Amusing Hobby shares images of their upcoming release.
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/embt-enhanced-main-battle-tank-coming-soon
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/embt-enhanced-main-battle-tank-coming-soon
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Cool!
A Leclerc turret on a Leo 2 A7, nicknamed Leo-Clerc.
One of these days real tanks will start looking like science fiction …
Frontal view (large photo) of the real thing
Marketing style video with a few interesting views
Painting challenges ahead …
The snippet above was taken from this photo
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I tried building this kit and it wasn’t Takom’s best effort.
Hey, at least it ain’t another “Panzer”…LOL…!!
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Given unlimited time, I would buy and build this. It really depends on the model staying around long enough for me to get to it. (The backlog is immense.)
No emotional attachment to the vehicle. Never seen it before. I agree with Robin. It looks cool.
All modern main battle tanks are variations on a narrow theme but this one reminds me of more recent Chinese and Russian tanks.
@Uncle-Heavy I feel like we are there on the science fiction tanks. The Polish one shown above looks like something from BattleZone, the 1970s vector graphics arcade game. I still want something crazy different to come along.
@unclepine I am getting there on the ‘no more panzers’ thing. Not quite, but close.
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I’m assuming that the gray rectangle is a radar face for the Active Protection System while the dark vertical rectangle is the laser warning receiver.
The EMBT has a very unique turret face. If you look at it, it’s very slender and that does away with the need for heavy frontal armor as the hope is that the “duckbill” turret face doesn’t get seen and hit with enemy tank rounds. But with all the sensors placed in front, I do wonder if any hit will cause significant electronics damage and that might seem likely. Thus, the stronger armor can be placed where the prism viewing blocks are and around the gun mantlet, but that’s known to the engineers and designers of the EMBT as to the armor rating. Placing the sights in front of the viewing prisms kind of acts as “electronic armor” to protect where the turret crew sits further back. The enemy tank will have to aim extremely precisely to hit the viewing prisms.
For sure, the 30mm RWS is the first to be exposed over a hill ridgeline, so like the AbramsX, if the 30mm autocannon cannot take out the target, then the main 120-140mm gun can appear over the ridge to fire. The counter-drone device provides clear 360-degrees of jamming and the RWS clear 360-degrees of firing save for the blocking by the counter-drone device.
It’s a very unique MBT design, and pushes modern tank design and counter-aerial drone protection even further.
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I cannot help but think back to the MBT-70 project with it’s remote 20mm - it would seem that it was on the right lines after all; also sporting of course, a 3-man crew.
(I know I’m comparing apples with pears but indulge me!)
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It´s still a demonstrator. And as a German-French cooperation, it may never see any service. It happened too often in the last decades.
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