Talk:Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon

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[edit] Another Skyguard

The entry "Skyguard" redirects to this page, but I have recently read news on a different military related system with the same name. See this link. Maybe we should change the redirect? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.12.117.11 (talk • contribs) .

Sounds reasonable. Though it's probably better to covert Skyguard into a disambig page. Has someone created an article about the Northrop Skyguard system ? Megapixie 01:25, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Done, and I've created a stub article off the disambig page for the Northrop system. Sigh. I wish someone in the Arms industry would show a little imagination when it comes to system names - like the good old Green Cheese missile. Megapixie 01:35, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki.html Watcha' guys think? 213.35.180.152 18:29, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Number of rounds on GDF-005

The entry on the number of rounds in reserve is wrong.

For the GDF-005 (as in Service with the Austrian Armed Forces) the distribution of round is as follows:

ready:
56 rounds ( 8 clips with 7 rounds each) per cannon = 2 x 56 = 112 rounds ready
reserve:
84 rounds (12 clips with 7 rounds each) per cannon = 2 x 84 = 168 rounds in reserve

Sum:
2 x 140 rounds = 280 rounds on the gun

Source: field manual for Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon Anti-aircraft gun system

The number or rounds kept in reserve could be varying with different models. But I consider 128 rounds in reserve to be wrong since the number of rounds must be divisible by 7 (the standard clip size) - the result being integer (the number of clips).

I will leave my statement open for discussion. If it doesn't meet with disagreement I will edit the incorrect entry accordingly. (Feulto (talk) 12:06, 15 January 2008 (UTC))

The problem was that the original numbers were for the GDF-002 (and were wrong) which carried less rounds. I've moved both sets of numbers to the specific description of the model in the variants section. Megapixie (talk) 14:10, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for inserting the changes it into the appropriate places (and being a newbie to wikipedia myself, saving me the trouble to do it ;). Since the Oerlikon 35mm entry is the only one featuring the 'Skyguard' fire control radar system I might add some information to this section (e.g. newer Skyguard versions are equipped with a laser range finder). But first I will have to give some classification issues a thought.(Feulto (talk) 19:45, 15 January 2008 (UTC))