I literally explained in that exact reply why.
Why do I keep expecting CAS haters to have any amount of reading comprehension . . .
Gepard 1A2 is able to fire Ahead rounds
Even ukraine uses ahead rounds on the current deployed gepard
@Armen_Lozone sorry to bother you but youre THE guy when it comes to this stuff.
Can Gepard fire AHEAD?
Heh, im honoured u think so highly of me.
The misunderstanding of gepard and AHEAD compatibility stems from the ukrainians using AHEAD in the gepard 1a2. While yes the ammunition is capable of being fired. It cannot function as anything other than dumb prefrag since the gepard cannot program the AHEAD. it has the programmator coils at the end of the barrel. If we take a look at the pumas mk30 ABM auro cannon we can see a distinct muzzle end.
Which is lacking on the gepard.
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The inscription on the glass tells u exactly what this is.
The gepard has this muzzle ‘brake’.
It helps the systems measure initial velocity of the exiting ammo and helps in lead calculation.
Not programming the projectile
FAPDS is missing for the Gepard 1A2. It was Gepard 1A2’s main ammunition type for anti-air and vs. hard/semi hard ground targets. It was the core of the upgrade from basic Gepard to 1A2. FAPDS had much higher velocity and more flat trajectory, upping the effective range vs. any kind of target.
This would be a truly interesting ammo type in War Thunder and the most advanced Gepard version 1A2 (Ger only). Full belt of 35mm DM33 (FAPDS) and the reserve drums for 35mm DM23 (APDS). FAPDS would have bit less penetration power than APDS (around 100mm), but more post pen fragmentation. While APDS (127mm pen) pens more with less fragementation post pen.
There are even prototypes with thermal viewers and test footage with those sights. Others prototypes had modded muzzle brakes with coils to use the 35mm AHEAD ammo.
Gepard is full of opportunities and could get some interesting upgrades. Sadly its not Russian.
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Modded muzzle brakes with coils for AHEAD look like this, imho. Its possible this detailed photo of yours is just a demonstrator to present the tech.
Compare it to the second photo of an common army Gepard with unmodded muzzle brakes (as we have it ingame).
M163 (and other Vulcan based SPAA) is a similar case. The Mk.149 sabot is the preferred round against air targets due to increased range, however it’s completely missing ingame.
Yea, I can.
Pretty sure it’s this one. There are more I can search for, but here are 2 of them.
https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/373222478951909107
https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/373218403027941865
Just got home from School. Spading the SPAA at the moment, so can share more recent ones if anyone requests anymore soon.
EDIT: Irrelevant for this topic below, but first game of the day 😂Playing Soviet vehicles on Chinese TT I never played is a nice learning curve for me. Slowly adapting to its playstyle.
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Voted, hope to see it one day.
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I’m suprise that you deploy spaa as first verhicle and destroy ground and air units easy.
Sometimes I do spawn on it first, sometimes I don’t. Really depends on my mood. But whenever I do spawn on them first its because I just unlocked it and couldn’t wait to try it out without a line up. Then I go back to using it when I need it.