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    These are fun
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    Here's the TASS article quoted: http://tass.com/defense/1023982 It clearly states that some group in russia has designed a catamaran carrier (which may or may not be built), but it's nothing to do with that image - some guy made that up in 2009 (it's also one of the first results on google images for "catamaran aircraft carrier'): https://www.dedoimedo.com/art_3d/carrier.html The design discussed in the TASS article seems reasonable, stitching together two hulls will get you a lot of flight deck for your money
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    2x8 will have literally twice the bandwidth, and that board has 4 ram slots anyway so you will still be able to upgrade later. As long as you aren't desperate for 64GB of RAM eventually (with a 6 core chip?), 2x8 is the way to go
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    Not yet, I'd expect FGR (like the most recent typhoons)
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    Global warming claims another victim. This poor polar creature, left searching for sea ice to rest on
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    PutinsuitTM
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    I'm not sure how anyone could get to salisbury and back without showing up on CCTV
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    Brits are quite chuffed:
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    They're marines, I'm sure they could find loads of volunteers to sit on top of the missiles to drive the thing around
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    Materially it's one big weld (thinking of SLM, which is laser welding aluminium powder into the desired shape - in an inert atmosphere ofc). Not great for fatigue (e.g. you're very likely to end up with porosity), which might not be ideal for a receiver (I don't want to say it can't be done, but it'd need testing before saying it can be done). If this was really getting made then it'd be a much better option for the first half dozen prototypes, before the geometry was finalised enough for the big spend on the die for the extrusion. Upper receivers are hollow bodies of almost constant cross section by definition (as they're enclosing the reciprocating moving parts), so it's a natural match for extrusion for full production
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    Stereolithography is great if UV-cured resins are good enough for what you're doing, which is rare (short of prototypes that you're testing for fit&feel). The final products tend to embrittle over time (especially if exposed to sunlight, as the UV continues crosslinking), which is not ideal for a firearm. It would be an elegant solution to getting a long handguard, as the final part can be much bigger than the original tank (if you're using the bottom-up build process, with UV projected on the bottom of the resin tank)
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    27k rounds of 14.5mm HMG at 0:43?
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    I also suspect hypersonic. If you need what is almost a trident tube to fit one on a sub (along with the booster) then it'll be pretty hefty
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    How's the handguard made? Extruded aluminium with the lug by the magazine welded on?
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    Loaders need a lot of space, cutting them down to a similar footprint as the gunner would free up a lot of room. I'm not sure if this would tetris out as resulting in a reduced width turret, but it'd free up some volume
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    Could be CGI upper hull on a tracked vehicle pretending to be a tank (proper CGI of snow being non-trivial)
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    I'm sure the RTR will love the all-black colour scheme, but cav may not be as impressed
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    Double log!
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    When you think about it, all guns are just long range poking implements
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    Looked like they were manually flying a top attack profile on that shot
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    That's a lot of effort for a 0.63 MW mobile generator
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    Erm, good point. I'm not sure if the value for chieftain hull height to turret roof is correct, but that depends on if the ground clearance includes the V or not: 1956 mm per this 1959 specification, which still puts the chieftain hull close to the cent hull height
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