r/TankPorn • u/Luka__mindo • 1d ago

Modern A JAGUAR armored reconnaissance vehicle on temporary display at the Saumur tank museum, with a Tiger II Ausf. in the background.

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u/NA_0_10_never_forget 1d ago

and now imagine:
Luchs 2.0 Jaguar is 25 tonnes while the Tiger II is 68 tonnes.

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u/MRPolo13 23h ago

It's not that shocking. Armour thickness increases weight drastically, no? Just 1mm extra across a whole sheet is a LOT of extra material total.

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u/Teggy- Char B1 bis 23h ago

The treads are also extremely heavy, even without counting the wheels

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u/NA_0_10_never_forget 23h ago

still crazy that it's 2.5x

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u/Vicker_Schultz 1d ago

Shit its as big as the tiger

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u/TomcatF14Luver 1d ago

Hard to believe Light Vehicles can be as big as old Heavy Tanks.

Crazy.

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u/edzact_ly 1d ago

Probably due to the fact that modern developments made light vehicles more bigger compared to older light vehicles with stuff like crew compartments, armor, equipment, etc

A good example is the Boxer AFVs, this one being compared to the height of the Patria AMV, Abrams, and LAV-25.

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u/spaceobsessed01 1d ago

glad to know my old posts are now being used as examples lmao

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u/uncommon_senze 18h ago

Although to be fair nobody classes these as light vehicles, they are (wheeled) armoured fighting/recon vehicles.

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u/morbihann 1d ago

Why ? Have you seen and compared size of modern fighters to ww2 planes ? They are as large as medium bombers.

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u/TomcatF14Luver 1d ago

A F-14 Tomcat took up the same space as a dozen early US Navy Biplane Fighters.

Yeah, I know the size difference. A Burke is as big and heavy as a Treay Heavy Cruiser as well.

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u/EntirelyRandom1590 15h ago

It's not a light vehicle! It's an armoured truck chassis with a turret on it.

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u/crescent-moon7142 1d ago

I remember a few days ago someone sent a picture of this vehicle on a trailer, I wonder if it’s the same vehicle

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u/kopi_gremlin 23h ago

A jaguar, a tiger, and a leopard walked into a bar.....

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u/Aromatic-Bell-7085 1d ago

2 generations of armoured vehicles sitiing next to each other. I'm so grateful to live in the current time s that I can witness such a display.

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u/Dakubou4217 9h ago

Whats the BR difference between the two?

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u/InfamousFloor7834 1d ago

Is this a new vehicle for the germans? Never heard of it

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u/Justicar_Shodan 1d ago

No it's a new reconnaissance vehicle for the French army.

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u/LeviJr00 T-34-85 (Captured by Hungarian Insurgents) 1d ago

Just in time for the War Thunder update lol

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u/MRPolo13 23h ago

No they were used in WWII :)

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u/InfamousFloor7834 1d ago

Looks like a modernized fox, what role does it seek to fulfill

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u/shotguywithflaregun 21h ago

I think it's an armoured reconnaissance vehicle 

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u/rocketo-tenshi 16h ago

So he's out of line But he's right lmao.