Leopard 2 and Thermal Imager

[badger45]

Good news, thank you. I will edit my german oob till the next patch.

BTW, the same thermal imager as in 2A1 is used in 1A5, so you may want to modify its vision rating to 40 as well. The name of the fire control system in Leo 1A5 is EMES 18, but the thermal imager integrated into it is the same. What is quite surprising as well - EMES 15 with WBG-X (precisely the same combination as in Leo 2A1) was fitted also in Marders from 1984 on, and vehicles thus fitted are called Marder 1A2. In fact, there seem to be quite strange things in German OOB regarding Marders. Sources I have (e.g. "Boevyje masiny pechoty NATO - Marder, Bradley, Warrior" or if you want webiste, see http://www.military-page.de/gross/rh...er/mar_02.htm) agree on following chronology:

Marder 1 - before 1977, no Milan
Marder 1A1 - developed 1977-79, modernisation of machines took place from 1979-82 - Milan equipped
Marder 1A2 - fitting of EMES 15 and thermal imager - modernisation took place from 1984 to 1989

If you would like more info, I can translate the page from russian, though it takes me a while (neither russian nor english being my native language). And it looks like web sources are saying more or less the same anyway...

Regards.

P.S. Thanx for asking the former leo guy. I cannot imagine better source