Re: Icons and lbms
To quote just one source I have here:
-Leopard 2"A0": 1 batch of 380 delivered 79-82
-Leopard 2A1: 1 batch of 450 delivered 82-83, 1 batch of 300 delivered 83-84
-Leopard 2A2: 1 batch of 380 retrofitted from A0
-Leopard 2A3: 1 batch of 300 delivered 84-85
-Leopard 2A4: 1 batch of 370 delivered 85-87, 1 batch of 150 delivered 88-89, 1 batch of 100 delivered 89-90, 1 batch of 75 delivered 91-92
That's for the pre-1990 series, which are the common basis.
I added more or less one year between delivery and troop IOC.
After 1990 we enter modded territory, and that's where I have started taking liberties with history. Hence the 2A5 deliveries that start full-scale in 1995 just after the modernization contract was granted. The logical follow-on is the 2A6 with the L55 gun, the 2A7 with the complete KWS2 armor package (say Leopard 2E), and the 2A8 which includes the KWS3 weapon upgrade.
Take into account that the next generation tank starts trickling into service by 2005, with some common tech with the Leo2A8, so it wouldn't be logical if this upgrade came after the more expensive new tank, and I'm not going to upgrade the Leopards for ever and ever.
The ammo I have used looks consistent with the official version, in hindsight. I used sabot round name rather than IOC year for international clarity (when copying the weapons to other orbats), so the WG79 gets the first APFSDS round available (DM13). AFAIK the DM23 (1983) and DM43 (1995) didn't enter German service, which still sticks to the official OOB: direct leap from WG79 to WG87 (DM33) to WG96 (DM53).
Now since I rebuilt the whole penetration values table to my own use, there are some source differences on some values, but as you can see they are minimal.
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