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  1. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to Sturgeon in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    Some genuine fucking advice, mate. The Americans lied all the time. The Soviets lied all the time. This does not mean that the reality is "actually our side is the liar culture and their side was the truth culture". Everyone fucking lied. Every society in the 20th Century (and many other centuries, but especially that one and this one), had a penchant for lies.

    Just because the Americans lied about My Lai does not mean the Nazis didn't lie about kill counts. Or Auschwitz, and be careful how close one takes you to the other.

    The key to becoming a good historian, speaking as someone who frankly is a pretty decent one, is to recognize lies. And you're not looking at truth, with this Korner dude.
  2. Tank You
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to Jeeps_Guns_Tanks in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    Trusting Nazis is no way to get to the truth, numbnuts. 
  3. Tank You
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to Sturgeon in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    You really gotta wonder what sort of perversions lurk in the mind of someone who sees a bunch of lying Waffen SS fudging kill counts and thinks they're heroic.
  4. Funny
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to Sturgeon in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    Karl Korner using the cosmic power of the universe to claim all 200+ kills on the front for the day, 19 April, 1945 (colourised):
     

  5. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to TokyoMorose in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    Because, as I stated in my sarcastic suuuure line, the final drive is a very small target (and it's only exposed from some angles!). You'll note other armies have a conspicuous lack of 'oops all our final drives were hit by arty what a shame'. So either the man is bullshitting as to why the final drives broke, or the allies are actually putting their very best marksmen on artillery teams - with strict orders to aim only for final drives.
     
    It's rather comparable to exclaiming that the enemy was scoring nothing but headshots on your infantry.
     
     
    You'd think the Germans would realize that it's a wee bit unlikely that Karl and Ko destroyed *more tanks than they carried ammo combined*. Seriously, each JT carries 40 rounds at 100% stowage. Where did the ~30 extra kills come from, repeatedly limping into them with the JT's famous agility?
     
     
    Thankfully, we have the soviet combat logs - Körner was ran over in a few hours, and they don't even bother to record meeting the vehicles in their logs. They spend more time whining about Panzerfausts.
     
    https://www.tankarchives.ca/2014/05/cheating-at-statistics-7-korner-conjurer.html
  6. Funny
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to Jeeps_Guns_Tanks in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    Since he really admires Nazi technology so much, maybe he boned up on the only thing they were both technologically cutting edge on, and good at implementing. Mass Murder and the tools used to do it. It's easier to understand than a torque converter too! 
  7. Tank You
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from Jeeps_Guns_Tanks in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/bazooka-charlies-grasshopper-180974445/
     
    Bazooka Charlie and his Piper Cub went tank busting in that battle that Delete here claims never happened.
     

     
    The restoration was finished last year.
  8. Tank You
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from Lord_James in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    Mine is when the Germans lost tanks to a Piper Cub.
  9. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from Lord_James in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/bazooka-charlies-grasshopper-180974445/
     
    Bazooka Charlie and his Piper Cub went tank busting in that battle that Delete here claims never happened.
     

     
    The restoration was finished last year.
  10. Tank You
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from Sturgeon in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/bazooka-charlies-grasshopper-180974445/
     
    Bazooka Charlie and his Piper Cub went tank busting in that battle that Delete here claims never happened.
     

     
    The restoration was finished last year.
  11. Funny
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from Sturgeon in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    Mine is when the Germans lost tanks to a Piper Cub.
  12. Tank You
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from Beer in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/bazooka-charlies-grasshopper-180974445/
     
    Bazooka Charlie and his Piper Cub went tank busting in that battle that Delete here claims never happened.
     

     
    The restoration was finished last year.
  13. Funny
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from Toxn in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    Mine is when the Germans lost tanks to a Piper Cub.
  14. Funny
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to Sturgeon in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    Sure that's not just more "allied propaganda?" After all, how can we be sure the Battle of Arracourt occurred?
  15. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to Sturgeon in The Kerbal Space Program Total Sperg Zone   
    A hint of what's to come:
     

  16. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to Sturgeon in The Kerbal Space Program Total Sperg Zone   
    Doing a project related to Eyes Turned Skyward. It basically takes the status quo of ETS in the mid-2000s (equivalent to when Constellation was being developed IOTL) and envisions a series of launchers leveraging the industrial base that would have existed at the time. The goals of the launchers were to be scalable with the ability to put serious payloads into TLI to support continued Moon base operations into the 2010s and 2020s. So basically, an SLS-type project in the ETS universe, but scalable and with different LEGO pieces. My rules were that I could only use derivatives of the components outlined in the AH Wiki article on ETS spacecraft and launch vehicles. That meant engines, tank diameters, etc. The result is the Helios rocket family.
     
