The standard CV90 IFV have very limited AA capability against anything moving.
IMO it should be noted that the 4th gen CV90 does have . Bofors 3P ( or AHEAD in CV9035s) can be provided as a quick retrofit for platoon-level AD.
Just let IFVs be IFVs, the current FCS tracking to use their gun against aircraft are just a added bonus for their use against ground units and already sufficient. Why add unnecessary weight, size and cost to make them SPAAGs vehicles, not to mention a SPAAG viability in modern warfare keeps dropping as missiles get even longer ranged. Also another thing I would be concerned with would also be the crew training requirements for your new IFV/SPAAG crews.
IFVs are consumables. Soviet approach to them are the correct one. Make them as affordable as possible and available to many. When a real war starts, these vehicles will be destroyed extremely quickly. They are usually placed in most vulnerable positions in front lines, and tend to have poor protection due to need to carry crew.
For a mass mobilization army in the 70s that is fine. But the PLA is not that. They have limited manpower just like everyone else. And frankly modern clean-sheet IFVs arent affordable because they still need a weapon and fire control for that, plus comms, navs, networking, some sort of remote counter-mining system, APS, propulsion/engine, situational awareness enabler(s), and then actual materials for the chassis and armour. That's not taking into account whatever the PLA is looking at for their future IFVs but it's guaranteed to be expensive.
Affordable IFV today will be nothing like affordable IFV in the 70s. Do not confuse the two. Thermals and computer chips are really cheap these days. There is also no requirements for using BMP-1 like chassis either because China don't have tens of thousands of them lying around. Even with massive Soviet stockpile Ukraine find itself running out of vehicles before running out of men.
Yes, because today is not 1970. Your point is?
Suprisng why the PLA havent gone all out on their digital NODs or having every guy with a XM157 equivalent then. Oh wait, because commercial specs doesn't scale to military specs. This kind of "cheap tech" thinking is why Russia is failing so miserably when they decided that troops using their Huaweis or whatever they sell in Russia these days is better than a secured, EW-proof multiband radio and then got blasted by NATO ELINT assets. Tldr what applies to the public doesn't apply to the military, hence why DJI drones is continuously failing when RuAF decided maybe their 80s-era jammers still have some use and NATO is moving to milspec drones which are inherently more expensive. Otherwise every PLA arty battalions would have thousands of loitering munitions already.
Yes, there is the ZSD-89A chassis instead. What a convenience, why dont the PLA droned them into or instead of building more of them?
Ukraine never had many functional vehicle to begin with...
Yes, and every bridge you pass is another wreck. Though for the PLAGF who should never deploy their ABCTs in an expeditionary fashion that would be useful I suppose. Either that or you go with FCS MGV style of modular protection. 20ton baseline with growth potential for Abrams-front-armour level all around (this is something I found from another forum so take it with a big grain of salt though). Either applique composite or KE-optimized (SL)ERA ie Rafael Armour Shield. APS(es) will deal with the slow movers anyway.
The IDF is pursuing a with a new turret that has Trophy intergrated. Given how most current AFVs has APS as a retrofit it seems to be the preferable solution. Regardless the role of an IFV is to provide fire support for other engaged elements, this kind of requirement, and thus, armanent can massively change depending on the type of war the PLAGF is expecting ( asymmetric/near-peer all out).
If anything the conflict in Ukraine has demonstrated the need for intergrated unit-level CRAM/C-UAS given the proliferation of cheap drones that can carry a substantial HEDP warhead. 2S38/T-15 with AU-220M or CV9040 Mk4 all proved the feasibility of mounting a dual-role armanent on an IFV with an acceptable magazine depth. Further back in time and we have 105mm MRAAS with 105mm ramjet sabot and sensor-fuzed multirole, even further there was the ARES XM274 that could shoot both APFSDS and HE-VT rounds. Targeting can be done by purely EO sensors, although cueing from APS radar or mounting an AESA FCR is entirely valid.
