💥 Why Russo-Iranian Kamikaze Drones Can Not Pass Gepard?

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💥 Why Russo-Iranian Kamikaze Drones Can Not Pass Gepard?
The Flakpanzer Gepard, a Cold War relic designed to combat Soviet threats, now faces modern challenges. Its imposing size and firepower are matched only by its ability to devastate anything in its path. But its true strength lies in eliminating drone threats, with a single unit taking down over ten drones and intercepting missiles. Equipped with twin 35mm cannons firing at an astonishing rate and featuring advanced radar systems, the Gepard is a relentless defender and a legend reborn in the modern age.
🎬 Main characteristics:
📌 Designed during the Cold War to counter Soviet threats
📌 Powerful: known for its size, noise, and destructive capabilities
📌 Effective against drones: proven against Iranian kamikaze drones
📌 Impressive record: single unit shot down over 10 drones and intercepted 2 missiles
📌 Armed with potent twin 35mm Oerlikon KDA autocannons
📌 High rate of fire: 550 rounds per minute per cannon
📌 Carries both anti-aircraft and armor-piercing ammunition
📌 Effective range against aircraft: up to 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles)
📌 Requires minimal ammo per engagement (20-40 rounds)
📌 Powerful enough to destroy low-flying aircraft
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🎥 Key Video Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction: The Gepard weapon system and its nickname "dragon" in Ukraine.
0:14 - Explanation of the Gepard's firing rate and ability to counter aerial threats.
0:36 - The Gepard's effectiveness against drones, specifically Iranian Shahed-136 drones.
1:02 - Historical context: the Gepard's development during the Cold War and its current use in Ukraine.
1:19 - Russia's use of Iranian drones and the introduction of Gepard to counter them.
1:31 - Technical details of the Gepard, including its chassis, turret configuration, guns, and ammunition.
2:48 - Effective range and typical ammunition usage of the Gepard.
3:14 - Radar systems and laser range finder used by the Gepard.
3:51 - Optical targeting system and its components.
4:13 - Recent US support for Ukraine by providing Gepard anti-aircraft guns.
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[@cheekymescalito3249]

Came here because I'm from Ukraine and this machine is working like 1 km from my apartment. When air raid starts, I can hear it roaring its engine and driving to its working position. When enemy drones are approaching, it's firing with small rounds of 3-5 shots. And it's enough to hit the drone. But the sound it produces... It is so powerful. I love hearing it. It means safety. It means that the drones are f***ed. Thanks to Germany for Gepards. Many, many, many thanks.

[@urviechalex9963]

You´re welcome, dude! I regret that so many people in our country didn´t want to see how dangerous Russia had become yet again. Cheap energy, believing in HEY, WE AREN´T THE BADDIES ANYMORE, LET´S TRADE, NOBODY WILL START ARE WAR AGAIN IN EUROPE BECAUSE WE DON´T WANT YOU TO! Take care buddy, I hope you and your family can stay safe!

[@cheekymescalito3249]

@@urviechalex9963 danke mein Freund! 🫶🙌

[@cleoisdancin4583]

Я покинув Україну, зі зрозумілих причин, шкода, що ти ще там, друже, українець, не вмирай, ми переможемо!

[@SaschaPallenberg]

"I love hearing it. It means safety." God bless you my friend. Please stay safe out there... I hope this bloody war will be over soon

[@SnkHetz]

Ahahahah what's going on with your counteroffensive khokol?

[@ThePerfectRed]

The funny thing is that the Gepard had to become obsolete in it's initial role of fighting jet aircraft to become the boss at a completely new challenge of fighting drones.

[@fj1659]

One of the reasons why it became obsolete wars that the german army dos not have any Leopard 1 based Systems left. In the past most armoured support systems were based on the Leo 1 Chassis. Today the Boxer has replaced most of the former Leo 1 based support Systems.

[@FairladyS130]

It still could take on low flying aircraft.

[@wilberwhateley7569]

It’s still a threat to attack choppers and UAVs.

[@maxkonig559]

Once again, German technology is light years ahead.

[@garrettmiller1355]

​@@wilberwhateley7569choppers not so much, one reason it's obsolete is because their missiles out range it guns

[@outandaboutintheworl]

I love it when people convert from kilometers and end up with these bizarrely specific numbers. The Gepard's radar range in 15kms, which this video converted to the bizarrely specific figure of 9.32 miles.

[@snowdogthewolf]

The Yanks are intelligent, innovative, courageous... and stubborn. Someday they'll come to their senses and get rid of fractions, no doubt to the delight of millions of school-aged kids.

[@Evirthewarrior]

@@snowdogthewolf I learned both in school and hated the metric system and constantly converting to decimals, I struggled with it more fractions make far more sense in a practical way. 1/3 of something is far easier to mentally visualize than .33 of something. 1/8th of something is easier to mentally visualize than .125.

[@gill7045]

Being culturally raised with the empirical system would only partially explain having difficulties with metric. I always say "you count your money in metric, don't you?" ;-)

[@SoecX]

​@@EvirthewarriorThat may be true for those easy fractions. But now add them together. 0.33 + 0.125 add way easier to 0.455 than 1/3 + 1/8 does to 11/24. Also if you have something like 41/369 as a fraction it's certainly not easy to imagine anymore but with decimals it is.

