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Trabisnikof posted:during Star Wars they were researching using space based particle accelerators as weapons but they had no idea how to really make it work, but it sounded cool. The name escapes me but there was an (air force I think?) project that used a massive capacitor bank and a cylindrical railgun (one rod electrode coaxial with a cylinder electrode) that fired superheated plasma apparently with enough velocity to be a viable weapon, it was quietly classified after demonstrating that it worked and I always wonder what became of it afterwards The (conductive) plasma was basically the armature of a railgun, and the plasma being so light in mass and the capacitor bank being loving gigantic with a huge surface area since the barrel was a donut instead of two rails, you get the idea
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The Oldest Man posted:Gunpowder burns itself without any atmosphere after ignition because it's a self-contained fuel (sulfur/carbon) and oxidizer (potassium nitrate) mix. No air required. right but does it light when wet? are bullets watertight?
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The Soviets put a 23mm autocannon (forget which model) in space, and their guns of that calibre were always pretty good, so I consider this a solved problem.
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Real hurthling! posted:right but does it light when wet? are bullets watertight? if you put them underwater for a long time (2 weeks) the cases will have some visible corrosion but will probably still work https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/submersion-test-is-that-ammo-really-waterproof/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcfuyyxFtgQ ad video for the abramsx up
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Danann posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcfuyyxFtgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hOLAmVpxoM
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A Bakers Cousin posted:not sure how that shows anything connected to gladio, but ok It's wild starting to read a thread and getting gems like this (vis-à-vis gladio in Europe)
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Oct 9, 2022 05:06
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Basically, it is a heavier t 14.
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indigi posted:20mm grenades... that seems too tiny to bother with One of the varieties is airburst, which seems like it would be pretty useful when people are behind any sort of cover. The Oldest Man posted:Gunpowder burns itself without any atmosphere after ignition because it's a self-contained fuel (sulfur/carbon) and oxidizer (potassium nitrate) mix. No air required. Post / username combo. Glad to know you can fire your musket underwater though. Nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose do both have a bunch of oxygen in though, don't ask me if it's enough for the reaction that takes place though.
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Even Russian youtubers get to play around with NLAW now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y0wbcVFn8g&t=894s imagine the disappointment he felt about not getting the money shot.
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Yeah, the reports of those things hitting about 10% of the time in battlefield conditions probably weren’t wrong. Honestly, I get it is there to stop tank panic, but it is a pretty awkward setup. It is just naturally difficult to not only line up the shot but keep it completely on target as the rocket fires. (Also the guys in the field probably had as much or even less training than this guy had). It isn’t many ATGM systems will have their issues including later RPGs, but how much systems are hyped up to push contracts compared to what they can deliver. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 16:25 on Oct 9, 2022 |
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Why don't they just miniaturize a CIWS radar + cannon and put in on top of the tank to shoot incoming missiles. Surely this is possible against those slow ATGMs being shot from two miles away.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Why don't they just miniaturize a CIWS radar + cannon and put in on top of the tank to shoot incoming missiles. Surely this is possible against those slow ATGMs being shot from two miles away. I think you mean active protection and it is already a thing, it just has its own issues.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Why don't they just miniaturize a CIWS radar + cannon and put in on top of the tank to shoot incoming missiles. Surely this is possible against those slow ATGMs being shot from two miles away. They did. Miniaturized doppler radars are how APS like Trophy and Arena work, but using explosives instead of guns.
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Reactive armor and jamming is fine and all, but I specifically want a robot autocannon that swings around and shoots the missiles like in science fiction. The abrams is already huge I'm sure adding a few more tons wouldn't matter.
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Regarde Aduck posted:why not a laser? Rain, dust, fog, mist, it’s hard to get tank crews to wipe the lenses of their optics and vision blocks.
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Pryor on Fire posted:The abrams is already huge I'm sure adding a few more tons wouldn't matter. ehhh at some point you have worry deck strength. there’s a point when poo poo has to go on a bed of timber and get crane lifted insisting of just being able to drive on and off a RORO
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Charged particles, the death beam. Zero time-of-flight weaponry. The ideal Peacemaker-killer.
