What is the reasoning behind a 30mm auto cannon on an IFV? Seems like it would add expense and decrease usable internal volume in order fill a role outside of the APCs jurisdiction. the remote operated .50 would be much cheaper and wouldn’t take up space inside the vehicle. Slap an ATGM on top for self defense against armored vehicles
>What is the reasoning behind a 30mm auto cannon on an IFV?
I meant to say APC not IFV
Because an IFV isn't an APC you silly goose.
That’s what I’m getting at. The Stryker is not an IFV despite my fudge in the OP. It’s an APC and some of them have an unmanned 30mm turret
It becomes an IFV when you add the 30mm. Unless you use something awful like a RARDEN and it can only feed from 3 round clips. Then it's just an apc with extra weight.
Hello anti warriortard false flag
the 30mm Stryker is a toned-down replacement for the Stryker MGS, which was terrible.
It's organic fire support for Stryker brigades that fits in with their logistics chain.
>slap an ATGM on top
infantry brigades already carry ATGMs. What they don't have is something that can cheaply dismantle a brick building from 1000 meters away, quickly pop enemy APCs, or clear trenches out with airburst ammunition while still carrying hundreds of rounds.
>Warriortard tries subtlety
Kek why even bother.
I get that this is the standard insult nowadays but my thread has nothing to do with the warrior IFV. I’m asking why the Stryker got a 30mm cannon despite being an APC
>have MGS, a 120mm cannon
>soldiers absolutely love it but it's a pain in the ass to maintain and super expensive
>get rid of MGS
>soldiers now very sad
>give them 30mm autocannon so they can at least get SOME dakka
This complicated?
Dunno if Dragoon has it but M2s have APFSDS rounds for their guns. 30mm is about the point at which that becomes both feasible and worth investing in.
Nigel what happened to you? We were having so much fun in the JASSM thread but you seemed to have gone quiet after your BTFOing
I don't know who you think you're talking to but all I do is call out your threads and lurk.
You need to work on your identification skills
the dragoon is meant to add some fire support to a stryker brigade
Utility against light vehicles, low flying helis, and targets in defilade. 30mm is also large enough to utilize more exotic munition types such as airburst, and an explosive charge that is a bit more than just a firecracker.
>30mm + ATGM
>outside jurisdiction of an APC
congratulations, you have figured out what an IFV is
But it’s wheeled!
so?
8x8 AFVs can and are used by some countries to fulfill the IFV role, but that doesn't make them a IFV. Pic related: Western (accepted) standard of IFV.
The entire point of that turret is that it doesn't take up interior volume
The entire point of your mom is to get drunk off beer and fuel my burp fetish
Stryker Dragoon is the pinnacle of dogshit. Look at it collapsing under its own weight at the back, how did the US frick up a fairly decent apc?
I get they needed a more protected vehicle than the Bradley but this is a step too far.
it's like 19 tons, the LAV III chassis can handle that and LAV IIIs with applique armor weight about that, maybe a bit more
that one must be accelerating or something they sit level in every other pic I've seen. also why are you bring up the bradley? this is replacing the mgs strykers because they beat themselves to death and the dragoon can carry infantry as well
>This post upsets me so I will cope with cope
Yeah. Move along tourist.
The post had no basis in reality because you can’t tell that the Stryker is overtaxed by looking at the picture and the Bradley is far better protected than the Stryker
>Bradley is far better protected than the Stryker
>Gets replaced in Iraq by Stryker because it kept getting rekt and posted on the Internet
Yeah
It was replaced by the MRAP for coin operations. Modern Bradley has better than styrker by a wide margin
If you think a Stryker is more protected than a Bradley then you're the tourist.
Frick off, Pierre.
>.50 (...)wouldn’t take up space inside the vehicle
remotely operated 30mm autocanon wont take much internal space either