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Everything seems to work now. I am definitely not saying this because I am T___A logged in as Collimatrix, having staged a coup. Don't worry. Everything is fine.
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... five minutes later, T___A banned me. The alcohol did not guide me. Guess I didn't have enough.
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March 12, 2019 Tried at least somewhat to clean up the convoluted mess that is the moderator permissions and settings. I am trying to empower the new moderators to make the necessary changes but without completely breaking the system. May the alcohol guide my actions.
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This Yahoo News article repeats tens of thousands of ISIS civilians, and fills in some more details. Thanks @Scolopax for finding this.
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Syrian tanks at war. Some pictures and words between them.
Collimatrix replied to LoooSeR's topic in Mechanized Warfare
There are pictures either in this thread or the Jihad Design Bureau thread of tanks and IFVs with additional ERA attached to them. There are also pictures of T-64s in the Ukraine thread with a bunch of additional ERA attached.- 1,345 replies
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Explosive Reactive Armor
Collimatrix replied to Collimatrix's topic in Ballistics Science Discussion
@Militarysta; @Willy Brandt and I were looking at some diagrams of ERAWA reactive armor: Specifically, we were looking at how the cassette mounting screws are tucked under the cassette. This means that the edges of each ERAWA tile can be very close to each other, so the gaps in the protection are very small. And you can see on the PT-91 that the cassettes are packed very close. This is all well and good, but how on earth do you replace damaged modules? Having to get around to the side of each module to get at those mounting bolts looks like a complete pain in the ass.- 281 replies
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I have heard insanely high estimates of the number of wives and children that the ISIS fighters brought along with them that have now been captured; possibly tens of thousands. I have no idea if these estimates are accurate, but you can see from the picture above that there are a lot of these non-combatants mixed in.
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Deceive the Credulous; Become Fabulously Wealthy
Collimatrix replied to Collimatrix's topic in Open Discussion
It's not entirely pseudoscientific. That is to say, it's not like someone said "hey, lol, what if we sell people on using the blood of virgins to maintain eternal youth, only this time do it intravenously :))))))" It's called parabiosis, and it does work. At least in rats. In labs. Sometimes. -
Are there any indications of what the Chinese government is doing? They surely don't want a major war on their borders.
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Is there a good side by side of the Mi-28 and the Ka-52? Mi-28 looks much bigger.
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An internet leaker who provided a lot of the information on Russian air force projects got jailed.
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The consensus elsewhere on the internet is that PAK-FA testing is ongoing, but that it is ongoing where nobody can see it. This is not too surprising; according to Butowski there has been a ton of weapons testing for the PAK-FA of which there is no pictures. On top of that, one of the program's biggest leaks was recently plugged.
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Tanks guns and ammunition.
Collimatrix replied to Militarysta's topic in Ballistics Science Discussion
The hull sides are 80mm, the turret sides are ~115mm thick. But I agree; it's a far cry from being able to defeat the front of the turret, which is 200mm thick, or the glacis, which is even tougher. 115mm of armor penetration probably corresponded with the thickest concrete wall they thought they would be shooting this thing at. -
I had vaguely heard of this sort of thing being researched. The idea was to alloy/treat tungsten in such a way that it behaves more like uranium on impact.
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T-80 Megathread: Astronomical speed and price!
Collimatrix replied to Vasily Krysov's topic in Mechanized Warfare
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As you know, the Russians have this weird cultural tic where they see themselves as the official defenders of Orthodox Christianity. Through most of history since the Great Schism, Russia has been the only Orthodox state that is powerful. Most other Orthodox populations were subjects of either the Ottoman Empire (Sunni) or the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Catholic), so at various times and places, the Russians have felt like they need to be the "big brother" and look out for Orthodox populations (and especially Slavic Orthodox populations). This is a very sweet and touching belief and it also fucking caused the First World War. Also, with the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia in 1999 it came alarmingly close to causing the Third World War. In at least a few cases, the Russian state has tried to help Ethiopia for similar reasons. Ethiopia is Orthodox...ish, and it is the only generally Christian in a predominantly Muslim part of the world. The Russians don't like it when Muslims pick on their Orthodox bros, and they like it way even less when the uppity Catholics pick on their bros with their Western imperialism and their Filioque Clause. The actual level of support Russia has been able to offer Ethiopia has historically been limited because they're really far away from each other, but the Russians did supply the Ethiopians with several rifles and some artillery for the Battle of Adwa in 1896, and according to some sources small numbers of Russian troops fought there as well. As the Battle of Adwa was a crushing defeat for the Italians, there's a lot of art commemorating this event, and I could swear I've seen one that shows Russian troops standing shoulder to shoulder with their Ethiopian bros as they stick it to the Italians.
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Yeah, no luck so far.
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@Toxn Do you happen to have a picture of the tapestry showing the Russian volunteer contingent at the Battle of Adwa being strong, Orthodox bros with the Ethiopians and sticking it to the filthy papists?
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Best guess three view of the new Sukhoi UCAV I found on the Key Publishing Forums. It's Yuge!
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I note that the light tank also has double pin tracks. The Merkava is unusual, possibly singular among modern MBTs in that it uses single pin, non-rubber-bushed tracks. Double pin tracks last longer, but the experience in the Golan Heights was that the volcanic rock there chews up the end connectors too quickly.
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The allegation in the second video that EA's CEO is unhappy with having to make Star Wars games is baffling. Disney shelled out $4x10^9 for that!
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What does anyone make of this? https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/fathers-can-pass-mitochondrial-dna-to-children-65165 @Toxn?
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With the air intake on top, there must be a lot of room inside the fuselage for a large weapons bay.
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My books on armor metallurgy disagree. As an example, if you could eliminate all of the bonding dislocations in a piece of mild steel, its tensile strength would be 20 times higher. Modern steels aren't anywhere near their theoretical maxima. Entirely novel steel metallurgy has been developed in the last 10 years, including armor steels with bainitic microstructure, TRIP and TWIP steels. Additionally, ultra high hardness steels are being developed that may be viable alternatives to ceramics. Yes.
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