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    I used to write things.
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    Interesting that these tracked AFVs have double or triple differential steering systems, but none of the Russian MBTs do.
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    Yes, yes, well done.
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    Merged the PT boat discussion with the general competition suggestions. I think that @A. T. Mahan put a lot of effort and care into this PT boat competition suggestion. There's a lot of detail work in the big bold text there. And I'm going to say no. For a competition to work there need to be... at least three entries. And there need to be at least three judges. So there need to be on the order of six people who know how the fuck (weapons system X) works. There just aren't that many people here who know boats. We tried, in the past, to do a competition around designing an SMG. That was my idea. It was a bad idea. I almost single-handedly destroyed the SH competitions section with that bad idea. And SMGs are one of the easiest modern weapons systems in the world to design. And we have one person here who works as a gunsmith, one who has worked in the firearms industry for decades, one who wrote about guns for four years, and several people with engineering degrees. If it actually came down to it, there are several people here who could design you up a submachine gun! But there just wasn't the critical mass of enthusiasm for anything that wasn't an armored fighting vehicle.
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    SH Nobility member @OnlySlightlyCrazy did some excellent research, and asked an old missile design grognard why on earth the R-27 has those weird axe-head shaped fins. I have copied the explanation below in full:
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    I'm leaning towards diversionary tactics. There wasn't a peep about Nikki Haley leaving before she did. Trump has likewise feigned impatience with Sessions, but Sessions is still there. The last Trump cabinet switch-up that had anything like a hint before it happened was Tillerson, and that was still something of a surprise. But who knows. Trump is, as ever, unpredictable.
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    I've never seen a color picture of a Tiger II being recovered and towed before.
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    Don't tiggers and tigger IIs have different turret ring diameters?
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    I'm enjoying it more than I expected to.
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    To be perfectly honest, it looks like improvised material hastily attached to the tank to give the crews more confidence. I didn't see any reason to think that there was anything particularly clever or scientific about the design. It was just an attempt to put something; anything into the path of incoming threats and thicken the armor up a bit more, the same as tank crews have been doing since at least the 1940s.
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    U.S. Army Completes Qualification Testing for New Stinger Missile Proximity Fuze Sounds like the new fuze will help kill drones deader, and that older missiles will get the new fuze as part of a SLEP.
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    THE INFLUENCE OF THE FRONT LAYER OF A REACTIVE ARMOR ON LONG ROD PENETRATOR DISRUPTION
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    OK, calling all people who actually know what they're talking about: @N-L-M and I were debating whether the torsion bars on tanks with torsion bar suspension are interchangeable. I pointed out that according to this article, the torsion bars of the Leopard 1 are deferentially pre-stressed. Also, that the Tiger I had non-uniform torsion bar diameters. N-L-M retorted that those are German tanks, and therefore anything silly and over-complex that they do is not necessarily reflective of other tanks generally. So, anyone who knows, how interchangeable are the torsion bars on the different road wheel stations on a tank?
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    About time...
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    Don't wait on my account. I'll get it done eventually, because @Zyklon wanted to see it. But seriously, my design is silly. It has interleved road wheels for Morozov's sake!
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    Suspicious envelopes possibly containing ricin and addressed to top US officials were intercepted.
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    It's because we are men of culture.
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    Any updates?
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    I think that the agreement will be very important in particular parts of the USA, mostly the dairy-producing Midwest. By some strange coincidence, all of those states were also key Trump swing votes in 2016. I like the way you think, comrade!
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    Maybe it's a trap? Wait for one side to inevitably skirt or flout the agreement, and then tear it up as soon as they do?
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    It's new to me!
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    Do you happen to know the designation?
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