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From a7 on a camera block with thermal, day and night cameras is standard front and rear of the tank. Also has image overlay for thermal with day/night
They are at the edge of replacing but the tracks work just fine without rubber and generally actually have more grip.

That really wasnt the difficult thing

That really wasnt the difficult thing

That really wasnt the difficult thing

https://below-the-turret-ring.blogspot.com/2015/06/cold-war-mbt-turret-designs.html
Possibly somewhat better given they have thicker armour along the entire length of the turret.
The lancets seem to be very deliberately aimed at the rear torret sides on the leo2.

The most obvious thing to note for me is that with the exception of the one with the blown out blowout panel all seem to have been abandoned in good order and are just being finished off with the lancets.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/15h9rt2/german_leopard_2a6_tank_taken_out_by_the_lancet/
Left track is blown with two armour panels missing so probably a minestrike.
But the turret is turned slightly left to allow the driver to easily get out of the tank, the turret mg is missing and the hatchets are closed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyedTanks/comments/14601r1/leopard_2a6_abandoned_and_struck_by_lancet_drone/
Here a single armour panel is missing this time on the right side and while the track isnt obviously down it seems like its a mine hit just like the tank before.
Again the turret is slightly left, mg is missing and hatches are closed.
The both also didnt use their smoke launchers so its unlikely they had to abandon the tanks under direct fire.
It is however also hard to tell how much damage exactly the lancets did. on each hit there are two distinct smoke clouds. One brown one from the lancets explosives and a white one from the smokelaunchers but the videos cout out before the smike dissipates so its unknown if they did much more than blow the smokelaunchers off.
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1687504028773519361
This one is different because they dont have the turret to the left and the commanders hatch is still open. Its basically impossible to tell hat exactly happened to it but id argue it certainly was abandoned before the ammo storage was hit.
The blowout panel also worked as intended as id expect the loaders hatch to be blown open aswell. I suspect there was also more than the one obvious hit on this side. The NBC systems hatch is blown open and clearly ben broken in half and a 2cm strong armured steel panel doesnt just break. The left fueltank has also ben blown open.
 
 
 

The most obvious thing to note for me is that with the exception of the one with the blown out blowout panel all seem to have been abandoned in good order and are just being finished off with the lancets.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/15h9rt2/german_leopard_2a6_tank_taken_out_by_the_lancet/
Left track is blown with two armour panels missing so probably a minestrike.
But the turret is turned slightly left to allow the driver to easily get out of the tank, the turret mg is missing and the hatchets are closed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyedTanks/comments/14601r1/leopard_2a6_abandoned_and_struck_by_lancet_drone/
Here a single armour panel is missing this time on the right side and while the track isnt obviously down it seems like its a mine hit just like the tank before.
Again the turret is slightly left, mg is missing and hatches are closed.
The both also didnt use their smoke launchers so its unlikely they had to abandon the tanks under direct fire.
It is however also hard to tell how much damage exactly the lancets did. on each hit there are two distinct smoke clouds. One brown one from the lancets explosives and a white one from the smokelaunchers but the videos cout out before the smike dissipates so its unknown if they did much more than blow the smokelaunchers off.
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1687504028773519361
This one is different because they dont have the turret to the left and the commanders hatch is still open. Its basically impossible to tell hat exactly happened to it but id argue it certainly was abandoned before the ammo storage was hit.
The blowout panel also worked as intended as id expect the loaders hatch to be blown open aswell. I suspect there was also more than the one obvious hit on this side. The NBC systems hatch is blown open and clearly ben broken in half and a 2cm strong armured steel panel doesnt just break. The left fueltank has also ben blown open.
 
 
 

That really wasnt the difficult thing

That really wasnt the difficult thing

Only the third verse of the deutschlandlied is the national anthem.

Only the third verse of the deutschlandlied is the national anthem.

Only the third verse of the deutschlandlied is the national anthem.

That white smoke is the smoke launcher being hit. The A6 doesnt have a fire supression system in the crew compartment.
The hit also apears to have hit the electronics room if anything so not even technically in the crew compartment.
The dark smoke also seems to come from the electronics or the storage boxes.
So even assuming this hit breached the armour this is at worst a repair job with unharmed crew.

That white smoke is the smoke launcher being hit. The A6 doesnt have a fire supression system in the crew compartment.
The hit also apears to have hit the electronics room if anything so not even technically in the crew compartment.
The dark smoke also seems to come from the electronics or the storage boxes.
So even assuming this hit breached the armour this is at worst a repair job with unharmed crew.

That white smoke is the smoke launcher being hit. The A6 doesnt have a fire supression system in the crew compartment.
The hit also apears to have hit the electronics room if anything so not even technically in the crew compartment.
The dark smoke also seems to come from the electronics or the storage boxes.
So even assuming this hit breached the armour this is at worst a repair job with unharmed crew.

That white smoke is the smoke launcher being hit. The A6 doesnt have a fire supression system in the crew compartment.
The hit also apears to have hit the electronics room if anything so not even technically in the crew compartment.
The dark smoke also seems to come from the electronics or the storage boxes.
So even assuming this hit breached the armour this is at worst a repair job with unharmed crew.

