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  1. Xlucine
    Sounds like a decent chap
  2. Xlucine
    Their model makers are getting better
  3. Xlucine
    Doesn't FAMAS have a fluted chamber? That'd be bad for fouling, a normal chamber (irregardless of cartridge material) should do a much better job of keeping soot away from the chamber
  4. Xlucine
    What? Parcel delivery is currently the biggest money maker for USPS. Anyhow, it's their job to be the "delivery boy". They deliver mail! What the fuck is this guy talking about? The part about taxes as putting retailers out of business is somewhat legit, although I think his criticism of Amazon has more to do with the fact that Amazon owner Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post than anything else. Anyhow, Walmart already wiped out all the small mom and pop retailers, Amazon just delivered the coup de grace. If amazon pays no taxes, doesn't that make them smart like trump?
  5. Xlucine
    Metal foam should just act like a whipple shield against HEAT (i.e. probably quite good against the jet tip)
  6. Xlucine
    Reminds me of:
  7. Xlucine
    That's just anova false prophet
  8. Xlucine
    I'm not saying it'd be easy to pick a fabric that, when supported by slat armour, would initiate an RPG - just that rheinmetall isn't going to mess around with armour without a very good reason to do it (given the major legal ramifications in case anyone did buy that upgrade package, and it turns out that the tensile strength of the fabric was just a bit too high)
  9. Xlucine
    You wouldn't put it there for no reason, since it'd take a fair bit of expensive verification testing to prove that the fabric wasn't strong enough to initiate the fuse on an RPG.
  10. Xlucine
    I wonder if the gap under the turret armour is to fit the driver?
  11. Xlucine
    If you're keeping the barrel length constant, then a bottlenecked case loses swept volume (and you can use the work done by adiabatic expansion over that pdV integral for a rough approximation of the difference in efficiency). Case taper loses case volume, AFAIK any difference in the resistance to flow between different case geometries is not very significant
  12. Xlucine
    Thrown rocks are probably more effective against a gun than a shield wall - a stream of rocks to the face will make it quite hard to aim, whereas it's easier to keep out of poking range. The whole thing does read a bit like a satire article - concealed carry on campus would be a lot simpler
  13. Xlucine
    An-caps everywhere are confused, and they don't know why
  14. Xlucine
    It looks like the USMC agrees that AESA radar is much easier to maintain than mechanical http://www.janes.com/article/78735/usmc-to-upgrade-hornets-with-new-aesa-radar
  15. Xlucine
    My tuppence on trump/elections this year: there'll be a sizeable dem swing giving them a razor-thin majority in one of the houses, which will spook the republicans enough for them to impeach trump. Not on anything specific, but they'll find something to stick somewhere. As soon as it looks like pence gives them a better chance of re-election, they'll turn on trump. Mostly putting this here so that if I'm right I can act smug, and if I'm wrong you guys can laugh at me
  16. Xlucine
    First they came for the dank memers, and I did not speak out for I was not a dank memer
  17. Xlucine
    It's similar in the sense that any suspension system with springing elements will operate on a very similar principle to all the others. Chieftain et al have two wheels per spring, and load the spring in compression; whereas the Type 97 Medium Tank has springs in tension and one wheel per spring on the front and rear, and looks to have 4 wheels supported by the same spring in the middle. The rotating bogie on a sprung swingarm is neat, and quite like the ferdinand (or more likely the ferdinand was like the japanese tanks, given the production dates)
  18. Xlucine
    Radar guided flak is period accurate, but low altitude effective radar guided flak isn't for about 10 years. The best you'd get is optically sighted autocannon, which would have little chance against something doing mach 3.
  19. Xlucine
    I wonder how radiation-hardened a typical AA missile is? That could interfere with shooting it down, if the missile stops working as soon as it gets near the thing.
  20. Xlucine
    630 kg of steel is only 0.08 m^3, so treating the mantlet as a prism with constant cross-sectional area and 420 mm thickness you get about 180 mm of steel
  21. Xlucine
    This is not communism, this is comieboo-ism
  22. Xlucine
    We're interested in actual tanks. Making up bullshit for the sake of a video game and trying to pass it as actual historical data is not well received round here
  23. Xlucine
    I would love to see the germans try and replicate the capability of F-35 with typhoon. That is certain to be an efficient use of money
  24. Xlucine
    https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/450-W-Grixdale_Highland-Park_MI_48203_M37779-89409 Odd real estate is close enough to craigslist, right?
  25. Xlucine
    Turbines also have a neat trick for battlefield mobility, as the turbine generates the most torque when it's stalled. The power output from a turbine more closely approximates the output from a magic constant-power source, whereas a piston engine (petrol or diesel) approximates a magic constant torque source. This means that a turbine puts down a much greater fraction of the peak power at low RPM, which is useful for pulling away. I wonder what the suspension comparison in the first page was to? 9g at half the speed compared to 1g in the merk is a big gulf. Maybe a sherman?
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