![]() ![]() “To defeat enemy main battle tanks, which is the principal task of the main gun, a greater range is needed as well as a high hit accuracy, we are talking of distanced greater than 3,500 meters, and we also need high effectiveness in order to neutralise the target for the rest of the battle,” Dr. EDR On-Line already dealt with this subject in past articles but some new information was revealed in Berlin. The Panther is fitted with the 130 mm main gun developed by Rheinmetall from 2015 on. “An tank MHPE can generate more fragments than a burst of 35 mm AHEAD rounds,” Dr. ![]() The big caliber gun will mainly be used against enemy armour, with different types of ammunition such as kinetic energy (KE) and multi-purpose high-explosive (MPHE), the latter also used against helicopter and infrastructures, while secondary weapons are mainly used against infantry targets at closer range, or against drones. A tank can however be also called to destroy infrastructures, while defending itself from threats coming from the third dimension, namely combat helicopters and nowadays loitering munitions and UAVs. ![]() Main targets for an MBT are obviously enemy heavy armour and other combat vehicles, as well as anti-tank guided missile teams and dismounted infantry. ![]() Tobias Schmidt, Rheinmetall ‘s Future Gun System (FGS) programme director states, opening his remarks on the Panther/KF51 lethality. “The firepower is the right to exist of an MBT, and in our view the main gun will remain the dominant effector for a tank,” Dr. ![]()
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