Germany has delivered a new kind of light anti-drone system to Ukraine in the past month: The Kinetic Defence Vehicle by Diehl Defence. It is equipped with a remote controlled 30mm gun station and sensory to detect drones. 16 have been delivered so far.
Looks sick! Be a shame if it accidentally turned some orcs into hamburger also.
Excellent!
Nice, so they get to test the vehicles in real action. Looks like a nice light recon vehicle
Can’t wait to see video of it in action, It would be interesting to see if it has internal gun camera watching it take drones down
Oh look it’s a Mercedes BRRRRRRT-Class
This is much closer to what is needed.
But rotary cannon is not very accurate and is overkill against smaller drone targets. It would run out of ammo fast in combat conditions near the front. For example it is common for tanks to encounter 20 drones in a mission. It’s also big, easily spotted and likely to run out of ammo in a day or two if operating near the frtwont. This design would seem intended to operate far back from soldiers at the front, so it will not likely offer much forwards protection.
A 30mm autocannon will also mean less space for ammo so this does not have a deep magazine. Instead, in long range application you want to fire individual rounds with sniper level accuracy and you have time to take additional shots. Because it’s dead if it runs out of ammo.
You need a long range automated gun, single barrel, which may fire a modified cartridge such as a flechette round. Recoil can be reduced using rarefied wave technique. It would need a timer programmable shell to release it’s payload. This mount may be gyro stabilised.
And a short range shot gun on its own mount to deal with anything that gets through (drones *will* get through, it’s already normal to see multiple simultaneous drone attacks), and in a small and low autonomous ground vehicle so it can get up close to the front. This linebacker gun would not need such high accuracy but does need faster rotation to target.
Since your using potentially gyrostabilised gun for the long range gun, you can attach to the same system a browning .50 cal, this can hit higher altitude larger targets like shaheds, but also double over as a sniper rifle and antimaterial rifle (. 50 cal are sometimes used as antipersonal sniper rifles successfully).
peration maybe using LIFI would give forwards operating troops cover against incursions of enemy troops behind them as well as long range and high accuracy sniping and surveillance.
To give close in defense to such a weapon station, you would add a lighter calibre rifle to the unstabilised, back up automated shotgun. This is to deal with frequent enemy incursions behind your lines where small numbers of troops break through. This is a regular occurrence, and soldiers then have to be sent to find them, often hiding in buildings. So a vehicle that has antidrone ability, needs to sit behind troops, be effective in providing sniper ability to provide cover, but also will be a target so needs defenses against close enemy operators.
So you have at least two gun mounts, and 4 guns on the vehicle.This provides a stronger blend of capabilities relevant to the situation at the front.
It needs armour up to at least sniper rifle levels, and be hard to spot and quiet.
That last image is the slinger system, an Australian one that’s been around a little while
Not that heavily armored reasonably simple idea is probably reasonably priced and likely scalable production wise. A hell of a lot easier to make than refurbishing Gepards.
Very nice, but seemingly a short-range solution (1000m), not the 30mm. So hundreds of these would be needed.
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Looks sick! Be a shame if it accidentally turned some orcs into hamburger also.
Excellent!
Nice, so they get to test the vehicles in real action. Looks like a nice light recon vehicle
Can’t wait to see video of it in action, It would be interesting to see if it has internal gun camera watching it take drones down
Oh look it’s a Mercedes BRRRRRRT-Class
This is much closer to what is needed.
But rotary cannon is not very accurate and is overkill against smaller drone targets. It would run out of ammo fast in combat conditions near the front. For example it is common for tanks to encounter 20 drones in a mission. It’s also big, easily spotted and likely to run out of ammo in a day or two if operating near the frtwont. This design would seem intended to operate far back from soldiers at the front, so it will not likely offer much forwards protection.
A 30mm autocannon will also mean less space for ammo so this does not have a deep magazine. Instead, in long range application you want to fire individual rounds with sniper level accuracy and you have time to take additional shots. Because it’s dead if it runs out of ammo.
You need a long range automated gun, single barrel, which may fire a modified cartridge such as a flechette round. Recoil can be reduced using rarefied wave technique. It would need a timer programmable shell to release it’s payload. This mount may be gyro stabilised.
And a short range shot gun on its own mount to deal with anything that gets through (drones *will* get through, it’s already normal to see multiple simultaneous drone attacks), and in a small and low autonomous ground vehicle so it can get up close to the front. This linebacker gun would not need such high accuracy but does need faster rotation to target.
Since your using potentially gyrostabilised gun for the long range gun, you can attach to the same system a browning .50 cal, this can hit higher altitude larger targets like shaheds, but also double over as a sniper rifle and antimaterial rifle (. 50 cal are sometimes used as antipersonal sniper rifles successfully).
peration maybe using LIFI would give forwards operating troops cover against incursions of enemy troops behind them as well as long range and high accuracy sniping and surveillance.
To give close in defense to such a weapon station, you would add a lighter calibre rifle to the unstabilised, back up automated shotgun. This is to deal with frequent enemy incursions behind your lines where small numbers of troops break through. This is a regular occurrence, and soldiers then have to be sent to find them, often hiding in buildings. So a vehicle that has antidrone ability, needs to sit behind troops, be effective in providing sniper ability to provide cover, but also will be a target so needs defenses against close enemy operators.
So you have at least two gun mounts, and 4 guns on the vehicle.This provides a stronger blend of capabilities relevant to the situation at the front.
It needs armour up to at least sniper rifle levels, and be hard to spot and quiet.
That last image is the slinger system, an Australian one that’s been around a little while
Not that heavily armored reasonably simple idea is probably reasonably priced and likely scalable production wise. A hell of a lot easier to make than refurbishing Gepards.
Very nice, but seemingly a short-range solution (1000m), not the 30mm. So hundreds of these would be needed.
I hope it Kick Ass!
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