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@KPA_bot @315th_IGNIB Probably for Drone defense and relying on ROF to compensate for low grade FCS or inherent mounting instability.

2連の機関砲が新しく装備されてるけど、ZPU-2かな？何でまたこんなものを……単装の重機関銃じゃ不十分なんだろうか

@Airborn_Eevee @planefag Ah, so only the 127mm cannons. You could definitely get some good effects against drones with such weapons but outside some insane revolution in gunnery they are very much secondary weapons now compared to missiles.

@KPAWeapons @planefag All that's true, but this is a discussion about Battery-caliber flak. Not Yamato's overall lackluster AA as a whole.

It is 1853. Battleships are declared obsolete due to small steam-powered ships with the Paixhan shell-firing gun. It is 1862. Battleships are declared obsolete due to steam-powered ironclad rams. It is 1870. Battleships are declared obsolete due to submarines and attack craft equipped with the Whitehead self-propelled torpedo. It is 1921. Battleships are declared obsolete due to air power. It is 1945. Battleships are declared obsolete due to airpower, and are replaced by carriers. It is 1952. Carriers are declared obsolete due to nuclear powered submarines and nuclear weapons. It is 1985. Carriers are declared obsolete due to increasing sophistication of anti-ship missiles. It is 2018. BAE Systems has developed a guided hyper-velocity cannon shell that makes 127mm guns viable dual-purpose (anti-surface/anti-air) weapons against modern threats. It is 2023. An explosion of "cheap" drone technology makes biplane-speed targets a "modern" threat that dual-purpose 127mm guns firing proximity-fused ammo are ideally suited to counter. It is 2026. Continuing research with Japan has made a main-battery railgun viable...

@Airborn_Eevee @planefag I’m not even considering those as they didn’t produce any real effect but rather the inadequate 25mm triple and the relatively ok at best twin 127mm Type 89 guns. They had no fire directors, poorly made light AA, and effectively no FCS for these guns.

@KPAWeapons @planefag I'm not even talking about her final battle here. And even so, the fact of the matter is that those airburst "Beehive" shells even under ideal conditions weren't very effective.

@Airborn_Eevee @planefag Note, Yamato had a small escort, a weak and remarkable poorly made AA battery and was attacked by 6 enemy aircraft carriers. Swap those for BBs and the telling bit here is that you don’t win against 6v1 odds vs enemy capital ships.

@planefag "Ideally suited to counter" Yeahhhhhh No. Yamato already proved that main battery AAA was more of a suggestion rather than a real threat to aircraft. The age of the battleship, unlike tanks, is genuinely over. Our needs have simply changed, something we learned in the 60s.

@MSchroeder77 @SmallArmsSurvey SA-18S, I wonder when they got those

Not only did this account fail to credit @SmallArmsSurvey for the photos, the description is completely wrong. The MANPADS in the photo were seized in Thailand in 2009. I gave them a chance to correct this and they havent. I'm blocking them.

@kaboom__vn Thank you

@KPAWeapons You can search images about them on the net using Chinese but this topwar article is pretty fleshed out topwar.ru/254155-kitajsk…

Do any of you have information on the PLA Marines during the 1980s?

Given the interest in the North Korean MANPADS launched by Hezbollah recently, I thought I'd share photos obtained by @smallarmssurvey of MANPADS found in a DPRK shipment interdicted in Bangkok in 2009. Documentation found w/the MANPADS identify the systems as 'SA-18S' (1/ )

@astraiaintel That’s not a T-90

RARE ABSOLUTELY INSANE CLIP of a Russian “top-of-the-line” T-90 being COMPLETELY FUCKED by a Ukrainian $500 dollar drone during the defense of Avdiivka. And people still wonder why Russia ran out of tanks LOL, ITS FUCKING OVER!!!!

@ArmyRecognition Neat Battle Droids, let’s see how they do.

Russia Expands Courier UGV Roles from Thermobaric Strikes to Bagulnik-82 Robotic Mortar Fire Support

@tsk_yaku9878 @315th_IGNIB I mean, it would naturally just slot into the turret ring of a T-62, I just have to get the dimensions correct

@KPAWeapons @315th_IGNIB 作るの大変だから君がキットを買ってくれたらやってみるよ:)

タミヤ T–62a(天馬–215)完成！

@tsk_yaku9878 @315th_IGNIB What did you use for the conversion

@nonnbirinavy I figure that the T-68s are on the chopping block for when they get the new tanks properly issued to units. Though since they have 1000 left I figure the hulls could be repurposed for other purposes.

仰るとおりFCSの性能差とATGMでT-54/55よりもK21の方が有利 ただ40mmAPFSDSは1500mで貫徹力140mm、T-55と砲火力なら倒せない相手ではない。 一方でBMP-2クラスのIFVでは火力、装甲どちらの面でも完全に不利になる。 なんで北朝鮮的にはK21対策としてのIFVは視野に入ってないのかなぁと…

@nonnbirinavy I am surprised they've never had much interest in an IFV of any kind outside maybe some BTR-80A (for a given value of IFV)

あの国の歩兵戦闘車への関心の無さは異常 割とマジで、中途半端な火力と装甲のIFVを作るくらいなら、腐るほど余ってる旧型TKでよくね？って思ってそう。

Chuch’ep’o (M1989 Koksan) #index3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/north-… The Chuch’ep’o, better known in Western sources as the M1989 Koksan, is a heavy self-propelled howitzer developed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) for the Chosŏn Inmin’gun (Eng. Korean People’s Army).

@Trotes936897 GAM-10X my friend. Though I could be wrong and it could be a Juche NLOS Missile

New North Korean anti-tank missile being launched. The missile itself is extremely similar to the FGM-148 Javelin and bears almost no resemblance to the HJ-12, which would be a Chinese analogue to the Javelin. It is possible that some Javelins captured from Ukraine were transferred to North Korean forces, Therefore, reverse engineering would be possible.

国防発展-2025で見えてたフラットパネルがデータリンク用のアンテナじゃないかと推測してましたが、やはり正しかったみたいです。つまり小型軽量化に成功したってわけ。

@cirnosad Any pictures of the destroyed planes?

@merlinscapital Source on this? Because that’s a major Cyber action

BREAKING: IRAN STEALS OVER 375TB OF MILITARY DATA INCLUDING CRITICAL INFO ON THE F-35 THIS LIKELY EXPLAINS WHY THEY CAN NOW DETECT F-35’S WE SPENT 2TN AND 20YRS DEVELOPING THAT STEALTH