French Leclerc mk2 image - Tank Lovers Group

While the tank itself may not be bad, the crew will probably surrender when sighting an enemy, and then continue their conversation about the perfect length of a baguette :D

This is ofcourse when not crewed by the foreigner legion :p

A very mysterious tank, this one. Not much is known about it, but i looked it up and it has an autoloader apparently.

Anyway looked it up on wikipedia this is what it says regarding the armour:

"The Leclerc has the Galix combat vehicle protection system from GIAT, which fires a variety of smoke grenades and infra red screening rounds, as well as anti-personnel grenades.

The hull and the turret are made of welded steel fitted with modular armour, which can be replaced easily for repair or upgraded over the years. The French army in the late seventies rejected Chobham armour as being overly specialised in its optimisation to defeat hollow charge-weapons; it therefore opted to develop a steel perforated armour system, comparable to that on the early Leopard 2. When the Leclerc was introduced in the early nineties this was still considered adequate, due to the larger thickness of its modules compared to the armour of other modern western tanks, made possible — for a given weight limit — by the compact design of the tank as a whole. However during the nineties standards for tank armour protection increased, as exemplified by the Leopard 2A5, its main rival on the export market, being fitted with an additional spaced armour system. Thus it was decided to follow the Germans (Leopard 2A4) and British (Challenger 2) in their application of a titanium-tungsten system, which was introduced to the Leclerc in 2001, in Batch 10. The inner spaces are filled with NERA."

this tank always reminds me of lego blocks for some reason...

we have a whole lot of those where I live

nice tank ;D

"It is i, leclerc!"
;)