Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "The Russian T-12 Anti-tank Gun | 100mm SMOOTHBORE SNIPER!" video.

This gun as well as very few post-WWII AT guns(there were less of them designed then during the war. Apparently recoilless rifles took the main part of the niche) showcases how their design requirements are different from normal artillery. These guns need to be as low as possible to have small target profile, need to have a very wide horizontal traverse instead of vertical elevation and ideally should have a ranging rifle(which this one lacks). The fun part is that soviets also had 125mm one, Sprut-B if I recall right. And that both it and this one can use barrel fired ATGMs from their respective tank counterparts(yes, there is a 100mm barrel launched ATGM designed for rifled gun of T-55).
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Can't recall many of the latter. Most critique comes from being far from era the which they were designed for, being used plain wrong or it's a reaction to inflation of the former. And if I'll ever need former, I'd just need to turn on TV on 9th of May(or half a month prior when this show starts and doesn't end until late June)😅
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@EvanFAF Chieftain, Bovington, Red Effect, no? I actually don't know artillery channels. For firearms you should check Forgotten Weapons and InRange as well as C&R Arsenal. For planes I guess there's Paper Skies(he loves the aircraft, but hates government incompetence) and maaaaaaybe Mustard(though he has like 3-4 videos on soviet aircraft, even if one of them mentions Bartini, creator of ТРИЗ). And for naval you know whom is the man, the myth, the legend. Yep, it's Drachs
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@Qbgarden that depends on how you view SAMs. For some reason rocket artillery including MLRSs and tactical ballistic missiles are artillery, but everyone pretends that ATGMs and SAMs aren't ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Anyway there are even fewer AAA designed post-WWII. The only "notables" I can recall is soviet 57mm S-60 autocannon, Bofors 57mm from which soviets copied it and 75mm M51 Skysweeper. AAA needs full freedom of traverse both horizontal and vertical, very fast traverse, doesn't care much about dimensions and visibility(aka the only branch where use of muzzle brake isn't frowned upon). While it CAN benefit from both increased velocity like AT and increased caliber like normal artillery, rate of fire was the characteristic that won out in the end(if you count only AAA without counting SAMs).
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@Andre_Thomasson care to give an example that doesn't fall into previous categories, please? Заодно узнаем кто ты и откуда на основе твоих "предпочтений";)
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@Daddo22 my guy... Google B-11. T-12 wasn't a counterpart to american 105mm recoilless rifle because soviets ALREADY themselves had 107mm recoilless rifle in service. And I wasn't talking about it, I was talking specifically about MT-12. Ranging rifles/MGs were used on any equipment where reloading was potentilly too long after you gave out your position so you needed to make sure before you unload. The most famous usage of ranging MG was on Chieftain. Several soviet tanks also had coaxial that was matching ballistics of main gun at close ranges for same purpose. And that's before we start talking about "training rifles" that are mounted over the gun for, obviously from name, training gun crews.
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@robbypolter6689 B. SD is СД - Само Движущийся ie Self Propelled. B is Б - Буксируемый ie Towed. Thus Sprut-B. Just like PAT-B or MSTA-B.
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@DIREWOLFx75 look up where S-60 came from and lineage of Bofors copies in soviet service.
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