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  1.    Scolopax reacted to a post in a topic: Britons are in trouble
  2. TokyoMorose
    So, here's some pictures of the CR2E in training kit with a strange camo.
  3.    Zyklon reacted to a post in a topic: Kimchi armoured vehicles: K1, K2, K21 and other AFVs from Worse Korea
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    The second one in particular reminds me extremely heavily of the Type 89 and Desert Warrior.
  6. TokyoMorose
    I'm suspecting the new armor is only on the new turret. When they mention upgrading the family of vehicles like CRARRV they mention only mechanical changes. Which would make sense.
  7. TokyoMorose
    I honestly have to agree with the soldiers here in terms of rejecting the 1-2 variants, but it's purely out of survivability concerns. A 60 ton + vehicle whose turret resists only 'medium cannon' (which at the most charitable is something like a 90mm Cockerill, probably meaning something more like a 57mm AC) and is armed with (in variant 1) a 120mm? There's much lighter vehicles that already essentially meet those requirements, and whatever deficiencies they have wouldn't take another 10-20 tons to remediate. Variant 2 is less objectionable, but the reference to 'medium cannon' as
  8. TokyoMorose
    As to the 105, I know that was Big Army's dumb decision - but it was still a major selling point for the original Griffin II demonstrator. As to height, this hull certainly seems higher than the hull they were showing off earlier. This appears to be just a regular ASCOD 2 hull, the original Griffin II having had only a couple inches between the top of the roadwheels and the return track. There's no autoloader because GDLS literally just reused the Abrams design with less armor and a few dimensional adjustments.
  9.    Clan_Ghost_Bear reacted to a post in a topic: United States Military Vehicle General: Guns, G*vins, and Gas Turbines
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    Is it me or does every time this thing shows up it manages to look worse? They ditched the low-profile hull, they ditched the 120mm and went back to ye olde 105... when GDLS first showed off the Griffon II I thought it was a much better design than the warmed-over XM8 - but now what's the selling point for it? XM8 is already somewhat familiar to the Army and has parts commonality with other Army vehicles... this is just an ASCOD 2 with a armor-less M1 turret slapped on.
  11. TokyoMorose
    While plausible, that really doesn't look too much like the 2A46 to me. I could totally be wrong, but the barrel profile just seems off.
  12. TokyoMorose
    What he is trying to say is there is much less volume in an unmanned turret, as it has no fighting compartment inside it. As such the unmanned turret is much smaller and can carry far more armor for a given mass. The scourge of protected volume is what lead the soviets to the hilariously compact T-64. That said, Beer's explanation was quite good and you should have read it.
  13. TokyoMorose
    I always find such vague figures worth a chuckle, nah it's rated against 30mm launched grenades - such as the fearsome IO-30TP.
  14. TokyoMorose
    IMHO, the army is pressing ahead with requirements that literally nobody thinks can be delivered on, and is so confident they just know better that they are going to have themselves do it. I'm in the camp who thinks the requirements are bogus, and that the army is just fooling itself.
  15.    TokyoMorose reacted to a post in a topic: Polish Armoured Vehicles
  16. TokyoMorose
    3UBR6? Not a "APFSDS", but the mediocre performance and big hole would line up well. That said, it that looks a lot like the... (splatter? splash?) I've seen on many HEAT impacts.
  17. TokyoMorose
    It is doubly baffling because it was ancient BK-5M ammo they were firing - they weren't even trying to verify a new ammo type or change to the gun.
  18.    TokyoMorose reacted to a post in a topic: BlackTailDefense Doesn't Know Shit About Tank Design
  19. TokyoMorose
    I fully understand, but if you get immobilized and blinded by HMG or light autocannon fire, the crew capsule is now a stationary and defenseless target for whatever heavier weapons the opposition feels to use at their leisure.
  20. TokyoMorose
    The Jaguar really causes some mixed feelings for me, because while I understand it is not made to stand up to AT fire (and that would indeed be a silly requirement) there's so much exposed that seems vulnerable to ubiquitous HMGs and light autocannons - lots of what are presumably hydrualic put possibly pneumatic lines on the undercarriage *entirely unprotected*, and all sorts of electronics and sensors on the upper works. Even the armored shutters for some of them don't appear to stand any chance of stopping HMG fire closed up, they seem to be just a few mm thick. Just makes me ne
  21. TokyoMorose
    No, no I agree with you overall. I just thought the discussion of the R-975 was really odd in the context of what was going on.
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