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On 7/30/2022 at 6:19 AM, watch_your_fire said:
These are both cheap to produce and apparently fairly useful, and yet very few built.
Extremely inconvenient(low roof, weird dismounting) APC with just 7 dismounts and old gimmics of tank chassis(i.e. requires tank transporter and tank repair/evacuation).
Highly specialized vehicle.
Though troops can be understood - after BMP-1/2(which sometimes can't even stop mortar splinters properly) it gives a whole lot.
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On 6/20/2022 at 12:47 AM, Cleb said:
Is it some form of insanity - to endlessly spam the exact same IFV-based fire support vehicle concept, over and over again, which no one procures?
Make a normal medium tank hull with same components ffs - it isn't that expensive.
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On 5/3/2021 at 11:54 AM, LoooSeR said:
BMP-1 can't fit Berezhok. Although you could do other things, like leaving BMP-1s to rust as at this point hull are ~50 years old and ballistic protection is very low.
...and forcing modern soldiers in full gear inside should count as a crime against humanity.
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1 hour ago, Beer said:
There is a reason why APS radars are switched on only when a threat is detected by other sensors like UV or IR.
Primarily it's about power consumption, though.
Engaging all of them continuously is unsustainable for AFV.
Emcon is an obvious concern, but a second concern.
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Impressive that one competitor is literally half the weight of another one.
W/o appliqué armor, but still...
p.s. better resolution of the MPF itself. Oddly enough, vehicle doesn't look too reach on optics.
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On 10/18/2020 at 12:17 PM, SH_MM said:
IMO the layout of the roof-mounted ERA is really odd. Either the armor array covering the left turret cheek is significantly thinner than the armor on the right turret cheek or the roof-mounted ERA overlaps with the armor.
There is a serious chance that under outer sheets there is something more reminiscent of Merkava.
It'll explain weird layout nicely.
1 hour ago, Scolopax said:The apparent size seems right for a 122mm.
Gun barell is far too thin. Muzzle brake may be oversized to protect relatively weak chassis.
Known 122mm 8x8 howitzers(say, chinese one) had their chassis seriously reinforced, doesn't seem to be the case here.
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3 hours ago, SH_MM said:
There is ERA at the turret roof, the hull sides and the upper glacis, but not on the turret. Weird.
We don't know what they have under this thin sheet cover, though.
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48 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:
Muzzle refer. system, probably smoke grenades sticking out of turret edges with what is possibly a mock up of a radar (so it could represent soft-kill APS similar to K2's, where radar actives smoke grenade launchers). Also it looks like gunner was possibly moved to the right of the gun, at least what appears to be a gunner sight is on the right. Not sure about 2nd sight (a big box closer to a hatch). New ATGM launcher that now is retractable.
1, elefant in the room. This new tank apparently again spots 115mm smoothbore gun(long time no see, 2a20), instead of 125mm one on Song'un-915. New, large ATGMs(152mm?) are probably intended to compensate for the obvious weakness of this gun in AT role.
2, there are old smoke mortars on the turret bustle. New ones are much larger, and the way they're installed literally cries hard kill aps.
3, as far as I can tell - yes, gunner in front of the commander. Forward sight is gunner's(this is supported by periscope next to it), rear one is apparently for commander.
4, somewhat unusually for "eastern" school, but NK clearly sticks to 4-man crew. Gunner is moved to the right.
1st point forced me to check, if it is yet another thoroughly upgraded tank in Popkung-Ho series, but no. Literally everything apart from the gun is different and new.
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9 minutes ago, Beer said:
APS (real?).
At least the intention seems to be real(possibly mock-up).
4 Radar panels are readily apparent, and there is something what can be interpreted as UV optics on the rear set of antennas.
But... are there 3 or 4 crew members? Optics just don't match 3(strange periscope to the right of the forward sight)
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