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  1. Beer
    What is the ballistic resistance of this shield and leg protection?
  2. Beer
    IS in Mozambique managed to shot down a South African PCM Gazelle helicopter.
  3. Beer
    A-545 with SSO
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    3D visualisation of the new TITUS variants for Czech army can be seen in this article: https://www.armadninoviny.cz/titus-novinka-pro-ceskou-armadu-ziskava-konkretni-podobu.html 62 pieces will be delivered by Eldis - chassis, final assembly and except first few pieces also the cabins will come from Tatra Defence, electronics from Retia and the first few cabins will come from Nexter. TITUS KOVS (command post) TITUS MKPP (artillery support coordination center) General schematics of the drivetrain
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    That's what I meant. On the move it's uncontrolable for the gunner how fast he can turn the turret. It depends on the driver. If he accelerates or decelerates the turret don't rotate with constant speed. The higher gear he selects the slower the turret rotation is, the lower rpm he uses the slower the rotation is again. Way too many variables which the gunner can not affect.
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    That makes no sense to me. All reports I have seen gave variable rotation times depending on the engine speed for Tiger, Königstiger and Panther. The engine speed was controlled by the driver and nothing else. As far as I understand the hydraulic system was used only to avoid using scarce copper needed for the electric system.
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    About two dozens of guys and such a variety of weapons If I see right five different machineguns (M240, NSV, DShK, PK variant and DP), Mosin, SKS, various AK platforms, M16s, FN FAL, RGB6. Must be fun to supply ammo if two dozens of guys need six different types (12,7x108, 7,62x54R, 7,62x51, 7,62x39, 5,45x39, 5,56x45).
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    If somebody is interested here are some photos of the current state of the underground of the Adam fortress which is till today used by our army for storrage purposes (together with the fortress Smolkov). There isn't much except the corridors on the photos (and the sad state of the objects above ground which were largely destroyed during German weapon testing). Probably nothing else was allowed to see for the journalists. What is interesting is that the railway is original 1930', so are the carriages (not the engine) and also the firing port and the grenade tube at the enrance. Two other fortresses were rebuilt during the Cold war into objects for survival of army and political leadership in case of a nuclear war and keeping the communication lines functional (Hanička and Dobrošov). Both of them are accessible for public today. In both cases basically only the underground was used. Large water and air filtering stations were added instead of original underground barracks and wearhouses (each fortress had own undeground water supply). New communication devices and hospitals were installed etc.
  9. Beer
    How do You change the inner wheels?
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    Meanwhile drone wars continue in Lybia. Possibly another Bayraktar TB2 downed. Aaand... another friendly fire. LNA shot down their own WingLoong 2 and tried to sell it as a wreckage of Anka-S while it clearly ca not be Anka (there is turboprop engine visible in the wreck (Anka has diesel) and the main gear looks like that from WingLoong and not like from Anka).
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    ... and only thanks to the change of direction by the empty tanker it didn't hit French C-130. Meanwhile it appears that the rocket hit a house of the base commander and killed his two children...
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    Huh... Chadian Su-25 accidentaly fired S-24 rocket while standing on the N'Djamena airport. The rocket went through tanker (changed direction by that) and hit something. According to the French army report there were casualties and at least three Chadian soldiers were moved to a French military hospital. Here it's on the video.
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    First is highly non-recommended engine speed, the second is allowed maximum engine speed, i.e. first is very very emergency case which can brake the engine, the second is ideal case. None of that is possible without being stacionary and without perfect cooperation between the crew members, in other words in the real world it was most likely unachievable in most of the situations.
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    Today it's 15 years of Gripen C/D service in our air force. You can find a historical gallery from their first day of service here: https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/nato/gripen-vyroci-jas-39-armada-vzdusne-sily-pilot-nadzvuk-stihac.A200418_110237_zpr_nato_inc/foto/nahledy#INC82ca6b_gripen_204_2.jpg AFAIK It was also a first day of service of a western fighter plane in a former Warpac country after the fall of the iron curtain. I dare to say it was successful fifteen years. The planes have had no major technical issues and no accidents. Sure at the beginning there were some teething issues but since we were only a second country to operate the planes it was quite normal. Also our planes were quite late equipped with ground attack capability (2018) but that comes from the fact that the whole country's air defence is up to them (our ground AD is close to none existent).
