gral
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There is footage of it going over the camera and you see the underneath. It...It just looks horrible. The front Glacias ends and there is like a part that is not connected to anything.
That's SOP for the North Koreans - they don't have the industry to build turrets like the ones on Abrams(or K1, for that matter), so they add to previously built ones until the shape becomes similar. That's what we have here - a Seongunho cast turret with its shape altered to look like the one in Abrams(before they decided to cut holes in it to add Armata-like active protection system launchers). I don't think there is an improvement in protection - they might even have compromised it some, with those holes.
Main improvement to me seems to be the added ATGM box launcher on the side - a better idea than those MANPADS they normally put on their parade MBTs.