this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
67 points (100.0% liked)

Ukraine

10496 readers
590 users here now

News and discussion related to Ukraine

Matrix Space

Community Rules

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Sympathy for enemy combatants is prohibited.

🌻🀒No content depicting extreme violence or gore.

πŸ’₯Posts containing combat footage should include [Combat] in title

🚷Combat videos containing any footage of a visible human involved must be flagged NSFW

❗ Server Rules

  1. Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.)
  2. No racism or other discrimination
  3. No Nazis, QAnon or similar
  4. No porn
  5. No ads or spam (includes charities)
  6. No content against Finnish law

πŸ’³ Defense Aid πŸ’₯

πŸ’³ Humanitarian Aid βš•οΈβ›‘οΈ

πŸͺ– Volunteer with the International Legionnaires

See also:

!nafo@lemm.ee

!combatvideos@SJW

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
lisko@sopuli.xyz
doo@sh.itjust.works
Burstar@sopuli.xyz
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz
67
Sweden handed over ten Stridsvagn 122 tanks to Ukraine, which are variants of Leopard 2 (www.forsvarsmakten.se)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Wilshire@lemmy.ml to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Ooops@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They are basically a custom hybrid roughly around Leopard-2A5 and A6. They have electronic and armor upgrades on A6 level (maybe even slightly better in some areas) but with still the shorter and slightly less powerful gun of the A5 (also some adaption for better performance in harsh weather that might come in handy).

Given the geographic reality of Ukraine, the gun shouldn't make a big difference as the pattern of wide open fields parted by smaller strips of forest usually limits the tanks to ranges below their max range anyway.