Unit Request: German Leopard 2 Tank

[OmniMower]

Now this is ART!
High Quality Art! To Bad we are going to lose its creator.....

For everyone who are going to play a Swedish Civ, this is the MBT of the Swedish armed forces, Strv 122. I´ve noticed that one of the pictures on page 1 shows one Lepard with the Swedish M90 camouflage.

GOOD WORK KINBOAT!!!!!!!

 

[GenMarshall]

Great Job Kinboat . Keep up the good work .

 

[trevort]

This should demonstrate how good a tank the M1A1 is.
"During the ground war, only seven M1A1's were hit by rounds fired from the Iraqi's T-72 tanks, with none being seriously damaged. The Army reported that the Iraqi armed forces "destroyed no Abrams tanks during the Persian Gulf War."22 Nine Abrams tanks were destroyed during the war: seven due to friendly fire and two were intentionally destroyed to prevent capture after they became disabled.23 One incident in particular demonstrates the effectiveness of armor-piercing rounds and tank armor made of depleted uranium. As allied forces pushed into southern Iraq at the start of the ground war, an M1A1 tank became stuck in the mud.

The unit (part of the 24th Infantry Division) had gone on, leaving this tank to wait for a recovery vehicle. Three T-72's appeared and attacked. The first fired from under 1,000 meters, scoring a hit with a shaped-charge (high explosive) round on the M1A1's frontal armor. The hit did no damage. The M1A1 fired a 120mm armor-piercing (DU) round that penetrated the T-72 turret, causing an explosion that blew the turret into the air. The second T-72 fired another shaped-charge round, hit the frontal armor, and did no damage. The T-72 turned to run, and took a 120mm round in the engine compartment (which) blew the engine into the air. The last T-72 fired a solid shot (sabot) round from 400 meters. This left a groove in the M1A1's frontal armor and bounced off. The T-72 then backed up behind a sand berm and was completely concealed from view. The M1A1 depressed its gun and put a (DU) sabot round through the berm, into the T-72, causing an explosion.24"
The entire report may be found at www.iacenter.org/depleted/fahey.htm

The M1A2 is even better and it has what the U.S. Army calls a Thermal Management System. That's right, an air conditioner. Go to
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m1.htm for all the details.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Comments:


Well first of all, thank you for this pretty good piece of writing. What I don't really get (perhaps I missed it?) is why you R sending in M1 stuff on the Leo 2 thread. Good and usefull information anyways.

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It is a bit unfair comparing the technological rafinesse of US and Iraqui armies. Besides, the T-72 was to be discarded from service with the Soviet army in the late 1980s, only due to economic and later political crisis this did not happen.

Also the ammunition used by Irak sems to be non-comparable to Western ammunition (besides this was the time the US introduced depleted uranium shell ammo- the iraki dessert is highly polluted with radioactive material to date).

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Lastly: "Seven out of nine due to friendly fire" Argl.- so that's how GPS targeting systems work. Seriously, the americans lost more assets and personell before the war started than in it due to enemy fire. But that does not say anything about this tank's performance in relation to other armored Main Battle Tank vehicles at all. Of course the M1 is a formidable tank, but it was designed to meet challenges from Soviet build and equipped T-80s and following T-90s with high quality ammunition, targeting systems, sattelite uplink, etc...

 

[one_man_assault]

yeah I think The M1A1 was nice but not even the M1A2 outperforms (overall) the Lepord 2. It is king MBT by a slight margin. Whether the Germans will extend the margin or whether the Americans narrow the gap or even leap ahead will be a developent in the evolution of the tank. Lets just hope it wont become so lethal that a sniper tank will emerge... (even though I think were really close to that)

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Anyways, lets not go for this "bigger, better, faster, more-than-another" scheme.

Actually today a UK report revealed that in Operation Desert Storm and Desert Fox one fifth on British casualties have been inflicted by AMERICAN friendly fire rather than by Iraki. What I jokingly said about the US targeting system (or perhaps they were merely trigger-happy, as the BBC claimed) proves to be one of the most severe issues in reality.

