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    I would think part of the attractiveness of gun armed TDs is that they could be used for fire support as a secondary role.
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    I have no experience in such matters, but I'd be game.
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    Rocket propelled grenades and other man portable weapons in a similar class, such as the M72 (somewhat) were highly important in many militaries for several years, and often still are. I believe we should identify what factors and design features are important to such weapons. One idea I have for such weapons is modularity. In my ideal world, the warhead of such weapons would be able to be switched relatively easily, while still using the same rocket motor and launcher. For instance, a HEAT warhead could be used against armored vehicles, but fairly quickly exchanged for a fragmentation or thermobaric warhead for use against soft targets. However, I am uncertain whether this would be workable in practice; it requires more thought than can be summoned in my current state.
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    Most of my experience is in MATLAB (though I did have a couple classes of Java in high school), so I'm afraid I won't be able to be much help with that. One issue that would need to get worked out fairly early in the design process is character progression. Would there be character levels as a whole, or instead a bunch of different skills, each of which would have a different rating, or some hybrid?
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    That makes sense, any non-shit mechanics system should be able to be used in a wide variety of settings.
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    Like Toxn mentioned in the other thread that spawned this one, I'm a fan of quite a few of the mechanics of Dwarf Fortress, such as the wounding system. Of course, that'd probably be a royal bitch to code, and I doubt we'll see any of DF's source code any time in the next few decades. As far as setting, I like Jeeps' idea, although to increase the hipster quotient, make the character a Red Army soldier on the eastern bank of the Rhine that just had their unit's logistical tail nuked out from under them.
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    Not Three Mile Island (which was laughably insignificant compared to popular reception), but SL-1. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ed1_1387144246&use_old_player=0 Protip: Don't design reactors with a single control rod. If you do design a reactor with a single control rod, don't move the control rod with your bare hands. A fatal case of Impaled-to-the-Ceiling Syndrome may result.
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    During the Cold War, many neutral states made efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Very few of these resulted in a working bomb. One of these failures was Switzerland; http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Library/Swissdoc.html Interestingly, the Swiss also managed to cock up their nuclear power program; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucens_reactor
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    Since the airliner post was met with a less than thrilling reception, here's a post by goon Mr. Chips on Soviet interceptors;
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    An interesting article about the natural fission reactors in Oklo, Gabon; http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-nuclear-reactor/
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    Goon powercube posted this in the Aeronautical Insanity thread quite a while ago, and I just now noticed it;
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    I can't really compete with that post, so have an XF-12. Apparently a civilian transport version was also considered.
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    During the early years of aviation, many aircraft were built. Some achieved widespread success. Most did not. This thread is for the second category. I'll start of by presenting my fetish for multiple engines on common driveshafts. The Ki-64, with a (Japanese clone of) a DB601 in both the front and back; The XB-42 Mixmaster, which has a name more suited for a kitchen appliance than a strategic bomber;
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    Trash can sized nuclear reactors! Quote: A theoretical exercise published in 2006 showed that the smallest possible thermal fission reactor would be a spherical aqueous homogenous one powered by a solution of Am-242m(NO3)3 in water. Its mass would be 4.95 kg, with 0.7 kg of Am-242m nuclear fuel, and diameter 19 cm. Power output would be a few kilowatts. Possible applications are space program and portable high-intensity neutron source. The small size would make it easily shielded. Sourced from: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/nuclear-fuel-cycle/power-reactors/small-nuclear-power-reactors/ I doubt superheavy elements such as Americium will be a viable fuel source in the near future, but it's still an interesting topic to discuss. As that snippet mentioned, I think one of the best applications would be in space, where mass is at a premium (though I doubt the savings in mass would be enough to offset the massive materials costs).
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    This thread is for discussion of modern (including Cold War) tank destroyer and gun carrier concepts. Most of these feature a good sized gun on a relatively light chassis with good mobility (as a result, they are sometimes known as light tanks). Some are built on converted IFV chassis. Examples include;
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    I don't think Garbad is a nazi, just an douche with an overinflated ego. We should put him and a certain other person in a room together sometime. It would be fun to watch.
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    AI (so the second one)
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    SAAB A38 concept (the A-10 like thing Sturgeon posted is a related concept);
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    Otomatic: completely balanced.
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    The forum skin is actually part of a subtle effort to troll Tied.
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    http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/manifesto-of-the-committee-to-abolish-outer-space/ Some say this is a joke. I hope they are right.
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    SomethingAwful. Think I actually found it in some video game related thread, not sure how it ended up there.
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    Collimatrix: not part of wide demographic stretches.
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    Today I learned how to calculate the ratio of neutron production to absorbtion for various simple reactor geometries, such as rectangular prisms, cylinders, and spheres. Fun fact: assuming a perfectly spherical geometry, roughly 18kg of U235 is needed to achieve criticality. This mass has roughly the same volume as a typical grapefruit. Coincidence?
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    Fuck guns, missiles are the ~*FUTURE*~. May or may not include fissile materials; (stolen from SA)
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