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Why do tanks have coaxial guns?
Nearly all main battle tanks and most infantry fighting vehicles have a coaxial machine gun mounted to fire along a parallel axis to the main gun. It is usually used to engage infantry or other “soft” targets where use of shots from the main gun would be dangerous, ineffective or wasteful.
What is a coaxial gun on a tank?
A coaxial machine gun is a machine gun fitted to a coaxial mount as a secondary weapon beside a vehicle’s main weapon. It is used to engage infantry or other “soft” targets when the main gun’s potential collateral damage would be excessive, or to conserve its ammunition.
Can a 20MM cannon destroy a tank?
It was designed specifically to shred modern tanks, and it does it quite well. The rate of fire is the same. If you loaded Armor Piercing rounds into a 20MM Vulcan it could just as easily shred a WWII tank.
What is the gun on top of a tank called?
The hull’s job is to transport the top portion of the tank, the turret, from place to place. The turret is an armored structure supporting one or more guns — typically a heavy cannon and a couple of machine guns. The M-1 tank has two main parts:a pivoting gun turret and a tracked hull.
Can I mount a cannon on my car?
There is no law that says you can’t weld up or bolt on a gun mount to a vehicle.
What is the gun on top of a tank?
How does canister shot work?
Canister shot consists of a closed metal cylinder typically loosely filled with round lead or iron balls packed with sawdust to add more solidity and cohesion to the mass and to prevent the balls from crowding each other when the round was fired. The ends of the canister were closed with wooden or metal disks.
What does AMX-30 stand for?
The AMX-30 is a main battle tank designed by Ateliers de construction d’Issy-les-Moulineaux (AMX, then GIAT) and first delivered to the French Army in 1966. The first five tanks were issued to the 501st Régiment de Chars de Combat (Tank Regiment) in August of that year.
When was the first AMX 30 tank made?
Cold War tanks. The AMX-30 is a main battle tank designed by Ateliers de construction d’Issy-les-Moulineaux (AMX, then GIAT) and first delivered to the French Army in 1966. The first five tanks were issued to the 501st Régiment de Chars de Combat (Tank Regiment) in August of that year.
How much did the first AMX 30B weigh?
The first five tanks were issued to the 501st Régiment de Chars de Combat (Tank Regiment) in August of that year. The production version of the AMX-30B weighed 36 metric tons (40 short tons), and sacrificed protection for increased mobility.
When did the French army start using AMX 30b2?
In 1979, due to issues caused by the transmission, the French Army began to modernize its fleet of tanks to AMX-30B2 standards, which included a new transmission, an improved engine and the introduction of a new OFL 105 F1 fin-stabilized kinetic energy penetrator.