[@solomonarbc]

@@Evirthewarrior Metric people still use fractions. So 1/3 is 1/3. However decimal is so much easier for basically any complex computation. ALSO, we have millimeters, and therefore, we can "deliberately" use 0.33 instead of 0.3(3) (which is 1/3) or even 0.3 if the project is not so sensitive on millimeters, eg. supposedly standard wooden planks are +/- 0.2 mm thicker/thinner. So in conclusion: if we need highly accurate results we use Metric, and if we make less accurate projects we also use Metric (but ignore a few millimeters or centimeters, depending on scale). And yes, one thing Imperial dudes can't do is scaling up and down, using a ruler muahaha.

[@leod-sigefast]

Germany, no matter the size or apparent weak state of the Bundeswehr, always produces awesome military hardware! Keep it up Germany!

[@ettoreatalan8303]

Germany and German arms companies are not the same thing.😇

[@cyber_habanero]

@@ettoreatalan8303 Can you explain, where is the difference for you? Does German arms companies invent and produce only with Polnish or Turkish workers in your mind? 😂

[@TheChosenOne_]

@@cyber_habaneroi think he meant that while german arms manufacturers invent and produce great stuff it’s usually for export and not germany

[@Skyfighter94]

@@TheChosenOne_ Thats wrong. Most arms produced by German arms manufacturers are developed with and for the Bundeswehr and later are going into export.

[@TheChosenOne_]

@@Skyfighter94 okay so how many iris t slm does the Bundeswehr have?

[@pimmelschilz9728]

And the Bundewehr completey disbanded their anti air branch in the army, because "we don´t need it anymore" and the Gepard is "obsolete".

[@dermozart80]

Thank god they decided to bring it back! (the question is to what cost and where to find the people for it)

[@westphalianstallion4293]

Lets be honest, 2011 the drone thread wasnt that high, and the split between rocket and barrel AA was to demanding on material and personell. The bigger problem is that there wasnt put any effort into replacing it. The Stinger is at the moment the only AA capability german groundforces have.

[@heinedenmark]

They are buying the new Skyranger 30 system. Mounted on Puma vehicles. We(Denmark) have bought the same system.. just mounted on Piranha Vs. It has a 30mm Oerlikon gun shooting programable rounds at 1000 rpm. Plus.. it will have Stinger missiles.

[@derauditor5748]

only to build it up now again... in some form.

[@31er_ohne_AMG]

Didn't Pistorius put the blame on the CDU for disbanding the anti air branch? I think he blamed them for this decision because the CDU cut the Bundeswehr budget more and more when they were in power

[@rainbowseeker5930]

Formidable....The German weapon engineers never cease to leave us in awe at every single new war toy they come up with ! Hats off, gents.

[@IcarosImmortal]

Germans- Homo Mechanicus.

[@tilmanpott]

fun fact: When it fires, you can feel the ground shaking. In former times, there were contests between crews trying to hit the tow wire between towing plane and target drone

[@ralfweinand5473]

i hit it in Todendorf training shooting 1991 ;) Schleppsack seil durchtrennt

[@zoolkhan]

@@ralfweinand5473 nice haha... angeber :)

[@SnkHetz]

nafo loser, what's going on with your counteroffensive?

[@JavaMoppel]

I served in an amphibious engineer regiment in the Bundeswehr (German Army). There used to be a Gepard on each side of our bridge. Luckily we never needed them, but it was a good feeling

[@andreww1225]

They need a hundred of these bad boys

[@cornelius2993]

O.k, but you pay the bill!

[@richardvonessling4442]

​@@cornelius2993I pay it With a Smile on my face

[@lukas4866]

They received around 50 gepards from germany as far as we know

[@Phoenix-vg8li]

@@cornelius2993 you’re really getting you a good bang for your buck here don’t kid yourself.

[@bryanl6081]

Iranians have an other system for these.

[@gmiller2734]

By far the coolest looking piece of equipment in the fight

[@JG-xm8jy]

Seen the TOS-1A?

[@EntropicTroponin]

​@@JG-xm8jyNah, that thing is just disappointing

[@Nobleheart111]

I recall seeing a lot of wreckages of those Russian vehicles. Clearly they don’t work that well. Sorry for those sentences being overly repetitive.

[@Lexe-is5nv]

@@JG-xm8jy Tos-1A looks like a fridge on top of a tank chassis. Very bland and terribly ugly.

[@sebastianwendl603]

Don't forget: it's all about economics. AA missiles are more expensive than drones. So even if you hit your target, you are losing. Gepard ammo is cheap. If you hit, you likely won the engagement.

[@CarnesSurefire]

Even if the ammo expenditure costs more than the drone it's still cheaper than losing a valuable asset to the drone.

[@sgrouge]

Totally agree. But in the contrary, if you wanna save too much ammonition, you fail the mission and lose your personal/material. So it is a compromise.

[@TheRealBillBob]

The only problem with your math is the Gepard has to be perfect 100% of the time, the drone only needs to be perfect once.

[@hermes667]

If it is all about economics, than Russia is already doomed. Germany alone hast 2,5 times the economic power of Russia.

[@thanosfickda]

@@TheRealBillBob use drones to destroy drones , jamming devices (Eletronic warfare), missiles

[@headhunter1945]

The shahed kamikaze drones are cheap at $20k a piece. However, the 35mm HE ammo from a Gepard is only $1k a piece. This is one reason Gepard is important, so many other AA solutions are not cost effective at all.

[@zeothorn]

Is not only for air targets Flakpanzer Gepard 1A2 also have 20 AP rounds anti-tank The price tags for round is definitely less than 1k per round with highest specs.

[@EditioCastigata]

You have to factor in the damage those drones would have done.

