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  1. The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.

    in Infantry Tools & Tactics

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Sturgeon said:


    The pressure isn't a problem in theory, but I have serious reservations about their case head design. I fear we'll start seeing case head separations once it enters service and ammunition production ramps up.

    I also don't think the caliber is appropriate for an infantry rifle, and they're going to relearn some old lessons quickly.

     


    I apologize if you’ve already answered this question, but what do you think is the future of battle rifles and other “assault weapons”? Would they just keep trying to make the weapons lighter or will we see more recoil mitigation tricks like the vector and AN-94? 

  5. United States Military Vehicle General: Guns, G*vins, and Gas Turbines

    in Mechanized Warfare

    Posted

    8 hours ago, alanch90 said:

    So this showed up today
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    First glance, seems like a modified hull with extra periscopes which would be the case if the crew was to be taken out of the turret and into the hull. But on the other hand, the shape of the turret seems to be the same classic Abrams pre SEPv3. 


    That just looks like the TTB, but it would be a breath of fresh air if they finally used her lessons and technology for something other than the expensive rust bucket she currently is. 

  9. ATGMs and RPGs for infantry - a thread for rebels around the world to choose their ATGM supplier.

    in Infantry Tools & Tactics

    Posted

    1 hour ago, LoooSeR said:

     

    Taking into account of captured NLAWs, would like to have a review of it, lol. Interesting, we will do some sort of copy of that system or just use captured stocks for war, testing and leave it as it is. Also, useful data can be generated by those for ERA engineers in NII Stali
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    Any captured javelins with those nlaws? I would assume jav would be more valuable to the army than nlaw because it’s a generation ahead of anything they got, or is jav to complex/ resource intensive for the industry right now? 

  13. What are we playing?

    in Fiction & Entertainment

    Posted

    39 minutes ago, Laviduce said:

    I thought of a "performance ban" as well but then again I had kill streaks before over the years and nothing happened. Yes, certain people have said that I cheated over the years but nothing happened. I am a very defensive AB player and I usually like to keep my distance. Also in the weeks leading up to the ban, I was trying to grind my crew with my M-51 and the Merkava 2D , focusing on the M51 primarily.  Besides that I played low to mid tier (BR 3.7-6.0) primarily. Yes, I did get 0 to 5+ kills at times regularly but that does says more about the quality of the opponents I faced than me. It has also come to my attention that some people do not seem to use their minimap at all.  I almost look at my minimap all the time, especially in close quarter affairs.

     

    In the months leading up to the ban I also did not have any arguments with any moderators in the forum. I was too busy finishing up my Leclerc project and RL affairs to invest in destructive talk in the forum. But  I did submit a post concerning the protection of the Merkava 2D, 1-2 weeks prior to the ban. That was my last forum activity besides me asking in vain for people to review my replays (of me cheating).

     

    I did squad a lot with my clan and eastern European friends but since my ban I have not. Usually I am a team player in my squad.  I will not make another account if this mess does not get resolved. I basically consider myself defrauded by Gaijin and that was also the reason I got a lawyer involved in this s**t show.

     

    The lawyer just said that these companies focus their resources on the things that bring in the cash. Anti-cheat does not bring in the cash so these companies  might be cutting corners and getting sloppy here and there.  If they have 10k paying customers and screw over 200 of those, what difference do these wrongful bans make ?  They have no incentive or "motivation" to reform their system. As i pointed out before, even some people that got screwed over by Gaijin are flocking back to them (dafuq!?).  No lessons to be learned by Gaijin.

     

    In my paranoia I also checked if my bank account was somehow in the red and that that might be the reason for the ban but that turned out to be OK.

     

    As it stands now I have no idea why I was banned from WT.  Besides the copy and paste statement they send to everyone they ban, I have received no definite data that says anything detailed. According to them I just violated section 3.2 of the EULA (i.e. using a modification to gain an unfair advantage). At no point in time in my 8.5 years did ever use an overlay or modification (excluding WT.live sights) to gain an unfair advantage.  I do not even know  if this "cheating" was a one-time event or if it was ongoing affair according to Gaijin.

