TADTE 2019: Modified Cloud Leopard II breaks cover
The 209th Arsenal of the Materiel Production Centre of the Armaments Bureau exhibited its second-generation Cloud Leopard M2 prototype, at TADTE 2019, a vehicle that has been undergoing evaluations and verifications for more than a year.
The ROC Army estimates it will purchase 250 Cloud Leopard IIs in the coming three years.
On show in Taipei was a Cloud Leopard M2 mortar carrier fitted with an 81mm mortar (the vehicle on the right in the above picture). With an electro-servo control system and automatic fire control modules, it can provide rapid fire effects for mortars of both 81mm and 120mm
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