Scolopax

Man, that's the same thing I tell my wife sometimes.

Inside of this BTR.

 

 

 

 

 

 

it all makes sense now
 
 
also, i never cared for the C-96
 
I dont care how much pussy it gets you or that its Han Solo's gun
 
The thing is more front heavy than my third wife and a stripper clip pistol is retarded for obvious reasons 

I present an alternative for worst StuG III vismod:
 

 
Base vehicle being a BMD-1 here

I present an alternative for worst StuG III vismod:
 

 
Base vehicle being a BMD-1 here

Relevant
 

Relevant
 

http://www.biotech-now.org/public-policy/patently-biotech/2012/01/the-real-reason-why-salk-refused-to-patent-the-polio-vaccine-a-myth-in-the-making
 
 
Apparently it was because his counsel didn't think it would fly, legally.

http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/5034495.html
 
http://www.autobild.de/bilder/das-ist-deutschlands-panzer-zukunft-5843004.html#bild1
 

 

 

 

 
Poor driver.

Plenty of other fun things back in that lot (BMPT precursors, T-72 Buffalo, BMP-1 proto variant, and other historical but not unique vehicles.)
 
 

That is very very interesting combat footage. It shows advancing LPR rebels taking fire in the middle of field, and later - a UAF tank 500 meters away, driving right into the middle of advancing forces. As i understand this was recorded in 2014.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0N0rplcH32g
You must watch it, i am serious.

The last few centimetres of a metre-long projectile don't do much to change its penetration. Colour me amazed.
Also: a golden opportunity for testing stone arrowheads against small, yappy dogs was missed.

Image searching led to this. 

Image searching led to this. 

Image searching led to this. 

Libya (mostly post-civil war)
 
Syria (not a whole lot there)

Scale mock-up

 
 
Click Here

Scale mock-up

 
 
Click Here

I thought this deserves its own thread.
 
Where do you see tank design going in the next few decades?  Where do you think it should go?
 
Here is where I think things will go:
 
 
-Western tank development will be depressing.  Every country will want their own indigenous tank design, and upon learning that they are lolnotevenclose to competent to actually make a first-rate MBT, they'll ask someone who is and end up making something that is practically identical to a Leo 2 or Leclerc, only without parts interchangeability.
 
-Except for the tracks, ammo and engine, because all new Western MBTs will have the same Diehl tracks, MTU powerpack and Rheinmetall 120mm cannon.
 
-Anyone who deviates from this formula will soon learn that all the engineers who actually design tanks hung up their hats in the early 1990s, and that re-building that knowledge base is hard.  Being unwilling to put actual work into the problem, any tank designed that isn't based around these proven components will be a gigantic shitshow, and having wasted hundreds of millions of dollars, the country in question will throw up their hands and quietly buy T-90s or T-14s.
 
-The vast majority of tank armor will be increasingly refined NERA, possibly with perforated stand off screens or those wedge thingies from Leo 2A5 to improve performance against LRPs.  This fact, abundantly evinced by pictures of damaged tanks and tanks undergoing repair and overhaul, will continue to baffle and elude journalists.
 
-The USA, Turkey, Franco-German consortium, South Korea and Japan will be the only "Western" countries still able to produce MBTs, and all will heavily lean on German-designed tracks, engines and guns.  Turkish MBTs and other AFVs will be materially designed by South Korean firms to Turkish specifications.  Italy and the UK will both lose their ability to design MBTs, the UK will actually lose their ability to make them, which will be rationalized by saying that MBTs are obsolete.  Crystal ball cloudy for Poland, Czech Republic, and whatever tank production capability remains in Romania and former Yugoslavia.
 
-The Russians will re-acquire the lead they had in tank design throughout most of the Cold War, with the Chinese playing second fiddle.  Chinese first-line tanks will be quite good, but they will sell hilarious, hot-rodded type 59s to export customers (alongside hilarious hot-rodded J-7s) instead of their good stuff.  Russia will sell the good stuff, and once they manage to replicate the parts they needed to source from abroad, it will be really good.  The Ukrainian tank industry will remain gutted, and the glorious Kharkiv tank design lineage will fade into obscurity.

http://mil.ru/files/files/85vdv/virtual.html
 
Virtual excursion in BMD-2, BMD-4, Sprut-SD, Strela, Nona-S.

Those videos were created during different stages of Ukrainian events based on what was happening in political field. They are mostly in Russian, but i think you will have fun too, in anyway.
 

 

 
 

Besides finding a way to get some, the LAV-III seems like a no-brainer to me in the situation of upgunning the Stryker.

Year later Nathaniel will post a TFB article, where he will trick people to panick buy MAS rifles, just to inflate prices! And at a pick of price, he will sell his rifle, became rich and we will never ever hear about him. 

Waiting with this for a while and the opportunity presented itself.