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N-L-M

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  1. Dear users Please report negative SNR posters, especially in the current year when chat bots can easily exceed the IQ of certain types of netizen. This helps us remove them ASAP. Thanks, The Management.
  2. More an idea than a package. The "proposal" so far is a word salad combined with 5 hours worth of beginner CAD work on a partial 3d scan of a Leo 1, hardly serious.
  3. A very real question is whether or not we can come up with a competition which answers all the following criteria: A. Not a rehash - we've pretty solidly covered the first generation of MBTs with the Cascadian competition, and the second generation with the DPRC one. The Texan comp also fits in there to a large extent. "Modern Light Tank" was also pretty comprehensively covered, as was "heavy armored car". B. Of sufficient interest to entice at least 3-4 full entries C. Of sufficient technical complexity to be capable of differentiating entries, but not of such extreme technical complexity to make it unapproachable or unjudgeable. Not saying there won't be more comps, it's been a while since the last one and so people's minds are likely a hive of activity on various topics, but the "winning recipe" for a new comp is currently unclear (to me, at least).
  4. There were never a lot of the 2Ds, so unless whoever is buying them is also paying for a substantial upgrade and refresh, the majority will inevitably be outdated. Though in the current year, with Leo 1s being a hot commodity and even ancient T-55s seeing combat, there are more objectionable secondhand tanks than Merk 2s. And as always with secondhand toys, the *price* will be a driving consideration. Merk 3s are a very good tank compared to the secondhand market, and are likely very attractive.
  5. The Centauro and Type 16 MCV are lower profile wheeled gun carriers. Even then there are practical limits, but both look substantially less godawful than this.
  6. Look at that barrel wobble, that's a mockup.
  7. Basic training for rear area duties shouldn't be more than a month. For infantry duties tack on another two at a minimum.
  8. The Eitan was already said to weigh in at around 35-40 tons, and a big boy turret likely weighs in at 7 to 10 tons at a minimum. Given practical limitations on weight for an 8x8 being around 40 tons, makes me wonder what must have been removed to allow this thing to go forwards. And in any case the CG must be extremely high, and the risk of rollover commensurately so. Another great example as to why friends don't let friends make tanks on APC hulls.
  9. The VPN TEST person makes 3d models of militaria. None of them are guaranteed to be accurate to any extent. I'd also note that such a proposed dual-elevation-axis approach will inevitably be borderline impossible to stabilize on at least one of the elevation axes if not both.
  10. This is still in the "unsubstantiated rumors" stage, so don't get y'all hopes up too soon.
  11. https://m.facebook.com/MaxDefense/posts/pfbid026kj1cUP9LGuvGSMy9rifLU8WiXLoT1aAGYDmL4q5b1dV918cUmH3yfNJ6rFjTPuQl First real verified export of the Merkava platform, bridgelayers for the Philippines.
  12. Israel uses the metric system, so use of short tons would be very odd. Perhaps the 80 is obfuscation, rounding up, or the weight with certain add-ons like mine rollers.
  13. I find this another classic example of someone trying real hard to come up with a name and not thinking for two seconds about how Americans are likely to pronounce it.
  14. Funny way to say Centurion, but perhaps one which is more correct than it deserves to be.
  15. I was talking USD, should have perhaps made that clearer.
  16. Based on those numbers, the per unit cost of the vehicle is around $10 mil per. That presumably includes ILS and training, but it's still quite high for a troop carrier.
  17. Also, given that there's a war going on, long term concerns about spares availability is at best a second order concern, and at worst of only academic interest.
  18. Good point, M900 is likely off the table, but the rest should be fine. Maybe even M833 if it's still stored in some war emergency arsenal somewhere. Otherwise gonna have to buy APFSDS off someone else and only take HE types from the US stocks.
  19. While I'm sure all of this is great fun I'm gonna put on my "responsible adult" hat and ask y'all to please calm down a little and play nice. -please refrain from petty insults which are not workplace-suitable -please refrain from challenging the all-powerful dictator and/or mod team to a pissing match. -If you are offended, don't let the internet sharks smell blood. Thank you.
  20. War stocks of 105mm ammo are all over the world. The US also keeps substantial stocks in war reserve, as the Stryker MGS still uses the 105. The US has also very recently proven willing to supply advanced weaponry to Ukraine, so perhaps even warshot M900 isn't out of the question.
  21. The Trophy brochure available online mentions "significant" elevation angles. How close to vertical "significant" means is anybody's guess. There's nothing kinematically preventing missiles like Javelin from diving vertically (other than perhaps a reduction in range), and it may even be a software-defined parameter, so it's not exactly a question answerable by open sources.
  22. I've got to agree with Ram on the subject of the Strykers. The DVH A1 is basically an all new vehicle, but that's the Army realizing that the requirements they set and therefore the vehicle they got isn't what they actually needed, not the vehicle as delivered being a shitshow and not working.
  23. Gonna have to ask everyone here to cool their jets, and to not multi-post quite so hard. @TINDALOS in particular, please put as many responses in a single post as you can and spoiler them, you're half the posts in the last page.
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