India places modernized anti-aircraft guns on the border with China

Arunachal Pradesh is a northeastern region of India, located on the border with China. Beijing traditionally claims a number of areas in Arunachal Pradesh, which forces New Delhi to pay increased attention to the defense of this region. Arunachal Pradesh is a closed territory, where the number of the army contingent is constantly increasing.

The Indian Army's Integrated Protected Area in Arunachal Pradesh includes motorized infantry, air defense and artillery units. Two to three months ago, upgraded L70 anti-aircraft guns were deployed at several key points in Arunachal Pradesh.

The L70 anti-aircraft gun can shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles and attack helicopters of a potential enemy. The Indian command deployed these guns along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh.

Previously, the bulk of the Indian forces were concentrated in Ladakh. However, it is possible that in the northeastern direction China, as it is believed in India, will undertake any provocations. Therefore, the Indian command decided to ensure greater protection of facilities in Arunachal Pradesh from air strikes. Now Indian military units stationed in mountainous areas regularly conduct intensive physical training and practice combat tactics against a potential enemy.

The gun has improved target acquisition and automatic tracking capabilities in all weather conditions, equipped with high-resolution optoelectronic sensors, a thermal imaging camera, and a laser rangefinder. Also, the gun can be integrated with tactical radars, the army captain emphasized. aviation Sarya Abbasi.

The officer described the modernized cannon as a modern and effective air defense weapon.

Recall that the L70 guns have been produced since the 1950s by the Swedish armory by Bofors AB. Their modernization was carried out by the Indian state-owned company Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).

In addition to anti-aircraft guns, the Indian army has deployed ultralight M-777 howitzer guns in Arunachal Pradesh, which are periodically moved from one deployment location to another by helicopter.

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[blackberry]

Now China will deploy something in response

[Anarchist]

Quote: Mora

Now China will deploy something in response

I think Chyna has everything unfolded for a long time. And it is unlikely that the heavenly ones will substitute themselves under these anti-aircraft guns. Most likely, in the event of a conflict, missiles from multiple launch rocket systems or something similar will first fly.

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: Anarchist

Yes, and it is unlikely that the heavenly ones will be substituted for these anti-aircraft guns

An anti-aircraft machine gun with a rate of fire of 300 rounds by today's standards is a completely unconvincing argument.

[hrych]

Wait, swear, there the enemy has light tanks, not heavily armored, and the anti-aircraft gun is designed for fire from a large angle and in the mountains it is quite good to knock out rice beetles from the steep

[Reptiloid]

The British also left the conflict here. The MacMahon Line. This border was drawn by agreement with Lhasa (the capital of Tibet). When India became independent, and Tibet became under the control of China, the Chinese began to disagree with this border and believe that India got their lands.

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: hrych

Wait, swear, there the enemy has light tanks, not heavily armored, and the anti-aircraft gun is designed for fire from a large angle and in the mountains it is quite good to knock out rice beetles from the steep

And I don’t swear, only the scenario that worked in the 40s of the last century and on the plain is not entirely suitable for the 20s of this century and for the mountains. Why I think so:
Firstly, the current "light" tanks are in fact medium tanks, unless of course it is an ersatz based on an armored personnel carrier-BMP, the Chinese VT-15 is just a full-fledged tank.
Secondly, of course, the armor-piercing of a 40 mm projectile is impressive, but in the mountains, the shootout (according to the experience of the Korean War) was fought through the valleys at decent (2-3 km) distances, and here 40 mm versus 105 mm completely ceases to play, at least in terms of accuracy.
And thirdly, what is more important, and what will the vertical aiming angles give to an anti-aircraft gun? Tanks in the mountains do not ride on the slopes, they move strictly along the roads! So when firing an anti-aircraft gun from bottom to top, the tank will simply be covered by a mountain (terrain screen), that's all. Remember that in Afghanistan, or anywhere in the mountains, the columns were attacked strictly from above.
Well, disguising this unit for an ambush is not easy, and even more difficult to properly install it.

So 40 mm anti-aircraft guns in the mountains are needed for air defense, but as I already wrote 300 air defense guns are absolutely nothing.

[hrych]

If a tank is covered by a mountain, then it is useless itself, its shock capabilities are leveled by the same mountain. The anti-aircraft gun clearly pierces this tank right through and that's enough, but its rate of fire, etc., which is listed in the article, gives it dominance and versatility in the mountains. And anti-aircraft specialization has not gone anywhere, as well as against the accumulation of live weight with a burst of 300 in / m, where small arms are weak. The work of aviation, including UAVs, in the mountains is difficult, so this station wagon is valuable to knock out the Shaolin people from the steep and has an advantage over the enemy's cannon artillery. The use of anti-aircraft guns against tanks and ZhS was practiced in WWII, anti-aircraft guns are placed on the shaitan-arba and they work successfully, and not at all in aviation. Indians are not innovators here

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: hrych

If a tank is covered by a mountain, then it is useless itself, its shock capabilities are leveled by the same mountain.

It seems that the term "terrain screen" is not familiar to you.

A tank in this position will not be able to reach the anti-aircraft gun either, but it will be able to work for other purposes.

Quote: hrych

The anti-aircraft gun clearly pierces this tank right through and that's enough, but its rate of fire

Yes, why confidence? 40 mm from 1,5 km MAY or may not penetrate 120 mm of armor along the normal if it hits, but from two or more it will not hit. And the VT-15 is a light tank by today's standards, but with its weight of 33 tons and quite sane dimensions, it has no lower than average, or even difficult times of the Second World War.

Quote: hrych

And anti-aircraft specialization has not gone anywhere, as well as against the accumulation of live weight with a burst of 300 airborne weapons, where small arms are weak.