P 143 of the british infantry manual
Tbh the more i read of it the more it seems like they got most things correct in concept but not the specifics on how that would look.
 

P 143 of the british infantry manual
Tbh the more i read of it the more it seems like they got most things correct in concept but not the specifics on how that would look.
 

As scary as selfmoving mines sound they really arent a competition to normal mines.
A basic at mine takes a plastic casing, 3-5kg of explosives and a pressure plate to disable or destroy any vehicle that drives over it.
it costs practically nothing to produce, can be produced by the billions, easily laid mechanically, are practically undetectable and will last until something detonates it.
A selfmoving at mine needs the same basics but has to add a way to move, sensors to find its targets, a guiding system, energy storage and radios if it wants to selforganize with other mines. 
All those things are fairly expensive and relatively difficult to build. They will also be quite large and cannot be hidden in the ground. their batteries will run dry and if they communicate you can find the entire minefield with an ew vehicle.

As scary as selfmoving mines sound they really arent a competition to normal mines.
A basic at mine takes a plastic casing, 3-5kg of explosives and a pressure plate to disable or destroy any vehicle that drives over it.
it costs practically nothing to produce, can be produced by the billions, easily laid mechanically, are practically undetectable and will last until something detonates it.
A selfmoving at mine needs the same basics but has to add a way to move, sensors to find its targets, a guiding system, energy storage and radios if it wants to selforganize with other mines. 
All those things are fairly expensive and relatively difficult to build. They will also be quite large and cannot be hidden in the ground. their batteries will run dry and if they communicate you can find the entire minefield with an ew vehicle.

As scary as selfmoving mines sound they really arent a competition to normal mines.
A basic at mine takes a plastic casing, 3-5kg of explosives and a pressure plate to disable or destroy any vehicle that drives over it.
it costs practically nothing to produce, can be produced by the billions, easily laid mechanically, are practically undetectable and will last until something detonates it.
A selfmoving at mine needs the same basics but has to add a way to move, sensors to find its targets, a guiding system, energy storage and radios if it wants to selforganize with other mines. 
All those things are fairly expensive and relatively difficult to build. They will also be quite large and cannot be hidden in the ground. their batteries will run dry and if they communicate you can find the entire minefield with an ew vehicle.

As scary as selfmoving mines sound they really arent a competition to normal mines.
A basic at mine takes a plastic casing, 3-5kg of explosives and a pressure plate to disable or destroy any vehicle that drives over it.
it costs practically nothing to produce, can be produced by the billions, easily laid mechanically, are practically undetectable and will last until something detonates it.
A selfmoving at mine needs the same basics but has to add a way to move, sensors to find its targets, a guiding system, energy storage and radios if it wants to selforganize with other mines. 
All those things are fairly expensive and relatively difficult to build. They will also be quite large and cannot be hidden in the ground. their batteries will run dry and if they communicate you can find the entire minefield with an ew vehicle.

As scary as selfmoving mines sound they really arent a competition to normal mines.
A basic at mine takes a plastic casing, 3-5kg of explosives and a pressure plate to disable or destroy any vehicle that drives over it.
it costs practically nothing to produce, can be produced by the billions, easily laid mechanically, are practically undetectable and will last until something detonates it.
A selfmoving at mine needs the same basics but has to add a way to move, sensors to find its targets, a guiding system, energy storage and radios if it wants to selforganize with other mines. 
All those things are fairly expensive and relatively difficult to build. They will also be quite large and cannot be hidden in the ground. their batteries will run dry and if they communicate you can find the entire minefield with an ew vehicle.

As scary as selfmoving mines sound they really arent a competition to normal mines.
A basic at mine takes a plastic casing, 3-5kg of explosives and a pressure plate to disable or destroy any vehicle that drives over it.
it costs practically nothing to produce, can be produced by the billions, easily laid mechanically, are practically undetectable and will last until something detonates it.
A selfmoving at mine needs the same basics but has to add a way to move, sensors to find its targets, a guiding system, energy storage and radios if it wants to selforganize with other mines. 
All those things are fairly expensive and relatively difficult to build. They will also be quite large and cannot be hidden in the ground. their batteries will run dry and if they communicate you can find the entire minefield with an ew vehicle.

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To give a rl example of an incident that happened early this year in a simulator exercise.
a company of l2a6 is defending. the far left platoon starts getting targets at 3500m and engages. suddenly one tank turns its turret and puts five rounds into a tank of the center platoon only barely being stopped before also shooting the company commanders tank.
The tc had seen a thermal signature and immediately brought the gun over without checking what he was looking at and the gunner didnt realize he was looking at a leo2 and fired even though he knew there were friendlies there, the tank was pointing and engaging in the wrong direction, only 1000m away and was in the open easily identifiable.
If this happened to anyone in cm theyd riot yet it happened irl.
So while cm has issues with the spotting model rl can be much weirder.