Well as I write this I'll be checking back and forth to the now separate folders I put together in FIREFOX to cover the various threads I started out here for the same reasons-trying to organized. Some of these I've been tracking for awhile like this very first status update. Just assume I'm tracking these, why would I put it anyway!?!
1) Poland: They have reached a final decision their
LEO 2A4 tanks will now be upgraded to the
LEOPARD PL.
https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com...-tanks-019466/
http://www.janes.com/article/56972/p...n-battle-tanks
2) U.S.: The new ABRAMS round is going into production among others. I've posted on this round for a couple of years on/off, tested to have an almost 100% kill rate at
greater than 4500yds/or meters, can't remember which-sorry!
http://www.armyrecognition.com/ausa_2015_show_daily_news_coverage_report/ausa_2015_orbital_atk_awarded_$105_million_in_cont racts_for_medium_large_caliber_ammunition.html
3) Israel: The IDF will by the
end of 2016 mark the end of era for the
MERKAVA Mk II tanks after 33yrs. of operational/training service. As a side note as the article mentions it
all MERKAVA Mk IV tanks have been equipped with the TROPHY system for about two years now, it also will will become it's training tank as well when the MERKAVA Mk II is retired.
http://www.armyrecognition.com/novem..._23011151.html
4) Turkey: Will be watching this closely not as it concerns the
ALTAY but to see if they put this system on some of their older tanks as they did with the
LEOPARD-1T-VOLKAN 171 tanks that were equipped with the 3rd GEN FCS intended for the ALTAY. Aselan would further improve on that FCS to a 4th Gen (Have to be careful w/ these Gen numbers, for instance in the U.S. ABRAMS is considered to have an improved 3rd Gen system. Or as I like to think of it-a headache trying to keep up with it!?!) level planned for the
LEOPARD-2T and
ALTAY. VOLKAN if you haven't gathered, is the name given to the FCS.
http://www.armyrecognition.com/decem..._20212151.html
Well can't give you all of it, what fun would there be in that?
Back to work later today, hope you all have a great week!!
Regards,
Pat
Concerning ref 2) above have verified, cut & pasted it several times but it keeps putting a "space" in the word "contract" very strange. Other than that you can copy to do a search for the story or go to the site in the news section by month to get it there. Sorry for any inconvenience!