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gaucho1

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    gaucho1 reacted to mr.T in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    Javelin decoy somewhere  in Belarus!!? 
     

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    gaucho1 reacted to Lord_James in Vacations and Traveling Thread: Where have you been?   
    So, to practice sending photos from my phone to the internet (in preparation for taking pictures of Artemis 2), I'd like to share some pictures of my most recent vacation to Mars. Yup, took one of Elon's rockets and blasted off! Utah is so damn beautiful. 
     
    I didn't want to derail looser's family photos thread, so I'll just make this new one. 
     
    Flying in

     
     
    The first stop my family and I made on our trip was on the "wrong side" of Zion, or the less busy side. I loved the red rocks, and the sky was an incredible shade of blue; my phone camera doesn't quite capture that. 

     
    There's a whole lot of nothin' between towns and tourist stops, but the scenery is nice. 

     
    The next stop was Arches national park, which you need to make a reservation to get into. I took few pictures of the actual Arcs, because I cannot into be bothered. 

     
    Next came Dead Horse Point; it's called that because the cowboys use to drive the wild horses up onto the plateau to catch them. 

     
    We also visited Goblins state park, where part of the movie Galaxy Quest was filmed. 

     
    We went some other random places to. I don't remember which belongs to what, so I'll be lazy and put them all here

     
    And our last stop was at Bryce national park, where I finally saw snow. I was ill prepared for such an event, however... 

     
    I would have posted this an hour or so ago, but I honestly got distracted by something on Imgur, which was a nice start to the day. 
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    gaucho1 reacted to LoooSeR in The Space Exploration Achievements Thread   
    Another great and detailed video from Launch Pad about JWST, now about optics.
     
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    gaucho1 reacted to LoooSeR in Non-exploding infantry hardware thread.   
    Video about ghillie suit in Russian, but footage is interesting - a minigame "guess where 3 snipers are"
     
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    gaucho1 reacted to Collimatrix in General Metallic Armor Thread   
    Part of my brain still refuses to accept that "solutionize" is an actual piece of metallurgical terminology and not something that George W. Bush came up with.  He's not a problemifier, he's a solutionizer.
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    gaucho1 reacted to LoooSeR in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    Interesting article about T-64 turrets by Andrey
    https://warspot.ru/5447-probnye-shary-sovetskogo-tankostroeniya
     
     
     
     

       Turret with with ultraforcelain inserts (cylinders) from the technical project of “Izdelie 432”, 1961. They returned to this idea in 1968, but the final version was corundum balls KVP-98, which were produced by a ceramic factory in Slavyansk (assembly of inserts with balls). The very development of the turret from the project to the adoption in 1973 took 12 years.
     
     

       T-64 production model turret with aluminum filler
     

       T-64 production model turret with aluminum filler, overall sections. When fired, the turret with combined armor provided full protection against 85-mm and 100-mm HEAT shells (similar to 105-mm cumulative shells of NATO countries), 100-mm armor-piercing blunt-headed shells with in arc of ± 35 °
     
     

       The T-64 tank with a turret with aluminum filler and a upper frontal hull plate with "cheekbones".
     

       T-64 tank with a turret with aluminum filler and a straight upper frontal part of the hull, 1967
     
     
     

     
     
     

       Ceramic ball with diameter of 70 mm
     
     
     
       T-64A turret with ceramics
     
     

       Serial T-64A turret, sections
     
     
     

       View of IVth belt of the serial-production turret 
     
     
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    gaucho1 reacted to Scolopax in The interesting ship photos/art thread.   
    USS Detroit (CL-8), present at both the attack at Pearl Harbor and the surrender at Tokyo Bay
     
     
    Left most ship

     

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    gaucho1 reacted to LostCosmonaut in J2M Raiden   
    Some brief shots of J2Ms on the ground and taking off in the first minute of this video;
     
     
    Additional footage (untranslated):
     
     
    Brief footage of testing of J2M (very brief appearance at the end) and other captured Japanese aircraft;
     
     
     
     
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    gaucho1 reacted to Belesarius in US/Iran flirting with quagmire thred.   
    I don't know that the US has the political willpower to deal with an extended conflict with Iran.  I would also expect a Trump government to have significant difficulty in building an international coalition to fight with Iran. He's pissed off a lot of allies. And on a personal level, I wouldn't waste a single American/Canadian/British life for anything to do with the middle east. Let the shithole rot.
     
