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I created it from scratch, originally as a vector image.

The two tanks are comparable. The F1 gun was apparently similar to the L7, with early versions firing HEAT and later also APFSDS.

The French AMX-30 and the German Leopard 1 were built to a very similar basic formula which is not at all surprising since initially, the two countries were collaborating to develop a common design (Europanzer) that would be used by both. Like a number of such ideas during the 1960’s and 70’s the collaboration did not bear combined fruit and each nation ended up developing its own new tank.

These tanks were both based on the idea that optimizing armament and mobility were the highest priorities, at a time when many designers thought it was impractical to carry enough armour to defeat the latest anti-tank weapons. Speed, agility and good hitting power were therefore being relied upon to a considerable extent.

These matters aside, a look at the specifications - and indeed, even the appearance of the first models of AMX-30 and Leopard 1 - shows just how alike they were in a number of ways. These tanks were nationally distinctive but essentially very similar answers to the same need. AMX-30's Achilles heel seems to have been power-plant/transmission reliability (or at least greater maintenance requirements compared to Leopard 1), and it could be argued that some of the modernization efforts sometimes lagged for a few years compared to German counterpart.

Also, commander cupola had gyroscopic stabilization for observation and it used 7.62 mm machine gun rather than 12.7mm.

P.S. great looking sprite!

^ Thanks! The AMX-30 received an improved power-pack and other upgrades in the early 80s, which I reflected in my B2 version. I will correct the commander's MG as you are quite right in that it is a 7.62mm gun. I mixed it up with the turret MG, which is 12.7mm - this was later replaced by the 20mm.

Unless I am missing something, why mess around with image hosting sites when you can just upload a picture from your PC and embed it into a post. Also if it's over the permitted Max size, just resize it.

Guess I missed that one. But here I am attempting to show my M577.

France's Mystere IV ground attack aircraft.

Nice, very nice.

Kevin