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  1. Xlucine
    Holy fuck, look at that "lethal impact velocity range" graph. That has made my day
  2. Xlucine
    I'm surprised at the lack of fumes visible from the open breech in that video - normally even a vehicle with a dirty fume extractor will have noticeable amounts of smoke coming back into the tank
  3. Xlucine
    Here's the nature article, and a summary by the beeb. They think they've found flakes, cores that have flakes removed, hammers, and even anvils. For scale, this is from about 100,000 years before lucy
  4. Xlucine
    Blame sciencealert for missing that detail - people have known that c60 with some other stuff can superconduct around 30K for ages and the study doesn't find anything much improved on that. Here's the study (this might or might not work for you, I'm on university internet right now so I have no idea how open it is to mere mortals)
  5. Xlucine
    I should have written 1/7th. Embarrassingly, I wasn't drunk at the time
  6. Xlucine
    With a TE of 7 (per marsh) then diesel has a ME of about 1.3 Vs shaped charges, ignoring mass for the container. rho for diesel is only ~10% rho steel
  7. Xlucine
    Any group that defines themselves by what/who they don't like, rarely works
  8. Xlucine
    The best known example (either of racial bias in policing or general incompetence on a massive scale, you decide)
  9. Xlucine
    The reddit thread they linked to is utterly terrible. I don't know what I expected
  10. Xlucine
    >acquire nukes >civilised nations now much more interested in keeping SA stable >guarantee kingdom for 1000 years!
  11. Xlucine
    Entrenching device?
  12. Xlucine
    To satisfy nerds with fibre broadband, youtube has introduced 60fps playback on some videos - if you upload a video at more than 60fps, and if the youtube gods smile upon you, then viewers can see it in 60fps! The playback quality menu looks like this: There's only one small issue - google being google, they've forgotten that not everyone is a nerd with fibre broadband. So if you can only stream 720p30 fine (so no 720p60), and your screen is too big for 480p to not look like a blocky mess, then you may as well not watch the video. This is an excellent upgrade!
  13. Xlucine
    The fuel tank's completely wrong as well, and I'm fairly sure it's missing a lot of ammo stowage in the main hull around where the crew stand. Also, with the ammo stowage it does have present, one of those is actually a battery compartment.
  14. Xlucine
    Is that including ancillaries like the radiators? Water cooled engines ought to have a better engine block volume : displacement ratio, since you can pack the cylinders closer together.
  15. Xlucine
    Damian on tanknet posted these: https://pp.vk.me/c627418/v627418836/84e/Jsp9cywU5Kg.jpg https://pp.vk.me/c623725/v623725854/339db/eogpIlbIBRQ.jpg https://pp.vk.me/c627418/v627418836/83a/nOfKwmEHtM0.jpg and a koalitsia: http://naforum.zapodaj.net/images/07636400a5ab.jpg
  16. Xlucine
    http://lenta.ru/articles/2015/05/12/khalitov/ Looks like koalitsia is a tarted up T-90, if google translate hasn't failed me. I'd like to know where the thermals on armata are from, if they aren't imported
  17. Xlucine
    Do you know what engine is in the Koalitsia-SV? The rear plate looks different to T-14/15, it only has one circular removable section
  18. Xlucine
    I find the US practice of forcing unrelated subjects into degrees quite odd - from the age of 16 I've been able to focus on STEM subjects (save for a "general studies" (read: current affairs) A-level that neither I nor universities cared about), and if I had to keep studying english literature I'd be quite annoyed. History professors are expensive, they could get real jobs
  19. Xlucine
    Ah, you're right - that website is pretty far from the mark, they also claim: there'll be an armata based BMPT Gunner is behind the driver on T-14 no coax MG T-15 needs moar dakka, and might have another weapon mounted in a box over the gun I'm pretty sure they're confusing the infantry section commander with the gunner on T-15 as well, but I'm not certain about it
  20. Xlucine
    In fairness, it does look similar to the merkava's belly protection
  21. Xlucine
    http://www.soylent.me/ High-wall?
  22. Xlucine
    So what's everyone's opinion on the bustle contents on T-14? it looks like a lot of space for personal kit - I suspect it's similar to the bustle on T-90MS, and contains extra ammunition that can only be accessed externally.
  23. Xlucine
    I suspect those are a fancier version of the small tubes visible on the K-25 turrets, as here: Not the circled ones, but the tubes in a square section box above them. They're present on the K-25 30mm turret, but not on the T-15 30mm turret. Both kinds of tubes remind me of drozd, and I suspect the smaller ones are just smokescreens (possibly multispectrum) and the large tubes for the hard kill - more thrown mass and they're already aimed, so can launch faster than the trainable launcher. No hard kill for top attack munitions, but the plan is probably to rely on the vertically launched smoke grenades to cause a miss. Boomerang lacks all tubes, probably the weight/cost penalty was too much (or manufacture of the systems is a bottleneck, or it hasn't been certified on that vehicle yet, or...). I expect the strange black panels to be radar of some type to run the system
  24. Xlucine
    So some of the air from the compressor goes around the burner cans, then rejoins the exhaust from the cans to meet the turbine, lowering the average temp of the air passing through the turbine? Eeh, you'd get the same effect with less fuel going into the cans and it's bad for brayton efficiency. Burner cans don't have to be stoichiometric, they're pretty far on the lean side
  25. Xlucine
    I'd be surprised if it was, ERA is not very effective when vertical
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