[scorpio_rocks]

Hiya,

I am working my way through the tanks preparing some encyclopaedia entries and noticed an anomaly:
The "(+)" versions of the Leopard 1A4A1 forward have Thermal imaging and a CIWS, is this right?
"normal" versions dont get TI till the mid 90's and the leopard 2 never even gets VIRSS never mind a CIWS!

Seems to be a lack of consistancy for tank self defence systems - the kaisertiger for instance gets an active protection system in the early 80's which is then replaced with a smoke screen/jammer in the early 90's.

If the Reich develops some kind of hard-kill tank defense weapon system in the 80's (20 years before anyone else) why isn't it on all their tanks? And why did they drop it in favour of a passive system?

Perhaps you have great answers which I need to include in the relevant text entries.