AG-30 (30 mm)

Description

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Vehicles equipped with this weapon

• BMP-2M

General info

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Available ammunition

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Comparison with analogues

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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Pros:

• Decent rate of fire (400 RpM) in terms of an automatic grenade launcher
• May damage and cripple modules that are important to the enemy, such as their gun barrel and tracks
• Can remove enemy armor plates, especially ERA plates, so that the primary armament will have a better chance of penetrating
• If enemy compartment is open-back or open-top (very unlikely at that BR), the crew of the enemy will be eliminated within a single good burst
• Large belt capacity allows sustained fire for longer durations (300 grenades for the BMP-2M)
• Surprisingly, the grenades don't drop that much, so firing at far-away stationary targets won't be that much of a problem
• Launcher has decent elevation angles

Cons:

• Grenades will almost never penetrate armor directly and hurt the crew inside
• Launcher cannot be aimed and fired independently, unlike the 14.5mm machine guns on the IS-7
• There is currently no effective way of aiming the launcher (on the BMP-2M, because no other vehicle has it installed yet) at medium to long ranges. Using the reticle to aim in RB is just trial and error, and using the main gun's sight/scope won't work either, because the markings on the scope are designed for the 30mm autocannon, and attempting to use the markings on the scope will result in the rounds falling short of their target. The AGS-30 has a 2.7x PAG-17 optical sight, but this isn't implemented in-game yet.
• Enemies may be able to shoot the launcher and cause an ammunition detonation (NEEDS EXPERIMENTATION TO CONFIRM)
• Low projectile velocity means that grenades usually have between a 1-3 second delay between firing and hitting the target if the target is within 500m, and even more time is needed for targets beyond 500m
• Low projectile velocity also means that it'll be a challenge to hit moving targets at any range beyond 200m
• Launcher cannot rotate independently
• The AGs-30, in real life, has access to smoke shells, but they are currently not implemented into the game. (Having 300 smoke grenades would obviously cause problems, both balance-wise and optimization-wise.)

History

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[Note: Real name of this weapon is the "Atlant" AGS-30 or the AG-30M for the vehicle mounted variant, and not the AG-30. I'm not sure whether this mistake is intentional due to branding and copyright problems, or just a typo. Or maybe it's just the unmodernized version of the AG-30M. I can't edit the page's title, so some admin has to do that, or just delete this text if I'm wrong. Sorry for the inconvenience!]

Media

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See also

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• reference to the article about the variant of the cannon/machine gun;
• references to approximate analogues by other nations and research trees.

External links

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• topic on the official game forum;
• encyclopedia page on the weapon; (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGS-30)
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