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The M3 is very underappreciated, especially on city maps

Also, I decided to mod the M6 to use the T1 HD model

I take it back, that's not propellant living with the sabot.  That's two rows of big propellant charges.  It's totally unclear to me from that picture where the projectiles live.  Is that smeared blur near the middle of the carousel the sabot?  Is this like a double-stacked T-72 autoloader?  If so then how the hell did they plan on shooting their beloved HESH rounds?
 
British tank design is Kurt Cobain; occasional spasms of cleverness amidst a corpus of generally mediocre work that is for some reason praised to the heavens.  HESH is their Courtney Love; a weird dalliance from the past that they have indecorously and inexplicably held to that is holding them back and making them do stupid things.  Also both British tank design and Kurt Cobain are dead.

I believe it's some iteration of this series of 110mm ammo development, third from left in this picture, which LooSeR posted before:
 

 
 
Xlucine explained this to me over teamspeak.  Remember how an L7 is basically just a 20 pounder with a wider bore and the cartridge case necked out to 105mm?  The Brits tried to get lightning to strike again by necking out the case one more time, 'til it was completely straight-walled to make a new 110mm gun.  The idea was to have something that would be an easy drop-in upgrade for the L7, just like how the L7 was an easy drop-in upgrade for the 20 pounder.  Since basically all of NATO except the British were using L7s at this point, the potential sales were enormous.
 
Guns are basically piston engines that throw their pistons down range, so going up in caliber is basically the same thing as boring out the cylinders in a motor.  But the difference in swept volume between a 105mm tube and a 110mm tube isn't enormous; a little less than 10%.  So to get more performance they started running up the pressures.  This led to the cases sticking and not extracting properly, so they went to a semi-combustible case design, which is what you see above.
 
As the gun was developed further, the case stub got smaller and smaller until it went away entirely and the design was switched to bagged ammo.  Only thing was, by this point the pressure was so high that the breech obturator ring design from the L11 would not work and they had to come up with something better.  This breech design was recycled in the 120mm L30 on the challenger 2.  So there you go; despite using the same HESH ammunition, the L30 is actually a development of the L7, not the L11.
 
Like most ideas in British tank design, the 110mm EXP-7/EXP-14/EXP-whatever was obsolete by the time it was ready for prime time.  The British were completely, stubbornly convinced that rifled guns firing APDS were the way to go, well into the 1970s when everyone else in NATO had stopped dicking around with gun-launchers and figured out that smoothbore and APFSDS were the correct choice.  As usual they were way behind the Soviets, whose T-62 design had a smoothbore gun, had already seen combat, and was already in the process of being replaced with a next generation vehicle!
 
You can also see that it uses two-piece ammo, which is basically the way to go if you're firing APDS.  It also looks like some of the propellant charge lives with the sabot.  Very Soviet.
 
Oddly, this exact diagram shows up as a generic diagram for an autoloader on the army-guide article on autoloaders.

Patch notes:
 
-All German tanks get massive Ahistorical buffs.
 
-Increased headlight size of tiger, and added collision models from WT.
 
-The Panther now has headlights
 
All Wehraboos quit the game anyway because they've been massively sleighted.

http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/6110470.html
 
"Heavy transport helicopter with nuclear powerplant"
 

 
"Atomic tandem stratoplane scheme. Nuclear engines in first aircraft, second contains crew and passengers"
 
 

 
"Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft with total shielding of the reactor"
 

 
"Nuclear transport aircraft"
 

 
"Nuclear carrier aircraft for launching satellites"
 

"Future nuclear convertiplane"
 

 
"Nuclear passsenger plane with comprehensive radiation shielding"
 

 
"Scheme of the "shadow" from the shielding protecting passengers and crew"
 

 
""Duck" configuration nuclear passenger/transport aircraft"
 

 
"This aircraft was originally called the "Joseph Stalin" aircraft, and had previously appeared in another book. It was said that the aircraft would be built in the near future, and completed before 1960."
 

 

 

 
"After Stalin's death, this project was modified, becoming the A-10 "Sovietskiy Soyuz""
 

 

 
 

Interesting archival footage and I think this is the only one that demonstrates the AMX 13's loading mechanism





 

The equivalent of when LoooSeR logs on the forums for the day and begins image posting.

http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/6110470.html
 
"Heavy transport helicopter with nuclear powerplant"
 

 
"Atomic tandem stratoplane scheme. Nuclear engines in first aircraft, second contains crew and passengers"
 
 

 
"Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft with total shielding of the reactor"
 

 
"Nuclear transport aircraft"
 

 
"Nuclear carrier aircraft for launching satellites"
 

"Future nuclear convertiplane"
 

 
"Nuclear passsenger plane with comprehensive radiation shielding"
 

 
"Scheme of the "shadow" from the shielding protecting passengers and crew"
 

 
""Duck" configuration nuclear passenger/transport aircraft"
 

 
"This aircraft was originally called the "Joseph Stalin" aircraft, and had previously appeared in another book. It was said that the aircraft would be built in the near future, and completed before 1960."
 

 

 

 
"After Stalin's death, this project was modified, becoming the A-10 "Sovietskiy Soyuz""
 

 

 
 

As you can see, hydrogenous materials (methane is pretty hydrogenous) are good at stopping fast neutrons, which are the worst kind of radiation for living beings,

Depends how much risk of cancer/nuclear accidents you're willing to accept.
 
