Zitat:Discussing the tremendous combat potential for the new AU-220M 57 mm automatic gun, experts speaking for Russian Ministry of Defense television network Zvezda have described the new weapon as being one of the best initiatives to be implemented by the Russian military in over a decade.

Zitat:With a phenomenal rate of fire of 300 rounds per minute, and a guaranteed striking range of up to 12 kilometers, the AU-220M's 57 mm projectile is unlikely to cut through the 1 meter-thick front armor of an Abrams or a Leopard MBT, but even against the heaviest of armor, engineers bet on the hail of high-explosive projectiles knocking out optics, destroying aerials, smashing caterpillar tracks and jamming turrets.

New ammunition under development for the module includes armor-piercing, high-explosive and even guided rounds.

Simonov noted that the new weapon is set to dramatically increase the fighting capacity of Russia's infantry fighting vehicles and armored transports. "If we take for example the 30 mm 2A42 or 2A72 guns, their effectiveness as the main gun on the same BMP [IFV] is several times lower than the same module, mounted on the same vehicle, but only with the 57-mm caliber. Here everything depends on fire characteristics –the rate of fire, and the munition."

Zitat:Interessant sind solche Mittelkaliber vor allem anderen auch für die Bekämpfung von Drohnen auf größere Distanzen. In westlichen Medien liest man hierzu vor allem Konzepte welche auf Laser usw aufbauen, was aber immer eine entsprechende Energieversorgung voraussetzt. Eine Kanone ist demgegenüber einfacher, flexibler, kann auch auf andere Ziele (Kampf in Städten) hin eingesetzt werden und bietet mit entsprechender Munition eine Flächenwirkung welche ein Laser nicht erzielen kann.

Und beherrscht wird das Schlachtfeld von Flächenwaffen, nicht von Lichtpunkten.

Zitat:Und beherrscht wird das Schlachtfeld von Flächenwaffen, nicht von Lichtpunkten.

Zitat:Concern “Tractor plants” shown at the exhibition RAE-2015* in Nizhny Tagil, new versions of the BMP-3, equipped with remote-controlled weapon stations. The BMP-3 «Derivation» – Russian infantry fighting vehicle with 57 mm gun in order to increase fire power of motorized rifled and infantry units, reported military-informant.com. The new Automatic Weapon Station main armament can also be used to accomplish air defense missions thus expanding combat flexibility of armored combat vehicles. The FCS controls the operations of target detection and identification, gun laying and firing of the 57mm automatic gun and 7.62mm machine-gun when firing from a halt, on the move and on the float in any combat enviroment. The FCS is equipped with a sight unit, comprising a combined sight with thermal-imaging and TV channels, a laser-finder and independent dual-axis field of view stabilization.

Zitat:Northrop Grumman charges on with XM913 50 mm cannon deliveries to US Army

Northrop Grumman remains under contract with the US Army to mature a critical component of its ground combat fleet ‒ the XM913 50 mm cannon ‒ even as the service weighs its cannon calibre requirements for the its future Bradley replacement fleet. As of late August the company had delivered four XM913 cannons to the service, with plans to deliver seven more by the end of October, Northrop Grumman spokesman Jarrod Krull told Janes. [...]

“The 50 mm cannon combines Bushmaster chain gun reliability with [a] next-generation effective range that will provide the warfighter with increased stand-off against near peer adversaries,” Krull wrote. [...] The XM913 cannon can fire two munitions ‒ the XM1204 High Explosive Airburst with Trace (HEAB-T) and XM1203 Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot with Trace (APFSDS-T) ‒ and is central to the army’s Advanced Lethality and Accuracy System for Medium Caliber (ALAS-MC) effort.