W. Murderface

On 9/28/2022 at 6:59 PM, Jägerlein said:

Seem's to be debatable what the minimum is.

The poor guy looks like he's about to cry.

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/

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')

On 6/3/2022 at 1:00 PM, SH_MM said:

Rheinmetall's new MBT is called "Panther". Spicy name.

 

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

On 5/20/2022 at 6:39 PM, Sturgeon said:

As they continue to fall apart, yes:

It's not falling apart, it's resting.

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. 

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

4 hours ago, N-L-M said:

-please refrain from challenging the all-powerful dictator and/or mod team to a pissing match.

Forgot about not angering the god king and the mod bings again. My bad.

33 minutes ago, W. Murderface said:

Mark my words, you will pay for this, Sturgeon!!!

Sturgeon is literally Invuldemurt!

Mark my words, you will pay for this, Sturgeon!!!

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!

I have a tiny wee wee doo doo doo put me in a skirt and make me dance.

7 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

 

You have seven posts, go away.

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.

On 4/8/2022 at 12:25 AM, Sturgeon said:

Oh? What is your plan here? Will you report me to the moderators?

Hope you'll be decent and reasonable, instead of drunk with power and invulnerability

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.

2 hours ago, jeffster said:

The backblast can be used to clear enemy infantry or for less than lethal crowd dispersion.

Ah, so that's what its for.

Now I'm not an expert in any of this, but this guy seems to know what he's on about. 

Just now, Xoon said:

Only places I find aluminum useful would be for the motor casings and the cables between the Generator, battery, and controller. 

Why not connect the motors with aluminium cables as well?

8 hours ago, Collimatrix said:

 

Welcome to SH Bill Murderface.  

 

Building on your point, the space penalty for a tank with non collocated engine and drive sprockets is lower if it has an electric drivetrain.  That said, I think that current AFV engine compartments tend to be closely wrapped around their powerplants.  The proposed diesel Abrams all had enlarged engine decks.  So I don't think that putting exotic new powerplants in tanks is primarily constrained by transmission compatibility.

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. 

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