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  1.    holoween reacted to a post in a topic: Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) and Euro Main Battle Tank (EMBT)
  2. holoween
    They are replacing tornados and not even all of them the EW is goin to be provided by further development for the eurofighter. If anything having experience with the F35 gives a better baseline to see what the FCAS has to be capable of.
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    https://augengeradeaus.net/2021/05/chancen-der-marine-auf-p-8-poseidon-als-neuer-seefernaufklaerer-steigen/ Das französische Angebot sieht keine Leihgabe vor, sondern schlägt den Kauf, alternativ auch ein Leasing, von vier auf den Standard 6 umgerüsteten DASSAULT Aviation ATLANTIQUE 2 (ATL2) vor, die durch Frankreich ursprünglich nicht mehr zur Umrüstung vorgesehen waren. Die Flugzeuge wurden ab dem Jahr 1984 produziert und ab dem Jahr 1989 an die Französische Marine ausgeliefert. Der Zustand der Deutschland angebotenen Zellen der ATL2 ist seitens Frankreich nicht näher spezifiziert worden. Die Anzahl und der erwartete Klarstand der angebotenen Luftfahrzeuge werden die Anforderungen potenzieller zukünftiger Einsatzverpflichtungen sowie die Bedarfe zur Regeneration von Besatzungen und zur Durchführung von Übungs- und Aufklärungsflügen absehbar nicht abdecken können. So the french offer was to sell or lease modernized ATL2 that france didnt initially want to modernize so not exatly a good stopgap if it isnt available quickly and is as old or older than the airframes its supposed to replace. Even moreso given that the P3 wasnt modernized because it wouldnt be cost effective.
  4.    holoween reacted to a post in a topic: Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) and Euro Main Battle Tank (EMBT)
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    Most seems to be ukrainian civilians videos sowing russian troop movements, some nato intel and some official ukrainian statements. So where the fighting is can be plotted reasonably accurate. The big black box is how many troops the ukrainians are actually loosing themselves.
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    That progression only holds up with loads of specifications. If you allow heavy tanks in it they completely dominate it. KW1, Tiger, IS2 have not much worse hp/ton than contemporary mediums but completely outclass them in armour and firepower. And even if we look at the mediums their loosing runs are consistently when outnumbered operationally, under enemy air superiority and with generally worse trained crews and units. Well similar to aircraft having a better engine makes a better tank For the time they were designed they had good guns. But they got introdiced at the start of an arms race that send medium tanks from around 15 tons to 45 tons in 10 years. The only tank reaching your 20tons, 300hp, med velocity 75 is the pz4f2 and it was at that point at its practical weight limit (though circumstance forced it to keep growing) Only with hindsight on where the development would go could you do much better. There are some details that could be improved but the vast majority of design decisions that we would maake different today were made different as a result of a different technological level Well that commander is right though. The sherman is better suited for bocage country and the panther isnt exactly reliable.
  7.    holoween reacted to a post in a topic: The Leopard 2 Thread
  8. holoween
    The RPG catchers are cage armour that can be attached to the sides not the extra armour plate on the side.
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    Do you have any sources you can share? The reliability of the computers was the single biggest issue that keeps coming up but supposedly its gotten far better with the vjtf23 version though i didnt get to talk with any end user of that version yet. Spare parts are afaik just the german army not buying them in sufficient quantities and is the same for our leo2s for example The accuracy ive only ever hard during its prototype phase being an issue. Any actual end user ive talked to had nothing but praise for it as long as the computers keep working. And ive never heard of stalling issues. Even in Tank driver school where id expect this to come up even more from the drivers to the instructers ive never heard that mentioned even once.
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    Im currently a tanker in the german army. Broadly speaking the tactics are similar. A tank attack looks basicaly the same in 1944 as it does in 2020 just slower and less deadly. A simple defense would also look similar but be fought with more mobility with frequent position changes. The biggest change is that today a tank has a more narrow focus. Anti infantry work is left to pzgrenns and their ifvs if possible and anti tank/ifv work is the main job of the tank. We carry a mojority of apfsds and some heat and no proper he round even though it exists already.
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    " During rapid rate of fire it is not uncommon to be forced to break off firing when the recoil of the gun has reached its permissible limit (cease fire). ­ A rate of fire of 20 rounds per minute is only permitted in exceptional cases when circumstances so dictate." I dont know how you can read this as being only a theoretical limitation to the rate of fire because you cant acheive it anyways. The way that is written sais to me they can achieve this rof at least for short periods of time but shouldnt unless there are exceptional circumstances. If you keep in mind how variable loading time for a round can be (1 round lap loaded and anotehr few already unfastened in their racks for quick access or even simply laid into the turret unfixed while in a defensive position) i dont see the possibility of the panther reaching 20rpm for 3-5 rounds as impossible.
  12. holoween
    I was just about to correct my post i meant the vertical ammo in the hull which is far easier to access. Also limitations that never matter are not put into such reports.
  13. holoween
    First i agree that 20rpm isnt really a practical rate of fire especially for longer durations. It is however a reasonable indicator that the loaders position isnt as bad as represented by the chieftain who btw also uses the hull storage for some reason to demonstrate how bad it is rather than the "ready" ammo in the turret. I didnt quote the entire passage because the question was if the panther or sherman in this instance had rate of fire limitations based on how quickly the gun can be loaded so in effect is the loaders position well enough desigened with the assertion being panther would be bad. The french having to write this limitation down does tell that it was at least possible for some period of time to achieve this rate of fire (if you dont have to switch targets see the soviet report). Also nice going immediately resorting to calling me a wehraboo for drawing a comparison based on the documents were given because it doesnt support the panther being terrible.
  14. holoween
    15rpm isnt exactly great in comparison when the french report has this to say about panther rof A rate of fire of 20 rounds per minute is only permitted in exceptional cases when circumstances so dictate.
  15. holoween
    Yea they should really let their inf and ifvs carry 120mm smoothbore guns around.
  16. holoween
    does that mean the airgap for the main charge is the distance from the first plate triggering the spaced rule to the first plate the main charge encounters?
  17.    holoween reacted to a post in a topic: Competition: Californium 2250
  18. holoween
    Thanks for the clarifying.
  19. holoween
    Yea youre right. though with this change ill redesign the nera elements anyways since its no longer necessary to have 2 different ones for the precursor and main charge.
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