Does show source anymore.
When it was active the source was from a 3rd party author that wrote PDF on a general breakdown of South African equipment. For the R-DARTER I can not share any of the pages here though as it is restricted.
If you wanted to know - this was the source as I still have it bookmarked :
Bottom of the same page :
Link to the source that was provided with the change : https://www.defenceweb.co.za/wp-content/uploads/Repository/A-Guide-to-the-SANDF/A-guide-to-the-SANDF-chapter-10-saaf-app-c-equipment.pdf
The M3 ADATS M242 wasn’t actually modified. As an externally powered gun the only change required to increase fire rate is to increase the power of the motor it is connected to.
Self-powered guns will require modification to increase or decrease fire rate, but externally powered weapons (Gatling style guns and chain guns, etc) can have their fire rate increased with additional torque and RPM from the motor.
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so there would be a chance that it can fire apfsds
the reason that i dont think the US give it apfsds is because of accuracy, the m242 isnt exactly accurate but then who knows
Or a elephant in the room. You know, how it was not a service vehicle
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hey we just need sources that say it can fire apfsds that is legit
theoretically thats all we should need but for them to actually add it we probably would need confirmed test firings of it
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test firing is an absolute nightmare to find given that theres only 2 of them and most test fire are mainly missiles engagement test
I know but it feels like that is the standard of evidence gaijin would need for US vehicle
eg. HSTVL being denied other ammo despite the testing of that ammo likely being done by the HSTVL
bit different than them making up an ammo type for 2s38
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APFSDS while nice is really not something that would matter to me because at the end of the day its an SPAA that happens to be able to kill tanks some times
I would much rather improvements to its radar/IRST so that it could actually track munitions for once and see planes in poor weather
it would also be nice if it used radar to indicate where its missile is now that you cant see it past a few km
it’s been far too long already, and pantsir is still literally the best spaa around, gaijin will never change anything about spaa of other nations except nerfing them even more for pantsir’s sake
They need to move the ADATS to 11.0 and bring in the G6-HVM. It’s the only solution
