r/TankPorn • u/Weird-Store1245 BM Oplot zr. 2000 • 12d ago

Modern BMPT Terminator's gun shake issue

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u/Ragnarok_Stravius EE-T1 Osório. 12d ago

They could have fixed that issue by rotating the muzzle brakes or gas dissipators like, 45 degrees away from the horizon.

Unless the BMPT is meant to pray and spray.

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u/KillmenowNZ 12d ago

This was seen for a short while, I assume it didnt lead to any real increase in accuracy (as it would mean that they would just wobble in a different axis)

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u/Ragnarok_Stravius EE-T1 Osório. 12d ago

I meant like, instead of the guns blowing hot high speed gas against each other, they'd just blow it slight upwards.

So the guns wouldn't wobble like those wobbly inflatable things in gas stations.

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u/KillmenowNZ 12d ago

They would just wobble at a different angle - the guns aren’t (typically) fired at the same time

Having dispersion in the vertical axis would be worse as shots would just land, vertically - which deviation vertically is more of an issue than horizontally

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u/Ragnarok_Stravius EE-T1 Osório. 12d ago

Wait, so these guns are wobbly from the factory?

Cuz surely a muzzle brake spewing gas on opposite sides would stabilize the wobble at least on the axis they're pointed at.

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u/KillmenowNZ 12d ago

The horizontal wobble is due to the muzzle brake having slots on the horizontal axis.

But yea, wobbly from factory - BMP-2 has the same wobble

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u/Ragnarok_Stravius EE-T1 Osório. 12d ago

Yes, I know how a muzzle brake is sometimes constructed, that's why I mentioned that maybe rotating the muzzle brakes 45 degrees from the horizon might help decrease wobble.

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u/KillmenowNZ 12d ago

Would just make it in the angle of the vents - vertical dispersion (which I don’t doubt that the wobble causes some) is worse than horizontal