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Originally Posted by FASTBOAT TOUGH
7. INDIA again this time has started to field an upgraded version of the ZSU-23-4 Schilka, hopefully the Russian OOB might provide something I can refer to if not well it won't be the first time we reinvented the wheel...
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It appears to be a locally designed upgrade instead of any of the Russian upgrades. New radar and digital FC.
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The addition of an electro-optical system that can operate in parallel with the radar enables accurate identification, acquisition and tracking of targets while operating in an electronic countermeasure environment.
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That probably means that it has a laser rangefinder and TV camera with a thermal channel for tracking the targets without radar, even if they are not mentioned explicitly. It could also have an IRST system, but that is less certain. In any case, a daylight only optical system would make little sense in 2015.