After the acquisition of German tanks Leopard A4, the arsenal of the Hungarian army, formerly consisting only of MBT T-72, replenished with a new product. The commander of the training battalion gave his assessment of two types of combat vehicles.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Horvat Sandor, preparing them for operation is almost the same, but, although both tanks are contemporaries, they seriously differ in design philosophy.
In the German product, the emphasis is on the survival and protection of the crew
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As he explains,, Leopard A4 has a more powerful engine, the driver drives the car with a joystick, a set of sensors seriously helps in the management of equipment, signaling the state of the system - oil pressure and temperature, water and other. As a result, overheating of the power plant is not so terrible, unlike the T-72.
The concept of firing is also significantly different..
In the Leopard, everything is based on the accuracy of the first shot. [apparently, due to the lack of an automatic loader]: the probability of hitting the target should be 98-99 %, a ballistic computer helps to achieve this indicator. For the T-72, the allowable percentage of misses is much higher
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In his words, fire in motion is carried out from the "Leopard" at a speed of 30-35 kmh, that "so far it has been unimaginable".
