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5 hours ago, Beer said:
Don't know where to put it but it's ridiculous, so let's place it here.
840 kg of cocaine approximately for 100 million Euro arrived in two Czech supermarkets in boxes with bananas from Colombia. Someone fucked up and they actually ended up being distributed to supermarkets
What’s the brand, so I can go to my local super markets and inspect some boxes myself -
10 hours ago, LoooSeR said:
It is obviously not ERA, as it doesn't have explosives. This is clearly a NERA.
“Organic, whole-grain armor material: more environmentally sustainable than average armor” -
What does the 31/41/51 mean when talking about “KF”? Is it like the DM series where the numbers designate the type and generation, or is it just randomly assigned?
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6 hours ago, watch_your_fire said:
Slight asymmetry is to be expected on 3 man turrets. The Abrams takes that to the extreme with the right cheek being an entirely different thickness and angle compared to the left cheek. But you'll find it on basically anything with a conventional loader
Those both look like left “cheeks”, judging by the position of the smoke grenades on them, and the merk 4’s turret is pretty symmetrical on the outside, from the pictures I’m looking at. I think weidz was referring to the bolts, or how there is a cutout between the bolts on the closer module, while the further module is smooth between the bolts. -
3 hours ago, watch_your_fire said:
Hmmm, the structures on the inside of the wedge are interesting: the bracing would suggest a physically heavy plate, or a lot of force is/can be applied to that area.
Also, I’m curious what could be on that Merkava’s fender that would warrant a censoring.
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6 hours ago, SH_MM said:
Rheinmetall's new MBT is called "Panther". Spicy name.
I swear I can hear a faint chanting in the background, voiced by millions of wehraboos, purporting victory. -
5 hours ago, LoooSeR said:
Second best tank on the planet after Oplot BM.
Speaking of, where are these sUpaH ToNKs? If there are as great as advertised, the Ukrainians would be sending them out on heroic missions, no? -
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32 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:
Belarus JDB made AK-74M into a *dramatic pause* bullpup *thunder strikes in the background*
Note jihaded grip-less GP-25 on that abomination. Charging handles looks like is now on top, under rail-handle. Front iron sight post was chopped away. And that small slip over safety/selector is not closed by some sort of plastic.
Thought it was type 95 rifle at first, so when is this thing coming to call of duty? -
1 hour ago, Ramlaen said:
If Russia was just fighting what Ukraine had (or was just fighting Ukraine for that matter) the war would have been over in the now infamous 72 hour claims.
I wouldn’t think it would have been over in 72 hours, even without donations to Ukraine. The mad max “drive fast” strategy the Russian army was using was bound to stall out quickly, taking into account how little they protected their logistics at that point in the war. It would be much more favorable on the Russians side if there was no external assistance, but I don’t think that Ukraine would have been steam rolled as implied without the military aid. I’m just an idiot on the internet though, but willing to be proven wrong on the appropriate thread. -
It looks like they’re panic buying stuff, but I don’t see a point: on even a second thought, the Russian army is having a hard time pushing through what little the Ukraine had. Ukraine industry was in very poor shape before this invasion, and the quality of the few military vehicles and arms she did produce was questionable, and Poland is in a much better place than Ukraine. After the poor showing of the Russian army, they are probably not going to attempt any invasion against mildly competent forces in a while, which would give Poland enough time to develop her arms industry and get some of those projects into production.
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Did they capture the crews of those tanks?
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8 hours ago, Collimatrix said:
What about this breach is more sophisticated compared to the L/44 or L/55’s breach? Wouldn’t the recoil system be the peice that reduces the peak stress on the vehicle mounting the weapon, and wouldn’t the propellant design and chemistry determine its peak pressure within the tube? -
I have a question: since there are most definitely some very intelligent and respected radar experts all over the world, why is the US the only Air Force with not 1, but 2 “stealth” aircraft? The only answer I can reasonably come up with is we just have the economy to brute force it without having to worry about taxing the citizens into oblivion, but even still it’s been a while, and no one else have been successful?
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I got a new book recently: Russian and Soviet battleships
Very informative, and well laid out. The chapter about the “1915 battleship projects” are the most wild so far, imagine a gangut with quad 16 inch turrets and 27 knot speed, and only 12 inch armor belt.
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18 hours ago, StarshipDirect said:
The M1 is a mechanical piece of sh*t and is expensive to operate. Big mistake for Poland to buy it. They’re gonna be operating a tank with a 50 year old engine. The K2 would best meet Polands requirements.
M1 availability rates are pretty comparable to other nations tanks, but I agree she is expensive and fuel hungry.
Does anyone know if the AGT in the Abrams has had any mid life improvements? Would make sense, M1 is getting close to 40 years old by now, there has to have been some kind of technology improvements since the late 80s.
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I would think with the price of gasoline going up, people wouldn’t be very enthused with the gas hungry Abrams.
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29 minutes ago, TINDALOS said:
That helmet looks like a mock up of Isareli "Iron Vision" helmet
All of their new equipment are mock-ups, the only modern threat they have are their nukes. -
3 hours ago, Beer said:
Czech MOD is preparing to replace the Vz. 95 camo with a new one called MAD21. The new one shall replace both the forest and the desert variant of the old one with just one universal one. At this moment the testing is still ongoing and no final decision was taken.
From left to right: Vz. 95 forest, MAD21, Vz. 95 desert
Not the best photos but they give at least some general idea...
https://www.czdefence.cz/clanek/mad21-novy-maskovaci-vzor-pro-acr
All I see is a picture of a forest and a brick wallI guess they’re planning on staying in relatively green deserts, because when I was in the dry parts of Utah this past month, any green plants would stand out from the sand and rock.
Tanks guns and ammunition.
in Ballistics Science Discussion
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Perhaps there was a typo in one of these tweets or news letters?