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Right i get the blows the fuck up part... That part makes sense. My question is, in the blowing up does it technically lose a shit ton of it's efficiency rating as a shaped charge? Or are the two things unrelated? However, to be clear here LOL I'm completely on board with the blowing the fuck up part. I just want to know what it does to the technical efficiency rating of the shape charge on the math side.

Tnt equivalence factor is up to 7.7... This seems pretty damn spiffy to me. Is that not what you're talking about? Also with such a high potential tnt equivalence can it not actually afford to have pretty low efficiency for a shaped charge? I get the impression that It's so freakishly destructive BECAUSE OF it's inefficiencies compared to an ideally efficient shaped charge. (This is based on my assumption that shaped charge efficiency essentially relates to keeping the "jet" tightly coherent with all areas of it maintaining both tight physical proximity but also as close to uniform velocity throughout for as long as possible) Whereas this has poor efficiency breaks up and gets chaotic quickly etc, but this spreads the damage and stresses much more. Since in military usage you want both penetration AND a large damage pattern once through the initial barrier, this is actually an advantage much of the time. Or am i completely wrong?

There really are multiple companies using essentially tethered quadcopters as high altitude wind generators BTW... When my buddy and i originally came up with the utterly insane idea of doing similar stuff with an autogyro form factor it was mostly just various kite generators or vaguely waterwheelesque shaped tethered aerostats able to generate electricity by being spun by atmospheric air currents. Our general thought process was that you could probably tow a baby autogyro deal on a trailer behind a humvee and once you sunk the bigass anchors into the earth you could have OP's with pretty awesome close to 24/7 views and the ability to drop small guided glide munitions on natives who get froggy at will. Basically a sorta possessed by satan barrage balloon with delusions of spectre gunship grandeur

He kept saying rather impressive... I kept getting angrier... Solomon posts matsanus video... Or whoever this dillhole is. Rogue spazzes out frothes at the mouth and tears apart the entire situation in semicoherent nerd rage.

So in that meme, Will Hayden's daughter Stephanie is the gpc right?

The way you describe things makes me laugh uncontrollably disturbingly often Meplat, it scares my wife btw. She's looked at me and said anyone who makes you laugh that much is probably far too sadistic and heavily armed to be a good influence on you.

Its actually not fun, even wehraboos are more self aware and capable of realizing they look really fucking stupid right now occasionally.... Indians, not so much

Which shotgun are you wanting? I'm going to be forever hated by all true internet gun guys after saying what I'm about to say combined with my other heresies but, i got a pair of tristar tech 12's from j&g years ago and they have actually been really good guns so far!* *I also sperged out for 2 weeks reading everything i could about them and ordered a list of parts etc i compiled from the spergout the day i ordered them. Including the tube mag extension to get it to 8 rounds it was still not more than i think $125 a gun. Total i spent right around $600-$650 for each one total out the door, spent a couple evenings going over the sperg list installing parts and cleaning up potential problem areas people warned about before i put a single round through either. Other than that, I followed a recommended break in shooting schedule etc and have since then used abused and put them away wet from time to time and never had an issue that wasn't my fault.* *i do boneheaded shit sometimes, and occasionally that makes guns not work right... Imagine that right? I however don't blame my guns when i was the known fucked part of the equation "when bad shit happened©" Because "it just happened" is the first refuge of the fucktard about to blame inanimate objects for the wages of stupidity he has just earned.

I've been looking at very similar / related concepts for quite some time for similar reasons. Really with modern FEA and sim capabilities along with our new manufacturing tricks there's whole rafts of engine concepts which previously failed that would actually totally kickass now.

The small arms section has an SME that would make gary roberts, mike sparks, AND Tony Williams all look like Colonel motherfuckin Chinn!