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Frosted Flake posted:Rain, dust, fog, mist, it’s hard to get tank crews to wipe the lenses of their optics and vision blocks. just use smaller lasers to zap the dust and moisture off the lenses of the big laser easy peasy
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It's also very difficult to dump enough watts into a missile to melt it when it's being cooled by all the air rushing around it, even in ideal conditions. However, destroying satellites in space with lasers is fun and practical.
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Yeah I wonder also how a super Abrams would do with mud or rough terrain…meh it will probably never come up.
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Regarde Aduck posted:why not a laser? they should use otiluke's resilient sphere
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Lostconfused posted:Even Russian youtubers get to play around with NLAW now. google translated comment posted:The projectile is so smart that in the moments of flight it became aware of itself, understood the world around it and dumped it into the sunset, to live a free life.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Stumbled on something this thread should be really interested in. I was checking youtube for any Phoenix Program material (not much) but there is a documentary series on the Phoenix Program produced by Michael Maclear in 1975. Account was terminated. What was this linking to precisely?
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Bar Ran Dun posted:ehhh at some point you have worry deck strength. there’s a point when poo poo has to go on a bed of timber and get crane lifted insisting of just being able to drive on and off a RORO Sell them specialized metal railcars for transport, younget to make an several million additional dollars bing bong so simple
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, the reports of those things hitting about 10% of the time in battlefield conditions probably weren’t wrong. NLAW is fire and forget against a stationary target and requires 2-3 seconds of painting the target beforehand if it's moving, after which it will compute where it expects the target to be. The extremely flat path (unlike the Javelin) whilst still having a shaped charge top attack is certainly advantageous and at least one Ukrainian officer has been reported to be very pleased with their effect. If I had to field a guess as to their high failure rate, I'd say it's because of the extremely short range, the older model is about 400m with the newer model being twice that. You can guess which one Ukraine has been mostly receiving as well as I and combined with that tank panic you mentioned it seems like it could lead to a lot of failures.
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https://twitter.com/MIL_STD/status/1576301800616914944 the year is 2030 and the most mobile us air defense is something with a stinger on it
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Raytheon Coyote Interceptor wiki page posted:Airspeed: 55 knots (102 km/h) cruise, 70 knots (130 km/h) kts dash[20]
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Pryor on Fire posted:It's also very difficult to dump enough watts into a missile to melt it when it's being cooled by all the air rushing around it, even in ideal conditions. However, destroying satellites in space with lasers is fun and practical. Why use lasers when you could just put a bunch of small satellites in high orbit, capable of controlled decay to a specific suborbital object, breaking apart into 100 space shotgun pellets? The energy of a 10kg frangible mass at 15km/s is going to win over a powder gun or laser any day.
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TheSlutPit posted:Why use lasers when you could just put a bunch of small satellites in high orbit, capable of controlled decay to a specific suborbital object, breaking apart into 100 space shotgun pellets? The energy of a 10kg frangible mass at 15km/s is going to win over a powder gun or laser any day. I assume someone might actually be worried about Kessler Syndrome
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Danann posted:
The Coyote is reportedly 15 grand a pop without warhead, it's possible the Shahed 136 is cheaper too.
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KomradeX posted:I assume someone might actually be worried about Kessler Syndrome It seems unlikely that the people who came up with “total annihilation of the human race” as a viable war strategy worry about such things tbh.
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gradenko_2000 posted:The FN P90 is a cool gun the zumwalt looks neat
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Does anyone know if there's any weight at all to the rumored cobalt bomb somewhere in Russia? The global killer fallout doomsday bomb? If so are there any steps being taken to ensure the survival of species beyond seed vaults?
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Grandpa Palpatine posted:Does anyone know if there's any weight at all to the rumored cobalt bomb somewhere in Russia? The global killer fallout doomsday bomb? it's not a rumor its even better than that. russia has these autonomous cobalt bomb torpedoes which can poison a port city with radiation for a thousand years lol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_System
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Rutibex posted:it's not a rumor its even better than that. russia has these autonomous cobalt bomb torpedoes which can poison a port city with radiation for a thousand years lol They also have their own nuclear reactors and can possibly sit on a seabed indefinitely ready to be activated.
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