Zukünftige Entwicklungen und Konzeptionen von Panzerfahrzeugen

[Quintus Fabius]

Neue Konzepte von Rheinmetall mit einer 130mm Kanone:

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The development of the 130 mm gun is quite a surprise. When originally mentioned by Autobild.de, I assumed they had made a typo and refered to the original 140 mm NPzK tank gun being developed in the late-1980s and 1990s. Given Rheinmetall's plans to upgun the Leopard 2 with the 130 mm gun and the smaller calibre, it seems reasonable to assume that the new gun is physically smaller than the 140 mm NPzK tank gun, which proved to be too large for the original Leopard 2 turret (also due to requiring an autoloader). However it seems that the new gun will provide similar or even better performance than the canceled 140 mm gun: Given that a current DM53 APFSDS has an energy output of nearly 13 MJ according to Rheinmetall (or 0.2 - 0.3 MJ less according to calculations based on muzzle velocity and weight), the 130 mm gun (which according to the presentation provides 1.5 times as much performance), should provide a muzzle energy about 19.5 MJ at least - if the 1.5 times more performance is meant in relation to the "new 120 high-pressure cannon and ammunition", which already provides 20% more power than the current 120 mm gun/ammo - then a muzzle energy of 23.4 MJ could be reached! Just for reference, the 140 mm gun supposedly had a muzzle energy of about 20 MJ.

Jetzt ist die Frage, ob man so eine 130mm Kanone nicht auch in einen PUMA einbauen könnte, und schon hätte man einen PUMA Kampfpanzer mit einer BK welche jeden anderen Kampfpanzer ausschaltten kann und auch von abstandsaktiven Maßnahmen nicht aufgehalten werden kann:

23,4 MJ sollten noch für Jahre hinaus reichen.