| Primary Supplier | EADS |
| Designation | CT90140C Leopard 4 |
| Role | Main battle tank The gun carriage rises and lowers between full-height cheeks: lowered for the Droopy’s hold and for hull-down positions, raised to fight. Lowered, the tank fits the Droopy’s hold with 320 mm under her ceiling; raised, it does not. The gunner’s sight is on the roof. A rear door, 680 × 520 mm in the rear plate and hinged at its top, opens onto the compartment behind the cab. |
| Length | 7.33 m hull; 8.42 m with the gun forward |
| Width | 3.70 m over the skirts’ ERA |
| Height | 3.03 m with the carriage lowered; 3.46 m raised, to the head of the bustle’s point-defence gatling |
| Mass empty | 52.2 tonnes in composite armour |
| Mass combat | 53.8 tonnes in composite armour (est.); 67.2 tonnes in steel (est.) [which to publish?] |
| Crew | 3: two in the front row and one behind, in seats reclined 30°; crewmen up to 1.85 m tall |
| Operation | [not set] |
| Drive | Tracks 550 mm wide, driven by a hub motor in every road wheel, with no sprocket or idler: 8 stations of paired, interleaved road wheels (780 mm), 16 a side. Ground pressure 9.4 t/m² at 50 tonnes. Four hardpoints for EM pods. |
| Energy | Batteries, LH2, and fuel cells |
| Road speed | 65 km/h (18 m/s) cruising, 108 km/h (30 m/s) flat out, and as fast in reverse |
| Acceleration | 3 m/s² [game value] |
| Armament | 140 mm L48 binary-propellant gun (tube 6.72 m) on a carriage that rises 550 mm. Elevation −14° to +23.5° with the carriage raised; none when lowered (stowed). Layered tube (steel liner, titanium, coolant, carbon-fibre casing) at 800 MPa (est.); the chamber is solid steel over its rear 2.3 m. Gun with cradle and recoil system 3.72 tonnes Drones: 8 small and 2 recon drone boxes on the carriage’s sides. |
| Range | [not set] |
| Point defence | Two 12 mm tri-barrel gatlings, on the glacis and at the bustle’s rear port corner [coverage checked on the old turret only] |
| Protection | Composite armour; 217 ERA blocks (280 × 200 × 60 mm, 12 kg each); active defence with 2 interceptor launchers on the carriage’s sides and 4 radar panels upright on the hull; NBC, mines and IED protection. |
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