The 30 mm automatic cannons 2A42 of the Russian combat vehicles for tank support (BMPT) "Terminator" can double the declared resource. The BMPT "Terminator" company commander with the call sign Kurgan spoke about the record-breaking survivability of the gun.
According to him, the real firing rate of the guns reached 12,000 shots. At the same time, the resource of the gun declared by the developers is 6,000 shots.
The BMPT received two 2A42 cannons. Armor-piercing tracer shells are loaded into the right gun, and high-explosive fragmentation shells are loaded into the left gun.
The 2A42 cannon is designed to destroy lightly armored vehicles, enemy manpower and low-flying aerial targets. The rate of fire of the gun is 550-800 rounds per minute.
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