[@headhunter1945]

@@EditioCastigata If your counter-measures are more expensive than the attack itself then the attack doesn't even have to hit to hurt you more than the enemy. (I don't disagree with what you say though)

[@thomasnisser843]

Zitat Tagesschau (5.9.2023): "... Rheinmetall hat erstmals neu produzierte Munition für den Flugabwehrpanzer "Gepard" in der Ukraine ausgeliefert. Es sollen weitere Chargen folgen, bis Jahresende werden es insgesamt 40.000 Schuss sein. Der Rüstungskonzern war im Februar dieses Jahres mit der Lieferung von insgesamt 300.000 Schuss Munition im Wert von 168 Millionen Euro beauftragt worden..." 168.000.000,- € / 300.000 = 560,- € ( ~ 610,- US$)

[@gun.sgt.bunfield5899]

afaik it is 1700$ for a case of 56 AHEAD rounds, HEAT would be 580$ per case. Compared with the price of an artillery shell with 800$ 1K$ would be considerably too high.

[@akizeta]

Voiceover: "Can rotate 180°" Video: Radar visibly turning 360° every couple of seconds.

[@PK-df1uq]

He's talking about the tracking radar (i.e. the thing that looks like R2D2 on the front of the turret).

[@akizeta]

@@PK-df1uq Oh, that makes sense. I shall leave the comment as a reminder of my shame.

[@Rich77UK]

Amazing how these SPAA were obsoleted by the western nations but now fight the very modern drone threat with amazing results. I've always loved the Gepard.

[@davidbeattie4294]

Designed to kill low flying high speed jets, it seems to have finally found a target it can engage. Low, slow flying, drones that don't engage in evasive manoeuvering. The fact that it exists and works so well in its unplanned role is a godsend.

[@badpussycat]

What do you mean by "finally found..." The Ukrainians Intercepted at least two missiles with a Gepard is this "high speed" enough for you?

[@lighthousevant.b.4721]

We call him in the 1990 Century " God of Hellfire" in German Army. In my Eyes is this the best Anti Aircraft Gun Sytem at Earth.

[@Rick2010100]

Germany will send aprox. 60 more of them to Ukaraine, but they have to be upgaded from older standadrds before. 30 units util the end of the year and the next batch in early 2024.

[@embreis2257]

wow, they must have scoured the globe and purchased them back from everyone who still had them in their inventory, right?

[@carlruffier3092]

So why do they need to send more oh! Yeah! The ones they sent are burnt out hauls on the battlefield.

[@ravenspe]

​@@carlruffier3092 For extended coverage you nitwit 🤣🫵

[@duke6389]

@@carlruffier3092 Such Russian troll nonsense, the cheetahs are all fine and doing what they're supposed to do. Bringing orcs out of the sky...

[@snowdogthewolf]

@@carlruffier3092 Dream on, Vatnik! 😆

[@kniespel6243]

Gepard is a brilliant weapon ,with such huge rate of fire ! German technology ,like always ,in the top .

[@qili3899]

Ukraine war is the best advertisement for Germany weapons.

[@MayankPrasad111]

​@@qili3899and Russia frying pan flies

[@Booz2010]

Make GERMANy Great Again 🦾💪

[@kniespel6243]

@@AlexV-NL so what? Is important the rate of fire, armor , agility and the crew . But Gepard is german invention, dude. Not dutch .

[@henkvandermeulen1825]

We just learned that with the Swiss Oerlikon and Dutch radar it works best.

[@michdo23]

And now think about that Gepard is officially approved for ground to ground combat. Imagine you are a russian conscript, driving along with a couple of trucks in your support column, talking shit and making jokes - as one does. Then you see the first truck desintegrate in slow motion, while tracers come from a treeline 2 miles away.. A second or so later, once the sound catches up, you hear a faint "brrrrbupbupbupbupbup". You manage to say "cyka blyat", then the last truck in your column disappears. While you jump out of your truck, some shirtless Ukrainian who two years ago was writing a dating app in some starbucks in Kiew trains the Oerlikon KDA Zwillingskanonen on your vehicle. The last thing you see are a few dozend 35mm projectiles at 1100 km/s about to fuck your shit up. It's a bad day at the office.

[@user-yt5lw9we7s]

какие удивительные фантазии)) особенно про украинца без рубашки))

[@Donnerfink]

@@user-yt5lw9we7s Makes u h0rny, right?

[@jdsd_]

underrated comment xD

[@1968konrad]

We in the Bundeswehr service always wondered why they didnt develop versions with different caliber for higher range. The gepard never was obsolete, they only wanted to minimize the Bundeswehr strenght. Drones were all time visible in futures scenarios and helicopters are the classic target. Neither helis nor transport aircraft can pass some gepards.

[@wnose]

With the advent of drones, lots of countries are now really eager for Gepards

[@christiang5209]

They stopped the gepard, because there was an succesor in sight. So they said we dont invest 10 year in gepards, since it is becoming an outdated technology. In case of ermergency is would have been possible tobhet them ready again pretty fast, but overall there was that high risk that something happens

[@sirswerve2493]

The Gepard is a masterpiece. Even with all its issues it still can still fight.

[@kornfed81]

That thing is wild...had no idea how fast it articulates. Makes a CIWS look slow.

[@NJTDover]

True. The Phalanx CIWS is overhyped.

[@ScienceChap]

Technically it is a CIWS. Phalanx has around the same sort of range. It just does it with an ammunition-hog gatling gun rather than cannon.

