I am certainly not going to tell you I’m a 20mm auto-cannon expert, but like the Polsten, the Oerlikon has great big springs wrapped around the barrel which these do not have. I imagine there are other 20mm guns that there is a very faint possibility that these could be, but I’m reasonable happy to provisionally ID them as Hispanos. but see for yourself, gas piston and block is on top of the barrel a little more than halfway between the magazine and the forward support, right about where it should be:
(screenshot has been stretched 18.5% to somewhat account for the angle)
AWM photo descriptions aren’t all that great, they used to say Matilda tanks were Australian made.
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I looked at that the first time and though it was actually my eyes playing tricks, and that it was part of the centre support, not a gas chamber on the barrel. But I’ll leave it as Hispanos.
I guess you can also see structural rings around the barrel to mount the chamber.
Found this one on Discord, although it was posted June of this year.
Unfortunately it’s an autonomous vehicle, but still worth considering for the future nonetheless.
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The turret is unmanned, the ATLAS it’s going on is unmanned, but that Patria likely has a driver and people inside running the test. But going by the article, if this test vehicle was added it’d be for Slovenia instead of Australia.
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+1 as it gives a ton of unique vehicles.
Also I’m assuming the bob semple mg config wouldn’t suffice as a spaa, was hoping it could take over the title of worst spaa from the light AA MK1/hj
Also, I think the Schofield could be added twice, one for wheels and one for tracks, could bulk up line ups with ease.
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I usually take the opinion that the Schofield is one vehicle and could have a mechanic to enable it to switch just like in real life. It could even simply be tied to the suspension up/down buttons.
If the Bob Semple can get let’s say at least 4 mg on target at once with decent elevation on all the guns to make it viable as an SPAA at 1.0, then I’ll hear it out lol.
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Fair enough on that, as long as both configs make it (would be nice to be able to change it in the spawn menu) I’ll be happy.
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I am interested, but I need to find out if it can actually be used and fired without dismounting. I think it has to be dismounted, and have the wheels removed, in order to fire.
I found this mystery M113! We’ve already seen in the video it’s an optionally crewed M113 made by Australia, now I know the weapon station is also Australian. Made by W&E Platt. I still have fairly limited info from the below. I don’t think it has any sort tracking for aerial targets by the product’s key features description. It also doesn’t mention elevation angles. I do think this could be a worthy SPAA addition to the tree if we can confirm the elevation angle doesn’t suck like it did on the Vietnam-era prototype minigun M113.
Edit: I think it’s M134D minigun is fixed at 3000 rounds/min. So I guess it’s almost like if a Vickers Light AA had 5 guns instead of 4 but they all fired in one concentrated beam. Looks like muzzle velocity, range etc. are basically the same. Hmm, maybe this thing would be crap. Viable, but probably needs to be a silly low BR like 1.3 or something to be functional.
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I found some nice photos of some NZLAV-Rs showing off their dozer blades, it could be added as a feature to the NZLAV already in this tree.
I believe that the only modifications between the NZLAV-R and the standard NZLAV is the addition of a blade and winch on the rear, maintaining its weapons. This makes it unique from something like the ASLAV-R which replaces the turret with a crane
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Source: A look at some of the NZDF's new gear being used at Talisman Sabre
Note: The source labels it as a Bushmaster, but I assure you it is not.
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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/14oqgln/does_anyone_know_what_specific_lav_variant_this_is/#lightbox
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i absolutely love this, just one minor thing im gona point out, i know this is a Australia tree with NZ attached but why for the love of the snail did you make it 3 NZ vehicles in the normal tree but 9+1 squad in the premium tree, if this got added i would cry for having to pay a ton just to play my nation.
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Mostly due to the lack of unique modifications. All the premium Kiwi tanks aside from the Schofield are basically copy paste to tanks we already have in the game. But now that you mention it, I should swap the places of the LVT and Schofield for that reason.
Make the dozer blade a modification you can remove. At a stretch, it could even just be added as a second NZLAV.
I don’t know if you have thought about it but, the Mephisto A7V could be a nice 1.0 event vehicle.
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I probably should, captured vehicles are allowed. Not sure if it’d be against the rules or not since The Great War event already gave us the decal for the tank and everything.
I also came across this picture of the Hawkei NASAMS on exercise recently in Talisman Sabre where it fired AIM-120 for the first time. Pretty picture.
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I just don’t know because we didn’t use it for military purposes, only as a joke.
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At SOFINS 2019, Thales presented a Hawkei PMV equipped with a remote weapons station containing a 12.7mm M3P and a launch pod for four laser-guided 68mm missiles. While I’m not sure the penetration of these missiles, it is likely that they have some sort of anti-armor capability.
68mm Induction Rocket Solutions | Thales Group
SOFINS 2019: Thales 68mm induction rocket system pod mounted on Hawkei vehicle
“SOFINS 2019”: Special operations vehicle with 68mm rockets from Thales - Defence Review
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From the Thales website, if these rockets are based on the “Type 23 SNEB rockets” currently in game they’d be a HEAT warhead rocket with 400mm of pentration and travel at 651m/s.
So slighty better penetration compared to the PL-3 currently in game on the Raketenautomat and U-SH 405, but a much smaller warhead (thus less damage). Given that, perhaps this vehicle could be added to the tree at Rank 5, BR 7.7? Great find, regardless o7
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Well, I would’ve taken the penetration values of the SNEB rockets but they are technically 70mm and as such I’m not sure to what extent the 68mm IRS is related.
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