Rooikat MTTD

This page is about the British light tank Rooikat MTTD. For other versions, see Rooikat (Family).

Rooikat MTTD

Rooikat MTTD

Description

The Rooikat MTTD is a rank British light tank with a battle rating of (AB), (RB), and (SB). It was introduced in Update "Ixwa Strike".

General info

Survivability and armour

The Rooikat MTTD can generally be considered to be lightly armoured. The frontal armour can resists machinegun fire, or autocannons from long-range and at an angle. Side armour can be penetrated by machine guns larger than 12.7 mm at close range, with the rear armour being even weaker. A somewhat spacious hull allows for poorly aimed shots to potentially fail to hit any critical modules, but chemical rounds will destroy the vehicle through overpressure. The turret features recessed crew members, allowing for careful use of the gun depression to only expose the gun and auto-loader ammo rack when hull-down. Chemical rounds may very well still trigger overpressure when hitting the turret, or detonating the turret ammo rack. The Rooikat MTTD features poor overall armour and survivability, and should use the vehicle's mobility to avoid the possibility of receiving a hit in the first place. The vehicle also inherits the stock brown-yellow camouflage from the rest of the South Africa line, allowing the vehicle to be easily spotted on non-desert maps.

Armour type:

• Rolled homogeneous armour (hull, turret)
• Wheel (tires, torsion bars)

Armour	Front (Slope angle)	Sides	Rear	Roof
Hull	25 mm (77°) Upper glacis - Centre 10 mm (75°) Upper glacis - Sides 30 mm (23°) Lower glacis - Centre 10 mm (23°) Lower glacis - Sides	20 mm (25°) Top 25 mm (9°) Bottom	20 mm Upper centre 20 mm (29°) Lower centre	25 mm (13°) Front glacis - Centre 10 mm (15°) Front glacis - Sides 20 mm (0-13°) Driver compartment 10 mm Crew compartment 5 mm Radiator vents
Turret	15-25 mm (0-79°) Turret front 50 mm Gun mantlet	10-25 mm	10 mm (0-17°)	10-15 mm (0-11°)

Notes:

• Tires and torsion bar are 10 mm thick.
• Belly is 15 mm thick.

Mobility

Game Mode	Max Speed (km/h)		Weight (tons)	Engine power (horsepower)		Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
	Forward	Reverse		Stock	Upgraded	Stock	Upgraded
Arcade				879			__.__
Realistic				501			__.__

The Rooikat MTTD features extremely good mobility, with limitations. The engine will power the vehicle to a top speed of 130 km/h (AB) / 120 km/h (RB/SB) on roads, though the average speed is around 35 to 55 km/h off road. The wheeled chassis will allow to turn the vehicle without losing too much speed, though the size of the vehicle means it will have a large turn radius, and it lacks the ability to perform neutral steering. Like for most armoured cars, snow, sand, and dirt will bring this vehicle to a crawl (<10 km/h in RB/SB). Performance on any sort of hill or incline is poor with low traction, making some normally accessible slopes impossible to climb. Although the vehicle is capable of high speeds, care should be taken to plan and familiarize map routes that will allow this vehicle to reach an advantageous position quickly. The vehicle characteristics favour open, rural maps over urban maps. When on urban maps, the vehicle's large turning radius will hamper its freedom of movement in narrow streets and between buildings.

Armaments

Main armament

105 mm GT-7					Turret rotation speed (°/s)					Reloading rate (seconds)
Mode	Capacity	Vertical	Horizontal	Stabilizer	Stock	Upgraded	Full	Expert	Aced	Stock	Full	Expert	Aced
Arcade	32	-10°/+20°	±180°	Two-plane	38.1	52.7	64.0	70.8	75.3	6.70	6.70	6.70	6.70
Realistic					23.8	28.0	34.0	37.6	40.0

Ammunition

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
		10 m	100 m	500 m	1,000 m	1,500 m	2,000 m
DM12	HEATFS	400	400	400	400	400	400
DM502	HESH	127	127	127	127	127	127
DM23	APFSDS	337	335	330	322	314	306

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile Mass (kg)	Fuse delay (m)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive Mass (TNT equivalent) (g)	Ricochet
							0%	50%	100%
DM12	HEATFS	1,173	10.5	0.05	0.1	1,270	65°	72°	77°
DM502	HESH	732	14.85	0.1	4	4,310	73°	77°	80°
DM23	APFSDS	1,455	3.79	N/A	N/A	N/A	78°	80°	81°

Ammo racks

Ammo racks of the Rooikat MTTD

Full ammo	1st rack empty	2nd rack empty	3rd rack empty	Visual discrepancy
32	27 (+5)	21 (+11)	1 (+31)	No

Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

Pros:

• Autoloader mechanism offers reliable reload time
• GT-7 cannon ballistics characteristics are competitive
• The superb top speed of the Rooikat chassis remains
• Equipped with features enhancing its combat capability: laser rangefinder, thermal imager, ESS and NVD
• Crew location and good gun depression allows safer hull-down attacks

Cons:

• Only 3 crew members
• No secondary armament or coaxial machine gun
• Mobility is heavily affected by uneven terrain, mud, snow, sand
• Lacklustre power to weight ratio: struggles climbing slopes or rocks
• GT-7 penetration is unreliable versus late Soviet MBT frontal armour as on T-72 (Family), T-80 (Family) or T-90A

History

The Rooikat Medium Turret Technology Demonstrator (MTTD) was a private venture to test the concept of a Rooikat-based 105 mm / 120 mm gun turret with an automatic loading system.

It used a regular production Rooikat hull with a completely new two-man turret. The loader/commander was positioned on the left side of the turret and the gunner was located on the right side, both in sunken positions allowing a low profile wedge shape for the turret where the crew was located. The main gun was in the centre, a 105 mm high pressure gun but it was intended also to test a 120 mm low pressure gun. The main gun was automatically loaded with ammunition from the turret bustle. An active protection system (APS) mock-up was located on the rear of the turret but was not functional. The Rooikat MTTD was only a demonstrator vehicle and never entered production.

Media

Skins

• Skins and camouflages for the Rooikat MTTD from live.warthunder.com.

Video

Best wheeled tanks - War Thunder Official Channel

See also

• M1128