18 hours ago, Mighty_Zuk said:

TLDR

Yes, you can remove the gunner completely.

Maybe my thinking is from yesterday, but I wouldn't think a moment about removing the Gunner. With the flood of incoming information in an NCW environment, I'm totally happy with a commander who can focus on processing these informations and taking decissions plus eventually assigning targets. Furthermore I'd love to have a gunner who is able to do his job the traditional way if the sensors got a beating...

Errors where made...

2 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

How hard is to make a mortar?

https://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3987210-poroshenko-zapretyl-prymeniat-mynomety-molot

"Poroshenko banned the use of mortars "Molot" (Hammer)"

Molot killed more Ukrainians than Russians. 3 UAF killed yesterday.

Maybe he could spare some Ammo now? The Bundeswehr has working mortars but almost exclusively overaged ammo:

On 7/1/2018 at 12:06 AM, Collimatrix said:

 

Yes, the booster creates a space between the muzzle of the barrel and the booster that fills with gas.  The gas pushes the barrel backwards.  The barrel was already retreating backwards, because it is a recoil-operated weapon, but the booster makes it go backwards even faster.  I'm not sure what exactly would happen if the booster were removed; probably the gun would short-stroke, but it might still work, just at a lower rate of fire.  I don't think that the booster is particularly required for extraction, but then the residual chamber pressure is needed for M4s to extract, so maybe the booster adds back-pressure or makes the system cycle quickly enough that there is still blowback pressure.

But there is no rule saying that the muzzle end of the booster has to be that little cup shape.  It could be replaced with a pronged flash hider.

During my time, we had a case of a booster not working correctly and at least in this caseit resulted in a stoppage after the first shot. But don't ask me what exactly happened because I was busy cuddling with my own MG3.

On 6/13/2018 at 11:52 PM, SH_MM said:

KNDS is not a single company. Its a cooperation of two companies, who try to split up the market (by not competing against each other) and help each other (by making joint projects). 

And where to start if you want to bring the NEXTER and KMW parts closer together? Give them something to tinker around and work together without a greater risk when things doesn't work out. And then the LeoClerc was born.
This cooperation is imho nothing which will last for too long, they'll grow together and will get rid of redundant parts.

On 6/4/2018 at 6:39 AM, Bronezhilet said:

No idea, shape stabilisation is essentially the worst type of stabilisation. And looking at the other two they could have used fin stabilisation without running into Cg/Cl problems.

Isn`t it finstabilized? It has only 4 fins vs. the 6+ of the other two types, but the fins are larger...

And maybe some distant day in the future, even the German Army will get rid of the last TPz Fuchs and replace them with Boxers.
With several hundrets to be build for AUS and the UK and probably some hundrets more for Germany as a third and maybe fourth batch
(there are still over 700 Fuchs in service, SHORAD is a candidate and  the light infantry would love to see some Boxer variants as a Wiesel replacement) the boxer won`t reach a Gav...M113 level but will at least be one of the more successful platforms.

Hey guys,
I could use a little reminder after my memory let me down in a chat yesterday. I think that I`ve see a document...or a post here, which stated, that the difference between DU and WC longrods on actual armor is smaller than a RHA comparission might suggest because of the difference between penetration a semi-infinite block of RHA and NERA...adiabatic shear and such. And since my google-fu let`s me down I`m not shure if my memory plays tricks on me.

thank you in advance!

On 26.3.2018 at 7:17 AM, Conner Webb said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjun_(tank)

 

So I was browsing on Wikipedia to see what was being written on certain tanks, anyone care to click specifications and read into the special ammo the Arjun uses? It’s uhhhh..... pretty cool....................

(I’m on a phone therefore I can’t post a screenshot.)

 

Edit - Whoever wrote what you’ll see, did it multiple times throughout that article.

I fear it`s not the author`s fault: http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/arjun-tanks-new-powerful-ammo-developed-by-drdo-labs-in-pune/

On 21.3.2018 at 9:40 AM, Darjeeling said:

Example in real combat:

 

 

>Leo 2 receive a direct hit by YPG but it was not destroyed. High survivability showed. 

 

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YafzmkvVRiI

 

Are you shure about this video example? Until now I connected this incident with pictures likes this:

21 minutes ago, Jagdika said:

From now on I will not go to the WT forum or Reddit to argue with some "People with extreme political correctness and will never focus on the article itself and right or wrong". My point is , you can't trust what one has said just because "he is so right and even if he don't post out the original source or reference I will still believe him". That is immature. I have post out my reference, the books I've used, and I have translated the most important part to English. So what else should I do to prove I'm on the right side? I'm really angry with that. I can't understand some people's logic and view of correctness there in Reddit or WT forum. I know I am the right one.

