lastdingo
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Well, this was an early Western hard kill APS of the most obvious kind.
A remotely controlled (twin) machinegun turret on top of the tank turret roof with its own sensor, shooting at incoming missiles.
A kind of Vulcan Phalanx CIWS for tanks.
I understand that a millimetric radar would cost a lot, the turret of TAMS would restrict the TC's field of view and many incoming ATGMs fly in spirals, which makes them difficult to hit without a huge output of bullets.
I have quetions
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[*]why did this kind of APS not have a breakthrough (nowadays we have CITVs and RCWS on tanks anyway, Armata combined these two - so an ATGM hard kill should be feasible with existing hardware, but I never read about such applications)?
[*]why no higher rate of fire machineguns than twin chainguns in TAMS? Is any reasoning behind this obvious to anyone?
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A remotely controlled (twin) machinegun turret on top of the tank turret roof with its own sensor, shooting at incoming missiles.
A kind of Vulcan Phalanx CIWS for tanks.
I understand that a millimetric radar would cost a lot, the turret of TAMS would restrict the TC's field of view and many incoming ATGMs fly in spirals, which makes them difficult to hit without a huge output of bullets.
I have quetions
[list type=decimal]
[*]why did this kind of APS not have a breakthrough (nowadays we have CITVs and RCWS on tanks anyway, Armata combined these two - so an ATGM hard kill should be feasible with existing hardware, but I never read about such applications)?
[*]why no higher rate of fire machineguns than twin chainguns in TAMS? Is any reasoning behind this obvious to anyone?
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