[@hotdog9262]

@@ScienceChap gepard have over twice the effective range

[@abdullahkhan-qk3lk]

MG 42 of the skies 😅

[@BlueBockser]

With an added aimbot for good measure

[@harmless6813]

It's more like a sniper rifle with burst fire. :)

[@user-kr7yh8vw9m]

Or a sniper machine-gun🤣

[@Arizona-ex5yt]

German engineering vs. post-Soviet Russian and theocratic Iranian engineering. Hmm... I wonder which one will win.

[@MrZlocktar]

Soviet engineering. Just like they won the last time during war with Germany. Your memory must be very short lived.

[@Sm0keGamingCSGO]

Bro this shit wont even get off the train it will get destroyed

[@mentar1048]

Is that what you are reading in the Prawda? How's the "special military operation" going, Boris? :))

[@SweatyFeetGirl]

going to plan. ukrainian menpower is decreasing drastically day by day. at some point women will be sent to the frontlines :))))@@mentar1048

[@derauditor5748]

Uh. Those Iranian Drones... Actually... never google "dornier dar"...

[@MALITH666]

When I was growing up I loved the Gepard just for its looks - I did not know much about tanks then, and thought it was the best tank actually :D With its unique turret design it looked like the Darth Vader from star wars. I am so thrilled now because its relevant again. I am sure the design and manufacturing style might be obsolete , so I hope to see a new lethal Gepard in future maybe because this has certainly become the monster for drones.

[@callmepaddy]

Same here. I had a card game about tank stats with pictures of those tanks and I really loved the looks of the Gepard.

[@pluschfilter8515]

I was a driver of a Gepard in the late 90's. The look is great and so is the sound. It was a great feeling to drive through the terrain at over 60 km/h.

[@gaglikabar]

Lynx will be that but this one Gepard is my favorite tool in this war.

[@iainreid6292]

Watch more movies mate. Perhaps you could get a pedal bin as a friend.

[@a5cent]

The computing system uses the same CPU used in the Amiga 500 home computer from 1985. Not that this is a bad thing. It does it's job. However it is outdated. The replacement has already existed for a while. Rheinmetall Sky Ranger

[@henrytshabalala527]

The most ever German weapon which may see its production ramping up as it is the most uncostly hardware to combat unmanned aerial birds .It has proven itself in Ukraine and not only that even ground targets arent safe at its long range.Incredible beast indeed.

[@HingerlAlois]

Nobody is producing new Gepards, Germany is just buying back Gepards for Ukraine from industry storage and from abroad. Newly produced are systems like Skynex and Skyranger.

[@NotUnymous]

@@wolfgangkranek376 IF you have ENOUGH... got it? Your point isnt even correct. As as long as the drone-number isnt infinite each loss does hurt in multiple ways...

[@wolfgangkranek376]

@@NotUnymous Every military would use cheap drones and missiles to distract the defense system during such an attack. It will still be cheaper then the defense system itself, which of course will also get targeted once its location is compromised.

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

@@wolfgangkranek376 Sure but what would you target it with? The successor of the Gepard, the Skyranger 35, is designed to kill incoming helicopters, ground attack aircraft, missiles, drones, mortar and artillery shells. Bursts of 6 shells are more than sufficient meaning that one Skyranger can destroy up to 50 targets before it runs out of ammo.

[@wolfgangkranek376]

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 Grau ist alle Theorie.

[@volkerr.]

Gepard is a quite old system. The successor is sky ranger or other systems based on that. They can even intercept incoming shells 😊

[@marcusott2973]

There's also the SkyNex by Rheinmetall, that's also an insane system. And not to forget the angriest R2D2 ever, the CWIS/CRAM.

[@matovicmmilan]

I can't help being a bit skeptical about any available system's ability to intercept incoming shells?

[@suit1337]

Skyranger is just the weapon system - it is based on the Oerlikon KDG, which is basically the revolver cannon variant of the Oerlikon KDA used in the Gepard - the rate of fire is around the same (1 KDG = 2 KDA), the calibre and the ammunition is the same the Leopard 1 base is a bit outdated, that is why skyranger is intended to be fittet onto Boxer oder Lynx (so IFVs) as a plattform

[@SuperUltimateLP]

​@matovicmmilan don't be, radars could detect shells in the 60's but the trouble was to get the targeting systems good and fast enough. The American C-RAM was to my knowledge the first that actively intercepts shells. It's just calculating the ballistic trajectory and draws a line of lead in the sky. Modern systems are even more capable and only need short bursts with programmed shells.

[@jackmclane1826]

Mostly a computer issue. I would prefer a Gepard retrofit. Gepard A+1 for the win! ;) I prefer tracked vehicles when shit is about to hit the fan. Wheeled chassis is nice and all... but no comparison to tracks.

[@holzkater]

an old weapon system that is still one of the best☝🏼 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦

[@christians6734]

Talking about engineering: the Gepard has an extra power plant to supply the power hungry rapidly rotating turret plus the gunner is placed in the rotational axis of the turret, so he is not exposed to the extreme centrifugal forces of the rapidly rotating turret.

[@candidate3512]

we have to find a way to deal with the drones sir, at least something shoot fast enough. Germany: i can put the mantis on the bier holder 😂 😂

[@viarnay]

that thing is scary as hell...

