles.

As standard equipment, the Pars 4x4 incorporates a helmet with ballistic protection against landmines, a diesel engine, an automatic transmission, an independent hydropneumatic suspension, fumigant grenade launchers; Ultrajet amphibians propellers type MJP Waterjets, protected for the driver, commander and combatants, tow rope, adjustable pressure system tires, cameras day and night observation, a projector lighting, locking differential settlements, and the antilock system assisted hydraulic brakes.

As motorization, the company offers the Caterpillar, Deutz, Cummins and Steyr Motors manufacturers. The company plans to build the first prototype in 2016. It comes as air transportable by C-130H Hercules, C-17 Globemaster III, C-5 Galaxy, A400M Atlas and CH-47 Chinook. Officially launched in May 2015 in the form of full-scale model, the 4x4 Pars was seen with remotely operated weapon station SARP (Advanced Remote weapon Stabilized Platform) Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret armed with a heavy machine gun 12.7 mm. and equipped with the electro-optical sensor ATS-40 from the same company.

NSSF Savunma Sistemleri Pars also offers 6x6 and 8x8 configurations, in various versions, including the transportation of troops, infantry fighting vehicle recognition and CBRN. 8x8 configuration was acquired by Malaysia and has been operational since December 2014 where 257 units were delivered in 12 versions. The vehicle, designated locally Gempita, partially produced in Malaysia by DRB-HICOM Defence Technologies (Deftech).

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