Wednesday, March 19, 2014

30mm Mk 44 is no longer good enough for the IFV threat.


Warfare Technology Blog has a post where he compares the "popular" weapons setups for Western IFVs.

Suffice it to say that the 25mm on the LAV-25A2 and the proposed 30mm on the canceled EFV and future ACV are no longer good enough.

Read the article here.

5 comments :

  1. the 40mm case telescoping rounds the Brits are looking at could fill the gap nicely.

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  2. 70 rounds of ready to fire is a joke. Anything less than 100 is as well, unless you want a big line of supply trucks following you around.

    The BMP-3M is no in widespread service. Also, that BMP=3M stopped the 30mm rounds in a computer simulation.

    Until we get the real deal and fire away at it in the desert, I refuse to believe than an amphibious IFV like the BMP-3 can stop a 30mm APFSDS rounds.

    In fact, the BMP manufacturer states that the add-on armor gives protection from 12.7mm AP rounds, not even 20mm...

    http://www.kurganmash.ru/en/machines/bmp3u/protection/

    If that were the case, then the T-90 should be able to stop 30mm DU rounds from an A-10.

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    1. According to my knowledge the BMP-3 add on armour is ERA.
      Therefore I doubt a big difference between 30 or 35 mm.
      I guess a accurate salvo of 30 mm can defeat ERA.

      It smells like someone likes to sell bigger cannons.

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    2. I concur.

      There are stories of a Bradley 25mm cannon penetrating the side armor of Iraqi T-55s and Chinese Type 59s.

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  3. BMP-3 frontal armor is incapable to protect crew & passengers from 25X137 DU rounds. 30X173mm rounds are more than capable to penetrate the frontal armor. If not, because the Russians with the M model raised the protection level, the MK44 can be converted to the 40mm Super Forty.

    http://www.atk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/AS-Mk44.pdf

    http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2003gun/dill.pdf

    http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2008gun_missile/KempZach.pdf

    But the there is always the option to adopt the Bushmaster III

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a_54_bGwsk

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