ItPsV Leopard
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Description
The ItPsV Leopard 2 Marksman is a rank VI Swedish SPAA with a battle rating of 8.7 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced in Update "Sky Guardians".
General info
Survivability and armour
The vehicle's survivability is rather odd, because the Hull can be durable due to it being the hull of a 2A4, but the turret is extremely weak.
Frontally, you can get lucky and bounce some shots from the hull being barely scratched, but do not expect miracles, the Leopards always relied to their turret in armor, somewhat neglecting the hull. Hits to sides will also penetrate your armor with most guns, including autocannons although your fuel tanks and tracks might absorb those if lucky, but do be weary.
Especially when we start talking about the elephant in the room, the Marksman turret. It can block heavy MG fire and that's it, any hit to the turret will very likely lead to your demise, due to it not only housing 2/3 of your crew, but your ammo reserves too. That also makes your driver your only somewhat protected crewmember, he sits at front left (when looking at the tank straight on) behind a composite screen of armor and has some composite slats added to the sides of the tank's front to cover him.
You can survive unscathed if you get shot from the side below the turret, because there is just empty space there, but that's not really a good trait, more so you getting lucky with your enemy having a bad shot.
shot to the rear will always immobilise you, due to the whole engine and transmission being there, coupled with fuel tanks in front which will likely result in you needing to use FPE before starting repairs.
Generally, try your best to remain unseen by enemy armor, you might be able to dish out damage, but you can barely take any. Planes will also prove deadly if they can get their guns on you, due to the low turret armour and extremely low roof armour.
Armour type:
| Armour | Front (Slope angle) | Sides | Rear | Roof |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hull | 40 mm LFP(51deg),
UFP 35mm (at 53deg and 82deg) |
top-layer 10mm
mid-layer 35mm bottom-layer 20mm |
20mm | 20mm |
| Turret | 25 mm at (19deg and 39deg) 30mm turret ring |
20mm throughout at varied angles | 20mm | 10 mm |
Notes:
Mobility
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| Game Mode | Max Speed (km/h) | Weight (tons) | Engine power (horsepower) | Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton) | |||
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| Forward | Reverse | Stock | Upgraded | Stock | Upgraded | ||
| Arcade | 75 | 34 | 49.2 | _,___ | 2,862 | __.__ | 58.17 |
| Realistic | 69 | 31 | _,___ | 1,500 | __.__ | 30.49 | |
Modifications and economy
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Armaments
Main armament
The vehicle is armed with two Swiss made 35 mm Oerlikon KDA cannons with a respective 550 RPM. These should be familiar of prior users of vehicles like the Gepard, Marksman, ZA-35 and the PGZ09. Due to the vehicle's nature as an SPAA, it can engage and track targets which move rapidly. Ammo pool is respectable at 460 rounds, and "reloading" at a point is rather quick as well. It has 3 types of ammunition available to it.
High-explosive incendiary tracer (HEI-T for short) the shells are self-destroying, but do note that the self-destruction range coincides with the radar's lead indicator maximum distance, therefore making the shells practically unusable at longer ranges
Armour-piercing incendiary tracer (API-T), Can be used extremely effectively against lightly armoured vehicles and enemy SPAAs. even though the damage to enemy aircraft is reduced unless you hit a crucial module, due to lack of HE filler, the shell can still be used outside of the radar range because it is not self destructive. Although you might not be able to penetrate heavier targets frontally, the guns will do short work of nearly every enemy vehicle from the side (Even the heaviest IS tanks if you aim and ricochet your shots well enough from the drivewheels!)
High-velocity armour-piercing discarding sabot tracer (APDS), which can be used against targets mentioned above and provide way easier time due to their higher penetration, requiring less precise aiming to wound or destroy the target, but do bear in mind your amount is limited, so do not waste them needlessly! The APDS rounds *can* be used against Aircraft and Helicopters as well, but it is not advisable to do so due to the very limited ammo
| 35 mm Oerlikon KDA (x2) | Turret rotation speed (°/s) | Reloading rate (seconds) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mode | Capacity (Belt) | Fire rate | Vertical | Horizontal | Stabilizer | Stock | Upgraded | Full | Expert | Aced | Stock | Full | Expert | Aced |
| Arcade | 500 (230) | 550 | -10°/+85° | ±180° | Two-plane | __._ | __._ | __._ | __._ | __._ | _.__ | _.__ | _.__ | _.__ |
| Realistic | __._ | __._ | __._ | __._ | __._ | |||||||||
Ammunition
- Default: API-T* · HEI-T*
- DM11A1: HEI-T* · HEI-T* · HEI-T* · API-T*
- DM13: API-T* · API-T* · API-T* · HEI-T*
- DM23: APDS
| Penetration statistics | |||||||
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| Ammunition | Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm) | ||||||
| 10 m | 100 m | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 2,000 m | ||
| HEI-T* | 11 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | |
| API-T* | 68 | 66 | 57 | 47 | 39 | 32 | |
| APDS | 127 | 125 | 118 | 110 | 102 | 95 | |
| Shell details | ||||||||||||
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| Ammunition | Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Fuse delay (m) |
Fuse sensitivity (mm) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (g) |
Ricochet | ||||||
| 0% | 50% | 100% | ||||||||||
| HEI-T* | 1,175 | 0.55 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 204 | 79° | 80° | 81° | ||||
| API-T* | 1,175 | 0.55 | 1.2 | 9 | 37.4 | 47° | 60° | 65° | ||||
| APDS | 1,400 | 0.38 | - | - | - | 75° | 78° | 80° | ||||
Ammo racks
| Full ammo |
1st rack empty |
2nd rack empty |
3rd rack empty |
4th rack empty |
5th rack empty |
6th rack empty |
Visual discrepancy |
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| 3 | __ (+__) | __ (+__) | __ (+__) | __ (+__) | __ (+__) | __ (+__) | __ |
Usage in battles
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Pros and cons
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History
The ItPsV-90, or Ilmatorjuntapanssarivaunu 90, is a Finnish SPAAG. Used for low-air defense, the ItPsv-90 was used to shoot down low-flying aircraft and UAVs. Orignally, the ItPsV-90 was on a Polish T-55 tank hull used in the 1990s. Finland had several units until 2010, when the systems were moved into wartime storage. Five years later, in 2015, the systems were installed on the Leopard 2A4 hull. The ItPsV-90 variant in-game with the 2A4 hull would enter service for the Finnish army in 2016 and is still in use with 7 units made.
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See also
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| Sweden anti-aircraft vehicles | |
|---|---|
| SPAA | Pvlvv fm/42 · Lvtdgb m/40 · Pbv 301 · Lvkv 42 · U-SH 204 GK |
| Radar SPAA | VEAK 40 · Lvkv 9040C |
| SAM | Lvrbv 701 · ASRAD-R |
| Finland | L-62 ANTI II · ▄ZSU-57-2 · ItO 90M · ItPsV Leopard |
