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Zvezda made a report about FSB TsSN Directorate "K" (25 years anniversary), screengrabs:

 
 

   Armored UAZ Patriot. Interesting, are those things as shitty as normal Patriots? I suspect those are highly moded ones (not just added armor).
 
 

   Training within huge shooting gallery, elements of contact during forest search operaion, AFAIK.
 
 

   GM-94
 
 

   VIP protection team.
 
 

   Mortar team
 
 

https://iz.ru/1127234/anton-lavrov-aleksei-ramm/vrag-i-gremlin-novuiu-giperzvukovuiu-raketu-ispytaiut-v-2023-godu
 
New hypersonic missile announced, to begin testing in 2023 according to Izvestia. Codename "Гремлин" (Gremlin). Planned to be compatible with Tu-22, Su-35, Su-30SM and Su-57. Supposedly it was a mock-up of Gremlin that was announced to have been tested in the Su-57's internal bays earlier this week.

Interview with Nikita Dorofeev, head of the cockpit department of the Sukhoi Design Beureu, regarding the Su-57s cockpit: https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5ddfbc8b9515ee00ac9e370a/zakon-raboty-dlia-pilotskoi-hijiny-60210924d96a1a50b883b243

Developmentally it had good ergonomics, great upgrade potential (witness jumbo, easy 8s, M50 ishermans, crazy yugo shermans with 122mm guns in them et al), good armour when it entered service, a good gun when it entered service, monumental mechanical reliability, good servicing characteristics, good logistical characteristics.
 
On the downside it was, what, a bit tall? Petrol engined? Not upgunned a month earlier than it could have been? 'Only' 400 or so jumbos produced?
 
Sherman is far and away the top contender for 'best tank of WW2', and ahead of T-34 in my opinion due to better soft factors (ergonomics, serviceability).
 
As for 'onwards': M10 (perfectly fine), M36 (very good), M18 (very good), M24 (amazing), M41 (good), the entire Patton series beyond M26 (very good to good). Even M3 and M5 light were good for their class.
 
Look, I'm no burgerphile. But the Americans were on a raging technological hot streak in the 1940s and 1950s that I don't think any other nation has equalled: literally shitting out world-beating technologies at scale while single-handedly building up the world's biggest navy and air force. Even their failures were unusually good - the USSR loved the P39 even though the US considered it a hot mess, and how many Wehraboos would be creaming themselves over the M26 or M7 if they had been produced with a balkenkreuz painted on the side of their hulls? Hell, how much would German aircraft designs have liked to get their hands on the R-2800 while the Americans were slapping them into anything with wings?

Mi-24G low pass
 

From Popenker's VK group - heavy drugs + UGL as stocks for AKs

Augmented reality software being used on the Su-57 production line:
 
 

Patents for all inventions are on the walls
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 

 
   From comment section:
 
   And thats all for today about Obobob. Take care and keep enough bolts for your foldable bullpup AKs.

2. "Rys' " SMG

 
 
 
 
 
   3. "Sea Lion". The other one.

 
 
 
   4. ADSh "Bars"

 
 
 
 
   5. "Smerch" bullpup assault rifle

 
 
 
 
   6. "Shkval" assault rifle

 
 
 

Apperently there are using Microsoft's Hololense, which means that Microsoft potentially can have parts of assembly schematics of Russian top secret stealth fighter, lmao. 

Augmented reality software being used on the Su-57 production line:
 
 

Augmented reality software being used on the Su-57 production line:
 
 

Straight blowback is unsuitable for high pressure rifle cartridges. You can use delayed blowback or retarded blowback for rifle calibers, but they are not cheaper than a well-designed modern gas-operated gun. For example, when HK was in trouble after the collapse of East Germany and the cancellation of the G11, they did not revive the retarded blowback HK33/41 family to produce the new weapon for the cash-strapped Bundeswehr, they created an all-new gas operated gun in the G36. And it was indeed cheaper.

This raises the question, if retarded blowback isn't necessarily cheaper than gas operation, why did anyone use it at all? And how did the G3 come very close to out-competing the FAL, despite being available a few years later. There's really two parts to the answer. First, retarded blowback is one of several methods tried to solve several problems that early gas operated rifles had, foremost of which is that they didn't handle pressure variances well. The solution to these myriad problems turned out to simply be refinement of the gas operated mechanism, best embodied by the M16 and the AK families. Both of these include robust, corrosion-proof materials and the M16 also fired noncorrosive ammunition, which completely solved the issues of erosion around the gas port causing the rifle to become more gassed over time. Both also include refinements to the mechanism which make them less sensitive to pressure variances in general (the AK is just designed to be overgassed in the first place, making excessive port pressure less of an issue, and includes generous underslide which helps reduce wear and tear on the bolt, and M16's DI system provides similar benefits). Retarded blowback guns, in theory, avoid all of these problems by simply not having a gas system in the first place, which in 1945 seemed like a very intuitive solution to the Germans who couldn't afford corrosion resistant materials. The famous HK roller locked family of guns are all derived from these efforts. The gas pressure problem is also why so many rifles from the late 1940s and 1950s have gas regulators, as often this was a very tidy solution to both that problem and also to give the gun better ability to fire early rifle grenades.

