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==Operators== | ==Operators== | ||
===Current operators=== | ===Current operators=== |
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Löwe | |
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Type | Main Battle Tank |
Place of origin | Englean Kaiserreich |
Service history | |
In service | 1961-1989 |
Used by | See Operators |
Production history | |
Designer | Kempenhaus-Pollmächer |
Designed | 1952-1961 |
Manufacturer | Kempenhaus-Pollmächer Kaiserlicher Maschinenfabrik Weilheim |
Unit cost | WIP |
Produced | 1956-1979 |
No. built | 2,560 (including foreign exports) |
Variants | See Variants |
Specifications | |
Weight | 42.2 t |
Length | 9.54(gun forward) |
Width | 3.37 m |
Height | 2.70 m |
Crew | 4 |
Armour | 10-90 mm rolled homogenous armour |
Main armament | 1x 105mm Wiedlissinger KwK 54 L/52 cannon |
Secondary armament | 2× 7.62×51mm Kaiserlicher Waffenfabrik MG65 (4,750 rounds) |
Engine | Maibach MiB-25 37.4 litre 10 cylinder diesel engine 930 PS at 2,200 RPM |
Power/weight | 21 PS/t |
Transmission | Fitkau-BMV SHLF 23 |
Suspension | Torsion bar suspension |
Operational range | 600 km km (internal fuel) |
Speed | 66 km/h |
The Löwe, officially Panzerkampfwagen XX (Sd.Kfz. 3078), is a is a main battle tank developed by Kempenhaus-Pollmächer from 1976-1980 as a successor to the Jaguar I MBT that had been in service since the Second Great War.
Operators
Current operators
- Kleinaruscha: 43 operational
Former operators
- Englean Kaiserreich: 530 Löwe operated by the Kaiserliche Heer (all variants)
- Rhodevus: 105 operated by the Royal Rhodeve Army