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    You must be insane, @XhaxhiEnver; truly. When comparing the cost of a series production, you use a single year’s dollar equivalent, which accounts for in/deflation, because the uncorrected values will indeed skew the final costs. It is a common, accepted practice to use the value of the dollar (or whatever currency) of the first year of production of an item, for all years that the item was produced. Ergo, if you want to compare the unit cost of the M1 over its production run, you would most likely use the value of the M1 in the first year it was produced. Inflation will make the cost higher because THAT’S WHAT INFLATION DOES! It makes the unit monetary value decrease, meaning you need MORE MONEY to pay for the same item. This is why it is imperative to adjust for inflation of goods. One thing you’re not understanding about that $4.2 billion number is that it is for EVERYTHING related to the M1: setting up a new factory and/or re-tooling of old factories to accommodate for the new vehicle (this cost money... like, a LOT of money); acquisition of ammo, fuel, spare parts, and crew pensions and training for each tank planned (make sure they’re not out of parts/fuel within days introduction), and that’s certainly not cheap for 7000 vehicles; worker, electric, and materials costs (it would be ridiculous to think contractor, sub-contractor, and other utility and manufacturing costs would not be estimated and included in the report). I don’t know where you learned to estimate finances, but you should probably ask for your money back.
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    To be clear, we are comparing the M60A3 TTS to the M1 (LRIP or full production), right? I think it would be a little unfair to compare an M60 (first production model) to any model of the M1; that would be like comparing a T-72 to a T-34-85, respectively Anyway, I would ask for you, @XhaxhiEnver, to clarify (at least, for me) which M60 you’re talking about, since there’s several different versions.
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    Isn’t that the M256E1 120mm L/55 test bed? And since we’re on the topic of automatic loaders, the CATTB is said to have one, and may even have 3 conveyor type loaders if this drawing is correct.
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    I would argue the budget is more subject to cheeseparing than penny pinching (look it up). Lots of money was (and continues to be) put into the engine / transmission, as well as the armor.
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    A lot of the money to the M1 goes towards its engine and armor, and money was saved by not including an autoloader, among some other features.
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    1. That was a joke post. 2. These are your exact words: And those vehicles disproved the statement I bolded. Now, if you had stated “refused to accept a tank, with an autoloader, into service”, well, I would have had less to say, though the M1128 still disproves that.
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    amateurs
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    I need to visit this thread more, if only just to look at the pretty pictures
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    I just rediscovered Prey (2017), made by Arkane studios and published by Bethesda, and I’m pleasantly surprised. It has good graphics and atmosphere, pretty good gameplay and leveling/scaling*, good story, and a pretty decent moral dilemma / thought experiment.$ * taking your time to get everything throughout the levels makes it easier, but your health can still evaporate if you’re not careful. Never felt over powered, just powerful. $ reference the game ‘Soma’ for a similar / the same moral dilemma. It’s not quite cliche, but not overly unique; though, you do have the choice to participate or reject the dilemma, unlike Soma.
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    Thermal sleeve: moderates and disperses heat evenly around the gun barrel to prevent warping. A thermal sleeve usually is in contact (or very close) with the gun barrel, but the shroud of the lynx looks to be a few cm away from the barrel, weird.
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    So for the Leo 2A5 and up, they just weld the old EMES hole closed? I thought I remembered something about “whole new turrets” or a “deep rebuild” of the 2A0-4 turrets to get them to 2A5 level.
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    I hope you do, you take great pics.
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    Seems to be a trend.
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    Was this kill?
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    It would be terribly unfair for the other contestants if Russia used T-34-85s with veteran crews in the biathlon.
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    Would counter rotating propellers provide the same benefits on ships as they do on aircraft?
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    I prefer the real trucknical:
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    Has it been blamed on India, yet?
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    In conjunction, good insulation can mitigate some of the inefficiencies of the electric floor heater (and air conditioning in general). Here in the first level of hell (Florida), buildings can be efficiently cooled by having good insulation and keeping the air inside moving; my father does this in his home and can effectively keep the air conditioning off much of the year, except on the hottest days (>33 C). It only gets cold here for a total of 2 weeks, 3 weeks if the planets align, but never much lower than 0 C, so heating is a secondary issue.
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    Well, I mean, another give away that air is a bad heat conductor is that (static) air layers are generally used as insulation in many buildings, and is one of the reasons double paned glass windows are exponentially better at insulation than single paned or laminated glass or acrylic windows.
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    How big can you make hydrofoils? The largest I’ve found is USS Plainview at 300 tons and 67 meters long. Do the forces involved make larger hydrofoils much more difficult?
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    RIP LEP, again
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