     

    If I was the cheater why did I just not make a new email and WT account?  This should have not taken me longer than an hour to setup. Yet according to Gaijin (and/or EAC) I just happen to cheat after 8.5 years with basically fully trained crews and researched trees (excluding Israel, Sweden and Italy). As a hacking "cheater" I was also dumb enough to just send them my DxDiag file too. On top of that I , the alleged cheater,  am stupid enough to get a lawyer involved. I am delusional at times but I doubt I am that delusional to cheat and behave like this. Overall, this and other odd cases tell me that Gaijin does not take a look at who they ban, unless you are a prominent WT youtuber/twitch streamer. 

     

    On a side note,  I do have a VPN. And no, my VPN was not active during the period (February?) of the alleged cheating. My VPN usually degrades my connection even more when I use my local powerlan network.

     

    As far as I could gather, IMHO, these "odd" bans pretty much come down to internal failure, sloppiness and carelessness on part of Gaijin and/or EAC.


    Well, at least you can spend your time on healthier and more productive pass times, like hookers and cocaine :P

  14. What are we playing?

    in Fiction & Entertainment

    Posted

    53 minutes ago, Laviduce said:

     

    My ban was on March 13/14th. I checked "recent" online acitivity but thanks to the way the "online login activity" is registered I can not go back far enough. But IMHO, i seriously doubt it was an account (or PC) hijack. I had changed my password last fall/winter so I doubt my account was hijacked by someone. Also if my PC was hijacked then why is only conveniently WT affected ?

     

    I also thought about potential trojans or viruses but there again this malware also conveniently only affects WT. So i doubt that that was the reason either.

     

    I did have custom WT.live sights installed but I have not touched those since fall,  prior to the motherboard implosion. The only user mission I have installed is from WT.live as well and I have not updated since last year. The user skins I got from the Gaijin market place. So these IMHO, can not be the culprits for this ban.

     

    I did had to have my motherboard replaced 6 weeks before the ban. I had to have windows "fix" itself. I lost all major desktop shortcuts and certain programs stopped working. I had to create new shortcuts for some (including WT). I did not reinstall WT but i think i did a file check and it worked again.

     

    According to some internal sources there was a change in the hash number in my gaijin aces.exe 4 weeks before my ban. Then my source said that this was about 2 weeks before my ban. Frankly I am not sure how accurate these statements are. To calm myself down I did check my download history and I could not find any weird or unrecognizable .exe. file, .dll. or folder in that history log.

     

    Around February 28th (2 weeks before my ban) I did install Core Temp to monitor the temperature of my CPU after a burned smell had emanated from my PC. All temps turned out to be OK and I never found out what had caused that smell. I do think I let WT run while I checked the temperatures.  According to my insider source the change in the aces.exe was potentially inserted while WT was running. But that is only his opinion. Gaijin is not saying anything besides copy and paste statements.

     

    Since I currently work from home and my USB sticks/data carriers have not left my sight. At this point in time , I seriously doubt that this mystery software (or whatever it is) is even on my PC.  I was thinking of pulling my ISP traffic data. I doubt I got this "cheat routine" of of Amazon.

     

     

    To add insult to injury , I got myself two no so cheap premium vehicles after I allegedly "cheated".


    You could have had a situation where you got banned because of “him to gud, must be cheatin” like @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks did in world of warplanes because he knew how to use a rudder in a turn (iirc, because I’m to lazy to go find the original post). Or maybe you “weren’t being a team player enough” like I sometimes get in world of warships because I’m off helping someone else and the person asking for help got butt hurt (more often then not, those games would turn out to be wins, too). 
     

    1 hour ago, Laviduce said:

     

    I appreciate your offer Lord_James but I could never accept your offer even if it was not a TOS violation. This move by you and me accepting it would just throw good money after bad. Even if you or someone else paid me to do it , I could not do it. Why would anyone spent time, money and effort in an endeavor for fun, business or otherwise if you just got ripped off after 8,5 years and thousands of dollars spent ?

     

    What shocks and disappoints me the most is that a couple of other players that also got screwed over (potentially) said, that they would be willing to return to WT. How in the f***ing world can you go back to a company that screwed you over like that ?  I mean I like WT but a move like this crosses too many lines even for a WT crackhead like me.

