It has IRST, so it would be similar to the SIDAM 25.
I’m stealing this :D
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Yes! I want US ZSU-23!!
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Well, well, when some Soviets want some funny projects, all start vain “ain’t used”, “no proofs”.
But when same story for one of numerous “declined” projects of US - all cheering.
Well, still +1 - U.S. ZU-23-2 sounds really good.
Yes please
The GLAADS project wasn’t a failure, though.
More US SPAAs are always welcome, have my +1.
Easy +1, and damn you for beating me to it!
Excellent work and thanks for getting the ball rolling on this one.
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As sergeant York, ADATS, and numerous projects at all.
Its like a story, how, during WW2, Grumman make almost all carrier aircraft, so when he propose some beautiful plane, with reasonable price (Bearcat, if i remember that correctly, but i can be wrong), it been denied, for reasons of the Antimonopoly Committee.
So in the end, Navy been stuck with worse, and more costly plane.
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The purpose of GLAADS was to develop a capable fire control system that could react quickly and accurately to incoming aircraft, which they succeeded at making. The failure of the M247 is entirely down to Ford’s poor choices, and the ADATS came at a bad time when the cold war had just ended, thus it was deemed unnecessary.
The Bearcat was adopted and saw service in very late WW2 and Korea. I’m not sure which aircraft you’re talking about there.
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In first minute, dictor literally said about the situation.
Later through video, must be a name of plane i mean.
P.s. Yep, i been wrong.
They send of anti monopoly committee, when Navy want take F-11F Tiger, even without tender.
That’s not entirely true, however. Plenty of other manufacturers had aircraft in USN service well before the anti-monopoly laws came into place.
Gaijin’s video on Grumman itself isn’t entirely accurate either. The Panther saw the most service in Korea because most of the Banshees were all the way over in Europe for atlantic and mediterranean squadrons, thanks to the F2H’s exceptional performance at high altitude and range. it was regarded by the USN as a better fighter than the F9F Panther.
Thank you and sorry about that, my ulterior motive was to give Sgt York its real-life capabilities (issues reports) which I think might move it up from 9.0 so the obvious and cool looking stop-gap choice would be GLAADS at 8.3-8.7 where I think it will be the US equivalent of 2S38, even if slightly weaker. ~500 rounds of 25mm APDS at 1100 RPM is going to be fun, fingers crossed.
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Super cool and unique! Hopefully could be at 8.7 or 8.3 like Gepard (being broadly similar) to fill.in between M163 and the York.
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Found a decent side shot of the turret.
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+1
30x-?
Just a guess as to what you are asking here but the weapon system is a 25mm, but in the competition 30mm was max.
sorry for late reply, i meant 30x173? 170? but now i know it’s 25x137
Oh yeah it’s NATO, so the max caliber was 30x173 and GLAADS used 25x173.