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    SuperComrade reacted to Bronezhilet in ATGMs and RPGs for infantry - a thread for rebels around the world to choose their ATGM supplier.   
    Speaking of Panzerfausts:

     
    Look at that back blast.
     
    In case you didn't know, the counter weight in a Panzerfaust is aluminium powder.
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    SuperComrade reacted to Scolopax in WoT v WT effort-thread   
    Believe this is it:
     

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    SuperComrade reacted to Collimatrix in WoT v WT effort-thread   
    There are a number of vehicles in-game that are shown as being a self-contained fighting unit, but historically weren't really.  M53/55s were followed around by an ammo trailer because their internal ammo stowage was so minuscule.  The AMX-13 F3 couldn't even fit the entire crew in the vehicle; they had to ride around behind in an APC or whatever.
     
    I'm guessing Grille 15 would have been similar; literally just a weapon carrier, with the bulk of the ammo and possibly even the crew carried separately in an auxiliary vehicle.
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    SuperComrade reacted to Khand-e in WoT v WT effort-thread   
    THey're not even his sounds, that's why he flipped out so bad at what SerB said.
     
    He literally just rips sounds from youtube videos of tanks and uploads them as "his" work, the fact he's even remotely respected while doing this while also being one of the most obnoxious, whiny little cunts in the community is absolutely disgusting.
     
    Also, I'm glad to hear he went from the ever so hard work of "ripping off sounds from youtube videos without any credit" to "shamelessly ripping off the sounds of games and other game mods that people actually worked hard on and got paid to do in some cases."
     
    What a fucking piece of shit.
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    SuperComrade got a reaction from Collimatrix in The Mass 5 Problem   
    It is, in a sense. Nucleons are fermions, so they too fall under the Pauli exclusion principle, which also governs electrons.This is why you have the "magic numbers" for the nuclear shell model

    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/shell.html#c2

     
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    SuperComrade got a reaction from LostCosmonaut in The Mass 5 Problem   
    The theoretical reason for the stability of even-even/instability of odd-odd nucleons is that the strong force (responsible for binding nuclei) is stronger if the nucleons can form pairs with aligned spin angular momentum. When you have odd-odd nucleons, you essentially have an extra set of nucleons, and the strong force is not enough to hold them together under most circumstances.

    This is based on what I remember from a nuclear/particle physics class 5 years ago.
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    SuperComrade got a reaction from Collimatrix in The Mass 5 Problem   
    The theoretical reason for the stability of even-even/instability of odd-odd nucleons is that the strong force (responsible for binding nuclei) is stronger if the nucleons can form pairs with aligned spin angular momentum. When you have odd-odd nucleons, you essentially have an extra set of nucleons, and the strong force is not enough to hold them together under most circumstances.

    This is based on what I remember from a nuclear/particle physics class 5 years ago.
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    SuperComrade reacted to LostCosmonaut in The Mass 5 Problem   
    In the beginning, there was a shitload of energy.
     
    Eventually (after fractions of a second), the universe cooled off enough that small subatomic particles, such as quarks, could form. Later, it cooled off enough that protons, neutrons, and electrons, the basic building blocks of atoms, could exist.
     
    These nucleons combined to make the atoms we all know and love. Hydrogen and its varieties; protium, deuterium, tritium. Helium-3 and helium-4. But at that point, everything just about stops. Why?
     
