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M247 SGT. York DIVAD

7,131 HermanTheGermanSherman  2.9 years ago

The M247 DIVAD (Division air defence) Sergeant York, named after the First World War soldier Alvin York who received the medal of honour, was a SPAAG mounted on the M48 chassis as a response to the lack of adequate mobile air defence the US army had at the time, using the F-16’s radar along with dual 40mm Bofors cannons it would have been a very lethal anti-air system had the radar worked as intended.

Instead the radar turned out to be too sensitive leading to the famous incident where at a public demonstration of the M247, it swung its guns around towards the crowd whilst aiming at the fan of a portable toilet confusing it to be a helicopters blades and often the guns when fully raised would confuse the radar and after only 50 units were built it was scrapped I favour of missile bearing SPAA systems

Controls:

AG-1 = activate turret slew and elevation
Landing gear = deploy targeting and search radar

Instructions
Step 1: toggle landing gear so that both radars are deployed

Step 2: toggle air to air mode

Step 3: select target and turn off AG-1

Step 4: Fire until plane is gone

credit for programming in rotators belongs to @CallsignArtemis

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General Characteristics

  • Created On iOS
  • Wingspan 13.3ft (4.0m)
  • Length 27.4ft (8.4m)
  • Height 14.5ft (4.4m)
  • Empty Weight 9,077lbs (4,117kg)
  • Loaded Weight 15,522lbs (7,041kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading 55.3lbs/ft2 (269.8kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 280.9ft2 (26.1m2)
  • Drag Points 11348

Parts

  • Number of Parts 159
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 1,104
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    153 MRFOXY09

    Nice work

    2.9 years ago
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    16.4k MrGreen

    saw this on reddit

    2.9 years ago
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    7,631 TrueNoMan

    @MinWiii yeah looks like a lever dangling or a stick gets stuck. Yet making a fully realistic track needs the Tracks mod; or, a lot of parts together, which sucks more due to the you-know physic settings of the game (just personal opinion).

    +2 2.9 years ago
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    3,611 Dathcha

    The thing is it’s doesn’t mold over the terrain as it moves, which sucks @TrueNoMan

    2.9 years ago
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    7,631 TrueNoMan

    @HermanTheGermanSherman Actually, you can put flat (by editing scale) wheels together to form the belt part of a track. When it runs, it just looks like a real rolling track.

    2.9 years ago