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  1. Collimatrix
    I couldn't find confirmation anywhere on the net, but that really, really looks like a mortar stapled to the front of the turret.
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    What are you even asking? All modern tanks have limited protection on the sides compared to the front. It's a simple function of geometry and weight.
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    ... What are you talking about? The Chinese just announced a new light tank, along with an export variant of the same. The Royal Thai Army still uses their Stingrays, Argentina still has TAMs, the PLA has ditched their Type 62s, but something like half a dozen other countries still use them. You really need to do basic research before you post things, that is, if you wish to escape your reputation as a hopeless idiot. Posting in complete sentences would also help.
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    Looks like the T-90 has some turbo lag.
  5. Collimatrix
    CNN provides a platform for food pseudoscience.
  6. Collimatrix
    Thanks for posting this. From the paper stats, it does not appear that Spike LR is as effortlessly superior to Javelin Block 1 as I would have guessed. What is your take?
  7. Collimatrix
    Suicide bombing in Northern Pakistan
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    My take is that Saudi Arabia paid a bajillion dollars to remain in the US' good graces. The Turkish government is the frenemy of the Saudi government, and they saw an opportunity to kick the Saudis down a peg by painting the Saudi government as a bunch of awful barbarians (not difficult; they are). Trump has been fucking with Turkey for the past several months too, this might have had something to do with it. Trump has already made noises about wanting an Arab NATO. Turkey doesn't want that. Hopefully he will make both countries compete for his favor, and then betray both of them and laugh evilly about it while cutting into a well-done steak covered in ketchup and swirling a diet Coke in a champagne glass.
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    (Grumbles something about fast neutrons being too good for the Saudis)
  10. Collimatrix
    How was ISIS getting water in As Safa?
  11. Collimatrix
    Perhaps it's a sheathed penetrator, and one number is the diameter of the inner tungsten penetrator, while the other number is the tungsten penetrator plus outer steel cladding?
  12. Collimatrix
    A price comparison of arming the M1 tank with the M68, L30 or Rheinmetall 120mm
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    So, what I learned in 2018 is that everyone's navy is incompetent. Norway and US keep crashing into things. China's new carrier doesn't work. Russia's old carrier doesn't work, and the one drydock that can repair it is at the bottom of the ocean. The UK Navy site that stores Trident warheads can't keep electricians safe.
  14. Collimatrix
    What size is Turkey's tank fleet currently? Is that enough to, say, completely replace all their M60s?
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    Is there any word on which countries are interested in buying?
  16. Collimatrix
    I don't think this is quite correct. Trump did drive up voter turnout for the Democrats, who saw the 2018 mid-terms, among other things, as a referendum on Trump and an opportunity to end his destructive madness. (little do the puny fools know that Trump's madness is completely unstoppable. The stars are right, and no mortal forces can hinder him) The problem for the Republicans was that their base didn't see the mid-terms as a referendum on Trump. Trump wasn't on the ballot, Republicans were. Republican voters are lukewarm about Republican politicians, and much, much more enthusiastic about Trump. Trump isn't a Republican. He's a rich eccentric who hijacked the Republican Party because he thought it would be funny (and boy, howdy has it been). Republican politicians and the Republican base are at odds on a number of issues. Once you get past his flamboyant personality, Trump is basically what would happen if you had someone who told the Republican base exactly what they wanted to hear. When Trump went to bat for the Republicans, he and his base both knew that it was a political marriage of convenience. Trump needed the Republicans to win, or at least hold ground, because he figured they would be somewhat less obstructionist and treacherous to him than the Democrats. He needed to sell his base on the necessity of such a maneuver, and they were not entirely enthusiastic about it. Fortunately, Trump knows all about loveless marriages, so he campaigned for the Republicans with gusto, and attempted to drag their useless asses across the finish line. The Republicans, for their part, did not actively resist his assistance. At the end of the day, however, the only thing that could truly threaten the Democrat's ambitions of sweeping Congress wasn't Trump, it was themselves. Their handling of the Kavanaugh hearings energized the Republicans more than Trump could ever have dreamed to. That was an absolutely catastrophic own-goal. While it's true that the Democrats faced an uphill battle in the Senate, the Republicans actually picked up seats. I think this is consistent with the idea that voters were punishing the Senate Democrats for their shenanigans during the Kavanaugh hearings. This is a notion that some Democrats have themselves tacitly admitted. Republican politicians are, by and large, parasites and Trotskyite wreckers who belong in gulags. There are two reasons that they didn't drive home the message that the booming economy is a vindication of their vision. The first is that it's Trump's vision, not theirs, and they still resent him a bit for it. The second reason is that they're just shiftless losers who are already tired of winning. Trump fucking delivered this time around, he campaigned on behalf of the Republicans and really drove home the "Jobs not Mobs" message. What the hell did they do? Just lay back and think of glowing praise in National Review? Very true. The Democrats are looking around for a hero on a white horse to deliver them in 2020. What they really need are level-headed, young leaders who can clean their own party's house without too much external drama, and a team of crack forensic accountants to figure out where the hell Clinton and Obama squirreled away all the money.
  17. Collimatrix
    I had disagreed, but it looks like you were right. The Onion was surprisingly on point.
  18. Collimatrix
    I assume you're handwaving the spring weight, but just so you know, when it comes to coil springs, a long coil spring is weaker. Making a coil spring long is the same thing as putting a bunch of short coil springs in series, which reduces spring constant. If you want a coil spring that's both long and generates a lot of force, then the coil material needs to be thicker, which results in an outrageous and gigantic magazine spring. Which I think you already knew, from looking at AK magazine springs. Just pointing out that there's a further weight penalty for this design choice.
  19. Collimatrix
    There's been a shooting in an Oakland bar. Multiple injuries, no deaths so far.
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    Truth
  21. Collimatrix
    The video is quite grainy, but it really does look like an Altay. Look at how far back the turret is on the hull, and how it has the large object on top of the turret. Turkish Leo 2s are older models with the GPS built into the front of the turret, no?
  22. Collimatrix
    There seems to be a problem with the fire suppression system on the Altay:
  23. Collimatrix
    Not to mention the tug of war between the panzer branch and the artillery branch...
  24. Collimatrix
    But... his name is Donald Trump, not Richard Trump.
  25. Collimatrix
    Since @T___A is too lazy, I'll point out that I was wrong here. IS-3 and IS-4 were parallel projects, but they were actually from the same factory (Chelyabinsk).
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