What is the heaviest autocannon you could practically mount on an IFV?
What is the heaviest autocannon you could practically mount on an IFV?
Jaxson Wood
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Cooper Flores
Heavy like weight or heavy like caliber? Is the if’s wheeled or tracked?
Kevin Gray
140mm
Jeremiah Bennett
If you consider 60 rounds per minute an autocannon, then this is the heaviest one actually built, the ARES XM274. The Army's Bradley replacement will have a 50mm, and a 60mm has been explored in the past. The limit depends on how big you want the IFV to be.
Bentley King
60mm? Did we ever have the capital and infrastructure to produce 60mm shells? That's the first I've heard.
Also, are those missile launchers on the side of the gun in the pic? How many rounds of 75mm shells can be held in the storage?
Parker Rivera
>60mm? Did we ever have the capital and infrastructure to produce 60mm shells? That's the first I've heard.
It was the planned armament of the ASM program's IFV component, which was planned to be built on an MBT chassis.
>Also, are those missile launchers on the side of the gun in the pic?
Stinger pods, yep.
>How many rounds of 75mm shells can be held in the storage?
I can't find a straight answer, but according to Jane's it's 26 so we'll go with that. The vehicle is very small, less than 15 tons, so it didn't carry much ammo.
Jaxon Turner
155mm auto-loading howitzer, but it would no longer make it an IFV.
Justin Morris
Twin 40mm from M42 Duster.
Add troop compartment
>shred targets with 40mm HE at 2 x 120 rpm
Jonathan Collins
Technically this cannon is an autoloader.
Blake King
AC20
Thomas Reyes
And there's no reason they couldn't fit an autoloading 140mm onto a heavy IFV.
Luke Nguyen
bump
Sebastian Gonzalez
>If you consider 60 rounds per minute an autocannon, then this is the heaviest one actually built, the ARES XM274. The Army's Bradley replacement will have a 50mm, and a 60mm has been explored in the past. The limit depends on how big you want the IFV to be.
If you used telescoped ammo like the ares did it's probably possible to do 105mm or 120mm. Supposedly about 75mm is about optimal as it's the smallest you can comfortably make something with a proximity fuse and enough explosives to be useful.
Jose Perez
>Supposedly about 75mm is about optimal as it's the smallest you can comfortably make something with a proximity fuse and enough explosives to be useful.
>the future is decided by 20-30 ton vehicles armed in the 75mm caliber
we WW2 again
Owen Taylor
Based and mechwarriorpilled
Jose Perez
something like the low pressure aircraft version of the 57mm bofors
Asher Carter
>take small naval gun
>weld onto surplus tank hull
>????
>profit
Oliver Ramirez
Try 152 mm.
Elijah Rivera
100 mm on BMP-3.
Nathan Rivera
Ethan Foster
A true beaut.
How will man(t)lets deal with such power?
Oliver Taylor
Not even its final form.
Bentley Martin
120mm
Nathan Gutierrez
A regular Bofors 57mm has been tried on a Marder 1, but it wasnt accepted since you could only carry a small ammount of ammunition.
Also this
Jose Jones
neat pic
Levi Wood
People are forgetting about this 76mm boy
Grayson Hall
I think OP wanted something that could still be a reasonably performing IFV
Carter Sullivan
DIdn't the Germans try to slap a 50mm on to an updated Marder chassi?
Jason Bell
90mm Cockerill seems like a good ideas between 76mm and 105mm calibre.
Logan Gray
see
David Roberts
This. The main limiting factor in AFV gun size is ammunition storage capacity. Also one of the reasons why we aren't using 140mm MBTs right now.
This boy was a failure because he had mere seconds of ammunition.
Xavier Baker
Why would you even want a bigger autocannon? What's a 75 gonna kill that a 40 can't? Hell, what's a 40 gonna kill that a 25 can't.
Jaxson Foster
I don't know about weights but Russians are testing a turret with a 57mm autocannon (a true autocannon unlike some posted here)
Jonathan Campbell
>one of the reasons why we aren't using 140mm MBTs right now
The reason is that 125 mm is more than enough in any real contemporary combat situation.
Justin Wilson
If by contemporary combat situations you mean tossing slav turrets then yes, even 105s are still relevant for that given modern propellant advances.
Jonathan King
Brainlet. You can't have smart, guided or proximity fuze munitions with decent filler. You lose range overmatch. You lose the ability to mission kill MBT. You lose the ability to perform meaningful SHORAD.
Colton Hughes
Josiah Cook
Imagine being this butthurt.
Cooper Torres
>more range allows for better standoff distance against enemies , and increase threat radius of IFV
>more explosive filler allows for more damage on soft targets or targets in defilade
>more punch means its more likely to pierce heavy cover, can hardkill targets in buildings or behind thick walls
>psychological effect of big guns induces better suppression effect
Bentley Lewis
Try 155 mm
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Andrew Hughes
Why have the missile launcher point backwards?
Jaxon Garcia
reminder that the soviets fitted a 203mm howitzer on a T-34 chassis, so I'd imagine 100mm autocannons wouldn't be out of the question given modern day IFV bloat.
Connor Richardson
Not IFV chassis.
Eli Thompson
Thats not a missile, its an ejected shell
Connor Thomas
Wait, is a Namer an IFV?
Gabriel Martin
RAC 10, though ac20 poster is based.
Christian Williams
thcc
Julian Scott
the itallians have a 76mm auto cannon
Evan Richardson
The Swedish have developed a version of the CV90 with a 120mm gun on it.
William Flores
APC, but there is an IFV variant. Don't know anything about it, though.
Jayden Taylor
Namer is based on a Merkava Mark IV tank chassis.
Gavin Perry
Well, there are 60mm mortars, but cannon shells have thicker walls, so 75mm isn't going to be too far off. It is kinda funny to think about.
Eli Baker
RAC/5 or UAC/20 depending on whether you mean potential or average damage.
HAG-40 if you have contacts within CDS/CSF.
Dominic Hall
Naval guns have machinery below deck as well, you literally can't fit that onto an IFV
Jacob White
76mm is currently the smallest guided round available (on the market).
This gives the gun very high chances against air targets or extremely long range plinking against light armor or unarmored vehicles.
Daniel Torres
It can be whatever you want it to be.
Jaxon Wright
Just put an Otomatic on a Centauro chassis
Luis Ross
the Oto always seemed like it would be such a bitch to have to take into combat
Thomas Morris
this is an absolute beast in wargame
Charles Mitchell
are you fucking 12 years old?
Carson Walker
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