Just 12.7mm...
Chinese infantry fighting vehicles
- Thread starter Broccoli
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Just 12.7mm...
by78
General
They are not gonna mount a 30mm auto-cannon on a remote weapon station designed for small to medium caliber machine guns.
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A 30mm rws would be wasted on a recon vehicle, like it can't even shoot to the right cuz the sensors are in the way
broadsword
Brigadier
Then design it to accommodate one. 12.7mm is hardly enough for protection when the enemies nowadays are often heavily armed. Other countries' APCs are built to cater for both calibres, like the Israeli, Turkish, Austria's, etc.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Well there is 2 type of APC one is called IFV or infantry fighting vehicle and the rest is APC as the name suggest it is just personnel carrier or glorified battle taxi their purpose is to carry infantry to the battle and quickly retreat back. or some of them is used as Recce. As such they don't need to be heavily armed. On the other hand IFV is the one that accompanied the main battle tanks now they need to be heavily armed!
Guys there is this thing called....a turret. 30mm equipped ZBL-08 recon vehicles exist.
QJC88
by78
General
Why would/should you need/want a 30mm auto-cannon on a recon vehicle? Because you think it's cool?
Do you understand what kind of recoil mitigation a 30mm auto-cannon would need – in terms of the size of the turret ring – and how the physical dimensions of the turret can be reconciled with the competing demands of fitting the electronic and optical observational equipment necessary to fulfill the primary function of a recon vehicle?
In other words, how is mounting a 30mm auto-cannon on a recon vehicle not be anything other than a waste of space?
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