Was the Sukhoi Su-25T's main built-in cannon "GSh-30-02" (and by proxy, the Su-39's) mounted on a hydraulic hinge?

Hi, I have a question that would require some help regarding the Su-25T aircraft!

I saw this on the WT wiki, and currently it’s not so in-game. I tried reporting it as a bug using the official War Thunder wiki as a source, but that didn’t work; because they don’t accept which I guess is fair enough.

Here’s what the WT wiki says about it:

“The GSh-30-02 cannon was mounted on a special hydraulic hinge allowing it to depress up to 30 degrees downwards for ground strafing runs.” [1]

It does make me genuinely think though, was it actually mounted on a hydraulic hinge like the wiki page claims? Thus allowing it to depress down 30° degrees for increased efficiency at strafing ground targets with said gun. This could be a pretty cool feature to have, even if it arguably wouldn’t help that much. I mean, to my inexperienced eyes it’s not entirely impossible just by eye-balling how the gun is mounted on the in-game model; but I really am not sure… (Picture below from in-game model!)

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I tried doing some limited research, but I don’t have the time to continue this further at the moment so I thought I’d just leave this as a thread on the forum to see if anyone else here knows something about this. It’s features like this in my opinion that make this game stand-out, and if it really is the case; we should push for it to be added, that’s all.

But one final thing, here’s a quote from a site I read some info from so far; and it seems to say it was mounted on the built-in “NPPU-8M” cannon mount.

“The aircraft’s cannon armament consists of one built-in fixed cannon mount NPPU-8M with a GSh-2-30 30mm aircraft cannon with 200 rounds of ammunition.” [2]

If anyone has further info on the specific cannon mount and the mounting of the cannon in general, please let me know.

Sources (so far…)
[1] War Thunder Wiki: Su-25T — Su-25T | War Thunder Wiki
[2] www.airwar.ru: Su-25T — Уголок неба ¦ Сухой Су-25Т

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Bump. Does no one really have any info?

Would it behave similarly to the Kamov style cannons?

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I mean, my presumption would be that it can only look down said 30° degrees… I doubt it would be able to rotate much side to side if none at all. Gaijin usually does model turrets/guns fixed like this being able to go 1° degrees side to side for some usability. But you would have to line yourself up quite well.