Jump to content
Please support this forum by joining the SH Patreon ×
Sturgeon's House

Lord_James

Contributing Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,077

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    8

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Lord_James

  1. Lord_James
    Why would I know what days are in September, I don’t even know what day tomorrow is
  2. Lord_James
    What does this say? It’s all foreign to me From context, these are the brigades/battalions that are planning to use the Armata by September this year?
  3. Lord_James
    Is that a ZiS on a literal tractor?
  4. Lord_James
    I think it should be pointed out that shot traps pretty much don’t exist anymore, APFSDS doesn’t bounce or ricochet any appreciable amount, and you can safely ignore shot traps for the time period you’re concerned with. What does make angled armor less attractive is that your protection is not homogeneous across your profile, being thickest at the tip and thinner as you move towards the base, such is the geometry of triangles. I suspect this is why the Leopard 2SG and PL have more square faces than the 2A5. As for “funny turrets”, if it works for what you need it to, then don’t worry about aesthetics. Teledyne’s low profile turret is “funny”, as compared to practically every other tank out there, but it works, as proven by the M1128 (somewhat). There’s also the “Elke” technology demonstrator, mounted on an M551, that’s even crazier, and I would very much enjoy seeing something like that work. What’s wrong this the halo tank is that the crew is practically exposed, the tracks are complicated as hell, and the ammo seems to share space with the engine.
  5. Lord_James
    It could be like the meteor a2a missile, but I see problems with trying to turn a 7 inch diameter projectile into a 6 inch projectile (to fit current maximum navy or army cannons) and have it perform about 50% better. However, if they make an 8 inch or larger cannon, it would only get easier to achieve such ranges. I might be getting overly creative, but we might see a return to heavy caliber guns again. Fingers crossed for 14 inch railway artillery literally shooting at each other from across continents
  6. Lord_James
    Did they accidentally add a 0 to that number, or are they really going to make a cannon that shoots rockets (I don’t feasibly see any other way it could attain such a range).
  7. Lord_James
    Well well well(come to the forum!), I’m curious to watch this video that brought you here, got a link? Also, I hope you’ve read the posting guidelines: As for “designing a tank”, it’s not so cut and dry… at all. Every aspect of a tank effects another aspect of the tank, I.e. gun size effects ammo and turret size (turret size effecting hull size, and both effect how much armor you need to protect them from enemy fire, etc). Not only that, but each bit of technology usually has its own uses in certain situations: gas turbines have great power to weight, but annihilate fuel; diesels are just good and reliable; and petrol is for people who don’t understand the torque requirements in an armored vehicle . From my (slightly educated) perspective, there’s a lot of going back to things you’ve already done, having to give up some requirements to meet other requirements, and it gets frustrating. I will say, we do have a “semi-biannual” design competition for fun, which was almost exclusively for armored vehicles, but the next comp is an aircraft, so no luck. That doesn’t mean you can’t just do stuff or ask questions, though, but I’m not sure just how much of a “creativity forum” this is, as compared to something like shipbucket.
  8. Lord_James
    Are you surprised that Americans cannot into culture, even their own?
  9. Lord_James
    Just to clear this up (for me, at least), is the 2A5/A6/A7 wedge or L2PL “wedge” considered add on armor or mission kits? They seem to be very standard, insomuch that I haven’t seen a 2A5 and up without a wedge on their face, but many sources describe it as “add on”. Also, is there more info on the “heavy ERA” KMW is interested in? It seems weird to desire anti-KE performance when COIN and ATGMs are still huge threats.
  10. Lord_James
    Is the target weight including or without APS? If it’s including, KMW has a lot more than 5 tons to shave off, and I have doubts ERA can compensate for that. On the subject of ERA, it’s multi hit capacity (or lack there of) might be a hindrance when the time comes to finally evaluate these tanks, but that might depend where they put it (sides and roof only, or BM bulat style) and what the Norwegians are more concerned about.
  11. Lord_James
    Well, I mean, a lot of sharpening processes are basically micro knapping at high speed. Grindstones, whetstones, and sanding all remove material, just at a more controlled rate, with less chance for mistakes to ruin the entire product. I think it could be done, but you might break a couple knives (or whatever you have planned) and you would be the only one with experience doing such a thing.
  12. Lord_James
    I looked for a “general biology” thread, but couldn’t find one, the closest being the biotech and engineering thread, and I don’t think my question fits in there. But, alzoc provided a decent enough answer. I do have new questions to clarify some things for me, but I will drop those if no one cares to answer.
  13. Lord_James
    In retrospect, this is definitely the wrong thread to have asked this in, and I phrased my question poorly. Attempt 2: Why do micro organisms just “fall apart” immediately after they die? Do the forces or biological processes, that occur when they’re alive, maintain their outer layer? Being a novice, I would think it’s similar to larger organisms where it just stops maintaining itself after death and decay is more gradual, as the bonds between all the molecules eventually fail over time (or are broken down by a scavenging creature). Maybe that’s just my engineering student brain trying to make sense of weird, stinky organic stuff by comparing it to machines and/or macro biology. (should probably move this discussion to somewhere more appropriate, but I’ll let someone else make that decision)
  14. Lord_James
    Did you make sure it’s not radioactive?
  15. Lord_James
    I have a question, but I don’t know where to put this, so here you go (I apologize for the click bait thumb nail). @Toxn, wtf is happening to the bacteria at 2:08?
  16. Lord_James
    Looks very much like the Chrysler XM1 proposal. Was there any technology or idea sharing between the M1 and K1?
  17. Lord_James
    Found it, first post, a little ways down. It’s a Bf109 with a V tail, but @Collimatrix stated that the problems were associated with take off and landing, but no mention of level flight or combat maneuvering. I would be interested to know more about the results of the tests this particular 109 went through.
  18. Lord_James
    As for the gull wings, here’s something explaining its aerodynamics: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/21027/whats-the-advantage-of-the-f4u-corsairs-gull-wing-design
  19. Lord_James
    Why/how do V tails (and supposedly gull wings) enhance your aerodynamics to make you go faster?
  20. Lord_James
    2:26 “The worst thing to come out of WW2 was these shitty CoD games”
  21. Lord_James
    I think my sense of humor might be shit.
  22. Lord_James
    That would be logical, but history is (and the people who make history are) rarely logical. Asking for a service branch to limit its sphere of influence might as well be asking them to slap their own mothers, for how much of a fuss they put up.
  23. Lord_James
    I think this is a bit unfair, similar to asking an A-36 to perform like a P-51, which isn’t going to happen. Now what would be a better ask is to give the luftwaffe the A-10’s and have them try to get past the British air defense. I doubt the warthog could get past the hurricanes and spitfires any better than the He-111 and Ju-88, but it just removes any bias about intended combat roles.
  24. Lord_James
    *sad Chrysler XM1 noises*
  25. Lord_James
    https://books.google.com/books/about/The_British_Battleship_1906_1946.html?id=QDg5CwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1 This preview explains a bit about Fisher and his ideas.
×
×
  • Create New...