Leopard 1A5 Fitted With A Cockerill 3105 Turret - A Significant Upgrade Option
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- čas přidán 27. 11. 2023
- With the advanced Cockerill 3105 turret, the outdated Leopard 1A5 has significantly enhanced combat power, even compared to modern MBTs. It is expected that in December 2023, Belgian defense industry company John Cockerill will introduce an upgraded version of the Leopard 1A5 main battle tank at one of the military bases in French territory.
According to preliminary introduction, instead of the old turret, the Leopard 1A5 will be equipped with a Cockerill 3105 remote control turret mounted with a 105 mm Cockerill HP cannon, fitted with an autoloader that can accommodate 12 or 16 rounds.
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That turret ring looks a little exposed, but this looks like an excellent vehicle for infantry support operations, or screeening operations.
Screening. Twelve rounds isn't much for infantry support in heavy operations against equal opposition, and you're right that the turret ring looks like a juicy target! Aluminum armor only rated to a maximum of.50 Browning (12.7×99mm) and not even Armor Piercing, at that, if I translated nomenclature correctly!
if this could be put on a t-54 that would be cool
There are two upgrades of the T-55 in use, one bought by Egypt and the other by Romania. The upgraded Romanian T-55s were donated to Ukraine. Both are similarly capable to this.
@@davidgoodnow269 thing is still that its the same gun as on leo 1 and 2a5 already has thermals, for leo 1 this is something very costly that does almost nothing, for an old m48 or t-55 it would be amazing tho
another informative video mister Dung, good as always. well the Cockerell defense company, was obviously trying to pioneering the Cockerell 105mm tank gun for there offer to any possible interested client around the world, but the problem is that there so few, if not no one are interested for a lighter tank gun, but every military armed forces are more likely interested to a much larger 120mm or the 125mm Smoothbore gun platform, that is why they would rather choose those much bigger type of caliber of the tank guns over the smallest 105mm. for a possible tank gun modification upgrade, whereas to be possibly mounted to those old but still reliable tank hull chassis.
The Leopard 1 should be equipped with a 120mm tank gun instead of a 105mm tank gun. It is much more valuable to convert Leopard1A5 to Leopard1A6.
I would not be surprised if a standard Leopard 1A5 turret, minimally upgraded, would not be far, far, superior in every aspect. With the best visible-light rangefinding, fit that with low-light amplification at the viewfinder and FLIR behind the lensing at either end of the parallax rangefinder to give binocular thermal vision; duplicate viewers for gunner and commander. Then apply hacked smartphone camera modules to about six points around the hull, and feed the assembled and processed imagery to the driver through a VR headset. He now has 360° visibility, with redundancy, around the entire tank, in visible light, low-light, possibly UV, IR, and deep-IR/thermal graphic.
Slap one of those drone-killing E.M. rifles on the roof, and possibly spackle the armor with the fancy new improved explosive reactive armor Israel is selling. Oh, and replace those stupid 40mm smoke grenade launchers with 120mm stub-mortars to fire Improved Thermal Smoke (the kind that floats chaff on the updraft to screen millimeter-wave RADAR)!
MUCH better armor protection; this video makes no mention if the Cockerel 3105 turret has Cellular Ammunition Storage Equipment to protect the turret crew from catastrophic detonation--its appearance could go either way. No mention of armor applique kits to improve protection, either. The sensing systems are known (to me) as high quality and highly capable from other upgrade turrets (the Cadillac-Gage T-55, if I'm not mistaken). No mention of integration of a remote control mount for any topside machine gun or other anti-drone armament.
What happens to those fancy sensors on the Cockerill if those fancy sensors get hit by an anti-drone EM rifle from four or five kilometers away? Are there at least optical-glass backups?
why would those countries upgrade their leo's they're wore out at this point! while they might get another 10 years out of them it's cheaper to just replace them now and save the upgrade costs and the increased price on the replacements down the road! and they're a day late and a dollar short if they're counting on sales to kiev!! the world is tired of that fight and is starting to cut off the shekels!!!
I agree with some of what you said . . . but you are missing some major points.
The people backing war want heavy sales, and a pull-and-replace like this is much faster than getting approval to purchase and sell and manufacture and deliver . . . .
The latest MBTs may duel other tanks. Updated older tanks can serve *better* than new to provide infantry support, *if* the upgrades are well-chosen, and in urban combat < 1,000 meters, a French FSAPDS-D-DU from a 105mm L7 will kill any tank in the world.
The greatest dangers to armor on the modern battlefields are modified sub-US$1,000 drones, and updated 84mm Carl Gustov recoilless rifles like the Im.L.A.W. If someone is going to go after you with those, your greatest needs are 360° thermal threat detection, and a very fast and accurate remote-operated machine gun mount with very high angle and very low depression capability. Throw a mine flail on the front, too. M.G. mount, US$15,000. Thermal detection can be purchased, or simply strip the seeker head from an out-of-date shoulder-launched heat-seeking missile and wire it up to a reprogrammed smartphone in place of the camera module. Price? You just saved disposal fees. Programming cost you a favor to your neighbor's kid.
Oh, there's a marked advantage to using Soviet 100mm or N.A.T.O. 105mm in this role: more ammunition in that chassis, more rounds of ammunition on each supply truck, and that ammunition is cheaper. Rifled guns like the 100 and 105 are tremendously more accurate than smoothbore 115, 120 and 125, too! Misses are going to land somewhere . . . this isn't World War II, when people would see an artillery strike on civilians and say, "War is Hell."
It takes many years to produce tanks in the hundreds not to mention thousands from one manufacturer.
Other countries are waiting as well, so it is more effective to upgrade for time sake as a country slowly replaces their older equipment.
@@dan9002 tanks have ran their course the future is big gunned 8x8's my point was why waste money on tanks when you can get 3 maybe even 5 8x8's for the same price as a single tank and at a faster rate?
@@keithmoore5306 Tanks have not run there course. This is an old debate since WW1 and there is a reason every country in the world that can afford one wants them.
Well the old Leopard 1 turret has better protection than this "Cock" crap!!! Possibly to transfer a new fire control system and active protection to the old turret and that's all!!! The protection bars put on the side of the tank body where he is most vulnerable!!! This "Cock" turret is nice but it's small level protection!!!😊
👍👍but I know between hall and Leo but so it's possible with from Reihnmetal active protection system and cheaper than Throphy.All Tanks without activ systems with that modern Rockets are Javelin only that to survive and cheaper than complete Tank so I didn't understand why there put on that newer Tank some system for that is not cheaper to loose complete Tank🤷
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Good hull, shit armour.
Dont send this tank to help russia its ugly))
oui avec les Russes pour massacré les Abrahams us