Yeah Gajin putting ZSU-34 as equal with the M163 is absolutely insane. Gajin has some insane unexplained beef with America’s SPAA line.
Yes, Gaijin always believe the US can use air force to cover the ground, but they forget that 7.3-8.0 is the worst BR for US air force, not only on the ground.
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I believe the Mk.149 was only used on the M163 PIVADS and not the VADS we have in game. Don’t know what else was changed on the PIVADS though, but I’m surprised they haven’t added it yet.
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For the M197 it has the caveat of having to have the gun locked forward I think. (Tbh, I can see them ignoring that for gameplay it wouldn’t be too much of a big deal.)
The GPU-2/A is the gunpod, right? Iirc it is not cleared for use on any jet-powered fixed wing aircraft (and tbh may not be cleared for use on fixed wing aircraft in general) since the sabot petals would cause a lot of FOD on the aircraft firing.
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I’d say 3.7-6.7 is far worse as all of America’s WW2 fighters are high altitude high speed BnZs that work pretty poorly for low alt dogfighting. The F-80 is a very competent dogfighter even against some prop planes.
Yes, it also uses the M197 gun as a light weight M61A1 variant.
It was cleared for the AH-1, A-4E / -F and OV-10 among others that it was tested on.
Specifies compatibility with all M61 and M197 gun systems, as the video states above the GPU-2/A uses the M197, and if you can fire them from the chin turret why not a wing station? The trajectory isn’t that different so sabot patterns should be similar.
Referring back to the tactical manual excerpt I’m not exactly sure what the GTK-4A/A would be referring to, it obviously can load the Mk. 149 as specified so must be chambered in 20 x102mm NATO / USAF (which rules out the Mk 4 Mod 0 gunpod since that uses 20 x110mm NAVY). I’d assume it’s since you wouldn’t want to shoot the gun barrel off the turret system. So if it was a gunpod it would make sense to also require the turret to be locked forward.
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My bad then, I was going off of information I had read and haven’t really looked into this kind of thing much. Thanks for clearing it up.