The 60 mm hypervelocity gun

[Clément Barbeau Vermet]

Hello everyone.
I whant to know it it is be possible to extend the range of this weapon (up to 4 km) and and to give it enough firepower to pierce the armor of modern MBTs. I searched on google and find nothing. There was a good link on CASR but I never read it and now it is unavaileble. The ideas that come to my minde are to fit a longer barrel and to devellop a cinetik enegy round (if no alleredy done). What do you guys know (do not tell me the twin TOW lunch tubes)?
                                                                      Thank you, Clément

 

[KevinB]

But why?

LOSAT has been shrunk to a 1M size - it can be bolted on LAVIII, and apparently fitted into the FCS.

We need a local area supression system -- kinda wonder why we got rid of the HEI rounds for the 25mm????

 

[MG34]

HEI will be making a coome back in the near future, seems that they were a good thing after all....go figure.Some times I wonder about these so called SMEs :

 

[Clément Barbeau Vermet]

What is HEI? High Explosive I...something

 

[PPCLI MCpl]

HEI-T: High Explosive Incendiary with Tracer

Used to engage targets outside the range of the 7.62mm Coaxial MG

 

[Da_man]

arent incendiary weapons prohibited?

 

[PPCLI MCpl]

arent incendiary weapons prohibited?

By who?

 

[Da_man]

By who?

war conventions

 

[PPCLI MCpl]

Good question.   I think that applied more to the flamethrower.   The HEI-T is more like firing a bunch of M-203 rounds approx. 2400 meters.

This is a link to the ICRC 1980's War Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.  It does mention the flamethrower and napalm.

http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/57JNXR/$FILE/1980_CCW.en.pdf?OpenElement