[@Nastagar]

The video is missing one very interesting fact ... the Gepard is also able to damage any main battle tank in the world on up to 2 kilometers, not destroying the tank itself but crippling it by destroying all optics, antennas, sensors and even the chains with its 35mm grenades. The tank won´t be destroyed totally but you can probably scrap it afterwards. Also the Gepard radar is a passive one which can find its target without getting found itself. Gepard is a hell of an enemy for everything lesser armored than a mbt. Obviously the Gepard is my favourite tank ^^ and sadly far to early sorted out by german army for that new shitty mantis system.

[@user-sr6pi5lp3q]

This will only work if the tank doesn't answer. Played OFP too much?

[@Nastagar]

@@user-sr6pi5lp3q The tank isn´t able to answer, if 20 30mm grenades blow away his whole optics and sensors.

[@user-sr6pi5lp3q]

@@Nastagar how many secons do you need to do that and on which distance? Tanks can easily hit targets 2 km away.

[@rainbowseeker5930]

I bet that right now there is an awful lot of countries eager to acquire this wonder weapon for their own arsenals !

[@user-sr6pi5lp3q]

@@rainbowseeker5930 you fucking couch military expert!

[@Romanov117]

*”Years of cold hardens the will, We shall never falter!”* - Gepard

[@user-yt5lw9we7s]

вы там холода еще не бачили)))

[@kingcytoxien1775]

Germany has dismantled its military over decades because there was no danger, but now they want to rearm. The Bundeswehr may be weak, but when it comes to tanks and inventions they are one of the best in the world.

[@hernanreipp5259]

Germany was pressed by the US who fear not at stronger german nation, but a strong united Europe. For what reason do you think the US military never withdraw from that continent?

[@rriemann1]

Heeresflugabwehr...Gepard und Roland!! 💪🏽

[@MrIwan18]

In Dutch it was called the PRTL, Pruttel, pantser rups tegen luchtdoelen

[@PeterNichtlustig0815]

Sounds stupid and drunken. Like everything in dutch. ^^

[@elliekramer1466]

In Dutch it was also called Cheetah instead of Geppard.

[@MrIwan18]

@@elliekramer1466 klopt, ik had alleen even de acroniem genoemd, leuk voor de vertalende lezers🤣

[@SuperUltimateLP]

​@@elliekramer1466that's the nato name isn't it? The Dutch clearly didn't name the thing cheetah. Gepard is just the german wird for cheetah

[@SL4PSH0CK]

Love how you can pan the gepard on a slope and you now had an effective anti infantry

[@tarmok3756]

No slope needed as the guns can go just below 0°, which at a 1-2km range is enough to hit anything on the ground. Either infantry or light vehicles

[@SL4PSH0CK]

@@tarmok3756 Yoo that's cool, thanks for acknowledging

[@dmytro-skh]

It could, but nobody will do that, it is too valuable. Single TOW could destroy it

[@SL4PSH0CK]

@@dmytro-skh make sense, you're right.

[@harmless6813]

@@dmytro-skh Well, not on purpose. But it works in case it has to defend itself.

[@harmless6813]

From what I can tell, they use only two bursts of 2x3 rounds per target in Ukraine. That's more than enough for a Shahed drone. There has been an ammunition shortage since the system has been out of service in Germany for years and the Swiss refused to export the ammo to Ukraine. Germany is now producing new rounds without the Swiss.

[@BewareOfTheKraut]

Yep, you’re right 👍

[@jackmclane1826]

The Swiss are cowards here (Not generally, but here). They don't want to upset russian cleptocrats hiding the wealth of the russian people in private bank accounts in Switzerland.

[@PySnek]

Switzerland was not simply "refusing" it. The company was not allowed by law to export any ammo to a country in an active war. That's what the swiss people voted for years before the conflict started. It would have been highly illegal!

[@jackmclane1826]

@@PySnek In other words: The Swiss are refusing it.

[@AriraleLover]

A cheetah may be enough for a shahed, but a lancet is too small for a cheetah. And Ukraine now has no ways to fight the Lanuets

[@jhwheuer]

Plus, the tracking radar can cook pigeons at an astonishing range.

[@YippingFox]

Meant for planes that had no idea they were being tracked, just as planes developed counter measures against this threat. Now it serves the exact purpose but only on smaller planes. Luckily it is accurate enough to hit them reliably enough.

[@randerson752]

combine that with a couple of JASDF VADS or Centurion C-RAM and that is a lot of lead being thrown at drones and rockets, be pretty hard to effectively strike an airbase or migs with those on sentry duty.

[@icixie]

if you have enough ammo, they will deliver only 40 000 rounds by the end of year, at a rate of 1000 rounds per minute, how long will the ammo last? Remember Nato always complain the Ukrainians are using way more ammo than they should. 40 minutes of combat? Add to that the fact that rusky are sending fake drones as well to drain air defence.

[@Anton-dl7me]

note: search radar can rotate 360 deg not just 180 2:17

[@PK-df1uq]

He's talking about the tracking radar (i.e. the thing that looks like R2D2 on the front of the turret).

[@LennBar]

I've had the weird pleasure of standing beside the "Cheetah PRTL" (or as we would call it the "Pruttel") during a shooting exercise. We, four small army platoons, armed with a couple FN MAG's on stands, shooting 7.62mm NATO rounds at a target being dragged by a remote controlled airplane. Little did we know the "Pruttel" was around the corner, ready to roll up to it's shooting position right next to us... unleashing it's massive rounds towards that same flag-like target. The sheer power of those 35mm cannons is as impressive as it is frightening.

[@larrynivren8139]

A tank designed to save human civilians and has saved a lot of human lives. It was designed to destroy machines and not to kill humans.

[@LukasFin]

There are always humans (or in this case anti-humans) behind those invading machines.

