The famous new 40 Fire-69 Bazooka
For the editor’s question of “How to choose for the new recoilless cannon and 69 bazooka”, the first reaction of most military fans is that there is something difficult to choose. You must choose the new 82mm recoilless cannon!
Hebei Yanxing Machinery's 82mm recoil-free gun body is developed. This is the foreign trade model PBW-001E
Karl Gustav 84mm recoil-free gun vs RPG-7
The picture above is a comparison between RPG-7 and Karl Gustav. What's strange is that the model with the shortest length of Gustav M4 has also reached 999mm, while the length of RPG-7 does not have rocket is 950mm (Chinese imitation version 69 length 910mm), but from the photos, it seems that RPG-7 is longer, and I don't know if it is a problem with the shooting angle.
Karl-Gustav M4 has a recoilless gun diameter of 84 mm, a total length of 999 mm, a weight of 7.4 kg (excluding ammunition). Ammunition used: HEAT 751 armor-breaking bomb (tandem warhead), HEAT 551 armor-breaking bomb, HEDP 502 high-explosion dual-effect bomb, HE441B high-explosion bomb, ILLUM 545 flare, ADM 401 flashing bomb, etc., firing speed: 4~5 rounds/minute.
69 bazooka diameter is 40mm, weighs 5.6kg, launcher length is 910mm, commonly used rockets are 85mm, rockets weigh 2.1kg, direct shooting distance is 300 meters, vertical armor-breaking 380mm, equipped with electric-2 piezoelectric fuse, white light and infrared scope.
Generally speaking, Swedish Gustav 84mm recoilless gun and the domestic new 82mm recoilless gun have two main advantages over the Soviet RPG-7 or the Chinese Type 69 (the army is generally called the new 40 fire),
's first advantage is the full length after loading. When
is not equipped with bullets, the Gustav M3 model is 1.065 meters long and weighs 9 kg, and the M4 model is 0.999 meters long and weighs 7.4 kg.
, and the Type 69 weighs only 5.6kg without bullets, and the length of the launch cylinder is 910mm, which is smaller than that of the Gustav M3M4 recoilless gun.
However, Gustav’s recoilless gun fires most of the time, the 84mm caliber recoilless shells are fired, and the shells will not show up in the barrel, so the total length of is 1.065 meters (M3) or 0.999 meters (M4).
Of course, if it is a FV597 rocket with a launching 132 mm diameter, it is another matter. All the fires launched by the new 40 fire in
69 are super caliber rockets. Due to the different types of bullets, the total length when carrying the bullet exceeds more than 30% of the Gustav's recoil-free cannon, often exceeding 1.2 meters. The second biggest advantage of
is that the accuracy of the recoil-free cannon exceeds that of bazooka ,
Gustav recoil-free cannon and equipped shells
From the shells equipped with Gustav recoil-free cannon shown in the picture above, it can be seen that the shells of the recoil-free cannon are all conventional.
40mm bazooka equipped with 85mm super caliber rocket
, while the rocket used by 40mm bazooka has a tail wing, and when encountering cross wind , it will cause a windward deviation, and its accuracy is much worse than that of the recoil-free cannon.
As for the online articles, Gustav’s recoilless cannon has more types of bullets and greater power, it is nonsense. As long as we are willing, we will add nuclear warhead to the new 40 fire, and we can do whatever type of bullets we want to develop.
The suicide equipment developed by the United States in 1955-M338 nuclear recoilless gun
However, Gustav's recoilless gun is not without its shortcomings, and it is not a big or small disadvantage to be able to carry the bullet in the chamber.
Gustav’s 84mm recoil-free shell is loaded from the back, while the super caliber shell is inserted from the front like an RPG rocket. Once the 84mm bomb is loaded, you want to use the bomb to run around like the RPG-7, be careful that the shells fall out of the muzzle. The loading and firing diagram of the rocket's missile
RPG-7 is different from our new 40 fire. There is a positioning tenon on the rocket's body and a positioning notch at the front end of the rocket launcher. When loading, the positioning tenon of the rocket is snapped into the positioning notch of the barrel body, and the strike of the firing mechanism can be used to target the ignition hole.As long as you don't pull the trigger, you can run around with a rocket launcher equipped with rockets. The advantage of
carrying the bullet is that after loading the bullet in a safe place, you can carry the rocket launcher to find the right position to launch it, and you can go uphill and downhill.
But what are the biggest and most fatal shortcomings of Gustav’s recoilless cannon and our 82mm new recoilless cannon?
important things say three times: It’s too expensive! Too expensive! Too expensive!
How much does a Karl Gustav M3 recoilless gun cost? 10,000 USD!
The latest model M4 developed and produced in 2014 uses a carbon fiber cylinder and is equipped with multiple sighting equipment. costs $40,000!
without comparison, there is no harm. The regular foreign trade price of China's 69-type bazooka is $1,200 per unit, and the second-hand RPG on the foreign black market is even as low as $200 per unit!
The purchase cost of the 69-type bazooka in China is only 900 yuan per unit!
A Gustav M4 recoilless gun is worth RMB 280,000, and can be exchanged for more than 300 domestically produced Type 69 bazooka!
So at the 14th Zhuhai Air Show, we not only promote the Chinese version of the 82mm recoilless cannon to foreign customers ( uses a titanium alloy cylinder body, it is said that the price is between 10,000 and 30,000 US dollars ), but also continue to launch the new 40 bazooka.
Chinese manufacturers recommend new 82mm recoilless gun to foreign military officers
new 40 fire upgraded version
conclusion:
Is the performance of the new 82mm recoilless gun developed by China good? very good! But it is not delicious if the price is too expensive. It is okay to purchase a small amount of equipment for mountain infantry brigades, airborne marines and special forces . It is more cost-effective for a large number of troops to use various individual bazooka.
Do you know why no country dares to invade China? One of the reasons is that one enemy company is equipped with three Gustav recoilless cannons (the US military is one platoon), but when the Chinese army is defending locally, one company can even be equipped with 50 40 fires, because China has produced tens of millions of rocket launchers, and rockets are said to have as many as 700 million!
The Chinese army also has a glorious tradition of using rocket launchers. In February 1985, the 5th Border Defense Division of the Guangzhou Military Region crossed the border and attacked the Vietnamese army. The 15-person reconnaissance squad brought 8 40 fires. Within three minutes, a rocket was output. After killing 32 Vietnamese troops, they retreated without any casualties.
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