140mm Tank Gun

140Mm Tank Gun. The performance of a 140mm gun and any gun is based only upon the construction quality of the barrel breech and round and the quality and volume of the propellant In fact a 140mm gun may produce only 16 or 17MJ of energy 10 According to Rheinmetall a 140mm tank gun produces energy of 23MJ at the muzzle.

The 140mm gun was to be installed in a longer Leopard 2 turret (to house the bustlemounted ammunition rack and loading mechanism) A prototype was built and successfully tested using the Leopard 2 chassis and a heavily modified turret Another part of the KWS III upgrade was to be an advanced battlefield commandandcontrol system.

The new Euro tank will use one of the two guns, the French

In the early 1990s Rheinmetall began development of a 140 mm smoothbore cannon for use in future tank designs The new gun was intended to counter new Soviet tank developments especially since the next generation of Soviet main battle tanks were rumoured to be armed with a 135 mm or 152 mm cannon.

Vehicles in Focus: Leopard 2A7140 Armored Warfare

Here’s some figures about 140 mm tank gun ballistics that I don’t understand Armament 140mm gun with 34 rounds 40mm AC with 140 rounds and 2×762 MG’s T120B Conventional turret without autoloader Crew 4 men Combat weight ~60 metric tons Engine MTU 883 Armament 120mm gun with 48 rounds and 2×762 MG’s L140 Conventional turret.

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The first Soviet 152mm tank gun project was called Object 292 It was basically a modified T80BV rearmed with a 152mm gun called LP83 by the Kirov plant in Leningrad (St Petersburg) in mid1980s The gun was developed by the “Burevestnik” design bureau There was a lot of controversy behind this project – the T80 platform was initially considered to be too.