    Helios 601
     

     
    Height: 86.9 meters
    Launch mass: 1,385.3 t
    S-IVD Upper Stage (6.6m, 2x J-2D)
    Helios I First Stage (2x F-1B)
    58.3 t to 390 x 390 km
     
     
    Helios 621
     

     
    Height: 86.9 meters
    Launch mass: 2,110.1 t
    S-IVD Upper Stage (6.6m, 2x J-2D)
    Helios I First Stage (2x F-1B)
    2x SRMU
    76.2 t to 390 x 390 km
     
     
    Helios 6X1L
     

     
    Height: 96.8 meters
    Launch mass: 2,055.1 t
    S-IVD Upper Stage (6.6m, 2x J-2D)
    Helios II First Stage (2x F-1B)
    10x Castor 60
    77.5 t to 390 x 390 km
     
     
    Helios 621L
     

     
    Height: 96.8 meters
    Launch mass: 2,423.7 t
    S-IVD Upper Stage (6.6m, 2x J-2D)
    Helios II First Stage (2x F-1B)
    2x SRMU
    86.4 t to 390 x 390 km
     
     
    Helios 661
     

     
    Height: 86.9 meters
    Launch mass: 3,547.7 t
    S-IVD Upper Stage (6.6m, 2x J-2D)
    Helios I First Stage (2x F-1B)
    6x SRMU
    102.9 t to 390 x 390 km
     
     
    Helios 661L
     

     
    Height: 96.8 meters
    Launch mass: 3,867.6 t
    S-IVD Upper Stage (6.6m, 2x J-2D)
    Helios II First Stage (2x F-1B)
    6x SRMU
    115.7 t to 390 x 390 km
     
     
    Helios 863L
     

     
    Height: 96.6 meters
    Launch mass: 3,919.9 t
    Helios Advanced Upper Stage II (8.4m, 4x J-2D)
    Helios II First Stage (2x F-1B)
    6x SRMU
    131.2 t to 390 x 390 km
     
    Helios 862L
     

     
    Height: 102.9 meters
    Launch mass: 4,041.9 t
    Helios Advanced Upper Stage (8.75m, 4x J-2D)
    Helios II First Stage (2x F-1B)
    6x SRMU
    155.7 t to 390x390km
     
     
    Helios 1062
     

     
    Height: 92.4 meters
    Launch mass: 3,769.8 t
    Helios Advanced Upper Stage (10m, 4x J-2D)
    Helios I First Stage (2x F-1B)
    6x SRMU
    144.9 t to 390 x 390 km
     
     
    Helios 1062L
     

     
    Height: 102.3 meters
    Launch mass: 4,093.1 t
    Helios Advanced Upper Stage (10m, 4x J-2D)
    Helios II First Stage (2x F-1B)
    6x SRMU
    161.6 t to 390 x 390 km
     
     
    The Helios rocket family uses six basic subassemblies to loft payloads from 50 - 160 tonnes to a station-height parking orbit:
     - The 6.625 meter wide Helios I first stage, twice the length of a Saturn Multibody Common Core, with 2x improved F-1B engines
     - The lightweight S-IVD upper stage with 2x improved J-2D engines
     - The lengthened Helios II first stage based on the same construction of the Helios I, with 2x improved F-1B engines
     - The 10 meter wide Helios Advanced Upper Stage (HAUS) with 4x J-2D engines
     - 8.4 meter wide Helios Advanced Upper Stage II (HAUS II) with 4x J-2D engines
     - Titan-derived SRMU advanced strap-on solid rocket boosters
     
    Some additional commentary:
     
    The designation system follows the fairing-booster-upper stage model of the Atlas series. So the 621, for example, uses a 6(point 625) meter fairing, two SRMUs, and an S-IVD upper stage. There was not enough of a gap in performance between the 621 and 661 to justify any variants with four strap on boosters. The "X" in the 6X1L refers to the 10 (Roman numeral X) Castor 60 SRMs. The three upper stages have the following codes: S-IVD (1), HAUS (2), and HAUS II (3).
     
