Belesarius

Yep; it would raise the ground pressure because of less contact area with the ground.
 
I think it's the same idea as some US designs from the 1950s; if you lose one track to a mine, you can keep going with the other one.
 
The US four-tracked design also had a huuuuuuuegggg turret ring that sort of spilled out into the gap between the front and rear tracks.

From the comments section of the article:
 
"Or a complete surprise, like a pre-order for the ak-12 in 6,5 Grendel."
 
WAT?

Sorry, i can't stop.

Otters could kick your ass. Otters could kick anyone's ass. Otters kick crocodile ass all over the world

MKB-42 in, well not combat, but getting ready for combat. Late war sometime.
 

Benjamin Franklin is probably smiling down from Heaven now that his favorite dong has been discovered.

Thanks to Walt being the awesome dude, My Sherman info post is now hosted on Tank and AFV News, Walts Awesome site. 
 
http://tankandafvnews.com/the-epic-m4-sherman-tank-information-thread/
 
I will still update this thread.

So. I am currently in the middle of a classic Ward Brother adventure with my lil bro the details of which may or may not be revealed later.
Currently I am at his house in Roy, WA adjacent to Fort Lewis (Joint Base Lewis McChord) and listening to the serenade of 155mm Howitzers firing from a distance and landing at a MUCH closer distance. The sound and feel of the over pressure waves and explosions even from a couple miles away is fucking incredible. It's been awhile since I've had a chance to experience it. And I certainly would not want to be any closer to those shells going off.

Well, this was kind of funny.
 
I'd like to point out that I really do love Valve as a both a game developer and as a business, in most cases. This specific incident however, is pretty uncharacteristic, and I find it sort of incredible that a company that has had so much experience with modders and has supported modders in the past could not foresee this being a huge issue. Part of the problem is just how easy it is to fool the system, part of the problem is the amount of money valve and bethesda take home based on previously free content, but mostly it's that modding NEEDS to be separate from a paid business because of the nature of mods as a whole. Mods often use other mods as resources, often through a simple verbal agreement. Mods often do not even incorporate any new content, and instead tweak or patch existing content in a very simplistic way (which may be added to another mod). In order to maintain that environment, modders absolutely NEED to be payed through a donation system rather than being explicitly payed for content or a service, or else all of it falls apart. There are simply too many technical hiccups to overcome, especially when trying to do this with a game like Skyrim (or indeed ANY TES game), which has such an established modding system and community.

Fishgun is still fishy.

From the comments section of the article:
 
"Or a complete surprise, like a pre-order for the ak-12 in 6,5 Grendel."
 
WAT?

I have a hunch it has already been done...

When I started my quest to improve my education on nuclear energy, I was shocked to learn that neutron collisions are governed by essentially Newtonian physics.  Unless the neutron is absorbed, a neutron collision is essentially a 100% elastic collision with the nucleus.  Momentum is of course conserved, and kinetic energy is also conserved.
 
Therefore, a collision with a hydrogen nucleus will split the kinetic energy about equally between the neutron and the proton, since they have close to the same mass.  A collision with a uranium nucleus will remove very little kinetic energy from the neutron, since the nucleus is 230-something times heavier.
 
Kirk Sorensen has a good discussion of moderator materials on his blog, further proving that he really does know what he's talking about.  His presentations on LFTRs are just hideously dumbed down for his bovine audiences.
 
Hmmm...
 
So, today I learned that you should not put liquid dish soap into dishwashers unless it is specifically formulated for them.

Finally got it flying nicely.
 

I'd love to see some impetus towards the developing of new caseless ammunition. But this isn't it sadly, the Brundeswehr on paper seem like one of NATOs strongest members but like most European armies they're a hollow force with limited spending power. I think the most realistic option would be an upgrade - aluminium trunnion perhaps? Otherwise it will be an off the rack purchase from with HK (if as you say they haven't burnt all their bridges) or from FN.
Given today's news out of Colt it's unlikely we'll see them winning any major European contracts anytime soon. Colt Canada on the other hand...

It's not twee enough in here.
 
As I look back on my life's long list of frustrations, fancies and failures, I realize that all I needed to succeed... was more twee.
 

 
The Cardigans come from Sweden, a country known for its extremely bipolar tendencies.  Hippies or vikings, endless sunlight of summer, or eternal black night of winter, ABBA or Bathory; Sweden is either very happy, or very angry.
 
The Cardigans are of course in the former camp.  Their early material (which is all that's worth listening to) is like having your face shoved into a big bowl of sugar, and your nose and your mouth are filled with sweetness, and your eyes are filled with sweetness and they start to burn and hurt and the man who is shoving your face into the bowl of sugar says that if you don't tell him what he wants to know, this could go on a long, long time.  It's so happy it hurts.  It's so girly it wraps all the way around and becomes androgynous.  It's so cheery and innocent that you start thinking about getting an axe and some mead and stealing your neighbor's livestock and women.
 

Traditionally the U.S. called the calibre tune for NATO because major ammunition supply depots are funded by the U.S.  This causes a lot of gnashing of teeth sometimes (such as when the U.S. raids these piggy banks for elsewhere in the world. This is changing, so a new calibre is become more possible.
 
War stocks is a major consideration with calibre use.  Both the French and the Swiss maintained an unusual calibre for decades because they had a hundred days or more of war stock on hand and the potential replacement was no better than what they already had.  
 