[@phantom4E2]

kinda weird a cold war spAA getting used again, gepard 1A2 variant and roland 1 my favorites

[@JohnDoe-vy5hh]

IMHO this is one of the most impressive weapons systems ever made.

[@snakedogman]

I'm sure this would work quite well against enemy infantry and even light armored vehicles as well.

[@cleoisdancin4583]

They've been doing that.

[@FatallyAttractive]

it's a dual purpose mate

[@arranshirovay4064]

These thing's are insane 😳

[@SweatyFeetGirl]

ye just like anything on paper. look how many wunderwaffen burnt down in ukraine.

[@Propellerschrauber]

Wladimir Putin: "Bla bla bla special military operation bla bla bla...." Flakpanzer Gepard: "Ratatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatata !!!!!!!"

[@CamaroMann]

A lot can happen in the three days of such a special operation … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Propellerschrauber]

@@CamaroMann Yes, it seems to me that it is slowly becoming more and more certain that the Russian special military operation will not be completed in 3 days.

[@CamaroMann]

@@Propellerschrauber Yes, it will be tight if they still want to manage _that_ …

[@klaus_niemand]

".. and the engine and dive train at the rear" 1min 52sec So the Cheetah is even amphibious? That is truly amazing!

[@yxx_chris_xxy]

I guess you are sarcastic and do know, but the presenter surely misread *drive* train.

[@samghost13]

That thing is so good!

[@WestOfEarth]

It looks so modern for being such an old design.

[@scottparis6355]

Initially there was a shortage of ammunition for the Gepard, because it was made by the Swiss, and they wouldn't export it. So Ukrainian operators had to be sparing in using ammo. In an interview, one Ukrainian said that they could usually bring down a drone with 3 rounds.

[@Leminge42]

The "divetrain" in the rear?

[@andreasmartin7942]

Who'd have thought that a tank from Germany (!) would one day be such a lifesaver for somany people.

[@lomejordepolonia]

Great job!

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

One correction. Almost zero missles or drones from ruZZia have been "aimed at ukranian forces" as you stated... They are predominantly used against civilian targets. Over 300 hospitals, shopping centers, preschools, train stations and such. Its rare they use them against ukranian forces...

[@muzika-yi1vn]

Nato did worsst to afganistan,iraq,serbia,somalia,syria and many many many more

[@weylins]

That's a conversation with my friends I have had. Ukraine is fighting the Russian military. Russia is mainly fighting Ukrainian civilians... under the mistaken belief that they can still shell the Ukrainians into surrendering.

[@kenbird899]

stop watching CNN

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

​@@kenbird899betterbwatch Russia Today, where they claim that of the 900 Ukrainian tanks and 3000 armored vehicles, 12.000 have been destroyed....

[@zorax15]

@@kenbird899 How is the 3 day military operation going?

[@dand7763]

Romania has 42 Flakpanzer Gepards since ...2000! 0:51 that badge is romanian (blue ,yellow,red) "TIGER"

[@goblin2bis707]

This machine is awesome for this new role ! really impressive

[@stevecam724]

The Cheetah can pluck choppers out of the air so I guess drones are child's play 👍👍

[@jurgenwittmann2905]

Damned! A top system had to be 50 years old and retired until it had to prove and could prove how good it was. Can we please produce many new Gepards now? Simply build a lot of Gepards quickly and don't develop something in new. Gepard-turret on Leo2 chassis?

[@tenkloosterherman]

"Quickly"? On what planet do you live? Major nem systems can not be produced at a whim. Relocating Gepards is a lot easier.

[@audiophobia82]

@@tenkloosterherman we have better Anti Aircraft than Gepard already in Germany. So we can donate it to Countries that need em. Mantis is the new Shit

[@sammelplatzmilitaria]

THX nice Video! Greetings from Germany Sammelplatz Militaria

[@refererererer]

Correction: Russia's drones are not used against Ukrainian forces. They are used against CIVILAN STRUCTURES.

[@Birb_of_Judge]

They are being used against both.

[@gigimilano6757]

I've seen videos saying the same about Ukrainian artillery And drones

[@RustyBear]

@@Birb_of_Judgenot the Iranian ones

[@user-yt5lw9we7s]

конечно на укрине все гражданские...повстанцы так сказать)) вытряси говно из головы. ВСУ это вооруженные силы укрины)))

[@aqvamarek5316]

​@@RustyBeargo Reddit combat footage, there a dozen of videos how the drones hit soft military targets from the Ukraine armed forces, like drones or anti missile systems

[@dioghaltasfoirneartach7258]

A great Old Weapon. A Great Old Warrior. Now, doing some serious damage to the Evil enemy of humanity, itself...

[@pablo17667140]

It's the Russian terminator but actually useful and do it right

[@biggsdarklighter0473]

The russian Terminator aimed to engage multiple targets at once. The Gepard was built to engage air targets.

[@mr.politics1388]

The Gepard can actually hit target and is not completely useless

[@harmless6813]

The Terminator was made to engage ground targets. Russian AA guns are the Shilka and the Tunguska. Haven't heard much about them in this war though. I have seen one destroyed that the Russians claimed to be a Gepard. 😀 (it has visibly different gun attachments)

[@Patendyck76]

It makes a killer cup of tea as well.

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

Old but GOOOOOD

[@lulubowle4343]

echte Deutsche Wertarbeit 👏

[@ragnarone5409]

Und nun in guten Händen.

