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W. Murderface

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  1. Google thought this was relevant to my interests. Fair enough. https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/08/04/drawings-of-a-russian-copy-of-the-b-2-spirit-bomber-surfaced/
  2. In the spirit of terrible music, I've decided to bare my soul, and post a parody I wrote when I was working in the QC lab of a company that made... some mundane shit. Needless to say, not everything that left the factory was up to spec. It's set to 2004's height of culture: Retaliator, by Scar Symmetry. https://youtu.be/LT5LU7_1Yw8 I bring you 'Certificator' https://jpst.it/2VNI4 (Carlo and Marco, for the record, are the people working in the customer service department that would pester me for certificates of 'analysis')
  3. From Rheinmetall themselves: https://www.rheinmetall-defence.com/en/rheinmetall_defence/public_relations/eurosatory_1/location_map_2/index.php Seems to go by KF51 MBT these days
  4. Regarding the A10's übergewehr being useless against anything more heavily armoured than the caveman-era T62, I would like to point you at the following articles, from 100% correct and unbiased sources: https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-tests-a-10-cannon-against-modern-tank-armor-2022-5?international=true&r=US&IR=T https://www.53rdwing.af.mil/News/Article/3022734/a-10c-munitions-render-explosive-reactive-armored-tanks-inoperative-during-test/ Thank you for your attention. Dont believe the lies. Hog has been willed into immortality by the congress itself.
  5. I hope so. Last time I heard about the MGCS was two months ago, with talk of Italy joining the programme. www.armyrecognition.com/analysis_focus_army_defence_military_industry_army/italian_army_to_possibly_join_european_mgcs_main_ground_combat_system_programme.html
  6. Forgot about not angering the god king and the mod bings again. My bad.
  7. I pirouette in my skirt, with older men I like to flirt, cute and sweet and pleasantly neat, I am the girl you want to meet!
  8. I have a tiny wee wee doo doo doo put me in a skirt and make me dance.
  9. This might have impressed me 15 years ago on deviantart, but it's rather luke warm doodoo now, nolo. Edit: Actually no, back then it was technical knowledge and a willingness to educate me that was impressive. This authoritarian girth you're flaunting is a more recent development.
  10. Hope you'll be decent and reasonable, instead of drunk with power and invulnerability
  11. Pretend to be an Iskander, probably. Edit: Second idea, a more likely one: they blast any radar systems looking for ballistic missiles with radar signal, drowning out the radar reflection from the actual missile.
  12. Now I'm not an expert in any of this, but this guy seems to know what he's on about.
  13. Why not connect the motors with aluminium cables as well?
  14. For wheeled vehicles at least, I think there's the possibility to increase the protected volume by moving the motors away from the hull and into the wheels. As for tracked stuff, I'm not sure putting your primary sources of locomotion on the relatively stickie-outtie top rear corners of the hull is a smart move. You could bury them deeper, but that'll cost you at least some of your hard won protected volume. Either way, I think there's a case to be made for copper or aluminium wires for drive trains. Not necessarily engine related, but: having a huge generator on board opens up windows to directed energy weapons, and further down the line maybe even rail guns.
  15. Regarding rafts of engine concepts, a vehicle with electric motors and an empty engine bay could offer a myriad of possibilities. Just add electricity. Xoon mentioned free piston linear generators. A few of these, and whatever you want to feed them in the tank, and you can go do your thing. Additionally, if the vehicle were to take a hit, as long as some FPLGs remain operational, you do too (I think). A group of students from Eindhoven built a formic acid fuelled range extender trolley to hang behind an electric city bus. If the contents of the trolley could be made to fit, that would be a pretty sweet means of electricity generation. It produces far less waste heat and noise than a combustion powered generator. Unlike petroleum-based fuels formic acid isn't flammable, and when you do it right it has no carbon footprint. But it's a big if. This approach assumes a rather high efficiency compared to fossil fuel systems. Some links: http://www.teamfast.nl/ https://www.tue.nl/en/university/news-and-press/news/07-07-2017-how-to-power-a-bus-on-formic-acid/ http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00574 These two articles suggest other compounds as hydrogen carriers, most interestingly carbohydrates. The latter article suggests as much as 10 MJ of H2 power from 1 kg of carbs, about twice as much as formic acid's 5.22 MJ/kg. But then again, I've seen the formic acid trolley on TV, but no sugar car so far. Maybe it's a good next step after you've bought your formic acid powered tanks. They have electric motors already. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v495/n7439/full/nature11891.html?foxtrotcallback=true http://bioenergycenter.org/besc/publications/zhang_renewable_carbohydrate.pdf
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