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https://below-the-turret-ring.blogspot.com/2017/01/early-m1-abrams-composite-armor.html?m=1
he needs to calm his shit, is what he needs to do.
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3 hours ago, LoooSeR said:
Where does the driver sit? Or is the driver one of those machine gunners in the front?
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1 hour ago, Walter_Sobchak said:
Are you suggesting that we may be entering the era of the robot-Gavin? I'm all for it.
I mean, it seems logical for the near future, the M113 being one of the cheapest chassis to make and modify, and there’s lots of space inside for electronics, sensors, and armament/ammo. But afterwards (30+ years is my safe guess), there will be custom chassis for the robot vehicles.
The Bradley, BMP/MT-LB, Puma, and AJAX (among a hundred others) also look like good chassis’ that can be modified relatively easy, but the M113 seems like a much cheaper and equally effective solution.
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I would think a lot of them would look like M113s, as that type of chassis is easy and cheap to make, and highly modifiable. Israel is already fooling around with a robotic M113, and I wouldn’t doubt most of the other superpowers are close behind in terms of large UGVs.
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On 1/5/2019 at 9:29 PM, Xlucine said:
It's nothing to do with demonstrating any kind of military effectiveness, of course
That might be true for people who know what they’re talking about, but to many of Iran’s citizens, this is ground breaking (or should I say, wave breaking
). Hell, they might tout his as “our warships are so advanced, we can invade America!” Or something along those lines.
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THE GAVIN WILL NEVER DIE!! All hail!!
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6 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:
have less problems with weight.
The Washington naval treaty would like to have a word with you.
But technology also gets smaller: mechanical loading systems were on warships long before they were on tanks; radar and radar countermeasures, too; as well as computers; and active defense systems (CIWS).
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22 minutes ago, Toxn said:
SLERA?
Self Limiting Explosive Reactive Armor?
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3 hours ago, Collimatrix said:
That said, a perforated array would work much better if the perforated array has more inertia. So, a perforated array made out of, say, depleted uranium might work against APFSDS where steel would fail. I have suspected in the past that this might be what the "DU mesh" in the Abrams' turret is, but @SH_MM has stated that he thinks a DU-based NERA array is more likely.
Building on this tangent: would a perforated DU equipped SLERA perform better against APDSFS than DU equipped NERA/NxRA?
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Just edge teenage white cuckholds who can’t deal with the fact they r gonna be extinct
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when people tell me America and Europe are the most racist places in the world...
I’ve never seen such concentrated cancer on the internet before (I don’t go looking for places like that, though).
Hehehe, they call us biased, yet it’s a fucking echo chamber over there. And we’re the cucks, hehehe.
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Why does it seem like a twin gun system is a winning option for defeating APS? Though, I suppose some kind of autoloading system that can *double tap* the target could work.
*maybe an autoloader system that has a mode that loads a shell, then holds a second shell near the gun, and reloads it rapidly when firing at APS protected tanks. Something like FASTDRAW for the M1.
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Does the 2A6/7 have AMAP+D tech or is it just NERA wedge+D tech like the 2A5?
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Double cannons FTW!
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This might be impractical, but mounting 2 main guns like battleships of yore would also work. But yeah, I think a nice coaxial mounted 30mm Mk-30 or 40mm/L70 Bofors would be more effective.
Oh, maybe they could also mount external ATGM launchers, and launch them to distract the APS before the main gun fires, though that seems a little more complicated.
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Have a good Christ’s Mas, ye glorious bastards
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1 hour ago, Scav said:
If it uses fragments to intercept the threat it'll inevitably have side-effects, maybe not to the point it "shreds" all nearby infantry, but probably still enough to injure infantry close to the vector of the intercepted thread.
The projectiles it is intercepting (if not inert) would most likely contain far more explosives than the Trophy or Iron Fist’s interceptors do.
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1 hour ago, Walter_Sobchak said:
Not to be fussy or anything, but there are some errors in this text. It should read "AVCR-1790 diesel engine, not "AVCT-1790." AVCR stands for Aircooled, variable compression piston. Also, where it says "AVCT-1790", it should say "AVDS-1790". AVDS stands for Air-cooled Vee configuration Diesel Supercharged. Also, while I know about the Teledyne Continental "Super M60" program, I have never heard of the "General Dynamics High Performance M60 MBT project." General Dynamics had zero interest in upgrading the M60 and really disliked the fact that Teledyne Continental had created the Super-60 because it was considered unwelcome competition to General Dynamics Abrams tank in the time period addressed in the book.
Anyhow, the AVCR-1790 took the variable compression ratio technology developed for the ill fated AVCR-1360 engine of the MBT-70 and General Motors rejected XM-1 prototype and applied it to the older AVDS-1790 engine of the M60 series. The introduction of VCR to the 1790 got the engine up to 1200 HP, although from what I understand, the prototype suffered a pretty serious failure during testing in South Korea. Teledyne abandoned the AVCR-1790, replacing it with the AVDS-1790-9, which achieved 1200HP by introducing aftercoolers to the turbochargers with conventional pistons. Incidentally, Teledyne Continental promotional materials for the Super M60 list either engine, depending on what date they were published. The AVDS-1790-9 would go on to see service in the Israeli Merkava III and the Namer APC.
It does say this was published 1989, so the info might not have been available at that time?
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I noticed that some of the songs on the Quake 2 sound track reminded me of Nine Inch Nails (don’t judge), and after a quick google, I found out that NIN helped compose the original Quake sound track. Enjoy
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This is very nice, if not a little dated. I’m gonna have fun reading this!
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I just realized: we will finally get to see an (export) M1 Abrams take on a T-90A. Let the “who’s better” YouTube vids reign!!
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@LoooSeR, you think the ISIS hunters will be remade as the Saudi hunters?
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TIL that green energy is completely fucking up a little town in southern Germany:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staufen_im_Breisgau
tl;dr, their geothermal power plant is causing the ground to rise and is destroying houses and foundations.
). Hell, they might tout his as “our warships are so advanced, we can invade America!” Or something along those lines. 
General AFV Thread
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Looks back at the XM60...