Dragonstriker

Central Front would have been thick with ZSUs, it would have been lucky to survive insertion.

I would like to introduce the idea of the A-10 Threshold:

This is a concept to determine what technological threshold the A-10 Thunderbolt II occupies. We have determined that it's clearly worse than an A-4, arguably worse than an F-100D, and probably worse than an A-26 Invader. 

Discussions are ongoing as to whether it's inferior to the SBD Dauntless.

True, and as mentioned above getting stealth designs right is as much a matter of computing power and special software (and obsessive attention to detail) as anything else.
 
But there are some general principles that can be gleaned by eye. You don't need complex simulations to see that a B-52, for instance, is going to have a massive radar signature while a B2 is not. Similarly, debunking the idea that the Ho. 229 was a magical stealth plane doesn't require one to make a mock-up and put it into a radar chamber. A look at the intakes shows that any stealthy features were more or less a happy accident rather than the result of intent.

Just a reminder that Mike Spark's website is a high-level cognitohazard and should not be read without a protective layer of alcohol to prevent brain damage.

This is an artificiality of Hollywood movies intended to make a character seem less like they come from California or New York. Which is funny because most US veterans from bumfuck can do Arabic pronunciation just fine. Anyone actually from "twang" country can recognize how stupid it sounds a mile away.

This is what the guy that Crisp Rat's character is based on sounds like:
 

No exaggerated accent.

For a very long time, converted tanks were the only infantry carriers in the IDF worth a damn. They were used extensively in Lebanon for the 20 years the IDF was parked there, for moving troops and for route clearance - very important against an opponent who very much liked IEDs. 
 

The “Best & Final Offers” (BAFO) for both Hanwha’s & Rheinmetall’s Phase 3 bids went in this last week. 
 
Another step on the journey. 

Manufacture of “major components” of the Mk30-2/ABM to be undertaken by Thales Lithgow. 
 

 
Hope Rheinmetall has their IP locked down!
 
 

I don't see how this is a problem.  What's the risk; that the Australians carve out the core of their own submarine to make a bomb?

Pluto has roughly the same surface area as Russia. Assuming that the American Minuteman III arsenal would be enough to "kill" something the size of Russia (Pluto has much less defenses than Russia, and their targets are probably less hardened against military attack), then we need 450 W87 warheads, which weigh about 250 kg each (I don't know the exact number). In other words,  112500 kg of warheads.
 
The New Horizons probe weighed 478 kg and was launched on an Atlas V 551. 478 is pretty close to 250*2, so I'm going to say each Atlas V 551 can put two warheads on a Pluto intercept trajectory. This means we would need 225 Atlas Vs.
 
74 Atlas Vs have been launched since 2002, just over 4.5 per year. However, given sufficient incentives and/or money, I'm going to conservatively assume ULA could double the production rate, to 9 rockets a year. Therefore, using the Atlas V, there are 225/9 = 25 years until we have enough rockets to kill Pluto. Add in the 9.5 year transit time (from the New Horizons mission), and if we start today, we could cleanse Pluto of life by the year 2043.
 
With other rockets, like Falcon Heavy, SLS, or BFR, it's probable that we could throw more warheads per launch and reduce the number of rockets needed. However, the production rates of these launch vehicles, as well as their performance on a trans-Plutonian trajectory, is unknown. If we decide to go with something like an Orion drive that could get to Pluto quicker (and drop sufficient warheads in one go), we need to factor in research+development time, and I am not an expert at those sorts of things.
 
For a more extreme case, if we want to completely erase Pluto from existence, it will be harder. Pluto has a mass of 1.31*10^22 kg. To disperse this mass, I will assume we need to accelerate it to Pluto's escape velocity. From wiki, escape velocity is given by the following formula;
 

 
(side note, I'm going to say r is the radius where half the volume of Pluto is outside that radius. This is (1/2)^(1/3) times Pluto's radius, which is .7397*1188 km = 878.8 km = 8.788*10^5 m).
 
Solving for escape velocity, we find that the escape velocity is 1410 m/s. Therefore, the kinetic energy needed is .5 * 1.31*10^22 kg * (1410 m/s)^2 = 1.30*10^28 J. According to the Atomic Rockets page, the Sun puts out 3.9*10^26 J per second (watts). Therefore, we need to harness 33 seconds of the Sun's output and focus it simultaneously on Pluto. This is well beyond the technical capabilites of our civilization at the present time.
 
 
 

I wish I was given 85 million pounds to think about boats.

LAND 400 Phase 2 Variants









 
 

In a joint press conference this morning, AU PM Scott Morrison, UK PM Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden announced the acquisition of SSN and domestic nuclear manufacturing capability to replace our 6 SSK. This will substitute the previously programmed 12 “shortfin barracuda” SSNK (denuclearised barracuda SSN).
This is a massive change for Australia.
 
ADBR story
ADM story
ABC news story
 
So far the reports are all saying the same thing.
 

Good clarifying information @SH_MM : I guess we’ll see.
 
One thing is certain (need to find the link)  is that only 17 kits/conversions have been funded. Contrast that with the Abrams fit where several battalion sets have been purchased. We’ve also seen the Abrams fit out on M1A1 FEP & M1A2 SEPv2, which demonstrates the modularity of the base tank, as well as the kit. 

Max Popenker with new assault rifle based on AM-17 (Dragunov MA lineage)

 
   And updated AM-17 in 7.62x39
 

I like how you're just shitting on some dude who's out there building real stuff lmao.

https://news.bellflight.com/en-US/201585-bell-360-invictus-build-makes-significant-progress-for-army-s-fara-prototype-competition
Invictus prototype

 
 

Anywhere. Wikipedia, probably.

*according to some in this thread. 
 
 
 

Some stills:

Cage armour. 

 

 

 

 
cheers. 

@Dragonstriker

Problems with Terrier, Typhoon, Type 45 etc... preceded the MRA4 and set the foundations. 

Terry88 has been returned to the Roblox official forums after having gotten lost.

Those fins are not up to Pratt&Whitney standards, very chonk.