StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)

[Walter_Sobchak]

I just really doubt that anything that would fit and properly function in a tank could get up to 1500 HP using 1940's technology.  The 1500 HP mark was not hit until the German MB-873 engine that was used in the KampPanzer 70 and Leopard II.  In it's original form, it had a displacement of  2429 cu in (39.8 L) while later it would be increased to 2907 cubic inches or 47.6 L. 

[Walter_Sobchak]

[EnsignExpendable]

I found a Russian->German insult handbook today. My favourite is Schuerzenjaeger, "skirt hunter", or womanizer.

[SuperComrade]

Is there a place I can get a copy?

[EnsignExpendable]

Is there a place I can get a copy?

 

http://earlesspierre.livejournal.com/38477.html

[Bronezhilet]

I found a Russian->German insult handbook today. My favourite is Schuerzenjaeger, "skirt hunter", or womanizer.

Fotzenwagen is my favourite.

[SuperComrade]

Field Marshall "Munsteen"

[Walter_Sobchak]

Field Marshall "Munsteen"

Sometimes I hate cartoons.

[Collimatrix]

I just really doubt that anything that would fit and properly function in a tank could get up to 1500 HP using 1940's technology.  The 1500 HP mark was not hit until the German MB-873 engine that was used in the KampPanzer 70 and Leopard II.  In it's original form, it had a displacement of  2429 cu in (39.8 L) while later it would be increased to 2907 cubic inches or 47.6 L. 

 

You could if you were willing to sacrifice engine life.  A few German aircraft engines could break 2000 HP with boost on, and basically everyone had 1500 HP in-line aircraft engines (save the Japanese who never developed their own in-line engines).  Given that Conqueror and Centurion were using essentially de-tuned merlins, and late model merlins were north of 2000 HP, I would think that you could get that sort of power out of something that would fit into a tank engine bay if you accepted aircraft engine maintenance schedules.  This would be a thoroughly bad idea, but technically feasible.

You might have to re-design the engine bay though.  The engine accommodations on the big cats were actually very small:

 

Edit:  DERP.  Just re-read Bronezhilet's translations.  Yes; fitting any of these diesels would have required re-designing the engine bay of the big cats.  Presumably the uprated fuel-injected petrol engines would have fit the original space provided.

[Walter_Sobchak]

You could if you were willing to sacrifice engine life.  A few German aircraft engines could break 2000 HP with boost on, and basically everyone had 1500 HP in-line aircraft engines (save the Japanese who never developed their own in-line engines).  Given that Conqueror and Centurion were using essentially de-tuned merlins, and late model merlins were north of 2000 HP, I would think that you could get that sort of power out of something that would fit into a tank engine bay if you accepted aircraft engine maintenance schedules.  This would be a thoroughly bad idea, but technically feasible.

You might have to re-design the engine bay though.  The engine accommodations on the big cats were actually very small:

 

Edit:  DERP.  Just re-read Bronezhilet's translations.  Yes; fitting any of these diesels would have required re-designing the engine bay of the big cats.  Presumably the uprated fuel-injected petrol engines would have fit the original space provided.

You would also have to use aviation grade gasoline and figure out a way to get the same kind of cooling that you can on an aircraft.  

[LostCosmonaut]

You would also have to use aviation grade gasoline and figure out a way to get the same kind of cooling that you can on an aircraft.  

perhaps if we mounted a gigantic fan to the front of the engine compartment

[Collimatrix]

You would also have to use aviation grade gasoline and figure out a way to get the same kind of cooling that you can on an aircraft.  

 

The panther already ran on leaded gasoline per the pantherfibel.  Cooling might be an issue, but a petrol engine in a tank normally devotes ~20% of its gross horsepower to cooling, and the radiators are gigantic.

[SuperComrade]

[Donward]

My God...

Hitler and his Nazi cohorts were HUGE. Just look at the size of them compared to that Maus!

[Scolopax]

Those two objects on the back corners of the tank are flame throwers, yes?

[Bronezhilet]

Yes.

[Walter_Sobchak]

Am I the only one who saw this and instantly thought of the "What is this, a center for ants?" scene in Zoolander?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ-8IuUkJJc

[DogDodger]

"Was ist das, einen Panzer für...Mäuse?"

[Donward]

Brave Hamsters of the Proletariat are more than a match for Fascist Maus!

 

[Legiondude]

Those two objects on the back corners of the tank are flame throwers, yes?

Yes.

They got to a full scale wooden mockup before Hans looks to Klaus and said: "This is a stupid idea"

[SuperComrade]

[Collimatrix]

Saw this on Walter's blog and LOLed:

[LoooSeR]

Puma cannon test.

From 2:10 - live fire after all preparations done.

 

[EnsignExpendable]

Shitty French magazine TnT invented another wonderwaffle

 

 

However, it's a well known fact that the laws of physics hold a deep Russian Bias

 

[Belesarius]

LOL, and now there will be some wehraboo on the tonks forum asking for that to be put in game.