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There are also numerous AFVs and even main battle tanks that can be equipped with a mortar, either outside or inside the cabin. The Israeli Merkava main battle tank carried a 60 mm mortar in the small troop compartment in the rear, which fired through an opening in the roof, allowing the crew to remain protected. This was useful for fighting ...
The PLZ-05 is fitted with a digital fire control system, ballistic computers, a gunner day/night thermal imaging system, a laser range finder, and a commander-independent thermal viewer. In addition to indirect fire support, the main gun can be used as an anti-tank cannon or anti-fortification assault gun in an emergency. [3] [8]
FV433, 105mm, Field Artillery, Self-Propelled "Abbot" is the self-propelled artillery, or more specifically self-propelled gun (SPG), variant of the British Army FV430 series of armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs), using much of the chassis of the FV430 but with a fully rotating turret at the rear housing the 105 mm gun and given the vehicle designation of FV433.
The Center for Precision Mechanical Technology hints at being capable of developing critical parts of the new generation of anti-tank missile. [60] Recoilless Rifle; SPG-9: Anti-tank recoilless rifle: 73 mm HEAT: SPG-9-T2 Soviet Union Vietnam: Manufactured locally as SPG-9-T2 at Factory Z125. B-10: Anti-tank recoilless rifle: 82 mm HEAT: B10VN ...
Type 4 15cm self-propelled gun Ho-Ro, side view. The hull selected was a modified Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank chassis. [3] On to this platform, a Type 38 150 mm howitzer [4] based on a design by the German arms-manufacturer Krupp was mounted, but dated from 1905 and had been withdrawn from service as being obsolete in 1942. [5]
The 152.4 mm L/27 howitzer D-22 (2A33) can elevate from −4° to +60° with a turret traverse of a full 360°. Rate of fire is 2.6 – 3.5 rounds/min depending on firing conditions. [ citation needed ] The howitzer is equipped with a double-baffle muzzle brake , a semi-automatic vertical wedge breechblock and an ejector.
The SPG-82 (transliterated Russian: Stankovyi Protivotankovyi Granatomet - heavy antitank grenade launcher) was a Soviet wheeled antitank rocket launcher that entered service after the end of World War II.
FV215, Cancelled project for a heavy SPG based on the Conqueror Mk II tank with a 183 mm gun and rear placement of the traversable turret and fighting compartment. The British Army wanted a tank built around the 183 mm gun, one FV 4005 was built as a stopgap before the FV 215 could go into production, but eventually the project was cancelled ...