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That "triple runway" carrier (though only the middle one seems capable of arresting planes) concept at 3:30 looks rather interesting, though for some reason it makes me think of an antique trireme. XD EDIT: finally posted in the right thread. Goldurnit.

Mods, please delete this. My brain just doesn't want to work today; it makes me post in the wrong areas, repeatedly.

Sorry, wrong thread.

Isn't that just a bunch of pMHR radars strung together?

US tanks also occasionally have them, not just to protect the crew but also spare the topside equipment (such as antennas or even cameras) from being accidentally shorn off or damaged by low-hanging wires. Those wire cutters are usually more commonplace on helicopters (to protect the main rotor mast), though.

That, and I guess the hull has probably quite some structural damage, both from when she was hit by the tanker and when she foundered on her side. And you have to replace a truckload of internal hardware that wasn't meant to enter in contact with seawater and get even slightly corroded (electronics, etc). So...yeah, at that point, the repairs could be so expensive and extensive it might make more sense to purchase a new ship of the same class.

No, most image queries will be polluted with well-known pictures of the 120S (many of those pics will be screenshots from Armored Warfare; the devs have erroneously used the 120S pics to model their premium "M60-2000"), the Super M60/M60AX, the Magach and/or the Sabra. EDIT - an interesting detail: another AW forum member, Jarink, suggested the vehicle seen in the background here could possibly be a M1015 Electronic Warfare Shelter Center (based on the M548 chassis) due to the presence of a grounding rod on the front. ^--- M1015 with ELINT-gathering AN/MSQ-103 "TEAMPACK". Note the grounding rod at the front. ^--- M1015 with AN/MLQ-34 "TACJAM" communications jammer. Note the more modern grounding rod with square box, similar to the one in the first picture.

So it is a M60-2000. Nice.

That's a possibility, though that hulk is lacking the two "grooves" on the turret cheeks. Also, I don't think they ever put that M60 cupola on the AX's commander hatch. Additionally, the back face of the turret on the hulk is canted, whereas the back of the AX' turret seems flat. If anything, the hulk's turret has more of an early M1 turret vibe (with the short storage boxes on the sides and a pedestal for the wind sensor on the back) than an AX... It could however be some intermediary step between the two, a precursor to the M60-2000.

Credits owed to Damian90 on the AW forums. Since there is some uncertainty as to what this truly is, I haven't posted it in the vismods thread (yet).

Mike Sparks argument #225: the all-purpose Gavin will keep your children safe and deliver them to school when school bus drivers are on strike and courting the devils of socialism. Stupid Abrams can't even do that. #back2gavin #whatwouldjesusdrive Yes, I know it's a M59 and not a M113. Just let me fill my daily quota of cringey attempts at humor.

A 2013 study by Uhlig and Hummer showed that the outer part of a modern copper-based HEAT jet, in-flight, had a measurable temperature of ~800°C, though more dated experiments at getting temp readings in-flight showed lower numbers (~550°C). 800°C is still far from the melting point of copper (~1100°C) and given the short amount of time a HEAT jet stays in the air before striking its target, it's even more worthless against steel (for reference - depending on their respective grades, stainless steel alloys melt somewhere between 1,375°C and 1,530°C) . As Bronezhilet said, heat (the HEAT acronym really caused a lot of misunderstandings here) has nothing to do with the armor-penetration mechanism of a shaped charge. The HEAT jet simply a semi-liquid spike made from a very dense material (copper, lanthanum or any other alloy thereof), violently compressed by a chemical explosion and made to travel at hypersonic speeds in one very specific, narrow direction. The rest is just pure physical pressure. EDIT: the only part where heat (lowercase) matters is maybe post-penetration, because it means that whatever is on the other side will be hit by a spray of very dense, fast-moving material...and a hot one at that.

That servicing aperture would be a rather inconvenient weak spot, especially if a mine detonates under the front part of the hull.

O_o... Oookay. Now how do you service (or replace) either engine without being forced to prealably remove the entire gun? Is it possible for the front part of the hull (from glacis' tip to end of the first "bogie") to disconnect from the rest of the body or is this a true monolithic hull?

The following video has the GDLS rep clearly stating that the turret is designed by GD (1:21 mark). The 50mm gun, OTOH, is being integrated with ARDEC's help (1:13 mark) and the 85° elevation capability is their answer to a request/requirement by USAR.

Question: why did they remove that fore Phalanx from the later Burke Flights? Was it judged unnecessary, inefficient or is there some other, obscure reason for this change (please don't say it's in order to reduce overall ship RCS), like repurposing the structure underneath as storage for extra computers or something?

For the Strv 2000 O, it looks like the gun would have to be traversed back to the 12 o'clock position in order to be reloaded. I suppose that the gun itself can be lowered, backwards, so as to bring the breech closer to the autoloader arm? (or even to mate the breech with the autoloader hatch, thus preventing the ammunition from being exposed)

You mean the Fighting Furry?

@Ramlaen Not to mention, it also sports the CREW Duke v3 antenna (behind that black cylinder), which suggests they're different (as in, separate) systems. I'm still not convinced it's the Multimodal Hostile Fire Detection System (to be included with Raytheon's Lynx offering), as the top of the sensor array sports a ring of flash-detecting optics: that black cylinder is clearly smooth with no set of apertures...and I don't think it's just a removable protection cap meant to cover the MFHDS when the latter is not in use. EDIT: it's certainly one of the new AMPVs, probably the Mission Command variant. You can clearly see that antenna pedestal in front of the CREW Duke.

Do the three hakenkreuze on the turret signify that it has indulged three times in teamkilling?

His anecdote about the pressure sensor on the bustle ammunition compartment's sliding door was fascinating. I love those little-known details. And lucky for him, too. Having your arm crushed by a quarter-ton slab of steel sounds like an extremely bad, career-ending day.

There is a BMP-3 variant called the Kornet-T (9P163M-1), but it lacks the dual-cannon turret. It's actually kind of a Khrizantema, but with Kornets instead.

...Unless they're factoring into their equations the vehicles' respective dismounts and the theoretical AT weaponry the latter are packing (though I'm not sure RU soldiers would be packing something as big as the Kornet instead of a slimmer [and lighter] RPG-28 or RPG-32)

That, or the bustle contains extra ammunition (or, more likely, the XM654 supercharged propellant cases). The previous cutaways we got suggest there are two different autoloader configurations considered from the M109A8 - a vertical one (more comparable to the one used on the Crusader) and a horizontal carousel (Meggitt-style). Who knows, maybe the current configuration uses a blend of the two, with primary (vertical) storage in the turret itself and extra charges (horizontal) and carousel in the bustle?

AUSA 2018 Warriors Corner #19 Long Range Precision Fires Cross - Functional Team Update with Col. John Rafferty, Col. Chris Mills, Col. Will McDonough and Mike George https://www.dvidshub.net/video/embed/631880 58-caliber M109A8 test footage at the beginning of the video. Credits to Damian90 on AW forums.