South Korea Announces It Has Successfully Developed A New Anti-Aircraft Gun
In a fight with North Korea this gun will probably see more action supporting ground troops than shooting down aircraft:
South Korea successfully developed a 30-mm wheel-type anti-aircraft gun system that has a longer range and better mobility than the previous model, the arms procurement agency said Wednesday.
Yonhap
Under the 55-billion won (US$46.58 million) project launched in June, 2015, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and Hanwha Defense Co. developed the anti-aircraft gun wheeled vehicle system, and final tests and evaluations proved that it met all the military requirements.
As a system designed to ward off low-altitude attacks by enemy aircraft, the new weapon has an effective range of 3 kilometers, some 1.6 times longer than the 20mm Vulcan anti-aircraft guns, and its latest targeting systems allow it to have automatic tracking and self-targeting capabilities, according to the DAPA.
The adoption of the wheeled platform also enabled it to provide active mobile and localized support for troops, it added.
wow, a 30mm AA gun, what amazing technology!!!!!
The twin KCBs are old hat to the ROK Army’s duckhunters by now… the thing that catches my eye is instead of a doppler radar it looks like they went with LIDAR setup; now I didn’t catch any party line figures WRT to target acquistion and targeting and these days modern warning receivers will let the aircraft’s crew know they’re being lased.
Remember that these ROK air defense gun systems are primarily for shooting down low flying MD-500 helicopters and the AN-2 Colts that the North Koreans have. This system is more than capable of shooting them down. Against modern aircraft it would be much more challenging.
Fatty would like to use this on another uncle.
I had a game for my Game Boy Advance called Advance Wars. It’s a turn based strategy game using different military units to battle for a fictional group of countries.
One weapon is an Anti-Aircraft gun, and it is quite effective against ground troops! More so than the tank units.
MTB, the Germans used the 88mm that way. And during the Korean War, IIRC, they used those halftrack-mounted quad .50s that way…