XM246: The American Gepard!

[MrBombastic8]

100mm WHAT

[DevilO6]

Just what you see. South African manufacturing at its finest.

[Marshall_Aviator]

autocannon rat time after the update comes out

[MrBombastic8]

35mm gun, 100mm of pen… at 1000m
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE
EVEN WITH APDS THATS NOT POSSIBLE

[DevilO6]

[BSpiel8]

@STGN

HEI-PX:

Same round with a proximity fu ze called the Motorola Proximity Fuze(MPF).
Development of the MPF started in 1974, being designed as a drop in replacement for the normal point detonating fuze. It was different than the M822 for the M247 in that it was “Adaptive” meaning instead of just exploding when within a certain rang it would take the targets flight vector into account to deliver the best fragmentation on the target. This was needed because of the comparatively light shell could not deliver nearly as much fragmentation as the 40mm. Flight time is not publicly available AFAIK but it’s lead-acid battery is considerably smaller than that in the M822 which had up to 21 seconds of flight time. So it is probably similar to the regular round. Trigger radius appears to be at least 7m from public photo(see below)

Meet the IRL XM246

[image] The XM246 was the vehicle that lost to the XM247, the vehicle that became the M247 Sergeant York in the DIVAD (Division Air Defense) program of the late 70ties early 80ties. Infamously known as the “good” DIVAD that hit more targets and unfairly lost to the “comically bad” Sergeant York, it is otherwise largely unknown and its info is sparse but we can infer a lot of the relevant specs from the information and requirements known about the DIVAD program.

TLDR

It’s an self-propelled anti-…

[Rhosta]

Thanks for keep filling BR gaps. Appreciated!

Also, shameless beg for 3rd rank german scout!

[MrBombastic8]

[Caernarvon02]

@Stona_WT

69.99

Is that US dollars? LMAO all that for a modernised sgt york

[AblativeKitten]

… That’s for the premium pack ads at the bottom lmao, the XM246 is TT

[DevilO6]

This sentence hurt me on more than one plane.

[WellFedCat]

You need AP to insta kill planes by hitting bombs or pilot, removing AP will just nerf spaa, which at 8.0+ with helis is a huge nerf

[Master_Teaz]

IRL the ZA-35 has a round that’s APCI-T that allegedly has 100mm pen at 1km range

it would be bloody mental if we got that, Falcon but fast and radar guided
not to mention it should have a (probably) Gen 2 thermal imager IIRC
would easily be 9.3 in that state

[DevilO6]

@Master_Teaz

IRL the ZA-35 has a round that’s APCI-T that allegedly has 100mm pen at 1km range

Look slightly lower

@Master_Teaz

not to mention it should have a (probably) Gen 2 thermal imager IIRC

it is either 1 or 2, but im leaning closer to 1 as of now.

Greeting from creator of both reports ;)

[Master_Teaz]

@DevilO6

@Master_Teaz

IRL the ZA-35 has a round that’s APCI-T that allegedly has 100mm pen at 1km range

Look slightly lower

yeah its got the SAPHEI, which is equivalent to what we have in game, but if we got the APCI-T things would be mental

@DevilO6

it is either 1 or 2, but im leaning closer to 1 as of now.

i’m remaining hopeful for the more useful option

[DevilO6]

I meant this

XM246: The American Gepard!

[image]

And no, SAPHE and HE base fuze are 2 different rounds, if thats what you mean.
I do not have DENEL made cutaway, so i will use Oerlikon ones to show the difference
HEI base fuze

SAPHEI (-T in this example)

SAPHEI offers greater penetration, but for the price of explosive mass.

[Caernarvon02]

alr it being just slapped at the bottom gave the wrong message

[Caernarvon02]

mr president theres a second plane

[rrnate]

Pretty disappointed to see no APDS, especially after the response to this report implied it would be implemented.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/f7FFmF0exKpg

[Apollo_1641]

@BSpiel8

M247 should get its M822 belt removed and moved down to 7.7-8.0.

What? The VEAK treatment?

Gaijin, never ever do this.

M247 is fine where it is, a very good SPAAG, and now we have the XM246 to cover the 8.3 gap