    As it turns out, there are no stable atoms with a mass of 5. Sure, you can smash together bits in a lab to get atoms with mass five. Helium-5 (2 protons, 3 neutrons) decays in 10-24 seconds, many orders of magnitude quicker than even exotic superheavy transuranic isotopes. Lithium-5 disintegrates almost as fast. (To my knowledge, beryllium-5 and boron-5 do not exist, and if they did we could assume they would likewise be unstable). The hyperphysics site has a bit about it here; http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/mass5w.html
     
    But why is helium-5 so unstable? Tritium has twice as many neutrons as neutrons, and while it's unstable, it still has a half life measured in years (about 12 of them). If you counted one bacterium every half life of helium-5, you could count all the bacteria on Earth a hundred times over in tritium's half life (thanks wikiped). This is despite the fact that helium-5's neutron-proton ratio is 1.5/1; there are numerous nucleons with a ratio greater than this, even notoriously stable lead-208. (Lithium-5's instability is not surprising, as a nucleon with more protons than neutrons. Although carbon-10 with the same proton-neutron ratio has a half life measurable in whole seconds.) Nuclei with even protons and odd neutrons are common, odd-odd pairings are usually more unstable (unless you're tantalum-180m). In short, (I'm sure there is a good reason, but I'm both not a trained nuclear physicist and mildly intoxicated right now.)
     
    But what does this all mean? As the early universe cooled, atoms were able to fuse together into heavier elements. But the lack of a stable mass-5 isotope stopped this. A few helium and hydrogen nuclei were able to make lithium and beryllium isotopes with mass 6 and 7, but the lack of a mass five intermediary meant that this could only happen through collisions of existing heavy atoms (rather than adding a single neutron or proton to another atom). The lack of a stable mass 8 isotope put a firm stop to the process. As a result, the vast majority of the universe end up as hydrogen and helium. As it turned out, this is the perfect fuel for stars. Red dwarfs, the most common type of start, are too small to fuse lithium, beryllium, boron, and other heavy elements. If helium-5 or lithium-5 were stable, the universe would be completely unrecognizable.
     
     
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    SuperComrade reacted to Sturgeon in ATGMs and RPGs for infantry - a thread for rebels around the world to choose their ATGM supplier.   
    Special Forces, yes, but not the regular Army.
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    SuperComrade reacted to Walter_Sobchak in The M4 Sherman Tank Epic Information Thread.. (work in progress)   
    These Paraguay Shermans came originally from Argentina.  The Argentinians called their modified Sherman the "Sherman Repotenciado."  
     
    According to a face book post by The Armor Journal ( not to be confused with ARMOR, the official journal of the armor branch):
     
    The Sherman-Repotenciado, an Argentinian Upgrade of 450 Ex-Belgian M4 Sherman Tanks, among them about 250 Firefly IC and -VC, bought in the 40s. In 1976 the Argentinian Army upgraded 120 (other sources states 250) of these Tanks with new, french Poyaud 520 V-8 520 HP Dieselengines, 105mm FTR 44/57 guns (a argentinian copy of the french CN-105-57 gun), Belgian 7,62mm MAG-58 Co-Ax-MGs and Turretmounted Smokedischargers. The chassis and tracks were also slightly changed and the Turret equipped with Stowagebaskets at the rear. Due to the size of the 105mm rounds the Loader and Radiooperator was removed and the crew reduced to 3 man
     
    Of course, you all would have already known about Paraguay and the Sherman Repotenciado if you had read the post I made about it on my site back on January 1, 2016.  See, while you were all busy sleeping off your New Years Eve hangovers, I was selflessly posting about tanks, doing what I can to entertain and educate all of you who thirst for tank knowledge.    
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    SuperComrade got a reaction from Sturgeon in The M4 Sherman Tank Epic Information Thread.. (work in progress)   
    http://www.janes.com/article/56911/paraguay-keeping-m3-stuart-m4-sherman-tanks-in-service

    Paraguay reactivating their M3s and M4s


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    SuperComrade got a reaction from Jeeps_Guns_Tanks in The M4 Sherman Tank Epic Information Thread.. (work in progress)   
    http://www.janes.com/article/56911/paraguay-keeping-m3-stuart-m4-sherman-tanks-in-service

    Paraguay reactivating their M3s and M4s


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    SuperComrade got a reaction from Meplat in The M4 Sherman Tank Epic Information Thread.. (work in progress)   
    http://www.janes.com/article/56911/paraguay-keeping-m3-stuart-m4-sherman-tanks-in-service

    Paraguay reactivating their M3s and M4s


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    SuperComrade reacted to EnsignExpendable in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    Everyone that can read Russian click the fuck here, it's 81 sexy pages of IS-3 trials. 
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    SuperComrade reacted to LostCosmonaut in The Keldysh Bomber   
    The Silbervogel rocket plane concept developed in Germany during World War 2 is fairly well known. What is less well known is that the Soviets briefly continued development of the concept after the war.
     