Also someone from Reddit doubt why I post out this critical article 4 months later, the reason is very simple: I post it out immediately in a Chinese website similar to Reddit when Waffentrager deleted my comment and no one response. After 4 months I have acquired enough archives and documents to prove him wrong, so I post out my entire article. For those guys on Reddit: Please, use your brains to think, use your logic to analyze! If you can't read Japanese, why not try to learn it? Or why not use the translator?  Is that so hard for you? The net is so highly developed there are always some methods for you to understand Japanese and what the archives have said! Knowledge and studying chances a person! We Chinese are not as stupid as some of the people think. Yes, we have restrictions, but we also have methods and ways to break restrictions.

I doubt the folks here belongs to the average reddit users. Thanks God!
But since it seems like there is some kind of personal cult around her and logic is no argument for these people. Sadly I lacked the popcorn while I scrolled through reddit but what happend there was really bullshittery at it`s finest.
People argued with such a zeal against points where even Mai stated totally different things than in her original articles because "she jumped to the wrong conclusions". Her fiercest proponents are totally stalker material propably manga invested (sry there might be rare exceptions) halfwitted teenagers jerking of to Mais twitter profile. I get triggert by such people.
"But Gajin employs er so she must be totally credible!!11!!"

1 hour ago, Bronezhilet said:

Every time I think I've met the dumbest person I'd ever meet, there will be *someone* going to prove me wrong.

 After reading here for two or three years this is maybe my No.2. The throne still goes to  Mr. " Being an inventor alone is far greater than anything an engineer like you can be "

TFB came up with a new article and photos of the newest HK433 version.  In the last paragraph it is stated that: " No word on if the Steyr-Mannlicher RS556 is still involved in the trials. "
This seems to be outdated since Feb 8th. Wether Rheinmetall nor Steyer declared a reson for stepping down from the bidding. While SiG withdrew it`s offer already in Nov. 2017, claiming that the
bidding would be rigged in favour of HK ( besides the arguments given by SIG, the no-ITAR requirement alone was sometinhg like the sword of Damocles for the SIG offer) , the comments below the linked blog aticle indicate that Steyer had additional problems with fullfilling the demands in time. For one the RS556 like advertised was to heavy and fared not very well during the earlier KSK trials. 
 

Source: http://augengeradeaus.net/2018/02/g36-nachfolge-auch-rheinmetall-steyr-mannlicher-steigt-aus

Question in my on mind: Below the article abaut SIG withdrawing the MCX from the biddign it was mentioned that it seems like the MCX had problems with a demand called: " Geschoßvorlagefähigkeit" which essencially means that
it must be guaranteed that if the barrel is congested with mud or a projectile, a second shot wont lead to a fatal failure. Any idea if this rumor has some substance? Since certain american people  like to do strange things with mud an guns...

 

On 10.2.2018 at 10:07 AM, LoooSeR said:

 

I stumbled across this old article: https://www.defenceaviation.com/2008/07/pakda-a-russian-stealth-bomber.html

Is the model shown there just an older design stage or something alternative?

On 19.2.2018 at 11:25 AM, LoooSeR said:

 

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3097665.html

 

And people still wonder why ITAR is a dealbreaker for sevral projects in Germany...

(sry more text than pictures - so feel free to lynch me if it`s the wrong place)

The MEADS project in Germany is again in motion.
After being in stasis and having vanished from the news for nearly a year, the constitution of the new government brought finally some motion
in the case. The ontracts for the TLVS (Taktisches Luftverteidigungssystem - tactical airdefence system) were already ready to be signed in
february 2017, but some weeks later it was announced in aearly march the same year that no contract will be signed before the election. Since it took months
to form a new government everything was on ice for roughly 12 months.
But a news about a collaboartion between MBDA and Lockheed Martin on march 6th¹ was the first sign of new progress. The next news came today
from Rheinmetall: http://augengeradeaus.net/2018/03/rheinmetall-macht-druck-entscheidung-fuer-mobile-flugabwehr-fuer-vjtf-2023-soll-schnell-fallen/

Quick and dirty summery:
- Rheinmetall is positioning themselves to get their share of the whole air-defence area. They might hope to grap the "big" contract together with their partner Raytheon from MBDA/Lockheed in the last minute.
- Besides this amigious plans Rheinmetall is better placed in the SHORAD area where they have already the stationary MANTIS in their product porfolio and mobile versions are seen as a hot contender to
  replaceme the retired Gepard and Roland systems. Rheinmetall is pressuring the politics here with a reference to the German component of NATO`s VJTF² in 2023.
- According to Rheinmetall a mobile mantis version could be ready in three years
- Additionally they are talking about the possibility to combine 40mm airburst ammunition used for example by the AFV Boxer`s AGL and new ballistic computers to counter small UAVs.

¹https://www.defensenews.com/land/2018/03/06/long-delayed-german-missile-defense-deal-with-lockheed-mbda-expected-by-years-end/

² Very High Readiness Joint Task Force. Since there is a russian but no english wiki article see this for basic info: https://shape.nato.int/nato-response-force--very-high-readiness-joint-task-force

Here is a german article or better a summary of the main conclusions of a workshop held during february in Kiel: "Eight theses: U-boat-operatin in a changing underwater area":

https://meerverstehen.net/2018/03/15/acht-thesen-u-boot-operationen-in-einem-sich-veraendernden-unterwasserumfeld/

If the google or bing translate fucks it up to much, tell me and I will try to translate the technical terminology gibberish for you.

