It must be said that the KF-41 platform, already selected by Hungary, and competing in Australia et in the USA to replace the infantry fighting vehicles of the two armies, offers many advantages to evolve into such a medium tank, in particular a powerful Liebherr turbo-diesel engine capable of reaching 850 KW, or 1.140 hp, offering an excellent power-to-weight ratio of almost 30 hp per ton if the new tank were to reach 40 tons.
The KF-41 Lynx is a very advanced, but also very expensive next-generation infantry fighting vehicle To this vetronics is added, as for the Hungarian KF-41 Lynx, an ADS active protection system developed by this same Rheinmetall to protect the armored vehicle from rockets and anti-tank missiles, as well as modular composite armor to adapt the protection of the armored vehicle to operational needs.
Indeed, the Lynx 120 is a heavily armed medium tank, with a 120 mm smoothbore gun derived from the one that equips the Leopard 2 today, as well as an automatic loading system, and a set of aiming and vision of the latest generation of engagement terrain. This is how he has just presented its Lynx 120, a medium tank based on the KF-41 platform Lynx (in main illustration), and meeting almost entirely the needs expressed in the August article.
Obviously, the German land armament giant, Rheinmetall, has come to the same conclusion with regard to its domestic market, as well as the needs for this type of armor in the coming years on the international scene. Indeed, with only 200 economically modernized Leclerc tanks, and 650 VBCI infantry combat vehicles now more suitable for low and medium intensity, than for engagement against an adversary heavily armed with modern and well-trained means, the Army is in serious danger of lacking firepower and resilience in the event of conflict, or credibility to support a deterrent posture. In August 2021, we published on Meta-Defense an analysis highlighting the relevance, for armies like the French defense industry, of develop medium tracked armored platform and medium battle tank high performance, allowing, among other things, to fill a significant deficit in the Army's capabilities in terms of high-intensity combat from here to the arrival of heavy armored vehicles from the Franco-German MGCS program at the end of the next decade.
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