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AMX-13 with HOT ATGMs

 

PT-91M Pendekar / PT-91 Twardy don't like sandbags.

 
When a raccoon stuck in your tank:
 
 
          

I get to enjoy moving back to Seoul for the next 4 years. 

This is a rare enough occurrence. I have only done this 3 times, so far.
 

Technically, the T20/22 should not even be at Tier 7, it should be the T25 that's there

They need to add an autoloading 75mm gun to the T20, with like fantasy APCR/HEAT ammo.

The side skirts are ~5 mm thick spaced armour, it also has much lower terrain resistance to compensate for the weaker engine, slightly better gun bloom stats, 50 extra hp, and a weaker turret

I don't know.  I don't think they ever sold in large enough numbers to garner any type of reputation, good or bad.
 
This video has about as much information as I've seen anywhere:
 

 
It has a number of clever features.  I'm surprised that the foregrip-as-charging-handle hasn't been copied more, given how much designers agonize over making low-profile charging handles for PDWs (see the uncomfortable compromises on both the P90 and MP-7).  One thing I'm not a big fan of is the open bolt operation, of course.

100% camo skill
 

Osa SAM precursor
 

That is the SP-70 Tri-national howitzer prototype

http://www.military-today.com/artillery/sp70.htm

This photo says it is the Phase A prototype


 

I've been meditating a lot lately on humans that I hate.  I would say "people I hate," but once I take to hating a someone enough I de-classify them as a person.
 
I've been focusing on hate more because I've realized that there is no point in marinating in negative emotions.  What I had mistaken for righteous indignation was really jealousy.  I'm not angry at the fraudulent because I hate fraud; I'm angry because they're talentless hacks and I could do a far better job.  But I'm lazy, so you, my talented reader, you must do a better job, and become a more ravenous, vicious, and unstoppable leech than ever these mediocre reprobates could dream.
 
I got the idea when I was reading the latest drivel from our favorite poly sci majors, and I realized that the authors are fundamentally parasitic con artists, and, more to the point, half-assed ones.
 
The article is only worth reading if you want to heckle it.  It has no factual content.  The funniest part is probably where they're talking up the threat of firearms made on 3D printers, and then bring up the Ghost Gunner, which isn't a 3D printer.  It's a fucking mill.  You know, an example of that old-fashioned subtractive manufacture that's supposed to be obsolete now.  This is as intellectually honest as hyping the threat of being stung to death by zebras in the streets, and pointing out that tapirs will bite your fucking arm off as evidence of the severity of the threat.  I am, of course, heartened to see that these worms have doubled down on their claim that 3D printing is somehow applicable to clandestine manufacture of nuclear weapons, and are, as before, aggressively misunderstanding fundamental facts about isotope enrichment.  If there's anything that these scum are good at, it's ignoring basic fucking nuclear physics.
 
But other than that, it's not a particularly slick attempt to sew panic and profit thereby.  The best possible result from this sort of scaremongering is that some useless government regulatory agency will be set up to strangle 3D printing with useless regulations.  This useless agency will have some number of jobs that will be filled with poly sci majors and other unemployable refuse.  Anyone employed in this hypothetical useless agency would work nine to five in a cubicle, watching whatever their favorite deviant sort of porn is, calling in sick about a third of the time, and occasionally writing internal correspondence that will be beautifully devoid of meaning.  Is this sort of soul-raping mediocrity anyone's idea of a big steal?  Because if getting a fake job at a fake agency to police a fake threat is your notion of making it, please enclose yourself in a running incinerator.  You have some sort of pathogen that causes you to aspire to being a moderate nuisance, and that sort of plague needs to stop now.
 
The problem with these people is that their lies are small.  As we all know, big lies are better than little ones.  Don't stretch the truth; snap it right the fuck off.  The only thing standing between you and gigantic yachts made of cocaine is a sentimental attachment to the truth.  The lord of this world will only reward you fully if you embrace him fully.  Highly successful liars don't embroider the truth, they dispense with it entirely.  Consummate your marriage to darkness and falsity, and receive glorious rewards.  Don't say that the Eisenhower administration should have been more aggressive in defense spending and research.  Say that the Soviets have more bombers and more missiles.  You'll get to be president of Camelot, fuck Marilyn Monroe and will be spared the indignity of old age.  Don't say that 3D printing could change the way nuclear weapons are made in the future.  Claim that the Iranians and North Koreans, and hell, that the South Africans all made their nuclear weapons by using 3D printers.  When asked for evidence of your nonsense, point to the South African invasion of Sudan.  Say so with absolute arrogance and an unshakable air of moral superiority.  If you are loud and persistent enough, and lie outrageously enough, Satan will come through.
 
Don't shill for big coal companies by claiming that coal gasification technology will improve atmospheric conditions.  That's only stretching the truth.  You've got to go all the way, and just burn regular coal that you painted with Elmer's glue.  Your enemies will end up under review, and you'll get millions in tax credits.  Satan delivers.  Praise Satan.  But you have to be willing to go all the way with Satan.  Satan despises spineless, cowering wretches who sin a little to get ahead but still consider themselves fundamentally decent people.  Satan came through for the solar roadways bastards.  Satan came through for Leroy Jenkins.  Trust in Satan, and you will excel.  Don't you trust Satan?  Do you think that Satan is ignorant of your duplicity?  You cannot serve two masters.  Drink deep or taste not.

“They have made up their minds and are working on the right narrative to support it.”
 
You know, this is remarkably honest for a bureaucrat.

I don't know which is stranger, that there's a youtube video of a sock puppet explaining the difference between air to air missiles... or that it's actually pretty good:
 

Glad to see you here.
 
I liked the AMRAAM vs Adder video quite a bit, because it is the first video I've seen on youtube that illustrates the kinematics of air to air missile launches.  Much of the discussion of air to air missile performance on the internet is based on fantasy.  Ignorance of basic facts of missile operation, like the fact that the motor burns out after a few seconds, or that range is enormously dependent upon launch altitude, is rampant.

Hello everyone!
 
I've made some videos concerning topics of military, strategy, technology and so on. So far I'm getting pretty good feedback on them so maybe you too would be interested in seeing them.
 
Here's one on Turkey vs Russia: hypothetical air war
 
Or US AMRAAM D missile compared to Russian R-77-1 missile
 
Or UK vs France: hypothetical war
 
So tell me what you think!
 
 

Something interesting I haven't seen before

He seems to be impressed with Katukov (Lelyushenko as well) throughout Schwerpunkt.

I learned that Yorktown seems to basically just have been the US' best fleet carrier up till Midway, it's not just a combat experience from Coral Sea thing like Shattered Sword claims. They were the ones who came up with the stopgap solution to US fleet carriers not having nearly enough fighters in the early days of taking the scout SBDs on, gassing them up and adding them to the CAP to take on torpedo bombers and even at Coral Sea were bundling up their air wing into coordinated strikes (scout bombers go up first and circle, torp bombers take off and go straight to the target, then fighters go up a bit later, and they bundle up with their bombers en route, with the TBDs using a handheld light to show the dive bombers up above where they are).
 
So it wasn't just Midway, it seems that Yorktown's officers had the best grasp of things at the start of the war.
 
Also man was there a fighter shortage, it makes my HoI 4 shortage of modern types feel a lot less depressing.
 
(Source is The First Team).

Bye bye Farage

I'll take "headlines from the 10th century" for $400, Alex.