The ones that are all long and spindly with the crew at one end and the reactor at the other could probably get radiation risk down to acceptable levels. Distance is an important component of shielding. Also, hydrocarbon fuels have a lot of hydrogen in them (durr), so they should be pretty good at stopping neutrons. I'll have to look and see if I can find any docs on the effectiveness of hydrocarbons as radiation shielding.
 
Edit: this has some info; https://three.jsc.nasa.gov/articles/CucinottaKimChappell0512.pdf
 
Just ctrl+f hydrocarbon

Unmamned and flown from the surface of Titan, maybe.

http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/6110470.html
 
"Heavy transport helicopter with nuclear powerplant"
 

 
"Atomic tandem stratoplane scheme. Nuclear engines in first aircraft, second contains crew and passengers"
 
 

 
"Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft with total shielding of the reactor"
 

 
"Nuclear transport aircraft"
 

 
"Nuclear carrier aircraft for launching satellites"
 

"Future nuclear convertiplane"
 

 
"Nuclear passsenger plane with comprehensive radiation shielding"
 

 
"Scheme of the "shadow" from the shielding protecting passengers and crew"
 

 
""Duck" configuration nuclear passenger/transport aircraft"
 

 
"This aircraft was originally called the "Joseph Stalin" aircraft, and had previously appeared in another book. It was said that the aircraft would be built in the near future, and completed before 1960."
 

 

 

 
"After Stalin's death, this project was modified, becoming the A-10 "Sovietskiy Soyuz""
 

 

 
 

From december of 2015, to this date PAK-FA is going through tests with extenrally mounted weapons (including big missiles like Kh-31)

 

 

 

 

 

Here's Bell's nukecopter

I like the one with the drawing of the radiation shadow.
"See? With a lead bulkhead, the crew and passengers are protected from the harmful effects of the reactor's radiation."
"Yeah, but what about the ground crews, people in the terminal, local traffic, other taxiing aircraft, etc.?"
"Fuck 'em!"

http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/6110470.html
 
"Heavy transport helicopter with nuclear powerplant"
 

 
"Atomic tandem stratoplane scheme. Nuclear engines in first aircraft, second contains crew and passengers"
 
 

 
"Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft with total shielding of the reactor"
 

 
"Nuclear transport aircraft"
 

 
"Nuclear carrier aircraft for launching satellites"
 

"Future nuclear convertiplane"
 

 
"Nuclear passsenger plane with comprehensive radiation shielding"
 

 
"Scheme of the "shadow" from the shielding protecting passengers and crew"
 

 
""Duck" configuration nuclear passenger/transport aircraft"
 

 
"This aircraft was originally called the "Joseph Stalin" aircraft, and had previously appeared in another book. It was said that the aircraft would be built in the near future, and completed before 1960."
 

 

 

 
"After Stalin's death, this project was modified, becoming the A-10 "Sovietskiy Soyuz""
 

 

 
 

http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/6110470.html
 
"Heavy transport helicopter with nuclear powerplant"
 

 
"Atomic tandem stratoplane scheme. Nuclear engines in first aircraft, second contains crew and passengers"
 
 

 
"Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft with total shielding of the reactor"
 

 
"Nuclear transport aircraft"
 

 
"Nuclear carrier aircraft for launching satellites"
 

"Future nuclear convertiplane"
 

 
"Nuclear passsenger plane with comprehensive radiation shielding"
 

 
"Scheme of the "shadow" from the shielding protecting passengers and crew"
 

 
""Duck" configuration nuclear passenger/transport aircraft"
 

 
"This aircraft was originally called the "Joseph Stalin" aircraft, and had previously appeared in another book. It was said that the aircraft would be built in the near future, and completed before 1960."
 

 

 

 
"After Stalin's death, this project was modified, becoming the A-10 "Sovietskiy Soyuz""
 

 

 
 

http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/6110470.html
 
"Heavy transport helicopter with nuclear powerplant"
 

 
"Atomic tandem stratoplane scheme. Nuclear engines in first aircraft, second contains crew and passengers"
 
 

 
"Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft with total shielding of the reactor"
 

 
"Nuclear transport aircraft"
 

 
"Nuclear carrier aircraft for launching satellites"
 

"Future nuclear convertiplane"
 

 
"Nuclear passsenger plane with comprehensive radiation shielding"
 

 
"Scheme of the "shadow" from the shielding protecting passengers and crew"
 

 
""Duck" configuration nuclear passenger/transport aircraft"
 

 
"This aircraft was originally called the "Joseph Stalin" aircraft, and had previously appeared in another book. It was said that the aircraft would be built in the near future, and completed before 1960."
 

 

 

 
"After Stalin's death, this project was modified, becoming the A-10 "Sovietskiy Soyuz""
 

 

 
 

Tu-22R recon/intellegence plane

There was never a 10cm. Just the 15cm cannon.

Thanks for the welcome.
 
 
The name "Stormpanser" means something close to "Assault armor" when translated from Norwegian into English.
 
And:
 
Germanic languages:
German: Panzer
Swedish: Pansar
Danish: Panser
Norwegian: Panser
 
"Panser" means armor, armored vehicle ect. "Storm" means here assault or attack.
 
In Norway, IFVs are designated "Stormpanservogn"

I thought about doing what I did to the FV101 to the Rooikat instead, so I want to see this.