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Increasing demands for range and mobility are being placed on AA systems for armoured and mechanized troops. In addition to being mobile, the systems must provide their crews with the same cover as they are providing for the troops they protect.
These demands have led to the development of AA tanks. The main targets of such systems are anti-tank helicopters and other combat helicopters.
The most modern systems are independent and capable of airspace surveillance even when mobile. A tank can begin firing within seconds of stopping.
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A Marksman AA gun turret is fitted on the chassis of a T 55 tank. The system includes a combined surveillance and forward observer radar.
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AA tank
Use
- AA fire for armoured battalions
Properties (/tpsv 90 Marksman)
- twin-barrel automatic AA cannon mounted on tank chassis
- calibre 35 mm
- shell weight 0.55 kg
- muzzle velocity 1,175 to 1,385 m/s
- maximum range to airborne target about 4 km
- firing rate 18 shots per second
- combined surveillance and forward observer radar, range over 10 km
- gyro-stabilized optical viewfinder
- automatic digital forward observer and calculator system
- laser rangefinder, range 8 km
- weather sensor
- smoke dischargers
- T 55 tank chassis
- total system weight 41 t
- crew: 3
- manufactured in Britain (turret), Switzerland (gun), Poland (chassis)
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