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    For sure we have bigger experts than me here so take all I write with a truckload of salt I read elsewhere that in Panther it was 17-93 seconds depending on the gear and it needed 1000 turns of the manual wheel for 360°rotation (Königstiger 700). In emergency at 3000 rpm it should have been possible to rotate the turret in 10 seconds but 3000 rpm was highly non recommended engine speed for the HL230. Somewhere I remmeber to see also a complaint that the manual traverse was not possible at a list of 5° already. For the Tiger I read 25-60 seconds depending on the gear and 720 rotations of the manual wheel. However the main issue with the hydraulic traverse was its huge dependancy on the cooperation between the driver and the gunner and a very high demand on the crew training. If the tank was on the move the turret speed was subject to shifting speeds, slow and was never constant. In theory since the gunner had only a straight narrow FoV in combination with this he could hardly keep his eyes the target on the move so when they stopped he had to start searching for it again. Sherman had electrical turret traverse independent on the engine speed, I believe, capable to rotate the turret at 24 second in any circumstances (plus vertical stabilizer). I found 22-28 seconds for IS-2 with D-25 with manual traverse possible up to the list of 8,3° and powered traverse up to the list of 15°. For T-34-85 I found 21 seconds, for T-34-76 10 seconds. All with electric traverse motor. For Pz.IV I found 32 seconds for Ausf. H with electric traverse. Ausführung J had only manual allegedly due to lack of copper.
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    Some double resurection in SyAAF style - resurected Mi-25 from the graveyeard standing in the resurected helicopter base in Marj al Sultan in East Ghouta.
  17. Beer
    Nice gif for the vintage Lewis machinegun
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    First manned flight of Crew Dragon is cheduled on 27th May.
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    Another Bayraktar TB2 down with a load of at least 3 MAM-L and 1 MAM-C guided bombs. This time it's serial number 95. Just few days a go we saw wreckege of 94.
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    Zala shot down by GNA. Possibly operated by Wagner guys.
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    Well, the standard ammo provision of the IS-2 was 18-20 HE and 8-10 AP rounds (20/8 more often I think). For sure it was not designed as a purely anti-tank vehicle. I would say only T-34-57 was like that from all Soviet WW2 tanks. Pz.V, VI, IVB were definitely more anti-tank vehicles than the IS tanks (ammo loadout around 50/50 with much less powerfull HE). Anyway I feel always amazed by the amount of energy spent into comparing vehicles which very rarely fought each other (IS-2 vs. Pz.VI or Pz.VIB). While it is intereting these encounters played completely marginal role in the war. For me this is one of the strange phenomenas - to choose a sexy comparison of something which was of very low relevance in the actual war. Also the bad situation awareness of the Panther and Königstiger is true and combined with relatively thin side armor, sponsons full of ammo (Panther especially) and very slow turret traverse these tanks were indeed very vulnerable from side attacks. Due to the nature of the late war they however often fought from prepared defence positions where it was not such a big issue. Their offensive record is pretty bad nevertheless (also due to low availability, reliability issues and terrible strategic mobility).
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    Kazakh MiG-31 crashed today. Both pilots ejected safely. Here it is seen flying with burning engine.
  23. Beer
    Is Buran produced in Belarus or Russia?
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    Two killed and five wounded after a French army Puma crashed on a training flight near Tarbes. https://www.sudouest.fr/2020/04/15/hautes-pyrenees-un-helicoptere-du-5e-rhc-de-pau-s-ecrase-au-nord-de-tarbes-7414237-4344.php
  25. Beer
    Some Maghaweir al Thowra militants defected to SAA. You know, it's those guys paid, trained and armed by US for literally sitting in the desert and doing nothing (for years).
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