15 minutes ago, Bronezhilet said:

I can't see the pictures in either of those links, but I did register at the forum, maybe that helps.

Very Inelegant solution:
https://imgur.com/a/Sb47F

29 minutes ago, Militarysta said:

You are fucked in the ass misarable piece of shit who misinforms peoples here. Honestly - go to fuck yourself, and as many as it's possible dicks in to ass of you, your family and dog or other pet you have.

 

GTFO!!!

sry it was too tempting...

German H&K G28 M110A1 new marksman rifle for U.S. army infantry

https://www.armyrecognition.com/weapons_defence_industry_military_technology_uk/german_hk_g28_m110a1_new_marksman_rifle_for_u.s._army_infantry.html

( I bet TFB got it at least a month ago...)


Buuut is the Army really shure it doesn`t want the totally DMR adequate scope the germans are using on it?



Well Murrica who got the bigger one? Who?

1 hour ago, Willy Brandt said:

I really want to know how they got to 500 Million.
Is it money that still needs to be spend?

It seems like the 500 mio includes some "old" stuff but also new upgrades which are deemed as necessary for VJTF but also all logisitc costs for eventually stationing up to 4000 soldiers abroad, dditional ammo for training and what not else.
Things like SVFuA* and MoTaKo** are probably inclded, too and would otherwise be included in an other budget item, but since it`s necessary for VJTF maybe the whole fixcosts for R&D are noe included in those 500 mio despite they are not liited on these 40 vehicles

* Streitkräftegemeinsame Verbundfähige Funkgeräte-Ausstattung = Common armed forces inter-operabele radio equipment ( somebody please correct my quick and dirty translation)

** Mobile Taktische Kommunikation = Mobile tactical communication

Edit: But the exact wording suggests  that the the already started SVFuA/MoTaKo programm is only for some command vehicles and now the rest of the fleet, or at least all the non command versions of these 40 vehicles needs to be upgraded, too utilize the "new" tech.

It seems like the Puma needs some Upgrades to be ready for VJTF in 2023. Following a report from Reuters the Bundeswehr expects that it will cost 500 million € to get 40 Pumas VJTF ready and supplied.
While the more mainstream nt-v newssite talks simply about 500kk €for upgrading 40 Vehicles, hartpunkt.de goes a bit deeper and explains that 1/3 of the sum consists of logistic costs for the mission, 1/3 for the development of new equipment especially an up to date digital radio system which enables the Puma to exchange sufficent data with other vehicles, drones, up to two dozent infantrymen and probably aircrafts to perform on the modern networked battlefield. The last third is then for the actual updates. While this sound stupididly expensive for 40 vehicles it includes the R&D costs so the ugrade of the remaining 300 Vehicles should (hopefully ) be significant cheaper.

The story in german:
http://augengeradeaus.net/2018/01/neues-vom-puma-millionen-nachruestung-fuer-die-vjtf/
https://www.hartpunkt.de/modernisierung-von-40-pumas-kostet-500-mio-eur/

9 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

Do i see cage armor on Leo 2 just behind Leo 2 with that strange storage bin/jihadarmor thing?

Probably. Or some other jihad design armor.

After Erdogan purge in the Leo 2 units following the coup, I wouldn`t be suprised if they would borrow such ideas from the syrian ragtag...and it wouldn`t be suprising if they "uparmored" only the crew compartement.

Btw: Talking about german APS on turkish tanks right now...well the german public is right now not very amused by pictures of Leo2s fighting Kurds in the syrian border ( it seems like an MBT is obvious enough for the public contrary to G3s and MG3s being used against the Kurds since decades) region and the acting government is already in the midst of a small scale shitstorm for not ruling out outstanding armsdeals with turkey. Renk, MTU or Rheinmetall exports to Turkey are not very likely in the nearer future.

Edit: Quod erad demonstrandum in two ways:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/germany-says-it-has-frozen-tanks-upgrade-for-turkey-126318
(As far as I know the mentioned upgrade is more or less the Leo2 NG version which includes the ADS)

Looks a bit like a Merkava I cousin to me...

5 hours ago, Krieger22 said:

For some reason I'm in an argument with someone who appears to sincerely believe that the precursor charge being intercepted means that the main charge is rendered a dud as well.

I don`t know why the question did not come to my head early since the cage/net-armor thing isn`t exactly new an can be seen everywhere at least since the Strykers:
What about PG-7VR, RPG29 etc. Precharge slipping through but the main charge is destroyed or is the "sting" long enough to make contact with the main armor ( or for ex. a Pzf3-IT 600 seems to have an exorbitant long one) ? Would new generations of PG-7 rockets with a "hardend" front render the whole idea useless?