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  1. Xlucine
    "no metal parts"? So those spikes are all plastic?
  2. Xlucine
    Interesting, could you tell us more? The only things I can find on the english web related to them is some bleating from left-wing press about israeli forces creating sonic booms over disputed territories in '05, and the standard use of serious loudspeakers for crowd dispersal
  3. Xlucine
    I look forward to the "contemporary western tank rumble" thread exploding.
  4. Xlucine
    Also the north korean deterrent, providing unambiguous proof that MAD works and ends wars
  5. Xlucine
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44092623 It looks like north korea's really serious about the opening-up thing.
  6. Xlucine
    An SSK chasing an SSN seems a little off to me. Kilo top speed is ~20kn, A-boat can do ~30kn, so the SSN could just leg it. A russian SSN hunting the A-boat sounds more plausible, but those don't tend to come into port very often (so tabloids wouldn't have any evidence they were present)
  7. Xlucine
    The turret base does protrude by about 6-12" or so above the roofline (don't be fooled by the fake roof that's stood off the hull, this is visible on the bow gunners hatches), which would save a small but significant amount of weight. Holding a ruler up the screen I figure it's about 0.3-0.6 m^2, so something on the order of a tonne for a 2.4 t/m^2 armour array (random number, corresponds to 30cm solid steel so around the right ballpark). This is just a ballpark for the frontal armour, the upper row of side armour could also probably be dispensed with for a flatter turret saving further weight.
  8. Xlucine
    2018 is wild. Also Arizona, elect better people http://www.horse-news.net/2018/05/gop-rep-from-arizona-asks-about-furries.html
  9. Xlucine
    Wouldn't it be first derivative, for "jobs created"?
  10. Xlucine
    He's hatching
  11. Xlucine
    No longbow, 2/10
  12. Xlucine
    Neat - I hadn't twigged just how far back the hatches were in the turret, I guess that explains how the turret "bulge" is protected frontally
  13. Xlucine
    https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/demonstration-proves-nuclear-fission-system-can-provide-space-exploration-power First thought:
  14. Xlucine
    And no APS launchers
  15. Xlucine
    Long as the hulls aren't too worn out and you didn't have too much of an IED threat, a CVRT packing spike would provide a fair bit of capability.
  16. Xlucine
    Looks like they turned it into a beetle:
  17. Xlucine
    This is a good documentary: The sound disappears at times, but it's probably improved by this. The video is the interesting bit - lots of views of the interior of an Akula (NATO: Typhoon), including the enclosed steering position in the sail. It's also an interesting look into the post-soviet-collapse Russian Navy. I was unaware that russia had an SSBN sponsored by a business, Coca-cola columbia class when?
  18. Xlucine
    Backstage show from SHOT?
  19. Xlucine
    A Babyoliphant? Bovington also has one, so it must have been a good enough idea to warrant making more than one of them
  20. Xlucine
    looks more like a dingo to me
  21. Xlucine
    Interesting that the crenellated engine is open wider during takeoff
  22. Xlucine
    The state isn't cutting anything, the courts have decided that anything other than palliative care isn't in Alfie's best interests. I'm not sure why he can't receive this in italy though
  23. Xlucine
    Ah, so those might be the "infernal machines" he was charged with possession of?
  24. Xlucine
    What are the aluminium tubes with the orange casings in the lower left? Shotgun conversions for the flare launcher possibly, or are those flares?
  25. Xlucine
    The mantlet has considerably less protection than that, perhaps the thickness of the turret cheeks is driven by the extremes of the frontal arc instead? There's a sizeable area of mantlet with <150mm protection, which is odd for a tank with a design thickness of 280mm
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