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Chorizo (Mexican) and poached egg.

Viruses are hyperintelligent alien life forms.
Checkmate, Albert Sabin!

"Choke the Gripen"
"Spank the Tomcat"
 
"Free the Viper"
 
"Grab your Junkers"
"Ride the Fagot"

I will write an article about it tomorrow but anyway here is drawing of the IS-2U.

Apparently the original armor scheme suggested would've required replacing the torsion bars with something smaller.

Thought you guys might get a kick out this:

The last few centimetres of a metre-long projectile don't do much to change its penetration. Colour me amazed.
Also: a golden opportunity for testing stone arrowheads against small, yappy dogs was missed.

See, that's just the sort of attitude that would have held you back in the Imperial Japanese Army.

That's really interesting and I'm glad you took it all into account. I get to handle all kinds of WW1/WW2 stuff at my museum job, but not too much Cold War stuff.

Huge damn thank you to Alex C. for donating several month's worth of rent for the site.

I took my vacation this week and have absolutely nothing to do, so today I am weighing magazines as a result of talking with Nathaniel.
 
It all started when we discussed how absurdly heavy the STG57 is, as delivered to the Swiss army. However, the 510-4 and AMT variants have shorter barrels and are trimmed a bit (simplified sights and so on). The SIG weighs in at an impressive 9.06 pounds!
 

 
And then we have various mag weights. Remember, the SIG mag is heavy because in 7.62, they used the same size mag as they did in 7.5 Swiss, but added a block/integral feed ramp:
 

 
A true military Westinghouse M14 mag:
 

 
An old "patents pending" AR10 mag:
 

 
FN FAL:
 

 
SCAR 17:
 

 
G3 Mag:
 

 
 
Some thoughts:
7.62x51 Sig mags are heavy, but result in not having to modify the receiver to accept a shorter mag.
The M14 mags feel the most robust.
AR10 mags are light, but at a cost to durability. I have broken one by having the follower snap the bit that retains the front of the follower, and another by having it expand too much after being loaded for a few months.
FAL and SCAR mags are essentially the same, but it is nice that they are the same weight despite the SCAR having that nice big floor plate to grab.
Aluminum G3 mags seem like a compromise between durability and weight. At $2.00 per mag, most people will find that in a batch of 10, one or two are worn out or dinged up too badly. The steel mags are much more robust, but are less common.

That's a box of sewing supplies, Don.

Thanks entirely to Lend-Lea...
 
*KGB Volga staff car pulls up somehow and two burly looking individuals step out*

The IS-7

This thread is for all things Ukrainian Civil War. I will start off by posting this analysis from SA:
 
 

Link

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Trinity test.
 
70 years ago today, in a remote part of southern New Mexico, a fission chain reaction started on Earth for the first time in billions of years.

Thought you guys might get a kick out this:

Thought you guys might get a kick out this:

My favorite picture of the Great Patriotic War:
 
A. G. Yeremenko (who was killed a few minutes later) urges on his troops.

Some things that come to mind in regards to Soviet Tanks:
Depression of the IS-7 is 7 degrees and not 3 (or 1.5) degrees. All guns on the ST-I are unhistorical along with weight and engine horsepower 122mm on KV-4 and KV-3 are not historical. T-62A turret armor is incorrect and has 5 degrees depression instead of 7. Depression of the Object 140 should 5 degrees not 6 Turret and gun options on the LTTB are unhistorical,  D-10-85 was only ever mounted on a SU-85. Object 261 model and gun is wrong

The standard used by the US Treasury department:

The best version of Dixie: