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Description
Type 42 EX/Leopard-class AT-80 Assault Tank

Width: 3.3 meters
Length: 7 meters (Not including gun)
Height (to top of turret): 2.3 meters
Engines: Type 42 CR/Endurance Engine 80 Hexytt (605 KW) (Liquid-methane fueled wave disk engine)
Weaponry: Type 42 NV/28St (105mm) High-velocity Rocketgun, Type 42 CR/4St (15mm) "Eviscerator" Coaxial Revolver Machine gun
Max depression/elevation: -7/20
Additional equipment: Radio
Maximum speed: 60 KM/h
Mass: 80 Hextair/41 tons

Role: Assault tank

Design: The AT-80 is a medium assault tank with thick armor, good mobility, and a relatively low profile, utilizing standard features of Type 42 Cytaari tank design such as belleville washer suspension and mechanically simple, high-quality components which reduce the need for maintenance. Somewhat unusually, the AT-80's hull is cast as a single piece of cobalt steel, rather than cold-rolled like most other Cytaari tanks.
The cannon is the same used on the lynx, a derivation of the naval 105mm dual-purpose rocketgun in use on Diamondback escorts. At 64 calibers long, the 105mm cannon can achieve a muzzle velocity higher than 1000 m/s with conventional APCBC rounds, giving it excellent firepower.
Armor is variable in thickness. The thickest part of the front glacis is where the armor rounds over the front roadwheels, at about 15cm thick. most of the front plate is 105mm thick. The mantlet is 210mm thick, with the turret's frontal armor gradually changing from 15cm in front, to 75mm on the sides, to 3cm in the rear and top. Side armor of the hull is 6cm thick, with 3cm on the rear and top. The tank has fewer spaced armor panels than most Cytaari tanks, only having internal spaced armor on its sides and a plate in front of the driver.
The AT-80 Leopard also has a more conventional arrangement than most Cytaari tanks, with the driver in front and engine in the rear driving an electric transmission. The driver has excellent visibility, owing to the small extrusion on the hull where they sit with visors for viewing in different directions. This extrusion continued inside the hull, forming an additional armor plate for the driver from the front. The AT-80 has a crew of three; commander, gunner, and driver. The cannon is automatically loaded, and the commander must operate the radio.
Though the tank has good ratio of engine power to weight, it still has relatively high weight loading which can compromise its mobility over soft terrain or bridges.

History: The AT-80 Leopard was one of the competitors in the Cytaari Assault Tank project, along with the AT-96 and AT-128 Jaguar. The Leopard combined relative affordability with firepower sufficient against any american vehicles, effective armor, and good mobility.
Unfortunately for the Leopard, the Jaguar was selected as the more advanced tank of the project. Though the jaguar was heavier, it achieved similarly good mobility together with much more armor. Cytaari high command was concerned that should they field the Leopard in numbers, american forces would be able to quickly adapt to its armor and develop more powerful weapons to penetrate it from a range. Further, the Jaguar's more powerful 120mm cannon gave it a longer effective range.
This may have been the end of the AT-80, but for the provincial governments of the Protectorates showing interest in the project. Many of the protectorates did not have the industrial capacity to produce the technologically advanced and expensive Jaguar. As a result, the AT-80 was accepted as an EX/, or "Export" model, and given the provisional name 'Leopard'. The name reflected the fact that the AT-80 would see service not in the homeland, but oversees, hence it being the only tank of its production line to be named after an animal not native to the Americas.
In service, the AT-80 was a solid, well-rounded design, though Its armor did prove vulnerable to the more powerful anti tank guns then in service, such as the 17 pounder or french 90mm cannons. Despite this, it maintained killing power out to a far longer range than its competitors, and over long engagement distances was frequently able to greatly outperform enemy tanks. The AT-80 became particularly associated with the Protectorate of the Congo, where it was heavily utilized to defend the congolese cobalt mines against french incursion.
The AT-80 remained in service long after the War of Three Leagues, eventually combatting nationalist insurgents and guerilla's in the Protectorates.

Meta: Another tank. Originally supposed to be a prototype model like the RAV-15, but I ended up liking it a bit too much and now its just officially accepted as an export model. Also, changed the naming scheme slightly; now the number reflect the vehicles mass in gwyddion Hextair's, instead of tonnes. When I go back and model older tanks again, I'll change their names too. RAV-15 would be, RAV-32 now I think.

finished it some time ago but wanted to use substance painter to texture it... I didnt end up doing that, I got impatient and just used the textures I already have cause I want to share it already.

