US Changes: The Compiled and Proposed

[Sigirdiwarth]

They both need 2275m.

That's reasonable but I'd rather buff the bad units than the decent ones.

4 rounds/min would be charitable.

Argh, I misunderstood you, I thought that you were one of these 15+ ROF for every blue tank people. My bad
That being said, guns with 7 rounds/min and lower are very painful to use and I'd like 8 rpm to be the minimum across the board.

[Killertomato]

They both need 2275m.

That's reasonable but I'd rather buff the bad units than the decent ones.

4 rounds/min would be charitable.

Argh, I misunderstood you, I thought that you were one of these 15+ ROF for every blue tank people. My bad
That being said, guns with 7 rounds/min and lower are very painful to use and I'd like 8 rpm to be the minimum across the board.

It's two sides of the same coin there, man.

M1 and M1IP (and M1A1, which had the same FCS) were the standard of the world in terms of production tank fire control until Leclerc came off the lines in 1990. They deserve high acc and 2275 more than all but the very finest tanks in the game.

On the other hand, it was almost impossible to fire the M81E1 more than two or three times in a minute because you needed to use the compressed-air system to clear the breech or you might accidentally blow yourself up trying to load the gun.

4 rounds/min is the realistic limitation on that system.

[Mike]

4 rounds/min would be charitable.

Stub gun of huge caliber and heavy barrel-like ammunition with problems with loading having less RoF that cannon with unitary loaded cannon with smaller ammo that "muh 12 RoF" Rh120? Impossibru!

Asteroids OP?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_RH120

[GARGEAN]

Asteroids OP?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_RH120

Exactly!

[Bougnas]

How good was the M774 (or M735, don't remember what was the latest) 105mm ammo in comparison to other 105mm ammo from the late 70's, early 80s?

[GARGEAN]

How good was the M774 (or M735, don't remember what was the latest) 105mm ammo in comparison to other 105mm ammo from the late 70's, early 80s?

Meh. Especially in 80s. Teardrop core didn't do well.

[Bougnas]

How good was the M774 (or M735, don't remember what was the latest) 105mm ammo in comparison to other 105mm ammo from the late 70's, early 80s?

Meh. Especially in 80s. Teardrop core didn't do well.

I mean, how much pen did it have and what other ammo could do at the time? (thinking of L64A4 and I believe the DM33?)

[codextero]

How good was the M774 (or M735, don't remember what was the latest) 105mm ammo in comparison to other 105mm ammo from the late 70's, early 80s?

Meh. Especially in 80s. Teardrop core didn't do well.

M774 was monobloc depleted Uranium, and therefore should be very good for caliber. Projective was 475mm long, but a good proportion of that is the steel tip and rear fins. Weight of the penetrator should be around the 3.5-3.8kg range.



M735 had the teardrop shaped Tungsten core, which was considerably worse than monobloc but better for size than the tungsten plug used in earlier rounds. That said it was still a 105 and smaller than the 115/125. M774 should be the round used on M60A3 and stock M1.

[wargamer1985]

The M774 was significantly better than comparable APFSDS rounds up until around 1984 when the Germans rolled out the DM33, which had superior performance to the M774, but by this time the M833 was very commonplace in the US arsenal, where it was greatly superior to the performance of the DM33.

[Bougnas]

Did USA actually use the V-150 variants at all? Apparently they always used the V-100 only.