    The core tanks are based aesthetically on the Atlas V. Like that rocket, they are bare aluminum with an anti-corrosion conversion finish, which appears bronze. I chose this look because it's both a good design and aesthetically striking. I wanted the rockets to be ultimately Saturn-derived, but not look like they came out of the Apollo program. The S-IVD upper stage tank is an improved and lightened S-IVC with revised avionics. It uses unpainted orange spray-on foam insulation (SOFI) like the Space Shuttle external tank. The S-IVB upper stage from which the S-IVD would ultimately be derived is a very lightweight common bulkhead design, so it's not visually correct for these models to have the SLS-like intertank section (the lighter ridged bit in the middle), but I wanted to represent the visually distinctive S-IVB forward skirt, and that's as close as SSTU's models would let me get. I may change the models later. Both varieties of the HAUS upper stage (a clean-sheet design) are balloon-tank designs, so they get no prominent interstage feature. It should be noted that the engines have no direct analogues IOTL, although the F-1B is similar to the real F-1B in that it's production optimized and uprated. It is represented by SSTU's (IRL) F-1B. The J-2D is represented by SSTU's J-2X but is unrelated except for shared heritage (it, like SSTU's J-2X ironically, is higher performance than the historical J-2X would have been). It is a reduced cost J-2 with improved thrust and specific impulse. Both are pretty unsurprising improvements over their predecessors.
     
    Only seven of the nine rockets are "canon" right now. Both the 6X1L and 863L are ones I'm not sure about. The 6X1L was designed to fill a perceived gap between the 601 and 621 (because the 601L configuration literally can't get off the pad when fully loaded), but not only did it end up lifting almost exactly the same as the 621, that gap didn't really end up being significant enough to fill. Therefore, while the 6X1L is interesting, it is unlikely to make it into the canon (such as there is). The 863L is a configuration I'm very happy with, but canonically it's in a bit of a weird spot. The upper stage tank is 8.4 meters in diameter, which is a diameter that exists in our timeline, but so far as I know not in ETS (it is the same diameter as a Shuttle external tank, and the Shuttle never happened). However, it is a balloon tank and I suppose they can make those in whatever size they want? I actually don't know much about balloon tank construction processes, but it doesn't seem like they would be as reliant on existing machinery sizes as rigid tanks. If anyone knows, please chime in. Anyway, I personally think the 863L is a more practical rocket in many ways than the 1062 or 1062L (that much disparity between the upper stage diameter seems like it could be problematic and reminds me a little too much of Delta III), but I'm not as sure the tank diameter fits in the timeline. Also, super-heavy payloads or injections of significant mass to other planets could require the 1062 series. I don't really think I want to keep both the 10- and 8-series, but I'm undecided on which to keep. EDIT: I've decided to ditch both members of the 1000 series and the 6X1L, and to change the 863L's upper stage to 8.75 meters and lengthen it slightly. Since the original HAUS upper stage is no more, the HAUS II is now renamed "HAUS" and uses the designation code "2", meaning the 863L has now become the 862L. Confusing! But it's all done with the idea that none of this is visible on the back end.
     
    All of the Helios series are fully expendable. These rockets are intended to fly in the 2010s and 2020s, and even with some private ETS companies developing reusability during that time, I do not think NASA-requested rockets would be reusable by that point (although, ironically, ETS canon contradicts me). Another issue is the location of the long and short first stage tanks in the timeline. Are the L-variants concurrent with the rest, or did the L-variants come about later, as an even further improvement? Should the regular variants exist at all (well the 601 clearly should)? Fairings are another matter. Right now each upper stage has its own unique fairing. These stages are big enough that this may be all that is ever needed, especially since these rockets are designed primarily to send cargo to the Moon. I may add greater variety in the fairings as payloads become more clear, which would result in other designations, like for example an 821 or a 1063.
     
