WI The M247 Sergeant York had passed testing?

What if The M247 Sergeant York had passed testing?
NB: Not been better, but just passed (presumably rigged) testing?

How long would it have been before anyone actually noticed? Given America tends to establish air superiority anyway long before the troops go in, would anyone ever notice until it's up for replacement?

I can't think of a single situation where the MIM-72_Chaparral (which the US Army did buy) has actually been used.

On the flipside, Sgt York would probably have been upgraded by now, with a more modern radar (like the F-16 has - which may have solved some of the origonal's problems) as well as digital-air-burst capacity. I can also see an up armoured TUSK equiped one being a very useful support vehicle in Iraqi street fighting.
 

Andre27

Banned
Personally i think it would have been far more efficient if the US army had ordered the Gepard or PRTL. Anything within 3k dies instantly and the stinger teams wreck anything from 3-5k.

But if the York had somehow passed testing and afterwards found lacking we can safely assume that some high ranking member of the Ministry of Defense would be sacked. After the York was phased out on the double the development of alternative AA would probably continue similar to OTL.
 
But if the York had somehow passed testing and afterwards found lacking we can safely assume that some high ranking member of the Ministry of Defense would be sacked. After this development would probably continue similar to OTL.

"The Americans newest anti aircraft gun is useless. As the head of procurement for our country, you're fired!" :p

Torqumada
 
I don't think it can really be done 10-11 seconds to hit a stationary target is going to impress no-one, and neither will the thing aiming at the observation stands. Maybe if they'd started off with a Surface-to-Air radar rather than trying to adapt an aircraft radar.
 
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