I f***ing love THAT THING! The gun concept is straight awesome too

Anyone have anything substantial on magnus effect stuff? I've played with it some but I'm still at the follow and replicate other people's kentucky fried chicken bucket remote control flyers etc level more than building or designing the full on flying John Deere combine multiple rotary airfoil stuff

Oh I'm going to straight up admit that my weird ass wige gunship seaplane with gender dysphoric disorder is completely inspired by vehicles from shadowrun and other cyberpunk called "panzers" & or "t-birds" which were basically "skirtless" hovertanks repurposed to gunrunning and other high value low volume cargos across borders between the various countries which now make up the former continental US... More or less ridiculously heavily armed bootleggers in a dukes of hazzard / early nascar era only in the phased array radar and s-400's for home defense hypercapitalist darkfuture... I found this crazy ass idea on yachtforum and was like OMGWTFBBQ T-Birds are actually maybe doable! And thus an obsession was born... I blame the seaplane part on narcissist fucktards, the carrier mafia, and it's hateful killing of the p6m seamaster... Narcissist fucktards gotta ruin everything you know (Omfg I'm ashamed to admit that as i wrote the last part my brain screamed WAIT .... wheeled deathtraps, TBATE (The battle against the earth), and then had a disassociative psychotic break)

This needs to happen... Make it a nutcracker breech too please!

Jesus the cia isn't even fucking pretending to be on our side anymore

LOL... I'm sorry I'm really trying to work on that, it's going poorly. Basically my primary entry idea is a combat autogyro which shamelessly rips off the work done by carter copter to make autogyros that can "jump takeoff" and possibly vertically land too which can exceed what has previously been a hard and fast speed limit involving the greek mu symbol which has something to do with transonic or supersonic tip velocities of the rotor. Carter copter uses a slowed rotor technique, a proprietary airfoil and rotor design, larger stub wings designed to provide high lift to take over much of the rotor loading as speed and tip velocities approach mu, and i believe even actual turbine thrust rather than prop ducted fan or turboshaft/prop. I would call it something stupid like the sturmopig... Aka sturmovic and pig hybridized to insinuate heavy armor, ground attack role, flying pigs, and Stalin! (And that i watched way too much of the cartoon with the seaplane and jungle book characters tail spin) My random switch to ranting about something with a tether was alluding to building an autogyro like version of the classic tethered surveillance aerostat, but armed and using "solar", relatively nonstop high speed air current available at several hundred feet AGL and up, taking advantage of temperature and pressure differentials like parasailers do but different, another batshit nuts power harvesting scheme, and a couple other completely ill advised technological plot twists for flavor. This is based off of multiple very real and even currently used green energy schemes involving tethered quadcopters, spinny inflatables, kites, and etc to harvest high speed air movements and make electricity with it. They work too... Also throwback to luft 27and 2/3 by giving a nod to the foch achgelis tethered autogyro towed aloft by the uboat below and actually used in ww2. Basically an almost crazy enough to work tongue in cheek diss rap targeted at wehraboos gerpaderps hippies and wind power (fucking farce that it is) in the form of a contest entry... Campy taglines like wanat won't be my Alamo and etc would abound and hilariously enough you really could probably swing something like it IRL. Third entry option is based off a proposed very unorthodox "VTOL STOVL VSTOL" nominal "boat" design since i found it on yachtforum. Really it's a "hovercraft" "ekranoplan" "WIGE" amphibious aircraft a la grumman goose a 60+ knot foil and airfoil based speedboat AND uses magnus effect "rotors" plus other propulsion etc means simultaneously. Sounds like a hot mess right? It is, but kind of an intriguing one! Basically the premise is you take a pair of NGATE turboshafts in the right size and power bracket, marinize them, pod them up so you can get "blown flap/upper surface blowing" style help from strategic intake placement. Also, borrowing heavily from senior citizen and other crazy tactical airlifter concepts you have the actual engines fairly well buried inside the vehicle as well as using a secondary directional and vertical thrust augmentation scheme consisting of something like the boeing patented "pulse ejector thruster array" some believe is used on senior citizen in a similar manner. Basically they're pulsejets that suck far less and can be arrayed and installed in ways that allow pretty biblical amounts of vertical and directional thrust for very reasonable weight and bulk but hilariously ridiculous fuel demand. In my concept the PETA's (pulse ejector thruster array) are installed as sort of ersatz puffer jets and 90 degree rotatable thrust nozzles like harrier had with the pegasus engine that are instead stand alone and in a few places multi dof steerable on demand by aircrew and automatically through the fbw system and in response to threats, collision avoidance, and etc. (F16 has a sorta similar setup, and other features cadged from APS stuff, f35 tech and etc... Basically sound technical ground and mentally unstable conceptualization) So this multithing is basically part hind gunship part harrier part sea phantom and part "sea fighter" (a fictional LCAC based littoral combat hovercraft... Commander amanda garrett series and joe buff is the author i think?) & part senior citizen... Because i hate myself? Like grumman goose it has vestigal deformed but still functional deployable landing gear for land landings... Heh From Sea phantom it got ultralong travel baja racer style shocks and airbag mounted deployable foils about 2/3 of the way out on wing sponsons of the vertical foil type like the seadart seaplane jet fighter and a single steerable 6 dof deployable semi conventional horizontal planing foil... In "boat mode" it'd likely run really damn fast with good range. Basically, this is mostly an intra to intertheater strategic mobility use. In hover and forward flight it uses a pair of magnus effect style "rotors" kinda buried in the inner 2/3 of each wing, the aforementioned "viffing"/auxiliary vertical thrust arrays, and an apache helicopter IR suppression exhaust system and p51 cooling system "meredith effect" combination. Between pretty lulzy low stall speed and details yet to be revealed it should be able to do apache type things in slightly altered ways. Remember i mentioned HIND? Yeah it'll have a passenger compartment sometimes, other times it'll just super size it's dakka. Final disclaimer: all of these concepts can actually be made and achieve controlled flight without handwavium or speculative future tech... The descriptive shit and purported capabilities are all theoretically possible but would likely be expensive/nowhere near as bitchin as i imagine