WARNING - Long discussion the new logistics, ignore if you wish.
 
Most people who contemplate equipment use such as firearms for the military are shop window types, they consider what the weapon looks like in the window of a store, but not all the factors that it takes to get into the hands of a person who uses it.  Supply is an issue since the best weapon in the world is worthless without supply.  NATO is the master of supply, keeping dozens of nations both in the alliance and attached supplied around the world.  NATO is a master only because three of its member nations - the US, France (sort of member), and the UK are the kings of logistics bar none.
 
Computerization has meant that it is now possible though for supply to integrate new products more efficiently, Up until the 1990s supply requests in NATO in peacetime were based on a paper system that was push / pull.  A division would have a "unit of fire" of supply and would be pushed a regular allotment of supplied to a Corps depot, while subunits would indent for their supplies by supply requests to division, allowing for double entry style bookkeeping as pushed product met pulled requests.  This system was an American invention of WW2 and in pre-computer days it was the best in the world.
 
The problem came in with non-standard items and with unexpected use.  In the 1980s toilet paper was removed from the ration packs and U.S. soldiers started using more toilet paper - there is actually research on why this happened, but it started a period of nearly a decade when military units in Europe could not get adequate supplies of this product.  It became desperate when electronics started to demand lilon batteries of dozens of different types - and electronic manufactures are renown for not standardizing batteries as a marketing strategy.
 
This has been changing the last decade as NATO has developed a new supply system to deal with the War on Terror.  It is still  being standardized and moved into place, but it is based on the supply system used by Amazon and Best Buy.  
 
Go on the Internet and search for some looney decrying the US will be taking all their rights and as proof they point out that the Post Office signed a contract for 3.4 billion rounds of ammunition.  This is one of the aspects of the new system.  The Army will line up contractors for logistic items, and the contractors will specify their immediate and emergency capacity to supply product, along with their contract maximum (the absurd number of rounds listed in the contract).  When the Russians decide they want to threaten the Ukraine they start rolling thousands of trucks to build up their logistics foot print - their supply system is about as good as the US in the 1960s.
 
When NATO (in our new systems) decides that it wants to have forward combat capability to defend Estonia SACEUR makes a notional movement order in the supply system (the units mostly remain in place) that starts the supply system bulking up supplies, but these supplies movements are nonlinear.  A base in Germany gets 500 cases of toilet paper more than it needs and the system knows this, because it has internal smarts and it knows that this toilet paper will get married with other items and form part of the supply picture.  The bad guys in this case have no idea that NATO just changed its operational tempo because the system is programmed to avoid huge lifts of ammo and weapons to right next door to the trouble spot.  Computers make this all work.
 
This smarts means that if your unit uses .338 you can order it, and the system remembers and starts putting it on the list of supplies you need.  Back at the tail of the system the 27 units that use .338 get tallied together and that ammo is ordered JIT from industry, plus additional capacity for emergency surge is paid for.  When your unit moves to a new place the system moves boxes of .338 shift through the system virtually, following you without moving warehouses.  If your supply situation makes .338 supply an issues then sometimes there needs to be some cross decking so the .338 is moved to a new place that is more efficient to supply it to you.  Some products are important enough that JIT policy is removed and they get predictive chaos theory applied to them.  So perhaps .338 is hard to predict in usage since special operations soldiers move around the globe so much and operational tempo is not linearly predictive.  So the .338 gets over supplied and additional supplies are sent to warehouses that may not be predictive of current tempo, but may be predictive of future tempo.  Also, logistics covers are important.  Since many SO teams use .45 ACP and .45 ACP deliveries could be used as intelligence to predict their movements, .45 ACP may be purchased and shipped to random places to remove this as a potential source of intelligence.
 
The system is smart in that it knows how much it costs to lift a product, how much it costs to store a product, and the database collects data on its own mistakes to improve its own operation.
 
In 1990 creating a new calibre of ammunition required that millions of forms be discarded, thousands of square meters of warehouse space be opened, tens of thousands of logistics people be trained, and the logistics footprint of every unit in the military be recalculated to determine the changed supply lift and delivery needs - a process that could take five years.  Today using the new system a soldier handed a new rifle with an unusual ammo can have that ammo specified in the system in a few days.  In four months that ammo will arrive anywhere in the world where that soldier is without fail (although oddballs tend to require human staff time for the first year as they need the system occasionally to be overridden - which is why end users now can order supply like ordering from Amazon).

T-15 Heavy IFV picture, posted by Russian MoD. They need to send to Siberia that guy, who uploaded small photos. Side armor is not fully mounted, vehicles were just delivered to Alabino.
 

Takeoff:
 

Glocks can be ordered with manual safeties by police departments.  It is a stupid feature that I do not know of anyone ever taking advantage of.  The safety physically blocks the striker.

February 14, 1988. This is evidence of battle was made by South African soldier on the border with Angola. BMP "Ratel" during operation "Hooper" suddenly stumbles upon T-54B tank, belonging to MPLA (Liberation Forces of Angola). Crew of the "Ratel" managed to shoot three times, and managed to destroy it.

Kurganets-25 IFV 3D render updated after few leaked photos.
 

 

 

HK in nutshell I mean - real HK G36 before being painted in black and sold to somebody unlucky.
 

 

 
 
AN-94, looking at happy faces i expect to see Abakan at Victory Day Parade.