Belesarius

I don't appreciate frivolous reports.

I think if you kids jerked each other off any harder you'd be in danger of developing repetitive strain injury

USS Houston off US east coast, 1944.
 

Des Moines and Roanoke, Barcelona 1952.

Re:  USS Roanoke.  It's too bad the Worcester class armament failed.  They were really cool ships.  I've read that the 6"/47 didn't work well for AA.  Supposedly they built it to reach German bombers dropping standoff munitions like Hs 293 and Fritz X but couldn't fire fast at high angles.
 
Des Moines class armament is cooler.  Evidently they had to decide between the destructiveness of 8" fire against cruisers and Kongo class BCs and the rate of fire needed to stop DD torpedo attacks.  Instead of one or the other they chose both, an 8" with 10rpm.

November 16, 2018, this thread.
 

Drummond is an idiot and hack, we probably should have a rule about unironically posting links to his tweets. 

I might not be able to do that, but Rheinmetall just did that. During upgrade and rebuilding processes, turrets of Abrams and Leopard 2 MBTs have been completely stripped down, meaning all internal and external components have been removed. There is no reason why this should be impossible with the Challenger 2. The rest is a bit of engineering work that any medium-sized military vehicle integrator should be able to carry out. Technical documentation, specifications and blueprints were likely provided by the British military when the two Challenger 2 tanks were handed over to Rheinmetall (even if this didn't happen, they'd be able to do that by themselves).
 
During the early stage of the Leopard 2 development, three different construction mechanisms were used to create the turret shells for the prototypes. There really isn't any magic required to move from a cast to a welded construction.
 
As for the armor I can only point towards to Grant Turnbull's article, which mentioned this aspect: the Challenger 2 LEP is a program focused on obsolescence management. Replacing the gun or improving the armor protection isn't part of it and the figures released by Rheinmetall during its Capital Markets Day 2018 suggests that the company is banking on an increased budget for the gun replacement, so many changes to the armor aren't financially feasible. Most likely the statement from Turnbull's article is a reference to the changed in turret bustle protection and/or improved protection via using welded steel. A new armor package would require an extensive qualification program on side of the British MoD (risking delaying the whole program) and likely would have looked more similar to the other offers from Rheinmetall:

 
Why would the gun mantlet and original turret front shape remain unaltered, when the steel citadel is replaced and a whole new armor package is added?
 
 
I never said that. I posted a picture showcasing why it is not a brand new turret, you just added your own interpretations to it (at first "that guy considers everything obsolete that the guy marked" and now "that guy things everything is unaltered that is marked in the picture"). You notice that I never said anything along these lines; instead I even pointed out in my last reply, that the Thales Orion sight is now fitted. The identical location of the gunner's sight and commander's cupola, which leads to a weakspot is worth nothing, showing that this isn't exactly brand new. But well, maybe you should go for your own suggestions and play "wait and see", rather then registering to this forum because you were trigged by your own interpretations of my picture and made rash opinions.

Claimed to be a photo of Okhotnik-B UAV

@Collimatrix

Well deserved.

3 out of 4 are dead.

@Belesarius
 
 
Roy Halladay elected to hall of fame on the first ballot.
 

Concepts of Strogiy corvette. I think their 3D renderer just don't work properly.

 
 
 
 

And meanwhile, if you went ANYWHERE in Portland this week, you probably were exposed to measles.
 
https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/01/18/25553745/someone-with-measles-came-to-a-blazers-game-but-still-no-reported-cases-in-oregon
 
https://multco.us/health-officer/measles-outbreak-winter-2019-oregon-exposures
 
The likely culprits appear to be Washingtonians living across the river from Portland in Clark County, which has 19 confirmed cases.
 
https://www.clark.wa.gov/public-health/measles-investigation
 
Here are the details of the confirmed cases:
• Age
      •  1 to 10 years: 15 cases
      •  11 to 18 years: three cases
      •  19 to 29 years: one case
• Immunization status
      •  Unverified: three cases
      •  Unimmunized: 16 cases
 
 
 

More on the wider story here:
 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/11/who-or-what-brought-down-dag-hammarskjold/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/12/former-raf-pilot-shot-down-un-chief-dag-hammarskjold-1961-plane
 
A Belgian mercenary claimed to have shot down UN Sec General Dag Hammarskjold's plane air to air.  I don't know what all of the "CIA bomb in the plane conspiracy" guys will do now.  Supposedly Harry Truman told an NYT reporter it was an assassination instead of a crash and there is also said to be NSA intercepts of the pilot reporting a successful intercept to GCI.

What a fucking retarded statement. Fuck off.