Or a FEL

The blaster sound

could be, but is the energy consumption low enough for an IFV?

There's a few small laser weapons that can fit in a 10ft trailer

Rated to blap mortars and ATGMs at like 3km within a second

last I checked laser weapons were too power hungry for non-static applications outside of ships and large planes

That was damn near 10 years ago

Also, single-use chemical laser cells

Huge bursts of power and then you chuck it

still, why mount it on an IFV of all things

Active protection?

nah

I mean a HEL with a fast-track turret could blap shells out of the sky real fast

shrapnel and EFP-based interceptors are more reliable and multi-use

a laser would choke the thing's engine just to charge

at least a current-tech one

Possibly, but possibly not

in the future maybe

I mean it's not that hard to make a laser rifle of sorts with modern tech

Not gonna do much but give you a nasty burn, but you can rig it up with some frequency doubling and mail-ordered lasing medium

It's certainly no more than a prototype

Oh yeah

No doubt

even if it was better than current shrapnel APS, the Germans would still jew out of buying it

Sad but also true

if it wasn't for the export market the German arms industry would be dead since 1990

Rheinmetall lives off of making upgrades for exported Leo 2s

until the 2A7 the bloody Greeks had better tanks than Germans

Jesus that's fucking sad

because the Bundeswehr didn't upgrade their leos hull armor since 1987

wat

nope

they had B-tech armor since 1979

On the 97th vehicle of the 6th batch they switched to C-tech (1987)

So you're telling me the Germans were selling Leo2's that were better than their own national armory

Germany what even are you doing

but when the Leopard 2 improved package rolled around, they opted to only upgrade the turret

Sweden bought the full package in 1994

WHAT

Jesus fucking fuck

Germany bought longer guns in 2001 but still no armor upgrade