Jump to content
Please support this forum by joining the SH Patreon ×
Sturgeon's House

N-L-M

Forum Nobility
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    732

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    19

 Content Type 

Everything posted by N-L-M

  1. N-L-M
    A bit of news we all missed Apparently the IDF 188th Brigade is going to start transitioning to Merkava 4s this year. The 188th is the last active brigade (other than the training school) to operate the Merk 3, which means that in a few years they'll only be in reserve service. I wonder what this means for the Merk 3 Trophy retrofit project. There was the one vehicle photographed in 2017, and since then its been awfully quiet. If the Merk 3s are all going into the reserves, it may no longer be worthwhile to pursue, as the systems are most likely better spent on active service vehicles.
  2. N-L-M
    Thats some absolutely atrocious track tension on the second tank.
  3. N-L-M
    Oh lawdy, thats like pre-HE burster effects. Thats fragmentation consistent with 1890s compressed black powder bursters. At a guess I'd say theres either something terribly wrong with the HE chemistry, mix, or with the pressing. The shell imbalance lends credence to the latter 2 options. This is the kind of shit the civilized world worked past in 1915, lel.
  4. N-L-M
    They dont say explicitly, but presumably thats performance on the glacis, at an angle of 68 deg.
  5. N-L-M
    The system is supposed to be a lower cost and higher stowed kill anti-PGM system AFAIK, and theres a need for both of those in any modern military. The system has not quite lived up to expectations and so until it properly matures its not likely to replace existing systems but even in its limited state it fills a useful function.
  6. N-L-M
    The fact that TOR actually works?
  7. N-L-M
    Looks a bit like an evolved version of this.
  8. N-L-M
    Look like PG-7Ts
  9. N-L-M
    https://defense-update.com/20191120_reshef_class.html Apparently the Israeli Navy signed a deal to design and build replacements for the Saar 4.5 class.
  10. N-L-M
    IDF Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin and Israel Tal, head of the Armored Corps, with an early Chieftain.
  11. N-L-M
    I think this is the first non-RUMINT info we've seen on this missile, nice.
  12. N-L-M
    Very sad news, he was a great man.
  13. N-L-M
    That's surprisingly low, considering how the US PrSM is supposed to exceed 500km in a similar package size (2 to a MLRS pod). Perhaps the Euro missile carries a larger warhead.
  14. N-L-M
    That's definitely a Tamir seeker head.
  15. N-L-M
    In this vid you can see the mortar in the background, it looks exactly the same as the one in the Merk 3 Ramlaen posted. I'm gonna want some source on it not being loadable from inside, this is the first time I've heard that particular claim.
  16. N-L-M
    Ok, what prevents you from muzzle loading the one on the other merks? Unless you mean muzzle loading only, in which case, no, the Merk 2 mortar can also be loaded from inside the tank, it has all the necessary mechanisms.
  17. N-L-M
    Thats the tech demonstrator for friction stir welding, IIRC.
  18. N-L-M
    Oh? In what way do they differ from each other?
  19. N-L-M
    Merkava 1 has an external mortar. I believe that particular mortar fitted in the Namer turret is the same one as is in use in the Merk 4, which is slightly different from the one used in the Merk 2 and 3, pictured separately in LoooSeR's post.
  20. N-L-M
    Thanks for posting, I would appreciate it if you could kindly edit out the various video game references. Regarding the above, the numbers for the M60 and vanilla M1 are both high, as is the number for the T-62. The rest of the Soviet numbers appear to be similarly made up, so expecting the late model (at the time) Abrams numbers to be anywhere near accurate is... hopelessly optimistic.
  21. N-L-M
    Towed artillery would get counterbatteried 10 ways to hell so fast it'd make your head spin. Fire systems incapable of dodging or surviving counterbattery fire will have fuckall survivability in a big boy war. Doubly so for towed guns with substantially less range than enemy artillery, such as say the M777 compared to pretty much anything modern on the opposite side. Fire-finding radars are everywhere since the 1990s, and the gun's survivability has to be evaluated under the understanding that the enemy is going to shoot back. Given that, the ability to shoot and scoot before enemy fire arrives is a critical survivability measure.
  22. N-L-M
    I suspect that that is entirely not the goal, for a few reasons: 1. The main difficulty in firing on the move is stabilization of the gun. Howitzers, for reasons of easy loading, have the gun out of balance with the trunnions very far aft to minimize the breech drop inside; however the recoil impulse with a good muzzle brake is not significantly in excess of that of a NATO 120mm or Russian 125mm, which have been mounted on vehicles as light as the Sprut with no brake. Reducing recoil impulse does not help all that much with needing to keep the breech high off the floor for loading and therefore needing to keep it out of balance in the cradle. 2. The US Army for some reason still has a lot of towed howitzers in service, which I'm sure you'd agree need to be replaced with some kind of SP system cause as they are theyd get creamed in any real kind of war. Unfortunately the budget is not infinite (SAD!), and therefore replacing them all with M1299s is less than doable in any reasonable time scale. And replacing them is a much more pressing concern than firing on the move from a tracked platform. The rest of the world has either gone or is going the route of wheelyboys for various reasons, which bring with them their own host of issues, which ideally need to be worked out separately before you start full scale design and development. This is in my opinion what Brutus actually is. Brutus being FMTV based may be down to the fact that its a platform the Army has available for this kind of testing, and not due to it being intended to see service in this config. The total lack of any serious systems integration work shown so far makes me less than convinced that this platform is intended to eventually actually see service.
  23. N-L-M
    Sure they can, see FMTV. Presumably in a fragproof box on said "real vehicle". Because again, the Brutus itself appears to be an expedient for tech testing, not a system for fielding in and of itself.
  24. N-L-M
    Yes, and I believe you are in fact missing his point entirely- which is, as far as I can tell, that Brutus is a demonstrator for the weapon system, not a proposed system for fielding. Once the weapon system is developed, theres nothing preventing you from say plonking it on an armored FMTV chassis, or doing the same thing to the new 58 caliber barrel and gluing it on top of a LVSR. Yes Brutus isnt a fieldable weapons system thanks to not being frag proof, but thats not its point.
  25. N-L-M
    That last intercept is a long rod. Last time IMI (as it was at the time) included that capability in a promo vid for Iron Fist was quite a long time ago, cca 2009 IIRC. Pivot to high intensity conflict, anyone? (It is of course also possible that they only got the thing to actually work reliably in that mode recently, which would explain the absence between the OG dev pitch and the current sales pitch). I also note that the radar showcased there is quite different from the one theyve been using up to now- I wonder what's behind that change.
×
×
  • Create New...