     
    The Keldysh Bomber had several similarities to the Sanger design it was developed from. Like the German design, it would have been ground launched at high speed from a fixed track using a rocket sled (although it would have kerolox engines instead of alcholol/LOX V2 engines). The main difference was in the boost stage. Soviet engineers correctly realized that a pure rocket design would need a ridiculously high mass ratio to achieve near orbital velocities in a single stage with the rockets of the day. They reasoned that by using ramjets, they could harvest oxidizer from the atmosphere at low altitudes, reducing the amount of fuel needed. The ramjets would take the bomber to an altitude of about 20 kilometers at about Mach 3, at which point they would shut off. The onboard rocket would continue burning, and provide the remainder of the velocity needed (about 5 km/s). Payload was similar to the Silbervogel, about 8,000 kilograms. A payload of about 8,000 kilos would be disappointing in terms of conventional explosives, but it would be enough to carry a first generation nuclear weapon. 
     
    Obviously, the Keldysh bomber did not progress past the design stage. The engineering challenges were simply too great; ramjet and rocket technology was still in its infancy. Additionally, like the Silbervogel, thermal loading on reentry/skip would have been a severe issue. It is likely that the Keldysh bomber would note have been ready until the late 1950s, at which point the R-7 and other ICBMs would make it obsolete. However, the Soviets did develop many high altitude / high speed cruise missiles during the 1950s, such as the Lavochkin Burya (comparable to the American Navajo). Also, the Keldysh bomber does bear at least a superficial resemblance to the British Skylon design of the 21st century (though the concepts behind them are far different).
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    SuperComrade reacted to Walter_Sobchak in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    That was a major issue.  Like everything else, they had to transport fodder to the front.  However, horses can eat what is locally available in the form of grasses and such.  Interestingly, DiNardo notes that it was horses that helped save the German army in the winter of 1941 when all other forms of transportation had frozen to a halt.  Also, in a desperate situation you can always eat a horse.  Trucks are not very edible.  
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    SuperComrade reacted to Walter_Sobchak in General AFV Thread   
    Lets all admire the mighty Tiger-Stuart.
     
    https://youtu.be/rC1XwD1xNvo?t=7m35s
     

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    SuperComrade reacted to EnsignExpendable in WoT v WT effort-thread   
    They haven't even gotten to the Q yet. Try "Привет от американского ЛГБТ общества" or "Хилари Клинтон будет карать Путина в анал"
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    SuperComrade reacted to EnsignExpendable in WoT v WT effort-thread   
    There's a difference between carefully crafted trolling and posting CUCK fifty times on one page.
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    SuperComrade reacted to EnsignExpendable in WoT v WT effort-thread   
    "Expect a package" "You're a vibrator, you American bottom" (dnishe, another slang word for noob) "Shameful loser is showing off on the test server" "All Americans are gays, that is why gay parades are allowed there" "Obama is gay" "this American sucked me off" "what happened to your face, nagibator?" "Obama sucks our dicks"
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    SuperComrade reacted to EnsignExpendable in WoT v WT effort-thread   
    Screenshots please
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    SuperComrade reacted to EnsignExpendable in StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)   
    Check out my "Panzer IV"
     

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    SuperComrade reacted to LostCosmonaut in Egregious Aviation Safety Violations   
    keep your rotors attached
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjBh3PF6-Xk
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