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    gaucho1 reacted to LoooSeR in Israeli AFVs   
    Heh, always knew that Merkava is cardboard.

     
     
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    gaucho1 reacted to Jeeps_Guns_Tanks in Mechanized Warfare is now a moderated subforum   
    Hey, if they do the COPS how in England, do they replace to cool intro song, with the Bennie Hill theme?
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    gaucho1 reacted to LoooSeR in Aerospace Pictures and Art Thread   
    Strange to see this plane now, feels retro. Can't believe that when i was a kid this thing was cutting edge and mythical super plane.

     
     
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    gaucho1 reacted to SLAP in Bolt Carrier Bounce: Causes and Solutions   
    The Swiss have reduced bolt bounce in their Sturmgewehr 57 by deforming the cartridge shoulder upon bolt impact. Patent.
     

     

     
     
     
     
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    gaucho1 reacted to LoooSeR in General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.   
    Reactive liquid armor when?
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    gaucho1 reacted to Priory_of_Sion in The India-Pakistan shitstorm thred.   
    India has claimed it killed ~350 militants in their strike while Pakistan claims that the strikes resulted in 0 casualties. 
     
    It is hard to decide if the Indian military is just as incompetent as they've always been or if the Pakistanis are just lying as usual. 
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    gaucho1 reacted to Walter_Sobchak in United States Military Vehicle General: Guns, G*vins, and Gas Turbines   
    News story about the US gunner in that famous film footage of the Pershing/Panther duel.
     
    A World War II hero returns to Germany to solve a mystery -- and meet an enemy
     
     
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    gaucho1 reacted to Sturgeon in Designing A Rifle From Scratch(ish)   
    After four major iterations, the charging handle is finished:
     

     
    [comrade kalashnikov to the rescue again]
     
    Only thing left to do is throw the LPK in and we have a complete gun.
     
    Current weights (unlikely to change meaningfully)
     
    SCAR-alike config: 2.78 kg / 6.14 lb
     
    14.5" / 13" w/ ACR stock: 3.10 kg / 6.84 lb
     
    10.5" / 8.5" w/ ACR stock: 2.68 kg / 5.90 lb
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    gaucho1 reacted to Sturgeon in Designing A Rifle From Scratch(ish)   
    Here it is in 10.5" barreled configuration:


     
    2.62 kg / 5.77 lbs unloaded
     
     
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    gaucho1 reacted to Mogensthegreat in I Learned Something Today   
    TIL that average height in Europe is still lower today than it was in pre-Neolithic times.
     
    https://ourworldindata.org/human-height#mesolithic-times-middle-ages-subsistence-societies-and-modern-foragers
     

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    gaucho1 reacted to Renegade334 in United States Military Vehicle General: Guns, G*vins, and Gas Turbines   
    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.
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    gaucho1 reacted to LoooSeR in General news thread   
    Now i see a reason why we need all those Ukrainians.
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    gaucho1 reacted to LoooSeR in Syrian conflict.   
    I have my own version, with blackjack and hookers - in reality, outside of theatrical perfomances of politicains this chemical attack or "chemical attack" doesn't matter as attack didn't killed\"killed" more than any other serious weapon system killed in Syria, it didn't changed anything from military POV, it didn't brought down human rights or dignity more than artillery did in Eastern Ghouta. Now we have this theater of hollowbodied bastards the real event doesn't matter for them either. It is simulacrum that exist outside of an actual event.
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