Description
Type 42 EX/Leopard-class AT-80 Assault Tank

Width: 3.3 meters
Length: 7 meters (Not including gun)
Height (to top of turret): 2.3 meters
Engines: Type 42 CR/Endurance Engine 80 Hexytt (605 KW) (Liquid-methane fueled wave disk engine)
Weaponry: Type 42 NV/28St (105mm) High-velocity Rocketgun, Type 42 CR/4St (15mm) "Eviscerator" Coaxial Revolver Machine gun
Max depression/elevation: -7/20
Additional equipment: Radio
Maximum speed: 60 KM/h
Mass: 80 Hextair/41 tons

Role: Assault tank

Design: The AT-80 is a medium assault tank with thick armor, good mobility, and a relatively low profile, utilizing standard features of Type 42 Cytaari tank design such as belleville washer suspension and mechanically simple, high-quality components which reduce the need for maintenance. Somewhat unusually, the AT-80's hull is cast as a single piece of cobalt steel, rather than cold-rolled like most other Cytaari tanks.
The cannon is the same used on the lynx, a derivation of the naval 105mm dual-purpose rocketgun in use on Diamondback escorts. At 64 calibers long, the 105mm cannon can achieve a muzzle velocity higher than 1000 m/s with conventional APCBC rounds, giving it excellent firepower.
Armor is variable in thickness. The thickest part of the front glacis is where the armor rounds over the front roadwheels, at about 15cm thick. most of the front plate is 105mm thick. The mantlet is 210mm thick, with the turret's frontal armor gradually changing from 15cm in front, to 75mm on the sides, to 3cm in the rear and top. Side armor of the hull is 6cm thick, with 3cm on the rear and top. The tank has fewer spaced armor panels than most Cytaari tanks, only having internal spaced armor on its sides and a plate in front of the driver.
The AT-80 Leopard also has a more conventional arrangement than most Cytaari tanks, with the driver in front and engine in the rear driving an electric transmission. The driver has excellent visibility, owing to the small extrusion on the hull where they sit with visors for viewing in different directions. This extrusion continued inside the hull, forming an additional armor plate for the driver from the front. The AT-80 has a crew of three; commander, gunner, and driver. The cannon is automatically loaded, and the commander must operate the radio.
Though the tank has good ratio of engine power to weight, it still has relatively high weight loading which can compromise its mobility over soft terrain or bridges.

History: The AT-80 Leopard was one of the competitors in the Cytaari Assault Tank project, along with the AT-96 and AT-128 Jaguar. The Leopard combined relative affordability with firepower sufficient against any american vehicles, effective armor, and good mobility.
Unfortunately for the Leopard, the Jaguar was selected as the more advanced tank of the project. Though the jaguar was heavier, it achieved similarly good mobility together with much more armor. Cytaari high command was concerned that should they field the Leopard in numbers, american forces would be able to quickly adapt to its armor and develop more powerful weapons to penetrate it from a range. Further, the Jaguar's more powerful 120mm cannon gave it a longer effective range.
This may have been the end of the AT-80, but for the provincial governments of the Protectorates showing interest in the project. Many of the protectorates did not have the industrial capacity to produce the technologically advanced and expensive Jaguar. As a result, the AT-80 was accepted as an EX/, or "Export" model, and given the provisional name 'Leopard'. The name reflected the fact that the AT-80 would see service not in the homeland, but oversees, hence it being the only tank of its production line to be named after an animal not native to the Americas.
In service, the AT-80 was a solid, well-rounded design, though Its armor did prove vulnerable to the more powerful anti tank guns then in service, such as the 17 pounder or french 90mm cannons. Despite this, it maintained killing power out to a far longer range than its competitors, and over long engagement distances was frequently able to greatly outperform enemy tanks. The AT-80 became particularly associated with the Protectorate of the Congo, where it was heavily utilized to defend the congolese cobalt mines against french incursion.
The AT-80 remained in service long after the War of Three Leagues, eventually combatting nationalist insurgents and guerilla's in the Protectorates.

Meta: Another tank. Originally supposed to be a prototype model like the RAV-15, but I ended up liking it a bit too much and now its just officially accepted as an export model. Also, changed the naming scheme slightly; now the number reflect the vehicles mass in gwyddion Hextair's, instead of tonnes. When I go back and model older tanks again, I'll change their names too. RAV-15 would be, RAV-32 now I think.

finished it some time ago but wanted to use substance painter to texture it... I didnt end up doing that, I got impatient and just used the textures I already have cause I want to share it already.