Sgt.Squarehead

@Alzoc, @Sgt.Squarehead, this article fairly neatly communicates why Americans are so fond of their guns.

Ahhh, the ol' flag of 1818.

If you could somehow persuade some of your mass-shooters to target your media, much good work might be done IMHO.

So I give this school story shooting another couple days of life tops now that the incompetence of the Broward County Sheriffs Office, School Board, and various political figures is emerging from the static.

The SU-57 is so cool that Salafist insurgents are climbing over each other to claim that they've been bombed by one!

Am I right in thinking that the US military maintains recruiters at many/most schools/colleges? 
 
Surely if these recruiters included some combat veterans and were armed.....
 
Just a thought.
 
PS - **** me.....Can't believe I'm suggesting you lot should become even more militaristic! 

I still wouldn't want to eat it.  Dog probably doesn't deserve it either.

Blimey.....The National Interest is gonna have an aneurism!   

Well hello there
 
@Collimatrix

While this is being portrayed as a purge of conservatives, all I see is dollar $igns. Force users to fork over important personal information, in this case phone numbers. Twitter will blandly assure users that they only need the numbers for "security purposes" whereupon at a later date they'll sell that information to the highest bidder. As with all free social media, the users aren't the customers, they're the product being sold. 
 
Once again, I'm glad that I've never joined Twatter. 

Syrian Air Defence Forces.....We finally hit one! 

Do you even CNN?
 

Did we already get this one?
 

Some new light is finally being shed on Blair's dubious dealings with Gadaffi:  http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/belhaj-case-mi6-chief-met-gaddafi-shortly-abductions-documents-show-1296202806
 
For the sake of Britain's good name that **** really needs to stand trial.

1) Banned by The Outer Space Treaty
2) NASA would have to go into public detail on how they miniaturised and optimised a nuclear bomb, which is sure to have a hilarious effect on international relations

Sounds cool, but the article needs more detail (it would also be nice if they linked to a NASA press release or something).
 
When are they going to test a full scale example? Are there any plans for an orbital test (like the Saturn-N plans from the NERVA days)? Where can I learn more about the Russian reactor?  
Because people are lame and have no sense of adventure (also, what Xlucine said).
 
This; http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/supplement/GA-5009vIII.pdf
 
paper talks about using a Saturn V to launch Orion components, which would at least eliminate the ground launch issue.
 
 

No matter, there's another one here.

It depends exactly how and when the HE round explodes.

If the HE rounds are exploding overhead and throwing shell fragments, the Western paper-tanks should be safe.  In fact, even the aluminum-armored M113 was safe against this sort of threat.  HE round fragments have good initial velocity, but very poor sectional density and aerodynamics, so they are crummy armor penetrators.  The invention of proximity fuses at the end of WWII meant that it got a lot easier to have large-caliber HE shells explode before they hit the ground.  The proximity fuse detected the ground and triggered the shell some distance before it hit the ground.  This meant that the fragments spread from a higher level above the ground and chewed up more area around the shell strike, which is very good for pulverizing infantry.  I'm not sure when the Soviets got proximity fuses, but I doubt they were too far behind the USA.

If the HE rounds are exploding on contact with the armor of the vehicle, the armor needs to withstand not just the impact of the fragments but also the blast overpressure wave from the explosion.  Here again I would guess that the Western tanks are safe, since 30mm would be considered quite thick for belly armor against mines.  That said, there is a difference in the sort of steel that is ideal for armor against armor-piercing shells and armor that is good for dealing with blast overpressure.  Armor against armor-piercing shells is ideally rather hard but a bit brittle, armor against blast overpressure is ideally tough but a bit soft (toughness and hardness are always a trade-off in steel).

If the HE round in question is an APHE round that has some degree of structural integrity and is fused to explode a few fractions of a second after hitting something, I think the Leo 1 is screwed.  Regular HE rounds don't really overmatch thin armor well, since overmatch essentially involves the shell bending it's flight trajectory abruptly after hitting something hard.  Regular HE shells have enough of a shell wall to generate fragments, and they're not really well-suited for such extreme maneuvers.  But semi-AP HE projectiles have enough of an armor-piercing body, and usually have delayed-action fuses such that they could probably poke right through.

So as long as those 76mm guns have APHE, AP or they could pose a threat from the side.  Regular HE, especially with a contact or proximity fuse will probably not work well.  That said, there was also a HEAT round for the 76mm field gun, the UBP-344A.  I haven't been able to find performance, but it could be that those were a threat from the front.

Apparently there's some sort of evolving scandal surrounding charity giant Oxfam.

I'm anxiously waiting for the Turkey's K2-derived Altay to have all these teething problems which will be denied with as much vigor as the Indians defend the Arjun.