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Büffel ARV towing a Puma APC over a folding bridge. Exercise "Grantiger Löwe 2019"
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Recently, the Luftwaffe has begun to take delivery of refurbished Tornadoes previously used in pilot training in the USA. 43᛭42 was just hours away from losing her certificate of airworthiness when her service life extension began in mid-2017. Not the least thanks to 3D printing, the completely remade strike fighter may now go on to serve for another 8,000 hours in the air.
Scarred at Holloman AFB
On the operating table
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Scarred at Holloman AFB
On the operating table
All shiny again
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Found these videos, the interesting part is the footage of the Skyhawks and Alphajets operating from Wittmund home of the Tactical Air Force Wing 71 (Richthofen)
Skyhawks landing (a bit older but with sunshine
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Skyhawks landing (a bit older but with sunshine
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Just to keep you guys posted, something is not right here. The Luftwaffe's twitter account reads this:
Defence technology magazine ES&T, however, has the following to say:
It seems the normal durability for the Tornado IDS airframe is about 5,800–6,000 flight hours depending on the loads experienced. The way I understand it, due to her use in low-level flight training 43+42 experienced much more "stress hours" (i.e. time flown with high g-loads) than normal. Perhaps the air force's original tweet was written by some mass communication specialist who doesn't know anything about aeroplanes.
Three years worth of work seems like a lot to get another 2,600 hours out of an aircraft but the good news is that according to ES&T, they used the first airframe to figure out how to do it and expect to be able to finish the remaining ones much faster.
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A is short for Ausführung oder "version". The A7A1 is the first (sub)version of the A7.
Quite frankly, the German Army is well on the way to achieving Russian military levels of version diversity. They've now got the A6, A6M A1, A6M A2, A7, A7V and A7 A1.
Quite frankly, the German Army is well on the way to achieving Russian military levels of version diversity. They've now got the A6, A6M A1, A6M A2, A7, A7V and A7 A1.
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I would dare to say that something went terribly wrong, must have seriously messed up somebody's day!
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How on earth did that happen? The vehicle that's the right side up is a Leopard 2, me thinks; and the overturned one is a Dachs armoured engineer vehicle. Perhaps an accident trying to recover the tank?
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YES...........Someone please explain??? Any more pictures? I hate these pics of epic events that elude or defy any explanation for us!! Hence I ask.....
it will confuse ze enemy....
I found it quite surprising they went with Throphy instead of a german system from Rheinmetall. Although Throphy is combat proven. The design is bit flawed though, with the radars on the front armor like that. You can no longer apply camouflage there and they are very vulnareble to enemy fire, which is likely to be aimed at the front armor. With the Merkava, the radars are more to the side and back, which mean the front armor can be hit and most likely leave the Throphy radars intact. A design with the radars more to the rear, like where the smoke dischargers are, would have been much better I think.
But a flawed APS is still better than no APS of course. Although I wonder what the MLC of this beast will be and if assault bridges will still be able to support this beast.
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… and drive mad the poor sods slogging away in maintenance and supply. Hell, there are even two active versions I completely forgot about. From memory:
- A5 – updated A4, new turret armour; used only for training
- A6 – upgraded A5, second-newest base line variant
- A6MA1 – upgraded A6 with additional mine protection, also called A6A1
- A6MA2 – upgraded A6M with C2 equipment compatible with the Dutch Army; these vehicles serve in a battalion into which the remaining Dutch Leopards 2 A6NL are integrated; also called A6A2
- A6A3 – most-modern A6 standard, roughly equivalent to and with the control concept of the A7
- A7 – current base line variant with heavily upgraded armour, gun, electronics, C2 equipment, sights, air conditioning, fire suppression, Barracuda camouflage system
- A7V – direct conversion from older Ausführungen to the A7 standard with additional upgrades not yet available when the A7 was introduced, including a modified transmission for improved acceleration, new sights and optics, new cooling system
- A7A1 – A7 with Trophy APS
From what I gather, Rheinmetall's ADS wouldn't have been available in time in order to provide an armoured task force for VJTF 2023.
Good question. The Leguan is certified for vehicles up to MLC80, so it should be able to support all Leopards 2. (Though with the A7 reaching MLC80 those amphibious engineers will probably have to work a little harder than usual in order to prevent accidents like the one seen above.) The M3 amphibious rig can even tolerate MLC85 – albeit only if configured as a bridge. When used as a ferry, it can't carry the A7.
Having said that, vehicles of a version higher than A6 will not be able to use the Army's ribbon bridges and ferries, MLC60 being their limit. Given the tank's most likely terrain of deployment in a crisis (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) that could leave them in a bit of a pickle. In war, only the M3 would be able to carry the A7 across the rivers Oder, Vistula and Warta. And only about fourty M3's are left within the entirety of NATO.
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