Battleboxes are making an appearance either way, possibly Atlantic conveyor ghetto pocket carrier too for the megacity fight in Asia

Btw, I'm game for the contest for sure just don't expect sanity or for me to use milspec components... Fuck y'all if i wanna build a supercluster out of nokia lumias I'll do it god damnit! P.s: any objection to my doing a sorta halfbakery laden cartercopter mu dicking slowed rotor autogyro thing? Backup plan is a straight up james bond is real narcissist fucktard slaying magnus effect and more conventional propulsion hybrid amphibious stol death weasel.

Ermmm other than form impossible to machine geometries etc of course... And kinda a ton of other things to boot. For example IDC how good your machinist is he can't repair high wear rub areas etc on helos in the field without just replacing the part he can't repair especially not insitu... Coldspray does exactly this actively for the military in various exotic third world locales. Impossible geometries and cold spray are just the start btw... "3d printing" can do a metric fuck ton of stuff machinists can't* *note: the really fun printers are often ran by machinists

Plus i had a '89 Kawasaki 650sx jetski that's a spiritual twin to the rotsun right down to engine swaps and highly questionable quests for speed and power which were totally unsafe. P.s. it even had a rising sun paintjob with kamikaze down the handpole.

I love that show, It reminds me of exactly the harebrained it's gonna work or burn in pretty colors engineering i grew up seeing people do.

I blame you guys for all the roadkill I've been watching.

As long as you guys have a plan.... I guess 8 is better than 80

Yeah the engines specifically is what I'm keying on, specifically the fact that if he laid down in the trough you could probably close the engine cover with the mechanic inside! They're forking massive honking power plants! I think back to apaches which I've been fortunate enough to live around apache units my whole life, and even with the sophisticated IR shrouding or whatever there's still very telling differences.

I guess also my confusion is that we are not experiencing a colonel shortage near as i can tell, so I'm thinking why give one colonel all that stuff. Share the love, spread the wealth! Either that or basically this means that all the upgrade talk is rearranging deck chairs and nothing's gonna get actually accomplished any time soon.