D'85: BRM lacking Amphibious capability?

[Aaron]

But Leopard-I (105-mm gun) is weaker than T-64, T-72, T-80 (125-mm gun).Leopard-I worse armoured, and also has more out-of-date systems fire control.

Depends what variant of Leopard your talking about and what year, by 1989 i would say the Leo1A5, which armor wise had a better turret than everything up to a BV equip tank but the chassis was shite. Could barely stop a RPG. As for FCS well nothing the Soviets had could match the Leo1a5 till the T-80U. U can put a 188mm gun on a tank but if u cant hit anything who cares. Thats just one mans opinion im sure theres many more.

Aaron

[Epoletov [SPR].]

In 1985 (Danube Front ' 85) was Leopard-1A4 and it was worse on many parameters, than T-64, T-72, T-80.

[JDR Dragoon]

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Luchs-Leopard-I = 16 (probably 50/50 % Luchs/Leopard-I)

More like 75-25. The German reconnaisance battalion was quite tank heavy w. 34 Leopard Is (M48s earlier) to 10 Luchs (Spz Kurz earlier). So the reason they have a higher assault value might simply be because they have more tanks.

[Aaron]

Heres the info from the Nato oob.

Panzer Auflklarungs Battalions (divisional recon) were organized as follows:
1st Co: Support, with signals, etc
2nd Co: 13 Leopard 1, 9 Fuch w/ground surveillance radar
3rd Co: 13 Leopard 1
4th Co: 8 Leopard 1, 8 Spahpanzer Luchs
5th Co: 9 Fuchs w/recon teams
Ausbildung (training company): 3 training platoons, 1 driving school section
In addition, the brigade Luchs platoons (8 each) are attached to the battalion in peacetime



Aaron