Finally! US Testing New POWERFUL 50mm Cannon For Bradley Replacement!
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- čas přidán 10. 12. 2023
- For the US Army, there’s a new cannon in town. This one is due to revolutionize weaponry on the nation's Infantry Fighting Vehicles, a staple of the army’s infantry fleet for decades. For years the cannon seen on that vehicle has been the M242 25mm version that can hit targets at ranges of up to around 1.2 miles. But now all that is about to change with the introduction of the XM913 Cannon. Let’s take a closer look at what this Cannon is capable of.
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After having had to work on the 25mm in the Bradly's cramped environment, I am cringing to think of what maintenance on this new much larger weapon will entail.
The design will have more of a cockpit so the layout will be different.
It's about time
New awesome 50mm cannon for Bradley. Utilize three different ballistics: explosive on contact, armor piecing, and personnel range bursting ammo.👍🇺🇸🤩
I don't think this is going on the Bradley, the Bradley I think had rumored to be getting the new 30mm that was also being considered for an earlier OMFV program replace the Bradley, and now afaik planning on the 50mm for the latest OMFV, and I think the Bradley upgun project got scrapped.
What a great break through.
It's about time
Put this on a cybertruck
Just put a navy cannon on a Bradley.
The XM913 is an evolution of the Bushmaster lll 35mm/50mm and Bushmaster lV 40mm Bofors. The XM913 is designed from the receiver to barrel nut as a 50mm chaingun. Its able to utilize the full range of 50mm ammo, such as the programmable, XM1204 High Explosive Air Burst round, XM1203 Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot with Trace, 40/50 and 35/50 sabot rounds. Hence no need to swap out barrels as in the 35/50mm Bushmaster lll.
the engines on these fighting vehicles need to be hybrid like the Abramas X, with a secondary machine gun to hit drones or incoming projectiles, also a directed energy weapons if they have not learn from the Ukraine-Russia conflict anything , god help us all
The US should always upgrade all weaponry.
They need to after the embarrassing performance against Russia.
As long as it makes sense. 50mm caliber? why not a 120mm tank caliber. Or, if we have 50mm caliber, why use 120mm caliber. We can't have a cake and eat a cake.
It not the size of the gun, it's the round the the gun fires, the size of the gun is a Russian thing:)
How much ammunition could the turret hold and is the gun loaded by a system like the Russian tanks have ?obviously the American system would be smaller but the calibre is double the size and possibly it would carry half the ammunition so troops in the back would be reduced!?
What’s the rate of fire?
200rpm.
@@Predator42ID imagine, how much ammo a single soldier can waste during a battle xDDD $ perpetum mobile
WORK IN LAHORE AND IN PK TOO BY SAYYAD AAMIR
Heleh
Wasting taxpayers money. Bofors 57mm L/70 doesn't need to be designed. It exists already and has 8km range. So, they are spending money to design something that will be inferior to already existing, well working equipment.
8km its indirect fire range, 57mm Bofors is much bigger and heavyer canon. (For comparesos it have 2 times longer casings) and Bofors is feed from 24 round magazin not from belt.
The XM913 has nothing to do with the Bofors/BAE 57 mm gun. The XM913 50mm chain gun is part of the chaingun family that has its origins in the Hughes Aircraft M230 30mm chain gun. The XM913 is designed for armored vehicles and weights just 300 kilograms. As a comparisons the Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70 as used on the CV90 weights at 2,400 kg (5,300 lb). Thyssen-Henschel did mate the 57mm SAK L/70 MK1 in an unmanned turret on the Marder 1 APC back in 1977. It was offered as an escort vehicle for APC'S as an infantry support vehicle. The vehicle had a crew of 3, carried 48 rounds of 57mm ammo, and 6 TOW ATGM. Notice the crew was just 3 and no infantry section. The 57mm gun, auto loader and ammo took up the infantry section compartment.
What a sad understanding of what those numbers actually indicate.
Considering that the Bofors 57mm L70 naval turret weighs 14 tons (compared to the 2.3 tons for the Bofors 40mm naval turret) it's probably a bit too big to use on an IFV. The 50mm rounds for the XM913 are not so much a scaled down Bofors 57mm as beefed up Bofors 40mm. Would bofors 40mm have been an option? Maybe, but it's very tempting to scale up the 40mm just a bit for improved effectiveness against mid-weight MBTs like the T72 and if possible avoid some of the heritage features of the 40mm (ammunition feed for one thing. The Bofors 40mm is an odd bird due to its WWII AA gun heritage). The bushmaster is a good starting point, considering that it already had dual feed capability and using a 50mm round isn't bad for its effectiveness against troops&drones (extending both lethal radius and effective range) while also allowing it to use a much more potent sabot round.
Damn, imagine just talking and not knowing what you're talking about.
Russia used already long ago its 57mm auto cannon on a variety of I.F.V's
Only on twin SPAAG, which didn't pan out.
@@johntillman6068 It is on Bumerang, T15, Kurganet, BMP3.
😂😂😂😂😂 oooh laser targeting on a gun . Good luck in a firefight it’s already obsolete