Kal Posted January 14, 2021 Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 EOS's team redback launch blurb. https://www.eos-aus.com/hanwha-launches-the-redback-in-australia/ Ainen and Cleb 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 14, 2021 Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 Headlight protection installed. Exhaust line treatment not yet installed. Iron vision is go... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 14, 2021 Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 Can't shake the feeling that the redback will Look more complete with side slat armour for hull, and rear slat armour for turret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2805662 Posted January 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 21 minutes ago, Kal said: Can't shake the feeling that the redback will Look more complete with side slat armour for hull, and rear slat armour for turret Indeed. Well, Plasan do business here, so why not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 14, 2021 Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 Aslav bar armour was made cheaply by some Locals, so no need to go plasan. The other thought is that the sides will just carry shovels and shit and if we be tricky, we mighty get a privacy sheet work to cover it, and pretend it something special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2805662 Posted January 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 33 minutes ago, Kal said: Aslav bar armour was made cheaply by some Locals, so no need to go plasan. The other thought is that the sides will just carry shovels and shit and if we be tricky, we mighty get a privacy sheet work to cover it, and pretend it something special. Yeah, tracking. The original ASLAV stuff used actual rebar. Inefficient weight-wise. It was also very vulnerable to damage due to it being overly rigid. Simply showing an alternative that’s current generation. Also, to quote the press release: “The vehicle boasts an advanced layered protection system including Elbit’s active protection system, Plasan’s world class armour and a structure designed to protect occupants from the effects of blast.” Kal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2805662 Posted January 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 RMA Lynxs inbound... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 14, 2021 Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 It was in Darwin? What about Ipswich? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2805662 Posted January 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 I believe they’re all being delivered to Victoria for the RMA. The Antanov appears to be en route Avalon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted January 14, 2021 Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 9 hours ago, Kal said: Can't shake the feeling that the redback will Look more complete with side slat armour for hull, and rear slat armour for turret Why to install slat armour on a vehicle with APS? Slat armour severly degrades vehicle mobility and somewhat protects only against very old anti-tank weapons which shall be an easy prey for the APS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 14, 2021 Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 What is that spare prop looking thing on the side? It looks like its there to demonstrate the side can carry stuff, if needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 14, 2021 Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 55 minutes ago, Beer said: Why to install slat armour on a vehicle with APS? Slat armour severly degrades vehicle mobility and somewhat protects only against very old anti-tank weapons which shall be an easy prey for the APS. Maybe slat armour will end up optimised for 57mm HEAT spam. Besides slat armour should be cheap to repair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted January 14, 2021 Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Kal said: Maybe slat armour will end up optimised for 57mm HEAT spam. How is it supposed to work? 1 hour ago, Kal said: Besides slat armour should be cheap to repair. That's purely secondary property and hardly a reason to carry it. The reason for slat armor existence is increase of surivability for the cost of extra weight, ridiculous dimensions, worse driving performance and harder accessability of most of the vehicle area. However it works only against very old HEAT grenades and only sometimes. It doesn't work against ATGM and newer RPGs at all (even against pretty old ones like RPG-18). When the vehicle is equipped with APS, which can deal with all those threats much better, there is no reason to diminish its performance by adding the cage. DIADES 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 15, 2021 Report Share Posted January 15, 2021 Colour scheme for Oz...(australian feral pig) Bristles included. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIADES Posted January 15, 2021 Report Share Posted January 15, 2021 20 hours ago, Kal said: What is that spare prop looking thing on the side? That is half a recovery flat tow A frame. Each vehicle carries half so they have some intrinsic ability to recovery each other. Kal and Serge 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 16, 2021 Report Share Posted January 16, 2021 On 1/14/2021 at 11:54 PM, Beer said: How is it supposed to work? That's purely secondary property and hardly a reason to carry it. The reason for slat armor existence is increase of surivability for the cost of extra weight, ridiculous dimensions, worse driving performance and harder accessability of most of the vehicle area. However it works only against very old HEAT grenades and only sometimes. It doesn't work against ATGM and newer RPGs at all (even against pretty old ones like RPG-18). When the vehicle is equipped with APS, which can deal with all those threats much better, there is no reason to diminish its performance by adding the cage. Modern slat armour is about 10kg per square metre coverage. (See hawkei above). It also has electric cunning to defeat more modern rpg. So weight is almost inconsequential, but maintainability and robustness could be an issue. As both redback and lynx come with ironfist's radars, the obvious option to up armour for pre deployment is simply to plug in larger/ and or additional launchers for the APS....so perhaps that is the future. But guessing the australian army conservatism, i would expect both. Additionally i would expect users of either/both lynx and redback to eventually add some hull APS launchers, tied to the turret's radars. NoFox 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2805662 Posted January 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2021 More detail pics of the Redback. With Spike LR2. Can’t link the tweet. LoooSeR, N-L-M and Serge 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SH_MM Posted January 16, 2021 Report Share Posted January 16, 2021 Not a fan of using RWS' optics as independent commander's sight. There should be a noteworthy performance difference compared to using the independent commander's sight as RWS. DIADES 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serge Posted January 16, 2021 Report Share Posted January 16, 2021 I think like you. The only exception for me was the Raytheon Battleguard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 17, 2021 Report Share Posted January 17, 2021 RWS EOS is claiming roughly 12,500m. 5,500m and 4,500m for both thermal and day vision for dectection, recognition and identification (respectively). 2805662 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleb Posted January 17, 2021 Report Share Posted January 17, 2021 Video of the AS21 Launch Ceremony. David Moyes, Clan_Ghost_Bear, 2805662 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 On 1/16/2021 at 8:38 PM, SH_MM said: Not a fan of using RWS' optics as independent commander's sight. There should be a noteworthy performance difference compared to using the independent commander's sight as RWS. EOS r400 optics etc are better than elbit's 2016 COAPS, but i can't find pdfs about current COAPS, I notice the AS21 COAPS has differing lenses to earlier generation. Other notable point is that EOS r400 seems to duplicated its dual axis stabilisation. I guess that allows the sensor's slew and elevation to be more rapid and more stable than it's weapons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 just a thought, now that Apache are joining ADF, the M230 chaingun will now publicly be part of ADF. which is an option for the redback's R400 RWS. (but why bother when there is a real 30mm already on the turret) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIADES Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 6 hours ago, Kal said: sensor's slew and elevatio Needs to be able to slew elevate separately from the weapon to enable lead. Plus if the commander continues to use the remote sight when using the primary weapon (killer killer) then the sight must be able to slew and elevate independently as the ballistic characteristics of whatever small arm is mounted to the remote are radically different to the main weapon. Actually reduces performance as there are two sets of mechanical error available etc, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SH_MM Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 On 1/20/2021 at 5:44 AM, Kal said: EOS r400 optics etc are better than elbit's 2016 COAPS, but i can't find pdfs about current COAPS, I notice the AS21 COAPS has differing lenses to earlier generation. No, they are not. You may not know what the relevant performance metrics are, if you come to this conclusion... DIADES 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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