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To: C19fan

Neah.
Has more in common with the Wirbelwind - a quad 20mm AA gun. You could shoot at the Typhoons as they rocketed you, and suppress infantry with it.
This “thing” is designed to shoot down aircraft (SAMs and autocannon), hit tanks at long range (ATGMs), kill soft skinned and light AFVs (autocannon), and suppress infantry (autocannon, MGs, and auto-grenade launchers).
If I understand correctly, the “tank support vehicle” is supposed to help tanks operate when they lack infantry support.
And of course, the Sov, er, Russians are ahead of them on this.


30 posted on 11/08/2018 8:23:52 AM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Little Ray

The Russians came up with the idea based on their experience in Grozny. They wanted a thick skinned weapons system to fight infantry and thin skinned vehicles in an urban environment.


33 posted on 11/08/2018 8:36:07 AM PST by C19fan
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