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  1. Bronezhilet
    Now you bastards have made me think about tank designs again and I have to wait a few months before I have a PC that can run Solidworks.
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    I liked how Turkey yelled that the SAA should stop pushing into HTS territory because of the refugees, and literally during the same campaign they invade Afrin, one of the quietest areas in Syria.
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    I have a few problems with this. I was going to write a wall of text, but there's not that much data do go with so I might as well keep it short. One of the problems is that hemispherical liners are badly optimised for cutting, compared to conical liners. They severely lack jet tip velocity (for a 40 mm charge a hemispherical liner has about half the jet tip velocity of a conical liner) and most of the mass is in the wrong bit of the jet. Yes, a hemispherical liner is more effective at converting liner material into a jet (52% efficiency vs 28% for a conical liner), but that doesn't matter if all that mass is concentrated in a slow moving slug. Speaking of slow moving slugs, we don't (at least I don't) know if a copper jet is even capable of properly penetrating wolfram while flying at 5 km/s. The hydrodynamic velocity of wolfram vs steel is around 3 km/s, I have no idea what it is for copper vs steel. But I do know that in case of hydrodynamic penetration your efficiency will still be shit (67%). And I don't even know if a proper jet can be formed because there's a big steel plate in the way. My prediction of a small hemispherical shaped charge versus a wolfram penetrator is that fuck-all will happen. Even that Mango round which is said to be from a Nozh test doesn't show any damage from shaped charges. It's either broken/shattered, or not. And with a ~575 mm long rod you'd at least suspect some damage due to shaped charges. But I'm not seeing any. The effectiveness of a fragmented flyer plate is a little trickier to determine, since we have no idea how fast the plates are moving. Gurney equations can't be (easily) used because of the varying explosive layer thickness and the fact that the explosive isn't connected to the steel plate. All we know is that it's significantly lower than the theoretical max due to this. In any case, if you want to have a segmented flyer plate, why not make it like that in the first place? I'd recon you can make it significantly more effective at whatever it does compare to the current situation. Anyway, Nozh is one of the other things I want to thoroughly test once I get my computing workstation.
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    What I don't like about this picture is that they only show one side of the armour, so you can't really determine when this photograph was taken. For all we know the jet has penetrated 50 cm of armour behind the module already. Or maybe it hasnt exited the back of the module. We simply don't know.
  5. Bronezhilet
    Orrrr.... you could ask one of the engineers here to make it for you. But I don't have Solidworks on this PC, so I can't.
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    Why would you try to propel a plate with something that is designed to cut? I mean, if the goal is to propel a plate at the highest velocity possible, just... make a normal ERA sandwich?
  7. Bronezhilet
    Not just some militants, it's HTS. Seems like the footage has been edited:
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    It's possible but depends on quite a few variables, both from the warheads and armour. How are the warheads fused? Do the fuses stay intact? Is there enough distance between the slat armour and main armour to make the main warhead hit the slats? Are the slats strong enough to still damage the main warhead after the precursor has passed through? I can do some simulations after my workstation has arrived, which will probably take a few weeks.
  9. Bronezhilet
    The SAA steamroll train is getting up to speed. Next station: Abu Duhur. Choochoo HTS bastards, choo choo.
  10. Bronezhilet
    Uhhhh
  11. Bronezhilet
    Not that I know of, but I guess "operational fuckup" could be used. That whole post reads like one big meme, it's pretty hilarious actually.
  12. Bronezhilet
    I'm not sure about English terminology, but in Dutch we differentiate between howitzers and mortars by their trajectory. In Dutch tank guns are "vlakbaangeschut" (artillery with flat trajectory), howitzers are krombaangeschut (artillery with medium arc) and mortars are stijlbaangeschut (artillery with high arc). So even if it has more propellant, it would still be a mortar because it retains its trajectory. And that type of trajectory can make a difference with for example reverse slope shots. So yes, it would still be different purely because of that. Although you can argue the usefulness of that.
  13. Bronezhilet
    And how are they going to make a RAP mortar shell exactly? Edit: Apparently some madmen actually made RAP mortar shells.
  14. Bronezhilet
    Welcome to SH!
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    Questionable expertise, questionable morals.
  16. Bronezhilet
    Too bad the people behind the CAB show are complete retards.
  17. Bronezhilet
    This is what Colli means by "rocket-assisted, gun fired projectile" by the way:
  18. Bronezhilet
    Yeah that's the Leclerc.
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    What was that about grenade launchers?
  22. Bronezhilet
    I got really mad when I found out about this concept a few months ago, because I had the exact same idea. But of course someone else had the same idea as me, but earlier. I've done a bunch of simulations on it and it actually works really well.
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    Welcome to SH!
  24. Bronezhilet
    With the new update the Duster cab goes for over 100 coins. ...I bought 26 when they were ~50 gold a piece.
  25. Bronezhilet
    Also, a tail wheel instead of a nose wheel.
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