Platforms used include both trucks and heavier combat vehicles such as armoured personnel carriers and tanks, which add protection from aircraft, artillery, and small arms fire for front line deployment. Anti-aircraft guns are usually mounted in a quickly-traversing turret with a high rate of elevation, for tracking fast-moving aircraft.

The Type 87 Self-propelled Anti-aircraft Gun (87式自走高射機関砲, 87-shiki jisō kōsha kikanhō) is a Japanese air defense weapon built around the Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon system as used on the Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. The system uses a modified Type 74 tank chassis.

The ZSU-57-2 Ob'yekt 500 is a Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG), armed with two 57 mm autocannons.

May 5, 2019 · During the Second World War, self-propelled artillery played a vital role in bringing heavy firepower to bear, with greater mobility than drawn artillery and at a lower cost than building tanks. The United States fielded a wide range of self-propelled guns.

Its purpose was to act as a fast heavy anti-aircraft gun to escort the newly created light divisions. These were, in essence, mixed units equipped with mechanized infantry and tanks, but smaller than true Panzer divisions.

As the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet-designed ZSU-57-2 "Sparka" (the pair) this SPAAG was originally based on a modified T-54 tank chassis, but in the Chinese case, the obvious choice was to take the Type 69-II Main battle tank chassis and modify it to fit the new turret.

Pretty good if you're playing a mid-sized minor and don't want to splurge on proper armor - by 1943, my heavy infantry divisions will usually have LSPGs at the very least, and light SPAA is a similar upgrade for when you're fighting enemy air superiority with line AA.

The German Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard SPAAG is one of the most famous Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Guns in the World. Development started in the former Federal Republic of Germany (aka West Germany) for the Bundeswehr (West German Army) to replace their US M42 Duster SPAAG’s in 1966.

Jul 9, 2021 · How To Distinguish Between Self-Propelled Artillery (SPA) And A Tank. To the uninformed, an SPA can look a little like a tank, so what makes them different? Mr Wheeler points out that, while there are always exceptions (such as the Swedish S-Tank), the trick is identifying what makes and SPA 'not a tank'.

Feb 16, 2017 · It had became clear that the combined weight of the turret, radar, and computer systems was too heavy to allow the vehicle to maintain the desired level of mobility. The prototype was canceled. Instead, the hull of the newer Type74 main battle tank would be used as the chassis for the new SPAAG.