    To cap everything off, here's a family photo:


     
    Updated family photo:


     
    601, 621, 621L, 661, 661L, and 862L
     
  17. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to Ulric in The Kerbal Space Program Total Sperg Zone   
    It flies again!
     
    This time it has a modular engine bay. The power plants can be pulled and replaced without upsetting the wing spars. This is the nuclear powered variant.
     




     
  18. Funny
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to Collimatrix in General Photo Thread   
    Do they have to fly a fighter jet down the trench to hit the reactor?
  19. Tank You
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from Sturgeon in The Kerbal Space Program Total Sperg Zone   
    Next up in my quest to recreate cancelled Apollo Missions!  This is a recent set of screenshots from my Apollo LMSS Mission. Using some Agena parts, plus a telescope piece from Coatl Aerospace, I knocked together a KH-8-a-like photo reconnaissance pod and photolab for a 30 day polar orbit.
     

  20. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from CobaltWolf in The Kerbal Space Program Total Sperg Zone   
    I've got it downloaded and that I've been fast at work on new rocket designs. Personally, I'm beyond hyped for the new Titan II. I'm a huge Gemini Program fan. The current version of BDB is absolutely fantastic. I haven't toyed around with the new launch vehicles quite yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
  21. Tank You
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from Sturgeon in The Kerbal Space Program Total Sperg Zone   
    Yep.
     

     
    I decided to return to BDB to make something a little different than usual. This is my 1959 Man-in-Space-Soonest take. It's the stock Mk 1 capsule with some BDB Mercury bits on it, sat atop a Thor. It can lift that little capsule into a sub orbital arc, and really that's about it. I did a separate orbital version:
     

     
    This was tricky to figure out, the Thor, without any sort of scaling mods, was just outside of the ability to put a capsule in orbit. So I figured out this little work around. As you can see, I opted for the lighter Blue Dog Mercury Capsule, which I also stripped down. it doesn't have any sort of maneuvering thrusters, it just has a parachute and a razor thin heatshield. To get the extra DeltaV I stuck the entire Thor on top of a Flea SRB. It can *barely* get into orbit. It can't carry any sort of additional Payload or experiment package. But if you want an orbital rocket in short order, this does the trick.
  22. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from Sturgeon in The Kerbal Space Program Total Sperg Zone   
    Probably my best KSP screenshot so far, or at least, my favorite. I dorked out and decided to write a little blurb to go along with it. Please do not take it seriously.

     
    "MoonLab represents our first base outside of the Earth's Orbit, and in that regard it's certainly a remarkable achievement. You'll hear the Skylab guys talk up the fact that they have the nicer facilities where they can get the real science done, but don't pay any attention to them. They've had it easy. When we went to MoonLab, me and the guys spent the first two weeks living out of the Command Module. You see, while Skylab was launched more or less finished, MoonLab is a Wet Workshop. The Labs, Wardroom, Control Center, all of that had to be unpacked or outright built in those empty LOX and LH2 tanks. When you take that into account, you can see where Skylab has the "nicer" facilities. By comparison, yeah, we had to 'rough it', I guess. At least in the early days. That didn't mean that MoonLab was some sort of waste. We successfully proved people could live and work for months at a time away from even Earth orbit, even build a station, if they had to. We've taken up the ALSEP Mission, and performed detailed orbital observations of the Moon. We're just itching to get someone like Schmitt up there. Ultimately, you have to understand, there was just this kind of rivalry between the Skylab and MoonLab crews. They'll never say it, but they're just jealous our guys were the first back to the Moon. NASA tried to smooth it over by giving them the nicer station, but I guess it didn't work." - MoonLab 2 Mission Commander CDR Ryan Hale (USN), June 1976
  23. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea reacted to LoooSeR in General Photo Thread   
    Golden Gate Bridge during construction

     
    Hoover Dam construction workers
     
  24. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from LoooSeR in WoT v WT effort-thread   
    I finally unlocked top tier Soviet tanks. The T-72A is an absolute blast. I am happy it will bring me to the hallowed T-80U (albeit by the way of some Kharkovite tanks, and the T-80B)
  25. Metal
    RobotMinisterofTrueKorea got a reaction from LoooSeR in WoT v WT effort-thread   
    It's finally here, Comrades.
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