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Jarmak posted:Because they wanted to see the primary effects of the warhead without them being obscured by damage from secondaries? The likelihood fuel or gunpowder would have gone up can be inferred from the damage analysis, you don't actually have to see it happen. I'd put fluorescent tracer in the water so you can see where it went afterwards even if it dries up.
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Tunicate posted:I'd put fluorescent tracer in the water so you can see where it went afterwards even if it dries up. I don't think where it goes matters so much as whether it escapes the tank
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psydude posted:Is the Bradley really as bad as it's portrayed in that movie? A large part of it seems to be that they went so far with the tanky stuff that they accidentally invented the IFV. I remember the amphibious capability (or the attempts at it, anyway) were a big issue, before being dropped as a requirement. 60 Minutes got hold of one floundering in a channel and made a stink about the program.
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e- doublepost, so screw it: There was an ancient Mi-8 on FOB Warhorse that had outriggers for chemical spraying. I got to see it take off when they finally moved it off the base. I've never been so terrified of flying, from the ground and outside the flying vehicle. It didn't take off. It took bigger and bigger hops until it kinda stuck in the air.
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GD_American posted:A large part of it seems to be that they went so far with the tanky stuff that they accidentally invented the IFV. IFV may have been created a bit earlier than that...
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GD_American posted:A large part of it seems to be that they went so far with the tanky stuff that they accidentally invented the IFV. Some major BMP erasure, even if we grant that M113 does not fully fit in with lack of gun.
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BMP translates to IFV, after all, or near enough
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orange juche posted:
It was a good day.
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meant to word that more sarcastically, like the way techbros will be focused on disruption so much they invent ancient, basic social concepts with humorous new names
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The Army spent billions developing the Bradley IFV. The Russians used a BMP.
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Coquito Ergo Sum posted:Maybe he didn't realize that Russia is one of the few countries that actually measures things like engine performance in metric units?
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ukraine thread: pixellated shades on an Mi-8
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It’s Hip to have flair
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https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1651494541503913985 Lol. lmao
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what the gently caress would you even use them for
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The only crime is that he got caught.
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Kith posted:what the gently caress would you even use them for You know those hillbillys that put engines up on blocks in their front yard? That.
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Kith posted:what the gently caress would you even use them for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN6Avagc8g4
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ukraine is apparently in the market for t90 parts. I guess they have a hard time getting spares for some reason.
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ngl if I had the opportunity to buy one I would
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Isn’t the T-90’s engine some old tractor design?
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Kith posted:what the gently caress would you even use them for The same engines are used by a lot of civilian heavy equipment designed in the Soviet Union. I've seen this as an explanation for why they started pulling T-62:s out of storage yards while there are still tons of T-72:s left there. Because all of those T-72:s are missing either parts or the entire engine because it ended up in earth moving equipment during the 90's.
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wonder if the T-14's are just John Deeres without the right to repair firmware
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More like “russian colonel arrested for failing to let the cops get their beaks wet too”
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FrozenVent posted:Isn’t the T-90’s engine some old tractor design? T72 and T90 engine is an evolution of ye olde V2 from the BT7 and T34.
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fresh_cheese posted:More like “russian colonel arrested for failing to let the cops get their beaks wet too” Or "Russian colonel made the fall guy for general stealing 100s of engines"
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TBF “based on” gets pretty squirrelly; GM got 50 years and 765 HP out of the small block Chevy; 70 years if the LS counts for “based on.”
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Herman Merman posted:What. Which units do you think most countries use for this? He may have misspoke. Russia prefers to use some other form of measurement instead of Newton Metres for torque. Pennsylvanian fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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Pennsylvanian posted:He may have misspoke. Russia prefers to use some other form of measurement instead of Newton Metres for torque. It was that, yeah. He added a note in the description on the T-14 saying it was a 'mis-translation on his part'. I haven't watched the 'takedown' response of Lazerpig's T-14 video, but a brief skim of the comments had me seeing a lot of people really angrily fixating on that and tbqh that really makes me think they were missing the point. Tank nerds being tank nerds and focusing on minutia, missing the forest for the trees, etc. Like basically all of what Lazerpig bases his arguments on in all of his videos is 'context'. He's applying the framework of intersectionality towards discussing military equipment - you can't base your opinion of something on 'hard data' or 'the facts' when it's so incredibly easy to misrepresent or outright lie with still perfectly accurate data, and 'the facts' need to be taken with a country sized grain of salt because everything you're told is literally serving double duty as both propaganda and literal sales marketing. So while it's not a great showing he got stuff like that wrong, it doesn't really take away all that much from his argument IMO. Kchama posted:The whole Fighter Mafia thing never ceases to boggle my mind. How did the guys whose entire gimmick was 'reforming' things to be cheaper and shittier ever get any kind of clout or prestige? They didn't, for the most part  AFAIK nobody ever took them serious in any acquisition program capacity and their entire reputation is purely a civilian one, where their whole PR game and eagerness to go out and give big TV interviews where they talk as an 'authority' meant they could spew all the bullshit they want and be completely unchecked. ishikabibble fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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What's the missile that basically shoots a shitload of tungsten pellets at stuff to irrevocably gently caress up light armor? I can't for the life of me remember its name, but I remember seeing a video of some Russian soldiers lamenting how their truck had been poked full of holes by one and effectively totaled because many of those holes went through the engine.
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That would be the M30A1 GMLRS
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M_Gargantua posted:That would be the M30A1 GMLRS Thank you!
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GD_American posted:A large part of it seems to be that they went so far with the tanky stuff that they accidentally invented the IFV. This post makes me have heart palpitations. "Accidentally" my rear end, the Bradley was designed to be an IFV, because that's what the US Army wanted.
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nord news https://twitter.com/JKaarsbo/status/1651650991341576200?s=20
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This'll be hilarious because it shoots the 'expose' done by Hersh out of the water like Nordstream
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WTF did Russia have to gain by destroying those pipelines? It completely destroyed their leverage against Germany.
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psydude posted:WTF did Russia have to gain by destroying those pipelines? It completely destroyed their leverage against Germany. Russia, famous for being a rational actor lately...
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