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@ricardosoto5770 no one is updating it because 23mm was long ago deemed too small of a caliber. In contrast 30mm shells can be used with both programmator or straight up proximity fuze. Hence new ammo on modernized Tunguska and modern Panzir. Not to mention those two can serve as de facto CIWS nowadays being able to detect and intercept even mortar shells. As for drones, the problem is distance. 30mm has better reach, but still not enough for a scout that just hangs 10km away. And when you can buy hundreds of them for 200$, shooting them down with missiles that costs hundred times that is not an option. Hence why 57mm is coming back. Meanwhile USA is reintroducing 45mm and 50mm. Because they can go up to 14km of range. And as always effective counter is always a coordinated system which requires all of the above and many more
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@soulsphere9242 my mistake, 40mm and 50mm. Not 45mm. Bushmaster IV is 40mm version. 50mm version of Bushmaster III is for now called XM913 as its only finished testing. I don't know if it'll be called Bushmaster V or Bushmaster III/50mm.
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