The guns didn’t exist, at least according to tank encyclopedia.
For the main armament, twin experimental 3.7 cm (L/77) Flak 341 guns were chosen. Some sources wrongly mention the 3.7 cm Flak 43 as the main armament.
Pretty sure they would have wanted a belt-feed gun, maybe like an upscaled MK 103 or what they Russians already had with the NS 37.
The older clip fed guns would be difficult to reload inside an enclosed turret, not to mention the space needed for two loaders.
If anything they would have used the Naval Flak 42s, with the Bofors style feed system.
the Feed system of the Flak43s would have been impossible to develop into a proper side by side dual mount, unless they had specially developed guns that could swap which side they fed from, which is something that Flak43 couldn’t do.
Hence why dual Flak43 mounts are all Vertical mounts.
I can’t even find the tank encyclopedia page for the Coelian, but given that the Flak 43 already took some design elements from the MK103 it probably wouldn’t be a huge change to make it belt-fed. Plus if they’re mentioned as experimental they likely did exist.
Which ironically is the setup the Ostwind 2 should have.
Except we don’t have any information about the guns. Just what they might have been.
Its not that they fed from Clips, its that the guns only could feed from the left side, Which would be a MASSIVE issue. the guns would need to be spaced pretty far apart to allow for proper clearance, Something neither the Otswind 2 or Coelion has.
They would either need a swappable feed tray to allow the right gun to feed from the right, or Be topfeed like the Flak42s.
The Coelian was scraped because it wasn’t really worth it. They even were thinking about dual 55mm guns to make it more worthwhile, which probably led to the ZSU-57 after the war.
Of course a sort of Ostwind 2 using similiar guns would achive practically the same with much less development cost.
Then the main issue becomes building a new 37mm AA gun with it’s own ammunition.
But as it stands, neither Coelian or Ostwind 2 ever existed in some functional form.
Do you have idea why so many prototypes used in this game were never used in reality? I imagine you do but it was in many cases because they were totally impractical and useless, miles away from ever being accepted into the military yet there are in game so I can only laugh when Gaijin give their reasons for not having paper tanks.Its a paper game ffs
Many were developmental steps between production tanks. Many were abandoned after the end of whatever conflict they were intended to fight. Either way, tanks that were built and tested are very different from paper tanks.
I can hear the silent cry of thousands of Russian prototypes all crying out at once, being ignored.
I assume you’re talking about this, which could actually make for a pretty good addition.
That isn’t a Jeep, its a Dodge Power wagon. Different things.
Jeep is used to generically refer to these types of vehicles commonly. See: Duct tape. See: Tupperware.
True, it is the same kind of vehicle. However, the vehicle shown is not a Willys MB/Ford GPW, but a Dodge instead.
It is pedantic, but people would be the same if you used the wrong name for a tank.
But its not the same kind of Vehicle, the dodges were trucks, MUCH heavier duty trucks for different task’s than the jeeps were built for. Hence why this one has a 57mm on it, instead of the 37mm that was mounted on the Jeep TDs.
Yeah I just mean that is why he probably called it that.
cough cough Kranvagn
Hell id take that thing if they added it with the Centurion MK3 turret they tested the hull with.
Honestly just add both lol