[@lulubowle4343]

​@@ragnarone5409mit den von den USA gekauften 60 sind es 110 in der Ukraine 👍 Rheinmetall hat die Herstellung der Munition ja selbst jetzt angeschoben 👏 das wird der Ukraine helfen die Luft über der Heimat sauber zu halten 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 möge die Macht bei der Ukraine sein 🙏

[@ericsarnoski6278]

Designed to take down Russian Hind gunships. , KA-52 alligator, etc

[@josharuni547]

Do they got the one with the stingers too. Or some weasels with Sam’s

[@titan_tanker]

Yes, the Gepard 1A2

[@NedNew]

Great video but, as a suggestion, could you please use metric measurements? e.g. range in metres/km, etc.

[@ariosarios7998]

German technology the best 🎉

[@laroark5036]

SWEET !!

[@noahway13]

02:30 It fires 550 rounds per minute. It is loaded with 320 HE rounds and 20 AP rounds. So it has less that one minute shooting time.

[@EntropicTroponin]

Yeah, good thing it typically uses only 20 rounds to hit the target

[@mr.politics1388]

Yeah, shots in bursts

[@harmless6813]

They typically shoot two bursts of 2x3 rounds.

[@martinstock]

@@EntropicTroponin ... or even less (those drones are rather easy targets). Thus with full magazines a Gepard can fight quite a number of air targets. It makes no sense to shoot holes into the air.

[@R32639]

The radar rotate 360° ;)

[@tyrson2445]

If there were more valleys or forrestes in Ukraine the Gepard would be much more dominant since choppers/aircrafts have to come closer since it effective max range is around 5km. On the other side as some commander told about manual targeting ground targets. " You do not have to aim much higher" (Those rounds go 1400m/s) With its radar it can still coordinate other air defence at 15km+ around itself.Last autuum some Gepards joined the charkiv breakthroug and took enemy drones and vision so many russians were fleeing thinking to be already surrounded, since small ukrainian forces were far in the hinterland taking pictures in front of local signs. And russian command had lost the overview. If they have gotten more logisitics and western material last year, they could have liberated much more territory.

[@Rroff2]

Link its radar into something like the Supacat HMT based ASRAAM setup and helis or even jets won't get close. Though some advanced jets have the ability to map and target stuff like that at ranges in excess of 60km potentially requiring coverage from more advanced air-defences as well but that is another story.

[@robertkeaney7047]

I want one, you know, for that guy on my morning commute that refuses to get out of the way. We all know that guy.

[@tomsdaddy]

Kit like this and Patriot are great, and there is a place for them in defending high value targets, but they are hugely expensive 'Hammers' being used to crack the Cheap Drone 'Nut'. What we need are some sort of cheap, disposable anti-drone Drones, that can loiter above a likely target, and then drop down (like a mini-JDam) to intercept incoming drones, so that each attacking drone can be shot down for a few hundred or thousands of dollars, rather than hundreds of thousands, or even millions, in the case of some missiles.

[@feshro]

"and the tracking radar can rotate 180 degree" - > showing the search radar rotating "180" degree 😂

[@neilwilson5785]

it does look like 360 degrees to me, which is probably better.

[@Sicklehead88]

@@neilwilson5785 afaik the 180 degree rotation is meant to "store" the radar when the vehicle is not engaging air tagets. as a protection for the radar. I really can't see any other reason for a 180 degree rotation.

[@adolfhennecke701]

@@Sicklehead88 🤦‍♂

[@Sicklehead88]

@@adolfhennecke701 what's the matter? you can see it in a lot of videos where the gepard is on the move without using the radars, the the front radar is rotated 180 degrees, facing the turret instead of the front of the vehicle

[@zeothorn]

There are 2 radars,the rear is 360° detection and the front is tracking 180°

[@audiophobia82]

German Engineering ♡

[@anthonydebski5814]

No, Gepard = German, Cheetah, Dutch version...yup, a VERY capable AA system....always good to see it angry...great accuracy and VERY cost-effective!

[@derkonig162]

cheetah is english too

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

​@@derkonig162the word is English, the machine is the Dutch version Just like the Bear is the English word for a Russian plane

[@icixie]

cost effective? at over $600 a pop off the factory? add to that the cost of transpoting it to the front line. That makes one salvo cost more than a drone from far. Not to mentioned the rusky are often sending fake drones to deplete air defence.

[@jasper7257]

The Dutch version is named PRTL (Pantser Rups Tegen Luchtdoel). Too bad we sold them all back then, hopefully they can still make their way to Ukraine.

[@mfinland2767]

"Flakpanzer! Ready to clear the skies."

[@tumate45]

Who would win A highly sophisticated missile carrier unmaned aircraft, or a spicy german boi with twin cannons? Love it when the simple old "underdog" suddenly destroys the competition.

[@harmless6813]

Well, the Gepard was built to counter Soviet helicopters, but it mainly fights drones now. Modern helicopters have an engagement range far exceeding the Gepards range. Of course, should a target - heli or jet - come close enough, it's still going to go down.

[@tumate45]

@@harmless6813 It's still a good thing they used common sense instead of using multi million dollar missiles to shot down drones. Sure, a Gepard aint the cheapest thing either, but in this roles it pretty much delivers and I guess it could be good for anti infantry role

[@jean-emmanuelrotzetter6030]

Gepard was built as mobile AA gun systems working together with Leopard main battle tanks, use the same heavy vehicle. Other mobile systems were build at that time, using wheeled rather than tracked vehicles, less expensive but hardly bought by armed forces. Preference then was given to "fire-and-forget" systems for fighting aircrafts - missiles that turn out now to be too expensive for destroying small, relatively slow drones. Even the towed AA guns - the same as used by Gepard - could be well used in Ukraine (as for example bought by Canadian Armed Forces for defending their airports in Germany some 40 years ago from their manufacturer in Switzerland). If only the b-o-i in Swiss government and parliament would not continue to block transfer of such weapon systems to Ukraine.

