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In 1977, the new tank entered the stage of actual vehicle design. In 1980, the first prototype was produced, which was named OF-40 tank. "OF" is the initials of the two companies' names, and "40" indicates that the tank weight is 40 tons.

Ram main battle tank officially developed:

The successful development of the OF-40 tank has laid a solid foundation for the Italian Army to develop its own Ram main battle tank.

The Ram main battle tank has absorbed a lot of OF-40 design methods in the development, and the two also have many similarities in the chassis.

Ram Main Battle Tank:

In 1982, the Italian Army proposed the technical indicators of the new main battle tank.

In 1984, the Italian Army and industry reached a consensus on the design indicators of the new tank.

In 1986, the newly formed Otto Melera Corporation and the Fiat Corporation consortium soon produced the first prototype, and then the second prototype developed was delivered to the Italian Army for testing.

The Italian Army named this new tank the Ram main battle tank according to international practice.

In 1988, the consortium produced six more prototypes for the Italian Army to test.

In more than 450 days of troop tests, the Ram main battle tank fired more than 3,000 120mm shells, and finally withstood the test.

The Italian Army decided to officially install the Ram main battle tank and planned to purchase 300 of them between 1990 and 1994.

In addition to Otto Melera and Iveco/Fiat, there are 248 subcontractors involved in the production of the Ram main battle tank.

In June 1992, the Ram main battle tank passed a series of tests such as driving and firepower, and was officially finalized.

In the same year, the Italian military and Melera signed a contract for the production of 200 Ram main battle tanks.

Queued for service:

In 1995, the production Ram main battle tank was officially rolled off the production line and put into service[9], equipped with 3 armored regiments of the Italian Army.

In 1998, Italy's first Ram main battle tank regiment, the 32nd Armored Regiment, was officially formed.

Ram main battle tank technical features:

Overall layout:

The body and turret of the Ram main battle tank are welded with rolled steel plates, and new composite armor is used for key parts.

The interior of the car is divided into 3 compartments: the right front is the cockpit, the middle is the fighting compartment, and the engine and transmission are located at the rear of the hull.

The driver has a single-leaf hatch and 3 periscopes, the middle one can be replaced with a passive liquid-view periscope.

The turret is above the middle of the hull, and there are 3 crew members. The commander is on the right side of the turret, the gunner is in front of and below the commander, and the loader is on the left side of the turret.

This is also the conventional arrangement of third-generation main battle tanks.

The commander and the loader each have a single-leaf hatch that opens back, and the tank commander has a periscope in front of the hatch.

There is a pop-up window on the left side of the turret. The turret is rectangular, with a large tail compartment at the rear. When the gun is forward, the Ram main battle tank is 10.54 meters long, 7.6 meters long, 3.55 meters wide with skirts, 3.4 meters without skirts, and 2.46 meters high when it reaches the top of the turret.

Ram main battle tank protection system:

The body and turret of the Ram main battle tank are welded with rolled steel plates, and new composite armor is used in key parts.

The front arc area of ​​the tank hull (including the front of the turret, the front of the hull, and the armored skirts at the positions of the first and second road wheels) adopts composite armor.

Other parts are homogeneous steel armor.

The upper tracks and suspension devices on both sides of the vehicle are covered by side skirts, thereby improving the protection of the side armor of the vehicle body.

A set of smoke grenade launchers with 4 launchers is installed on each side of the turret of the Ram main battle tank.

The Ram main battle tank is equipped with a three-proof device designed by the Italian Sekel company, model SP-180.

The tanks are equipped with SP-180 nuclear, chemical and biological protection systems and a British aerospace laser warning device.

Ram main battle tank weapon system:

Chapter 115 Preview of the Ram main battle tank weapon system