or is there some bassacwards-ing in the reports in seeing, because im not sure, the green mace that started this conversation was apparently the Self propelled one, while the one i just posted was the trailer, FROM what i can find.
May be wrong, Who knows, The trailer version was built first for certain.
The first one you posted is just the gun on a trailer that can’t move on its own.
The second one (the truck with the barrel sticking out) can move, but could at best work like a casemate, but more likely it couldn’t fire at all without properly deploying the gun to the ground first.
Last there would be an entirely stationary one.
None of these have ways to be reloaded without an extra crew, as the drums have to be replaced externally.
From what i can find the FIRST ONE, was meant to be the self propelled prototype, but never moved on its own due to the project dying, it was supposed to have a cab and everything, thats also why in some images you can see it having wheels that can steer.
Because the gun is elevating on a rearward axis near the breach,
its the same trailered deployable version of the gun.
Also you 100% can load that from the side without replacing the dums.
that is 100% a loading hatch. you shove rounds in there, and they go around a chain drive and feed into the gun.
I don’t care how it works when it sits on the ground and neither does Gaijin.
When it sits on the truck you can’t use it as anti air. You would only be able to use as it as anti air when it’s either set down and fully deployed or when it’s sitting on the unpowered 6x6 trailer.
I could see Gaijin adding a wave of Deployable lowertier AA.
American 90mm station with its range finder and all that, Same for a Flak 88 station, and then The Fixed Mace trailer. Russia could get a set too using the M1939 52-K gun.
That’s why I specified “requested for a long time” rather than “highly requested.” It would seem that being highly requested would be a necessary factor for a DCT vehicle, but the KV-7 stands as an exception among DCT rewards so far. The KV-7 blindsided many people (myself included) when it was added for DCT in that it wasn’t very talked about. However, it certainly would have been something talked about on the old forum in places thanks to its unique configuration, and I do believe I remember seeing the old forum suggestion for it (but I cannot confirm that), so while not necessarily highly requested, it was still requested for a long time.