     

    Anyway, since Gaijin refused to be constructive or cooperative I had seek legal counsel in the mean time to potentially "resolve" this matter. My legal counsel said that I (and others) were potentially "shot-gunned" to demonstrate that they, Gaijin,  are doing something against cheaters. He went on to say that these companies do not invest much in parts of their companies that do not directly make them money. So yeah, sometimes people get thrown under the bus and this time , after 8.5 years, my number came up. According to him and what I could hear from others,  this behavior is not limited to Gaijin. EA , Rockstar and others also seem to have been doing this in the past.  They just do not have the resources and willingness to tackle a problem like this individually. With hundreds and thousands of users and a company size of no more than 500, a lot of these processes have to be automated.

     

    This came from one WT forum administrator concerning my case that surprised and disappointed me:

     

      Reveal hidden contents

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    To be fair, WT forum administrators do not seem to have any inside knowledge of things such as this.

     

    A this point in time I am not even sure if I will return to WT even if my ban is lifted.

     

    There have been a couple of other odd bans in WT lately (and over the years):

     

     


    You’re respectful, so I respect you, and I’m ok with bending the rules of people I don’t respect. Also I didn’t spend any money on wart chunder, and my few premium vehicles I have (PaK puma and Ki-94-II, among others) didn’t cost me money, only some years off my life from the stress :lol: But they definitely do have the resources to police their cheating problems without shotgunning their player base, they just don’t have the willingness (or creativity) to do it. 

  15. What are we playing?

    in Fiction & Entertainment

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Alzoc said:

     

    Did you check your account security?

    I had once somebody just casually playing on my account, despite securing it with two different email adress and a phone number.  I only noticed because he changed my default line-up on the US tree. Guy didn't even bothered trying to change my password to lock me out.

    Managed to get him kicked out and had to add another layer of security on my account. Whole thing ended up being rather benign but it shouldn't have happened anyway.

    Gajin account security is quite frankly utter shite.


    Oh? You can get someone to play that frustrating and grindy game for you? For free? No way! 
     

    Just kidding, sorry to hear that. 
     

    38 minutes ago, Laviduce said:

    I was playing War Thunder for 8,5 years before I got got banned for cheating according to Gaijin 2,5 weeks ago. Advice to myself: Do not spend a single cent on any exclusively online based software/game/simulator.

     

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    I would offer you my account, which I haven’t played at all in 3+ years: I don’t have any vehicles over 6.7, and no aircraft over 5.3 (unless some BRs have changed), but that would also be a tos problem. 
     

    I have A LOT to say about WT, even after all this time, but it would be very rant-y and probably some of my points would be out of date or the situation would have changed (for the worse, because that is the trend). 

  19. Stealth Basics

    in Aviation

    Posted

    35 minutes ago, rocketeer said:

     

    Thank you! Can't say i already read everything you mentioned, but i read enough to get the general idea.

     

    I like that general idea. :)


    Our glorious leader benevolently requests us all to read through this: 

    And I think that’s what you were referencing when you “read enough to get the general idea”. 

  20. Stealth Basics

    in Aviation

    Posted

    1 hour ago, rocketeer said:

    For what it's worth, i'd like to award you twenty internet points for having bothered. I mean it.

     

    That doesn't mean the final outcome is something to write home about, sadly. It's stupidly redundant a solution for the other problem.

     

    The levels of redundancy:

    1) Redundant — Low Observable Principles, Stealth Aircraft andAnti-Stealth Technologies by MAJ K. Zakidis, 2LT A. Skondras, 2LT C. Tokas of Hellenic Air Force, published in the Journal of Computations & Modelling, vol.4, no.1, 2014, pages 129-165.

     

    2) Rather Redundant — The Radar Game: Understanding Aircraft Survivability by Rebecca Grant, published by Mitchell Institute Press, 2010.

     

    3) Stupidly Redundant —

    Radar Energy Warfare and the Challenges of Stealth Technology by Bahman Zohuri, published by Springer, 2020.

     

    These, of course, are isolated examples; the topic is extremely well covered in literature.

     

    Why reinvent the wheel?

     

    Moreover, why reinvent the wheel that doesn't work, as there's no shortage of the PowerPoint Warfighters who measure aircraft observability in the marbles and golf balls and other outrageous nonsense?

     

    Solution: Assume 'stealth' a condition to be tactically acquired instead of inherent property of aircraft and see what happens.


    I don’t think anyones said “welcome to the forum” yet, so Welcome to the Forum! I hope you read the forum posting guidelines on the general discussion sub-forum, and have a responsibly good time 

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