[@marcusfranconium3392]

Correct they where build to escort squadrons of leopard tanks and protect them from air threats . At the time the dutch had 95 of them . Plus 400 leopard 1 and 400 leopard 2 tanks . the dutch version was also a test bed tof the CIWS Goalkeeper . One of the top close in weapon systems.

[@nemiw4429]

There's nobody blocking here in Switzerland p, but the written law. U want us to change our law so ur happy? Switzerland has been neutral during WW1&2, Iraq, Afghanistan and is now. This country is not gona change its law so some clueless 17 year old on ytube is satisfied.

[@matovicmmilan]

Why is it so difficult to accept that Switzerland is a neutral country?

[@marcusfranconium3392]

@@matovicmmilan Switserland is not exactly neutral is it . They act and pretend they are but in reality they are not .

[@matovicmmilan]

@@marcusfranconium3392 It's practically the only remaining country still trusted by more-or-less all nations to act as a host for negotiations between the sides in war with each other or when something of utmost importance to both parties is the subject of discussion i.e. limitations of nuclear arsenal, etc.

[@tentandoumcover]

Brazil uses that Gepard, the problem with it in my opinion is the smoking it produces while shooting

[@SoulCrusherEx]

And yes you can fight ground targets with this bad boy aswell. Great tank

[@donfluso9042]

made in Germany 💪

[@jurgenkuhlmann9194]

I really cannot understand why the German MOD has shut down the Bundeswehr's amoured AA tank capabilities! It might be true that the version of the Gepard we know here is outdated in some ways, but this system never got an update, unlike the Leopard2, which is now available as A7+ or A7V urban warfare versions!

[@0Turbox]

When you compare it with the new Skyranger systems, you will understand. Same fire rate but needs only one barrel. The new system is also far more versatile.

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

The beginning of this video sounded like Hot For Teacher by Van Halen.

[@OldAndGettingOlder]

340 rounds ÷ 20 round burst = 17 firings. Capable weapon, but jeez. How long does it take to reload and get back in the fight?

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

Russia does not send the drones in big swarms so far. We hear reports of 35 being sent in one day, aimed at multiple targets, so its not like they send hundreds at a time

[@BS-my6qx]

20min if propperly trained

[@biggsdarklighter0473]

I believe they need three rounds per drone.

[@Anusfisch]

As i understood, 340 rounds per cannon. And 20 round bursts for both guns. So 34 firings.

[@harmless6813]

@@biggsdarklighter0473 They typically shoot two bursts of 2x3 rounds, aka 12 rounds per target.

[@swedhgemoni8092]

They have passed it several times right in the very initial days of their deployment.

[@aabiodunabidemi]

There was no Gepard in Ukraine during the initial days of the invasion

[@SweatyFeetGirl]

he never said inital days of invasion. @@aabiodunabidemi

[@swedhgemoni8092]

@@SweatyFeetGirl Thanks for pointing that out. That guy either has poor reading comprehension or is deliberately misinterpreting my comment to steer the conversation away into his ball-court.

[@andreasm8391]

not HE ammo, HEI for High Explosive Incendiary. The strawberry red ring stands for I.

[@johnse.t.finger1418]

I love when they say,”it fires 1100 rds a minute!” And then they say, “it holds up to 300 rds.” It’s not just this machine btw. Can we get more ammo?

[@headhunter1945]

It doesn't take many 35mm HE to down a drone, heh. Mainly you want to pop off a very short burst with them, that's all. It's not a machine gun.

[@r.hernandez6152]

Sound would have been the icing on the cake!

[@uschurch]

Swiss designed Oerlikon Machine cannons❤❤

[@harmless6813]

Yes. Unfortunately no Swiss ammo since the Swiss refuse to export it to Ukraine. They claim to be 'neutral'.

[@danbendix1398]

As this AI generated sales brochure doesn't give any stats I have to wonder how effective it has been. i.e. The cannons are good, good rate of fire and 35mm provides a good blast radius. However, does the radar/fire corntrol work against the threats? Small drones I doubt. High speed missiles unlikely.

[@trololoev]

you can find video where lanced strike Gepard. I don't say it bad, but it not "unpenetrable"

[@jeffhedrich3551]

exactly. The Russians already have the counter to this. First is greater numbers or saturation. Second is speed. They are installing micro turbines on the Geran 2.

[@SuperUltimateLP]

​@@jeffhedrich3551they don't have a counter, you can look up how much of the air attacks ukraine is shooting down... Gepard are just to few the be the only counter, Germany is sending a newly upgraded batch soon.

[@Vlerkies]

How much are the monthly repayments? Daily city driving / commuter, asking for a friend.

[@Denisfraison08]

A small EMP explosion,in High altitude,and it is game over.

[@christiankenaz2077]

Todendorf... Putlos... Coole Zeiten damals in ACHIM 2. PzFlak Reg 11

[@thomasnisser843]

Ha... lustig. Ich war 1980/81 im 5 Fla/Rgt 11 bei Spieß HFW Schmechel. Kraftfahrer F5. Also (Bagger) Gepardfahrer.😀