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Sturgeon

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  1. Russian claims are about the same as US casualties during the costliest year of Vietnam, so yeah they seem really plausible to me.
  2. USER PARDUS HAS BEEN BANNED UNTIL MAY 1 FOR INSUFFICIENT LOYALTY TO VLADOLF PUTLER
  3. Eliz has no business speaking on this matter as he as earned no credit on this forum according to the forum guidelines which have long since been established.
  4. I too am confused as to what the point of a 50+ tonne TFV tonk is supposed to be. They're not achieving a meaningful increase in any strategic mobility, are there bridges they think they'll be able to cross that a proper MBT wouldn't?
  5. Also @hobbes154 this forum works a little bit differently, you're expected to pay your dues by posting primary source documents before anyone will accept you as an authority with the right to make big effort posts like that.
  6. Re-read my post again, slowly this time.
  7. The various design competitions and the judgings thereof are a good resource for seeing how to approach tank design (especially in a fictional context). Something to think about is that the tank that won the "WWII-era" (Cascadia) competition ended up a lot like a T-55. In theory you could have been making T-55s from 1939 on. They didn't, because actual chronological development doesn't work that way. In 1939, what is a T-55 designed to kill?
  8. It did, they went with a delta originally in part because they wanted to bake the composite wing all in one. The idea is that they would be able to effectively crank out fighters like pizzas. This did not work as well as they anticipated, and resulted in the redesign.
  9. Others have said/alluded that "shot traps" aren't really a thing anymore, but I wanted to add that a big part of the reason for this now is that for the most dangerous threats a lot of the tank is simply "all or nothing". Yes it's true that fin doesn't ricochet so much, but a part of this that is forgotten is that modern tank armor is absolutely bursting at the seams, it's as much armor as anyone can stand a vehicle to have, and it's all directed at stopping the biggest threats from only so generous an angle. A really good book to read if you want the story on how tank design went from "okay we'll protect against this threat everywhere" to "we really need to be making compromises here" is Hunnicutt's Abrams, specifically the section after MBT-70. That's when designers in the West had their come to jesus moment. These armor arrays are so huge that shot traps are simply a cost of doing business (albeit, again, not a terribly costly one in the current environment), because there's no practical way to make a NERA-box that had flush armor arrays like an M48 has.
  10. Welcome to the forum. Go check out the various competition threads down in the Competitions subforum. We've done... Oh, four or five tank design comps? Should be illuminating.
  11. It's normal for any design like that. Most normal 9mm blowbacks are susceptible to out of battery firings. What makes it worse is the printed receiver.
  12. These are stupid games. Potentially very stupid games. I approve of them, but I will not play them.
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