Re: Gollevainen's quzz of the week
Interesting tank prototype based on T-59.
Translation: (Warning: I translated this myself, so you won't find any other English version)
In the history of our army's equipment, there was a not well known heavy weapon, the "Jaguar Tank", jointly developed by China and the US. In the 80s, of the last century, China Machinery Equipment Export & Import Co. and the US' Cadillac Gage Textron proposed a plan of joint development of the "Jaguar Tank", with each side providing 40% of the components and the rest 20% provided by international contractors. At the end of the decade, underthe influence of international political climate, the US unilaterally terminated the program, and the "Jaguar I" and "Jaguar II" types came to an end after only producing one prototype each.
"Jaguar" kept the T-59's wheelbase and suspension, but increased one set of road wheels. This tank has a crew of 4, a combat weight of 40 tonnes, a length of 9.6 m, a width of 2.7 m, a height of 2.83 m, and it could ford water 1.1 m deep. It's propulsion used US Detroit Diesel Engine Company's BV-92TA diesel engine. with a power rating of 560 kilowatts, and road max speed of 55 km/h.
This tank's main weapon is a 105 mm tank gun manufactured by the British Royal Arsenal. Its turret could rotate 360 degrees, and the gunn could make pitches from - 4 to + 17 degrees. It contains 34 rounds, and it could fire all NATO 105 mm tank rounds. Its feed machenism, of the L7 series, is very convenient, utilised by many contries. Also, "Jaguar" has 1 7.62 mm machine gun and one M2HB type 12.7 mm antiaircraft machine gun, respectively with 2500 and 600 rounds.
Because "Jaguar" inherited the tradition of Soviet tank, it has a low silhoutte, so it has higher survivability compared to equipment of the same type. Alos, it has a smoke dispenser system, so when attacked, it could surrond itself with smoke, thus gaining stealth.
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