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1 hour ago, Legiondude said:

I wonder if it would actually sink in with leftist millenials

 

Anyway, anyone else see the news that not one, not two, but a total of four deputies from the sheriff's department chose not to enter the school during the event?

Not even surprised. Think they even had their radios set up when they arrived?

How'd they even know that it was a -57? Are the flyboys really cleared to fly them that low?

4 hours ago, ApplesauceBandit said:

Does this belong in the gun control thread or the humor thread?

 

 

I mean, it's more comprehensible than that radiologist op-ed that sounded like really twisted ad copy for 5.56 ammo effects on target...

We are actually wormposting? For real?

Meet a 2.8 meter long tapeworm. The guy it was in was completely asymptomatic the entire time.

Chinese APFSDS diagram: I can read Chinese, and that sounds about right.

The top line translates to "This shell's (read DU penetrator) layout is basically identical to the tungsten alloy shell (illustration 64), except for *text is cut off*.

The right one is indeed the DU penetrator. The tungsten penetrator's description is obscured by the watermark.

FGS Baden-Württemberg has reportedly been returned to Blohm+Voss after failing trials

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Defects cited in the news report include software and hardware issues, likely the same ones which caused her to miss her commissioning deadline this summer. As Naval Today reported earlier, there are problems with the frigate’s operations room from where the highly-automated ship will be controlled.

 

This is a complex system as the 7000-tonne frigate (close to the displacement range of a destroyer) will require only half the crew necessary to operate the predecessor Bremen-class frigates.

 

FGS Baden-Württemberg has been experiencing problems ever since it was delivered to the navy for trials. In addition to hardware and software integration, the frigates have a listing problem. They list 1.3 degrees to starboard and are overweight, an issue that could possibly complicate future upgrade options.

How many ships that listed while fresh out of the shipyards were accepted for service?

4 minutes ago, Belesarius said:

Sounds like you are arguing with a drooling moron.

Considering that the argument stems from "I want an out from a situation where the enemy is no longer engaging me from my composite and ERA-protected frontal arc, but now has shots on the rear arc of my vehicle", I'm inclined to agree.

Still curious, though.

Quick question (apologies if off topic): Have there been any recorded tests/computer simulations of a tandem charge warhead impacting slat armor?

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.

Did the barrel somehow lose a fight with a tree?

I don't believe it ever advanced beyond cutting cardboard. IIRC the implementation of the IR camo used still isn't certified for field use (for whatever such a thing from BAE is worth) either.

And the program it was "designed" for is dead.

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Poland had earlier planned to replace older T-72s with a modern fire-support vehicle armed with a 120 mm gun, but the Gepard light tank programme was cancelled. In addition, Poland is no longer interested in a wheeled tank destroyer based on the Rosomak 8x8 chassis armed with a 105 or 120 mm gun.

No Wilks either I see.

New satellite imagery suggests that a failed Hwasong-12 test missile hit the small city of Tokchon following an engine failure.

On 12/29/2017 at 8:01 AM, Jägerlein said:

And even past 1943 the german jet engine development didn`t fall behind but they failed in realizing these projects because of the slightly different conditions in germany compared to the US or UK.

Well, I see we're off to a good start when it comes to understatements in 2018...

Magpul's Facebook page had some patent drawings for the FMG-9 uploaded.

The images disagree with imgur for some reason, so no mirrors yet.

A while back I was tweeted an article claiming that you could dodge a modern AAM without a ton of asterisks involved. Which says a lot about the quality of said article. Little did I know that that was merely the tip of the iceberg.

I am displeased to present you the defenseissues.net light tank proposal. That is a 120mm mortar and a 40mm CT autocannon side by side in the same mount, because... why not. The problems associated with direct fire mortars are apparently rectifiable using more propellant.

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Standard mortar shells:

• High explosive
• Rocket assisted (RAP)
• Smoke
• Illumination
• IR Illumination
• Inert/practice
• HEAT (Shouldn’t be too difficult to create)

Low velocity cannon round (similar to BMP-3 100m shell):

• HE
• HEAT
• Canister/Flechette (most importantly!)

LAHAT ATGWs

STRIX Laser guided, anti-tank mortar-fired munition

 

With sufficient propellant, a mortar shell can (and will be) used for direct fire. The main reason for the addition of LV cannon shells is for using flechette shells, however this may not be necessary if a 120mm shell is developed along the lines of the 81mm Mk-120 mortar (below) used on Mk-2 Mod 0 deck mounted mortars during Vietnam. Should the LV cannon shell provide no sizeable benefit over direct fire mortar techniques, it should be deleted.

Yes, these people are real.

Surely the hull design is a bit more sensible, right? Surely they can't mess it up?

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General Dimensions: Excluding turret and appliqué armour 

Height: 1.45m (4.75 feet)

Width: 2.7m (8.85 feet)

Length: 6m (19.5 feet)

Armour: 

Light tanks sacrifice a great deal of armour to earn their designation, and rely on heavy sloping and other methods of armouring such as protruding ribs, which have been seen on both the BMP-2 and STRV-103 of Sweden. The Swedes found that their STRV-103 was essentially impossible to penetrate with any then existing anti-tank weapon during it’s early operational history.

Um. I'm not seeing how the driver is going to fit inside either without a semi-recumbent arrangement.

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Armour for the light tank chassis is as follows:

Front upper glacis: Sloped at 15 degrees, fitted with protruding ribs, protection from 30mm armour piercing.

Front Lower Glacis: Sloped at 50 degrees, protection from 30mm armour piercing.

Sides: Sloped at 75 degrees, protection from 14.5mm armour piercing.

Rear: Sloped at 80 degrees, protection from 7.62mm armour piercing

What you see is what you get - no suggestion of materials, thickness, composition or vintage of AP ammunition it's supposed to resist.

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Power plant:

 Engine will be a V8 diesel, optimally the same Scania DSA 14 litre version used by the CV-90. This should give the vehicle a maximum speed on-road in the vicinity of 80km/h (50 mp/h), and an operational range of ~400km (250 miles). Extra fuel will be carried in external tanks that can be dropped when empty or if there is a danger of puncture, similar to that of Soviet tank designs. A recess may be designed into the rear of the vehicle to allow some amount of armouring, however a better idea may be to design the external fuel tanks with some amount of shrapnel protection. These tanks may not be mounted during operations within close proximity of friendly infantry so as to avoid.

Engine choice seems reasonable, but I'm not sure what the ban on external fuel tanks around friendly infantry is supposed to avoid.

...no wonder this outfit is claiming you can just barrel roll your way out of having a Meteor locked on you.

The Su-57 has potential to be upgraded into a sixth generation fighter.

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MOSCOW, November 1. /TASS/. Russia’s cutting-edge Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation aircraft has the upgrade potential to become a sixth-generation fighter jet, Russian Aerospace Force ex-commander and Chairman of the Federation Council Defense and Security Committee Viktor Bondarev told TASS on Wednesday.

 

"This is actually a splendid plane and it can embrace both fifth-and sixth-generation features. It has huge modernization potential. Importantly, it is the best among the existing versions by its stealth characteristics. It incorporates all the best that is available in modern aviation science both in Russia and in the world," he said.

Time is needed to launch the production of the Su-57 fighter in Russia, Bondarev said.

Does it really count as an upgrade when there aren't production airframes to upgrade?

(also, new poster. Hi.)