Most powerful main battle tanks

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Since the Cold War main battle tanks (MBTs) have evolved from being simple and light to heavy, modernised and highly mobile, with advancements in weaponry and countermeasures.

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Most Powerful Main Battle Tanks

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Leopard 2A7+, Germany

• Armed with 120mm L55 smooth bore gun• Capable of firing Nato ammunition and programmable 120mm HE-rounds• Integrates an FLW 200 remotely controlled light weapon station• Speed of 72km/h and cruising range of 450km.

Abrams M1A2, United States of America

• The main gun is a manually loaded 120mm XM256 smooth bore cannon• The bore cannon can fire a range of Nato• Also armed with two 7.62mm M240 machine guns and a .50 cal M2 machine

gun• Cruising range of 426km and can travel at maximum speed of 67.5km/h

Challenger 2, United Kingdom

• The 120mm L30 CHARM gun provides primary fire power• A C-axial 7.62mm chain gun and a turret mounted 7.62mm machine gun

serve as secondary weapons• The Perkins-Condor CV12 engine ensures a maximum on-road speed of

59km/h and off-road speed of 40km/h.

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K2 Black Panther, South Korea

• Primary weapon is a 120mm smoothbore gun.• The secondary armament includes 7.62mm and 12.7mm machine guns.• Speed of 70km/h and range of 450km

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Merkava Mk.4, Israel• Armed with a 120mm MG253 smoothbore gun• The 7.62mm coaxial and 12.7mm swivel-mounted machine guns and 60mm

grenade launcher • Moves at a maximum speed of 64km/h.

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Type 10 (TK-X), Japan

• Armed with a 120mm smooth-bore gun, a 12.7mm heavy machine gun and Type 74 7.62mm cannon

• The 1,200hp water-cooled diesel engine provides a maximum speed of 70km/h.

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Leclerc, France

• Armed with a Nato standard CN120-26 120mm smooth bore gun• A coaxial 12.7mm machine gun and a roof-mounted 7.62mm machine gun.• Speed of 72km/h and can strike targets at a speed of 50km/h on any terrain.

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T-90MS, Russia

• The 125mm 2A46M-5 gun of the tank fires different types of ammunition with high accuracy

• Also armed with a 6P7K 7.62mm antiaircraft machine gun• A V-92S2F engine with rated power of 1,130hp provides maximum speed of

60km/h to the tank

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Oplot-M (Modernized) / BM Oplot, Ukraine

• Armed with a KBA-3 125mm cannon with an auto-loading system, which can fire HE-FRAG, APFSDS and HEAT rounds

• The secondary armament constitutes a KT-7.62 (PKT) 7.62mm coaxial machine gun and a KT-12.7 remote-controlled anti-aircraft machine gun

• The 6?D-2 1,200hp engine ensures a maximum speed of 70km/h

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Type 99 (ZTZ-99), China

•Armed with 125mm ZPT98 smoothbore gun equipped with auto-loader•Also armed with a 12.7mm anti-aircraft gun and a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun•The turbo-charged 1,500hp diesel engine provides a maximum speed of 80km/h on road

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