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Hence why I went 'what the fuck did I watch'. It's... just perpetuating the lies that follow the poor thing since the press pulled some serious BS with their papers...

... what the fuck did I watch... this is all the BS I've seen in one compact package...

Actually it would be an immense improvement given the trend...

This isn't a contact explosive, this is a proximity fuse round so that quarter-pound of warhead isn't going to wait until it makes contact, it'll explode within its kill radius (which against aircraft is something on the order of a hundred meters if an old article I read ages ago is any...

It did decently, just that AAGs were seen as (comparatively) useless as until very recently they relied on volume (and rate) of fire more than anything. That has changed now given the new requirements and technologies available...

Only because 35mm guns are designed to create a literal 'bullet hell' than anything until AHEAD came along (and even then AHEAD had to get some 20+ rounds on-target for it to be effective). You've got to understand that the 40mm HEPF shell was -and is, in comparison, still is- a major...

Comparatively useless, as it doesn't have the 40mm HEPF (High Explosive Proximity Fuse) rounds that Bofors started pumping out. AHEAD wouldn't be created until the early-to-mid 1990s aka a better part of two decades after Bofors revealed their 40mm HEPF rounds in that mid-to-late 1970s when...

Quite a few people are idiots when it comes to this and believes Sparky and Co. and your post slightly implies that SPAAGs were abandoned in the first place. It is a situation that has been slowly happening for a while now. I wouldn't be surprised if AHEAD style ammunition proliferates to the...

No, SPAAGs are always part of a 1-2 punch when it comes to air defense. Their mission is to essentially force aircraft to have no 'safe' altitude. Aircraft can't go Nape of the Earth because that'll get them killed by autocannon fire and they can't go high because that'll get them killed via SAM...

Yeah, the DIVAD had four contenders, one was basically a Gepard on an M48 chassis, one was the Sargent York, one was a rechambered (instead of the original 37mm, it uses the NATO defacto standard 35mm, should be noted that the 37mm version had so much recoil that it literally shook the vehicle...

True, but then again Rolands do require... ... and I did a stupid, mixed up my missiles, I was thinking of the Shahine series instead of the Rolands. Your idea has merit...

Eh, the Rolands are big enough that you'll need to have a reloading vehicle, but the overall idea is sound. Although I was thinking that ADATS would be a better fit, given by the end of the Cold War, the US was just about to put Bradley ADATS into production...

World in Conflict was the last Great RTT (Real Time Tactics) game in the industry and takes place in Bush Sr.'s term as President. It is probably one of the most balanced and well thought out games I've seen, building upon the entirety of the Ground Control series (1, Dark Conspiracy, and 2) and...

So... something akin to a World in Conflict situation?

You're welcome, the odd thing about this is like the AH-56, it needed some rework and it would have been part of the US arsenal.

The only counter would be Battletech-style armor for aircraft and Battletech/Macross level missile spam for missiles.

Actually, at first, I'm seeing that FEL SPAAGs will be similar to the OTOMATIC system. Basically a tank with a naval piece latched onto it as time goes on. As laser tech matures, it is likely you'll get laser ADS systems...

Actually, it did work reliably. The apparent problem was that they haven't gotten all the bugs with the fire system out and hadn't gotten the sensitivity just right (hence why it was picking up ventilation fans of civilian assets as targets). The pilots who worked against the thing noted that it...

Really, either slap the turret onto an M60 or M1 chassis, make sure that the hydraulics were 5k PSI, make sure the barrels aren't worn-out pieces of shit, and it would be serving the US army (and probably marines) for decades. Remember, the US Army wanted the 40mm guns because in Vietnam the...

So, the subject of the Sergeant York SPAAG came up elsewhere and I remembered something from my original research onto SPAAG design (because popular consensus on the York is 'it is everything you must avoid for a SPAAG') for a few settings I'm working on. It was on Quora and, well, the guy who...