Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Inside China’s Gatling-Missile Air Defense Strategy" video.

  1. Yeah, the Pantsir uses a Gast gun (a double-barrel system in which the recoil of one barrel provides the energy to load the other barrel). The Soviet Union had a lot of experience with that system for both aircraft cannons (the GSh-23 and GSh-30-2) and 2A38 cannon of the Tunguska. So it was unsurprising that Russia stuck with the 2A38 for the Pantsir.
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  2. 2:57 That's why truck-based SPAAGs normally have legs that either fold out or telescope down to the ground to brace themselves. The only time you wouldn't have that is when the autocannon is a low-recoil weapon like the M230LF. Even Russia knew to do this with their Pantsir platform, and its Gast guns don't have nearly as much recoil force as a 30mm Gatling. It's pretty crazy that China failed to incorporate that.
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