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

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, 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
• Grenade launcher cannot be selected via the weapon selection controls to be used and aimed independently of other weapon systems
• Grenade launcher does not have access to its own sights to be able to account for the grenade's unique trajectory, requiring the use of the gunner's high velocity gun sight (tip: the 30 km range notch in the primary gun sight is ranged roughly 250 m for the grenade launcher)
• Grenade's low muzzle velocity results in quite a delay from firing to grenade impact
  • Time of travel can be ~1 second at 250 meters, and ~3 seconds at 500 meters, and expect even more time needed for targets beyond 500 m
  • The very low muzzle velocity will make it a challenge to hit any moving targets beyond 200 m

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)
• other literature.