For ATGMs, and the Chinese have them, a weapon with such a silhouette is an easy target. And in the mountains there are distances where 40 mm is weak, and 105 mm is more than sufficient.

Quote: hrych

The use of anti-aircraft guns against tanks and ZhS practiced in WWII

Don't remember the calibers? They worked against medium ones at least 76 mm, against heavy ones from 85-88 mm. The shells have changed, of course, but so has the armor.

Quote: hrych

The work of aviation, including UAVs, in the mountains is difficult

But it is not excluded, but with a UAV it is completely acceptable.

[hrych]

What you have drawn is certainly not true. Aksaychin is a salt desert - a plateau with a drop from 4300 to 5000 meters, with mountains of seven thousand on the border. There is where armored vehicles ride with direct visibility and no one will put an anti-aircraft gun downhill. Well, the Indians have not only anti-aircraft guns. However, in such conditions, an extremely effective and versatile weapon that gives an advantage.

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: hrych

What you have drawn is certainly not true.

But as? The only advantage of the anti-aircraft gun is the large vertical elevation angle UP.

Quote: hrych

There is where armored vehicles ride with direct visibility and no one will put an anti-aircraft gun downhill.

So there is no point in this anti-aircraft gun as an anti-tank gun.

Quote: hrych

However, in such conditions, an extremely effective and versatile weapon that gives an advantage.

That you wrote it wrong! A self-propelled anti-aircraft gun in such conditions is such a weapon, mobile, at least somehow armored and quite powerful, such as our ZSU-57-2. Stationary L-70 disposable gun in these conditions.

[hrych]

Why is it straight one-time, it will be picked up and relocated to tractors, or ATVs. So the Chinese technique is then disposable, taking into account the density of the enemy's fire, go and get it, even on its own. L70 is so-and-so digital, with remote control. At least the koi were modernized. Electric guidance drives were originally.

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: hrych

Why is it straight one-time, it will be picked up and relocated to tractors, or ATVs.

Yeah, almost four tons of quad in the mountains, strong. Yes, even with a tractor, the cannon must be removed from the outriggers, put on a wheel drive (in the Indian one it is removable) and only then, if they have time, take it away.

Quote: hrych

So the Chinese technique is then disposable, taking into account the density of the enemy's fire, go and get it, even on its own.

40 mm in range and accuracy versus 105 mm for nothing. Already at 2 km, the tank will simply decompose, with complete impunity, this gun.

Quote: hrych

L70 is so-and-so digital, with remote control.

And what, tank guns like in the First World War, with an open sight and shoulder rest? The number is a number, and physics is physics.

[hrych]

Speech in the article is specifically about the modernized, i.e. digital. Which in my photo, of course, does not require removing the wheels is in a combat position, the control point can be in a safe place and far away. Those. against the UAV is a BZU, an unmanned anti-aircraft gun. What do not you like? I am very much. And a bonus, versatility. Fighting tanks is hypothetical.

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: hrych

Tanks, hypothetically.

Well, hypothetically, so hypothetically.

[Thrifty]

And the Indians are not aware that the best air defense is tanks on the enemy airfield? ??

[Jacket in stock]

Quote: Thrifty

And the Indians are not aware that the best air defense is tanks on the enemy airfield? ??

And they already have a war?

[knn54]

The gun is excellent, the modernization is solid.
Here are just the range of destruction of the UAV - 500 m, and the effective height - 4 km.
There is work to do.

[tralflot1832]

The Indians are completely loose! It would be better if films were made about unbearable love, twins and twins. Jimi acha acha!

[ultra]

Hindus !!!!! World War II ended a long time ago !!!

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: ultra

Hindus !!!!! World War II ended a long time ago !!!

And the Sahibs are not the same for a long time - they have enough problems even without India.

Time seems to have stopped there ... Acha-acha ...

[URAL72]

"Hindus !!!!! World War II ended a long time ago !!! laughing"

You are strange people. What have you forgotten on the military site? In the DPR, most of the UAVs are shot down with a shooter and a ZU-23-2. We dream of Shilka, but with such modernization, we don't need Strela-10M3 for nothing.

[ultra]

If the shock drones fly, neither an awl, nor a zu 23 will help.

[Jacket in stock]

Quote: ultra

Hindus !!!!! World War II ended a long time ago !!!

They are in the know.
Therefore, they screwed the radar, optics, and control automation to the gun.
Against low-speed low-altitude targets - a classic UAV, the very thing.
We, for example, specially built a new similar cannon, "tree", have you heard?
Only the Indians cost their antiaircraft gun cheaper.

[ultra]

Have you heard that the derivation on the BMP chassis?

[bk0010]

Quote: ultra

Hindus !!!!! World War II ended a long time ago !!!

This is for the new world. The targets have characteristics similar to those of WWII planes, but they cost little, so it's a perfectly normal option. We also need to do something like the KS-19, only with a modern guidance system and a mobile and anti-splinter design. The same Bayraktars to bring down and everything that is smaller.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Such cannons work only if the upper echelon is covered by longer-range air defense systems; moreover, they are limited in mobility, unlike the same Shilka.

[bk0010]

Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich

Such cannons only work if the upper echelon is covered by longer-range air defense systems.

Certainly.

Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich

besides, they have limited mobility, in contrast to the same "Shilka".

And this question can be solved: won, they managed to fasten the truck to the 6 "howitzer, but here the caliber is much smaller, and the radar is not needed (it is expensive and not very useful against small drones, you can organize the reception of external control units), and the optics, acoustics and replacement of PUAZO will be compact with current technology.

[aleks700]

Yes, in vain China starts a storm over these territories. We need to establish good relations with India. Provide the rear. And focus on Taiwan.

[evolution]

Don't interfere with Taiwan.

[riwas]

Based on the experience of Afghanistan. Heavy anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber cannons are very effective against infantry in the mountains.