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  1. Collimatrix
    You mention having KWM and Rheinmetall Service on speed dial, and also sending the vehicles back to maintenance. How much of the maintenance of the Puma has to be done in special facilities vs. in the field? Is it more reliant on the special facilities than Marder?
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    They weren't all designed by the same bureaus. IS-3 and IS-4 in particular were parallel designs that were designed by two different bureaus at around the same time, the 4 wasn't a successor to the 3.
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    How many fucking ISIS cells are there in that area?
  4. Collimatrix
    How much did the lack of torque and P-factor play into the decision to adopt jets?
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    It is quite so. In fact, I invented that particular trick. And no, I don't have your password. It's encrypted by the forum software so as even I can't get at it. Same as all other forum software. And yes, I do know what your email address is because you had to enter an email address in order to register your account. Same as all other forum software.
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    Why is Peasant yelling at himself?
  7. Collimatrix
    I see that your posting has not improved since your days on the WOT forums.
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    Is this the ice cream debate thread now?
  9. Collimatrix
    I don't get the pun.
  10. Collimatrix
    The Kuznetsov's floating dock has sunk.
  11. Collimatrix
    I still want to hear the judge's reactions to the vehicles. There's a lot of interesting ideas about tank design in those.
  12. Collimatrix
    Seven people shot in a California nightclub
  13. Collimatrix
    Traditional taxonomy is the made-up one. Cladistics works fine, provided that there isn't horizontal gene flow. This makes it perfectly valid for larger-scale relationships, but things can get a bit fuzzy at a small scale.
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    @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks, @Zyklon, what are your thoughts?
  15. Collimatrix
    Intergeneric hybridization in galliformes, showing that when they're not busy murdering and raping each other, they're busy murdering and raping taxonomy at a conceptual level:
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    ERA design intended for the Swedish STRV 2000
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    Time to break some of this down: Projected frontal silhouettes. STRV 2000 T is the familiar one, STRV 2000 O is another proposed configuration with a completely external weapons mounting: Different configurations considered for STRV 2000, note that only one of the configurations had a 140mm gun. Some of the others were based on the CV-90 chassis: Side armor configuration of the STRV 2000: "Band" means track. Overall armor layout. You can see that side armor was prioritized. Design of the ERA.
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    Tell us more!
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    I chanced upon this video on Rolls Royce's attempt to make a diesel Wankel engine suitable for tanks:
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    A site in Texas yields spearheads that may be pre-Clovis types. I have spoken to an archaeologist who specializes in New World stuff about recent modifications to the Clovis-first hypothesis. The genetic evidence of modern Amerindians is consistent with the Clovis-first model... mostly. It certainly looks like a population of Australasian-ish people made it to South America ahead of the Clovis big-game hunters, and later interbred with them. Also, some populations of Amerindians descend from subsequent migrations to the New World from Asia. But that doesn't rule out the possibility of even earlier waves of humans making it to the New World during earlier interglacials and failing to leave a mark in the genomes of current populations. The archaeologist I spoke to said that this possibility cannot be ruled out at this time. When the glaciers retreated, long-buried soil would have been uncovered. Lacking much vegetation, this newly-exposed soil would have blown off easily, creating massive dust bowls following the glaciers. This glacial loess covered much of the continent, and any artifacts of abortive pre-Clovis cultures would mostly be buried under feet of this dust.
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    Maybe? The biggest unresolved question is what is going to happen to Idlib, which is the largest remaining area in Syria still held by rebels. There are diplomatic machinations going on behind closed doors. The next biggest unresolved question is what is going to happen with the Kurdish-held areas, which include a lot of the oil fields. The remaining ISIS enclaves are probably not sustainable, and I predict will be bombed/starved to death at convenience. The rebel-held area around the Iraqi border is a bit of a question mark too.
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    J-10C being used as a testbed for a serrated nozzle:
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    From a drag reduction standpoint, this seems like a sensible idea. What went wrong?
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    IS-4 could neutral steer.
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    So... either "rogue elements" have access to the consul gardens, or the Saudis can't even be arsed to come up with a plausible lie. Didn't the Turks initially report that something fishy was up? I hope Trump uses this as further pretext to play the Saudis and Turks against each other.
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