![]() The entire process was quite arduous as well as comedic at several points as the system ran into both technical and political issues. However, despite this failure, the entire development convinced the people in charge that thermal imaging was worth developing further.Ī thermal imager was developed and attached to the turret externally instead of the old searchlight – many other solutions were tested but there simply was no space for it inside the turret. This system was under the name “Tombola” and was tested – unsuccessfully, as it was plagued by a number of issues and design flaws (for example, the commander cupola could not rotate if the system was attached to it). Then another approach was tried – an early thermal imager was developed for the MBT-80 project and was attached to a new cupola. Recognizing this issue, the British toyed around with image intensifying for a while, but nothing really came of it. As a result, very few crews actually used them even during night fighting exercises and the preferred solution was to have another tank illuminate the target with a searchlight while other tanks fired at it – which was a pretty effective tactic, unless you were actually in the illuminating tank and by turning on the light, you turned yourself into the juiciest target on the battlefield. Sure, IR devices were available for the commander and the gunner, but these were deemed to be mostly useless and, what was even more important, they were difficult to deploy. Historically, it is a Chieftain Mk.10 (which in turn is an upgraded Chieftain Mk.5 with Stillbrew armor) with several added components, the most notable of which is the Thermal Optics Gunnery System, or, in short, TOGS, replacing the typical Chieftain searchlight on the left side of the turret.įor the majority of its early career, the Chieftain MBT had a problem – it was really ineffective at night. ![]() The Chieftain Mk.11 Tier 5 Main Battle Tank is to the progression Chieftain Mk.10 what the Leopard 2 Revolution is to the Leopard 2 Evolution – a Premium vehicle with gameplay similar to its branch counterpart. We also mentioned that one more such vehicle was coming and today, we are happy to announce that this second vehicle is the Chieftain Mk.11. Not so long ago, we unveiled a Premium vehicle called Leopard 2 Revolution, which will be available for Gold in the Armored Warfare branch as a Premium analogy to the Leopard 2 Evolution. ![]()
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