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7/12/2025, 11:56:09 PM
>>63973161
>it's not really better than M60A1 and pre-A4 Leo
Maybe in the context of a firing range with a really well drilled crew on one side and a bunch of conscriptovichs on the other. But the East Germans were regarded as being fairly proficient, and a more streamlined gunnery procedure seems a bit less prone to the accuracy penalties even trained soldiers tend to suffer in combat because they're worried/anxious about getting killed. A gunner calmly working the optical range finder to get an accurate input for the ballistic computer when they might eat a sabot or ATGM at any second takes some real discipline and cool...and that kind of guy will probably be even more effective if his gunners sight looks like pic related.
>it's also just started being sold in the 1980 and it'd take years before warsaw pact set up their own production. it's nothing but a trickle.
New platforms taking time to get adapted at proper scale isn't unusual. Roll out for the Abrams and Leo-2 were also gradual. NATO keeping pace (and actually surpassing) with the Pact was obviously not insurmountable since that's what happened, but it is something the NATO countries had to put some effort into.
>it's not really better than M60A1 and pre-A4 Leo
Maybe in the context of a firing range with a really well drilled crew on one side and a bunch of conscriptovichs on the other. But the East Germans were regarded as being fairly proficient, and a more streamlined gunnery procedure seems a bit less prone to the accuracy penalties even trained soldiers tend to suffer in combat because they're worried/anxious about getting killed. A gunner calmly working the optical range finder to get an accurate input for the ballistic computer when they might eat a sabot or ATGM at any second takes some real discipline and cool...and that kind of guy will probably be even more effective if his gunners sight looks like pic related.
>it's also just started being sold in the 1980 and it'd take years before warsaw pact set up their own production. it's nothing but a trickle.
New platforms taking time to get adapted at proper scale isn't unusual. Roll out for the Abrams and Leo-2 were also gradual. NATO keeping pace (and actually surpassing) with the Pact was obviously not insurmountable since that's what happened, but it is something the NATO countries had to put some effort into.
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