Italian Army Main Battle Tank -C1 Ariete

The italian MBT Ariete during the test in Oto-melara's complex .
The original Ariete was designed, constructed, and tested by the IVECO FIAT - Oto Melara Syndicated Company, headquartered in Rome. This company is a business merger consisting of two separate defense contractors:

IVECO's Defence Vehicles Division, responsible for the development of the chassis and support systems, and
Oto Melara, responsible for the turret and fire-control system development.
The Ariete is currently in service with the Italian Army. It began with the first tank's delivery in 1995. The final delivery completed 7 years later in August 2002. An upgraded version, with modular armor, auto-loader and 55-calibre gun, was displayed in 2005 and ready for production.
Armament typical of the modern day main battle tank, the Ariete can engage targets in a variety of conditions. It can engage stationary or moving targets; it can attack opponents whether or not the Ariete is on-the-move; finally, it can engage targets day or night with the factory-installed thermal imager and laser rangefinder.
The standard load-out consists of three primary weapons systems:

A 120 mm main gun,
A 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun (manned by a crew member), and
A 7.62 mm anti-aircraft (manned by the tank commander).
Its primary weapon is the 55-calibre 120 mm main gun produced and manufactured by Oto Melara. The gun's barrel is a smoothbore design, and is autofrettaged and stress-hardened to increase durability over extended periods of fire. Its implementation allows for the use of a combined load-out of armour-piercing, fin-stabilized, discarding sabot (APFSDS) and high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds.
Crew and tank protection:The primary defense system protecting any contemporary tank is its armor plating. While the exact specifications of the armor are government and trade secrets, the manufacturer states that it is a steel and composite blend, similar to the British Challenger 2 tank and the American M1 Abrams.
Also important to the tank's defense are two laterally-mounted grenade launchers. Each launcher is electronically-fired, and consists of four barrels which can be intermixed with either smoke or chaff grenades. The smoke grenades are capable of shrouding the tank from visual or thermal detection. The chaff grenades are useful for dispersing the tank's radar cross section.
In addition it provides War Kit And PKO Kit it will be able to reinforce the Front armor and the side Armor with an optional package.
Finally, the crew cabin is protected by an anti-NBC system designed by Aero Sekur. It is capable of protecting the crew for a period of time from any modern nuclear, radiological, biological, or chemical attack.
Fire control and target acquisition :
The tank's fire-control system is of Italian manufacture, produced by Galileo Avionica (now a part of Selex Galileo). It is designated the TURMS Fire-Control System, and includes, among other features:
Day- and night-capable panoramic commander's scope for increased visibility,
Stabilized gunner's platform including thermal optics and a laser rangefinder to increase accuracy and expedite target detection and targeting,
Digital fire-control mini-computer.
The most important aspect, the fire-control computer, is capable of measuring wind speed, humidity, and exterior weather conditions, combining them with the turret's angle of elevation, attitude, and the barrel's physical wear to increase accuracy.
Powerplant and drivetrain:
The Ariete's powerplant is powered by a 25.8 litres turbo-charged Fiat-Iveco 12-cylinder diesel engine. Its rated output is 937 kilowatts (equivalent to 1250-HP) at 2.300 rpm, with a max torque of 4.615 Nm at 1.600 rpm[1].
It has a ZF LSG3000 automatic transmission,and has four forward gears and two reverse, allowing for a top cruising speed of 65 km/h. The transmission allows it to climb grades rated up to 60%, and can ford waterways of up to 1.25-m on-the-fly.

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[Failcard]

Doesn't the C1 lack composite armour on the sides and rear of the turret?

[ROMACAPVTMVNDl]

@Failcard

rear of the turret like many other tanks .

Btw the C1 adopted a new armour upgrade kit during its employment in Iraq .

[MrCapKorzeniowski]

this is a tutti-frutti tank manufactured by the land of Los Tutti-Fruttis LOL

[ROMACAPVTMVNDl]

@MrCapKorzeniowski

LOL your mother loves to suck my tuttifrutti lollipop all night long .

What a waste of time ,you opened an account just to say this bullshit ,get a life jerk !

[iammabbella]

INCREDIBLE, this is a tank test and some idiots are arguing about racist shit.

[ROMACAPVTMVNDl]

@FedoReds88

Open yo' mind pal,don't let foreign plots drives you crazy .They want the Italian Govt collapse to cook us like Greece and Ireland .Mr B is a clown but he's just the pivot on which they are pressing for their own purposes .I nostri connazionali sono una massa di pecore ,poi voglio vederli piangere per strada per un tozzo di pane .

[ROMACAPVTMVNDl]

@RiccardoTheBeAst

Il Centauro è un cacciacarri , i mezzi di supporto sono il Dardo ed il Puma 6x6 e 4x4 .

[ROMACAPVTMVNDl]

@RiccardoTheBeAst

L'ariete è nato dopo che i principali MBT europei erano già stati immessi sul mercato da parecchio ,non è mai stato pensato per competere con gli alleati europei ed è un progetto figlio della guerra fredda come il Leclerc ed il Challenger 2 inglese ,quest'ultimo è un tantino meno potente dell'Ariete tra l'altro ,ma nessuno dice niente .Segno che a far parlare le persone è più il riserbo verso le "cose" italiane che la conoscenza tecnica .

[RiccardoTheBeAst]

@ROMACAPVTMVNDl Sì beh il Centauro è un ottimo mezzo di supporto, meglio così! Riguardo i confronti non capisco perchè li odi così tanto (così come tanta altra gente), alla fin fine l'Ariete è nato apposta per competere con gli MBT avversari, così come un tipo di detersivo nasce per competere con la concorrenza o così come una squadra di calcio o un vestito....insomma, come qualunque cosa ecco :)

Ad ogni modo hai ragione, purtroppo la prossima guerrà sarà nucleare e non ci saranno vincitori....

[ROMACAPVTMVNDl]

@ROMACAPVTMVNDl

!!!Piccola rettifica scusami!! ,sono stati i CENTAURO ad ispirare gli Americani che in quel periodo cercavano idee per un nuovo carro medio su gomme .

[ROMACAPVTMVNDl]

@RiccardoTheBeAst

Leopard ed Abrams non li ho nemmeno citati perchè sono diventati lo standard per ovvi motivi commerciali ,inutile parlarne stiamo qui a misurarcelo inuntilmente .Nessuno di questi carri regge l'atomica e la prossima guerra se ci sarà ,si combatterà con miseri bottoni di plastica su dei pannelli di controllo .Lasciamo i confronti a chi ce l'ha più grosso ai bimbominkia .

[ROMACAPVTMVNDl]

@RiccardoTheBeAst

Gli ariete hanno ISPIRATO gli americani che è bello che è gia tanto . Quando li videro all'opera nei balcani ne rimasero affascinati .

La russia può avere i carri che vuole ,tanto stanno li a prendere la polvere ,inoltre ai nostri 200 Ariete devi sommare i Centauro gia in servizio e quelli nuovi in arrivo .E sommaci pure tutto i carri di tutta europa visto che se proprio ci tieni ad un confronto non saremo da soli contro la russia ....non trovi ;) ?