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  1. TokyoMorose
    I do get the feeling that the bucket choice and location, along with the location of the excavator arm were determined by the chassis used as the base. Wheeled vehicles aren't the best for a massive solid dozer blade, there might be stress and balance issues... IMHO, it seems they chose the platform first (and was probably chosen due to low cost & high strategic/road mobility) and then did what they could to make a viable engineering vehicle from it. Also, their obsession with road mobility in the Sahel would suggest they think the future use is going to be overwhelmingly in non-combat or counter-insurgency ops. Note how they directly mention trailer coupling ease / capability as a plus.
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    I believe these are new (for here) photos of Numba One MBT of World in construction. This CAD drawing also shows glorious thickness of hull protective scheme.
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    Spoilering it because it's huge, but here's a good image showing how the armor was added on the M1A2C.
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    I always thought the original "Model 2000" (nickname of course) version of the 199 made the most sens of the modern BMPTs. Single 2A42 + 4 Kornets instead of the wacky setup they settled on.
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    Generally speaking, with the crude electronics of the time hydraulics were smoother, more powerful, and more reliable. The Sherman is an interesting vehicle from this perspective, as it was initially produced with either a hydraulic or electric drive depending on the vehicle. But the Oil Gear designed hydraulic drive was so superior in performance and reliability that it became standard for all. And of course by the 50s, basically everyone had moved to hydraulic for these reasons despite the issues of a hydraulic drive. Reliability was the biggest issue, and would not be fully solved for electrical systems until the development of solid-state electronics. And once those came about, you start seeing the trend back towards electric drives that continues to this day.
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    Cleaning once per day is within spec for multicyclone, which was certified to meet its filtration quality for 20 hours without cleaning. Air purity was kept at 100% (within margin of testing error) to densities of 3 grams per cubic centimeter - with is reasonably dusty. It should be mentioned cleaning multicylcone (or cyclone) is actually quite simple. Like any cyclone-filtering vacuum cleaner all you do is disconnect the dust bin, dump it out, and reconnect it. The CIA report is based on an NK tank that was battered to hell and back and not properly maintained for its years with the DPRK. It is unsurprising elements of it were damaged. And on the other hand, we have combat experience corroborated by German and Japanese reports of really quite vast and long-ranging movements in Bagration and Manchuria by Soviet armor. Oh, and dust cleaning with filters is not some magic process either - if a filter lasts longer between cleaning it is purely because the filter has more dust capacity, and will take proportionally longer to clean. You spend about the same amount of time overall cleaning any dust filter of a given configuration for a given volume of dust, irregardless of the fine details that differ it. (Note how cleaning a vacuum cleaner of a standard size is basically the same work irrespective of brand and design features)
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    This was BAE's contest to lose, and they appear to be *trying* to lose it.
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    This one stands out to me, because the only report I have ever seen where the T-34's air filters didn't work (as opposed to working poorly) were when it was tested at Aberdeen. And the reason for that was very simple - the early T-34 they had was equipped with Pomon-type air filters, which are an oil bath filter, and for some reason the US testing crew never oiled it. It is not a big shock that an oil bath filter fails without oil.
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    That report is (in)famous, but every Jagdpanther ever seen has had the same final drives as other Panthers. That, along with the supposedly reinforced transmission on Jagdpanthers appears to be nothing more than a myth. I'm sure the JgPanther crews wish they had those reinforced drives and/or transmission.
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    Ah yes, the sheet metal 8x8. I eagerly await to see more dents on it.
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    Accurate in general, but the MAN design used a Rheinmetall Turret, and the DB design had better sloping all around (but also violated so many Wa Pruef 6 diktats that it was never going to go anywhere - Leaf springs instead of torsion bars?! Heresy!).
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    It's the 1600hp variant from Ariete AMV they are getting ahold of. That should work just fine.
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    Koreans have long solved their engine issues, and for them the only issue is that the Transmission has a MTBF that's shorter than required. The Italian engine should be fine enough for Altay.
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    So, here's some pictures of the CR2E in training kit with a strange camo.
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    The second one in particular reminds me extremely heavily of the Type 89 and Desert Warrior.
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    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.
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    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 the reference threat still boggles me for a vehicle that is 66 tons. There are already plenty of vehicles that match the weight and protection, with comparable firepower. Stuff a 130mm in the Leo 2A7+, and what exactly is this 'future' machine supposed to do better than that would? While variant 3 has some objectionable old-fashioned aspects to its design (where's the ERA of any sort on Variant 1 or 3?!), it at least offers tank-level protection for a family of vehicles that are all firmly in the 'heavy' weight class.
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    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.
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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    I always find such vague figures worth a chuckle, nah it's rated against 30mm launched grenades - such as the fearsome IO-30TP.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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