There are two main development tranches of the Leopard 2. The first encompasses tanks produced up to the Leopard 2A4 standard and are characterised by their vertically faced turret armour. The second tranche, from Leopard 2A5 onwards, has an angled, arrow-shaped, turret appliqué armour, together with other improvements.

Jan 7, 2025 · The Leopard 2A8 tank is fitted with a three man turret armed with a 120 mm/L55 smoothbore gun. The L55 gun is produced by the German company Rheinmetall AG. It's an upgraded version of the L44 gun that was initially installed in …

The particular turret design of the leopard 2 which is its most obvious feature looks slab-sided, but is probably four or five times better protected by the original turret due to the adoption early on of massive multi-layered composite armor blocks.

The chassis of the Leopard 2 could also be used to mount the turret of the Gepard anti-aircraft tank. A Leopard 2 prototype was fitted with the US Textron Lycoming AGT 1500 gas turbine in 1978 for trials purposes by MaK at Kiel.

May 6, 2022 · The Leopard 2 is the successor of the Leopard 1, the last main battle tank of the West German Army. Today, there are two main development batches of the tank: the original models up to Leopard 2A4, which have vertically faced turret armor, and the improved batch, namely the Leopard 2A5 and newer versions, which have angled arrow-shaped turret ...

Leopard 2 is powered by a 1,479 hp (1,500 PS, 1,103 kW) MTU MB 873 Ka-501 liquid-cooled V12 twin-turbo diesel engine rated at 2,600 rpm coupled to a Renk HSWL 354 transmission. It has a power-to-weight ratio of 24.1 PS/t (17.7 kW/t).

Apr 24, 2024 · The turret, positioned centrally, benefits from an upgrade programme that adds third-generation composite armour and further reinforcement to its frontal and lateral sections with external armour modules.

Dec 2, 2020 · Following the cold war Germany sold most of their Leopard 2s to various allies, including Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. The Leopard 2 is considered to be one of the premier MBTs in operation today.

Turret bustle . Whole turret bustle after crew compartment is protected only by simple RHA armor. This solution was forced by weight reasons. It's the biggest weak area for whole Leopard-2 tank -and almost impossible to fixed even now.

Feb 14, 2008 · Leopard 2A5/Leopard 2 (Improved) Upgrade with spaced armor added to turret front, and increased armor on hull and side skirts. Other improvements include improved stabilization, suspension, navigation, fire control, and hatch design.