Video: italians MBT and IFV

[easyand]

http://www.otomelara.it/products/Images/filmati/prod_land_artillery_pzh_F.wmv
Pzh 2000

http://www.otomelara.it/products/Images/filmati/prod_land_cio_centauro_F.wmv
Centauro

http://www.otomelara.it/products/Images/filmati/prod_land_cio_dardo_F.wmv
Dardo IFV

http://www.otomelara.it/products/Images/filmati/prod_land_cio_ariete_F.wmv
Ariete MBT

[Operation Ivy]

Sweet man woot

The Ariete looks like a mix of the Chally2 and LeoA4 :D

[Tengu]

mighty good vids man woot

[ronin2172]

that pzh 2000 is freakin huge

[OldRecon]

Are all this gear in service with the Italian armed forces?

[easyand]

yes,Centauro is also in service in Spanish army and Pzh2000 in German Army

PS:Dardo is replacing our M113 and Pzh 2000 is replacing our M109L

[FB]

Are all this gear in service with the Italian armed forces?

With the exception of PzH 2000, yes.

CENTAURO (the 105mm version) has been in service since before Somalia.

ARIETE has also been in service for years (an upgrading kit - mainly a new more powerful engine - is going to be installed soon, if the works have not begun yet). Some ARIETEs are on their way to Nassiriya

DARDO has only recently (last couple of months) begun introduction in the Units (and some of them are on their way to Nassiriya too)

PzH2000 is the Self Propelled howitzer that the Italian Army wants to buy in order to substitute its M109L. But when his will happen it's unclear. No money...

Best regards

[easyand]

Are all this gear in service with the Italian armed forces?



PzH2000 is the Self Propelled howitzer that the Italian Army wants to buy in order to substitute its M109L. But when his will happen it's unclear. No money...



You're wrong, OtoMelara is producing the first lot of 70 howitzers for the italian army woot

[seventy6er]

How many PzH2000 will the Italians buy from us?

[easyand]

actually 70 units (produced in italy),for the future i don't know

[FB]

Are all this gear in service with the Italian armed forces?



PzH2000 is the Self Propelled howitzer that the Italian Army wants to buy in order to substitute its M109L. But when his will happen it's unclear. No money...



You're wrong, OtoMelara is producing the first lot of 70 howitzers for the italian army woot

:lol:

Untill I see them in the hands of the Army, no one can be sure about it (do you rember when was the DARDO actually supposed to enter in line with the troops? It was more or less 10 years ago...) :lol:

But it is true that an agreement for 70 PzH pieces has been signed (I was probably being overpessimistic in my previous post, they are not yet in service, though ;) ). I wonder, though, how these 70 pieces ordered (all to be delivered this year) goes toghether with the enclosures of the Finantial Law for year 2004, in which the Ministery of Defense was able to input 32,8 Milion Euros (of the 414 foreseen, as stated in the same document: less than 10%) for the acqisition of the PzH2000. Per the same document, the PzH2000 "project" is due to end in 2011.

Do you happen to know how many PzH2000s the Italian army wants to buy? There's something not completely convincing in those numbers...

Best regards

[seventy6er]

Just looked it up: Bundeswehr buys 185 (out of an original 590), Italy 70, Greece 24 and the Netherlands 57. Without a doubt some more nations will follow.

[easyand]

Pzh2000 is the best howitzer in the world