Tank Lovers Group
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This group is for everyone who like tanks, sci-fi tanks, real tanks, funny tanks, you can put here tank mods, tank maps, simply everything with straps, armor and gun :D
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The commander and gunner have identical image sights, the commander's sight is on top of the turret and has 360° field view.
The detection distance of tank-sized object for both sights is 7,500 m through the thermal channel. Additionally, the AESA radars can pick up and track enemy tanks and helicopters within a range of 100 km.
The driver in addition to the traditional vision periscopes has a Forward looking infrared camera.
That gunners station is cramped even by cold war standards.
Try the gunners position of an M48 Patton or T-54/55.
I did, even the T-55 gunner has more shoulder room than this.
You must be shorter than me because I can barley fit inside either of those.
I am 6 feet and I did't have much problem seating in the gunner seat of a up gunned Type 69, though a little more headspace would definitely be nice.
Besides, chieftain seems to fit in pretty well. M.youtube.com
My biggest issue here is that gun shield that separates the TC and gunner form the gun. It really restricts movement.
6'4" and I hardly have enough elbow room to move. Reminds me of an old joke. "If NATO had ever found a bio-weapon that only effected left-handed, weightlifting midgets, we could've decimated the Soviet tank corps without affecting anyone else."