The media is blocking all attempts to voice British support ans/or participation in US strikes against Bagdad by claiming that US weaponry and British systems have "virtually not improved" in Safety or Accuracy (21/08/2002)

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I therefore find German projects of incorporating an in-vehicle friend-foe targeting device instead of merely GPS targeting a significant PLUS for the LEO 2A6 EX

 

[nonnob3]

W.i.n.t.e.r
I have completed the death and have the zip file ready to launch
I have also adjusted the boots sound!
It's perfect!
The fortify has the Leibstandarte SS say Actung while "clapping boots" (or i have included also just clapping )
The victory will be the Parade sound (I of course reduced it)
I used the microsoft sound recorder.
I have also made the units_32 pcx using Captan's nemo WW II graphics.
THIS UNIT IS !!!!!
Great work buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kinboat]

Another teaser for you all... Ain't I just a stinker This is the run... I made the civ colors red in this one just so they stand out more and you can tell exactly where they are... The blue doesn't contrast so well with the camo pattern. Just yell at me to finish this up when you get tired of all the previews I really only have the death and maybe a fidget to do... And then the sounds. I can probably get together a decent sound pack together but if anyone out there has sounds they think would go well (like the sound of the actual tank engine) feel free to post them in the sounds thread and I'll check them out.

 

[nonnob3]

Just AWSOME!!!!!!!!! HIGH QUALITY WORK!!!!!!!!! I like this Run animation . My personal compliments. !
(I have just noticed that I posted a note for Winter on the wrong thread before, oops sorry Kinboat )

 

[Kinboat]

That's ok... I did wonder a bit when I read it but it's no problem really... I'm glad you like the animation.

 

[dannyevilcat]

Originally posted by Kinboat
Just yell at me to finish this up when you get tired of all the previews

HURRY UP AND FINISH THIS UNIT!

BTW, You are definitely going out with style. The previews excite me in a disturbing, unhealthy sort of way

 

[kemal69]

Looks incredibile Kinboat!

 

[OmniMower]

Kinboat,
how many frames does the Leopard animations contains?

/OmniMower

 

[Kinboat]

The attack has 18 frames... the run has 9... The default is only 5 or 6... I have a small fortify animation that is 5 or 6 and i don't have the death done so I don't know yet

 

[OmniMower]

Kinboat,
Thanks..... is there any limit of how many frames a animation can contain.... or can you simple set the speed of the frames? I know this is OT here but its my final Q !

/OmniMower

 

[Kinboat]

I think in the Flicster program the limit is 64... My own photo editing program seems to create problems if I'm editing a file of more than about 20 (depending on the size of the frame) I don't know if there is any limit in the Civ3 program.

 

[OmniMower]

Thanks Kinboat,
I most say... we are losing one of our best creators... I hope yuo can find time in the fufure to get back to us.... I´ve been a working with Computer Graphix 8 years but the only thing I can do is 3D models....the animation thing is .... well I ´ll try ..hehe... GOOD LUCK KINBOAT!

 

[Smoking mirror]

Exelent work kinboat, you are putting my work to shame

 

[Kinboat]

Praise from the Tank King... Now I know it's good Thanks.

 

[Kal-el]

Kinboat,

Its a real shame that you are contemplating taking a sebaticle from the unit creation biz. Might I suggest a possible alternative? Since you say its the animation process that really get you down, why not find someone to work with you on these projects. We can all agree that your modeling work is superior to most (don't want to burn any bridges ) on these forums, and it would be a shame to lose your creative prowess. I am sure there are others who would be more than willing to learn how to animate your completed models. It would become somewhat of an assembly line process that could produce high quality units at a faster pace. I would think that if you posted a request for an animator for your models you would get numerous responses, from which you could pick the one youfelt would do your models the greatest justice.

Anyway, just a thought. Hope you consider it.