Too lazy to search for my post from 2018, translated short look at 1P87 by Kalashism. Very low battery life, bad glass because of heavy blue color and it also gives strong glare from light sources across whole glass. Generally he disliked this sight.

Yes the AK basically does this. It has very generous underslide and excess carrier travel forward after the out of battery safety clears the bolt stem, which is exactly the solution you describe. Several of my rifle designs use this same solution.

Because there are times when infantry is not nearby and doesn't want to get out of their trenches and run up into close quarters combat.
 
   They are one of main problems. Tank chassis brings all negative costs (logistical, price, maintenance) but BMPT doesn't have an ooomph that require tank chassis to be used in the first place. And add here gap in range and firepower between a tank and BMPT, on top of lack of any other role that BMPT can occupy in situations when BMPT can't reach targets that tanks are working on.
 
   Syria shown pretty well that ability to shoot in X amount of targets in the same time doesn't play any role as main problem is actually seeing your enemies. Main bottleneck for urban fighting for vehicles is spotting exact enemy location, not an inability to fire at them. And rare situations when enemies were firing from places that AFVs couldn't reach could be solved with RCWS with AGL.
 
   This was shown many times, i already covered some of them in this very thread when we discussed BMPT earlier. One of several that i can bring up is when SAA was assaulting Artillery academy during Battle for Aleppo and several tanks and BMPs were parked in very small space, several vehicles were hit in their rear arc by ATGM team firing rockets over a building from apperently roof of another high-rise building at long range. Same ATGM team was firing from the same place on next day, after SAA lost 2 tanks and IIRC BMP in one spot. According to position of vehicles, ATGM team was in reach of their guns, crews couldn't see them. 
 
   As i understand, Soviet BMPTs were born from experience in Afghanistan with it's terrain and type of enemy/their preffered way to do combat. Those BMPTs were more like convoy protection from ambush armored vehicles. Not exactly a frontline vehicle. In those situation detection of enemy isn't a problem, as you already got yourself into their ambush. 
 
   And your description of vehicle moving along the street is something out of WH40K, rather than reality.
 
   Here is another example of how tanks are eating RPGs. This is an old ANNA news video from Deraya combat, they filmed tank getting hit with RPG-29, and same event was filmed with akbars POV.
   3-4 tanks and 2-3 BMP-2s participated in operation and all of them were actively firing in all possible directions with main guns and coax. Didn't helped, T-72 was blown into pieces. This is probably best illustration of what is a main problem for AFVs in fighting with enemy infantry in urban enviroment.  
 
   Another example - tanks driving through streets being filmed by rebels/militants. Tanks are moving directly towards cameramans and doesn't see them (video is from multiply POV, but from same direction) and get into firefight from different direction, then proceed to fire in random directions for the most part. At 7:30 you can see RPG shot into T-72, from the front. A lot of unaimed suppressing fire from vehicles.
   At 11:10 and 21:20 rare example of enemies being very close to AFV and most likely outside of elevation limit of tanks main gun. Still, AFVs have no clue that enemies are there. At 12:20 is why you need an APS. Note how during whole video tanks gunners are very active with turning their tank turrets around, they are actively scanning, not just sitting in one place starring in nothingness.
 
   All those videos have 2 things in common - there is never lack of firepower and cannons to fire in multiply directions and in all videos vehicles show no knowledge of exact positions of enemies, only that in some buildings there was movement spotted before operation started or that everything further than a frontline is under enemy control. If you replace all tanks with BMPTs, result would be a bit more liberal use of suppressing fire.

maybe abit gorey. but anyway this is what happend when your army neglect the word "Air superiority" 

This squares with what my little birds had been telling me. The 95 round drum was a disaster and led to the demise of the entire RPK-16, basically.

Speaking about AK-50 and dumb... some info about version 2 of this gun is from 8:10.
 

Ballistic testing of K6-3 titanium helmet
 
 
 
I've wondered for a while what advantages these types of helmets offer over more conventional ones, and the number of units switching from these to more modern aramid ones would seem to indicate that the answer is 'not much'.
 
However, one thing this video demonstrates that I'd never considered is just how resistant these things are to deformation, even after repeated hits. Very impressive.

That's basically how this Brandon Herrera guy uses it. Got a bunch of attention and built a following off the back of his AK-50 project, and now uses said following to generate ad revenue and sponsorships off of videos of him reacting to gun memes, or doing basic explanations on various Soviet firearms that anybody could get themselves with a quick trip over to Modernfirearms.net. A bunch of teenagers who don't know any better have elevated him into being portrayed as some sort of firearms guru, hence his "The AK Guy" moniker.