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sen: to be honest though, the T-90 had a slightly worse mud hole to get out of.... Somewhat. Those were for fun. Not to prove any point. :) Anything I'd say about the T-90 would have little to do with a mud hole that might as well have made grabby hands at the tank beforehand. Frankly, I'd have lik...

sen: 1. done, over with, and we are in agreement. 2. turbines are due to how they operate inherently more susceptible to FOD, it is another of the disadvantages of the basic design, has to do with greater stress on air filters and delicately balanced internals. that said, most engines will get effe...

pinhead: i will accept that the 40mm is a lightweight gun, but the flak 88 was pretty much the heaviest gun put on a tank in its day, and still today would not exactly be a 'light weight', middle weight sure, but not light. sen: 1. admitted. the turbine is also quite a bit thirstier. 2. fewer parts...

But in-general direct-fire (tank gun) weapons are very different from in-direct fire weapons (artillery) and don't really work well when the roles are swapped. The German 88mm anti-aircraft cannon was also used (famously and very successfully) both as direct-fire anti-tank weapon and as an indirect...

nemo: and i am a follower of 'eliminate the not needed' to stream line things. so, specialize....why not diesel the abrams, get a lightly armored truck(MRAP got this covered) and remove the bradleys altogether? according to numbers i found, for two bradleys you could get one abrams and a truck...wh...

Blacktaildefense? Yeah... He's a laugh riot XD. AND shows up in TV Tropes! It's even better to read a debate between him and a man whose MOS is 19K. ^.^ I wouldn't take him too seriously if I were you, discord. He does a LOT of cherry picking for these videos, and freely admits he has no military ex...

SURGEON GENERALS WARNING!: Discord, careful, you're starting to ALMOST sound American. ;) That ideas just enough of a money eater to fly with someone rich enough to fund it over here. XD. Love the mental image though, seriously. A gun that fires a gun that seeks out and shoots it's target... WAIT!.....

Nemo, I like you. Just so you know. *chuckles*

But yes, that's more a weapon that I can get behind. Practical, useful, portable, and affordable.

sen: rifle range, 80%+ hit rate was the key, at 1km it takes skill, at 2km it goes beyond science into mystical prediction skills, remember even a really fast bullet takes a few seconds to get there(.338 lapua, favored long range round, has a muzzle velocity of 900m/s or so, it will lose some speed...

sen: actually, the numbers presented ARE cheap ass black powder rockets available to hobby rocket guys, 29x95mm in size each(two of them staged in the math example, 1651 and 1653 in the Estes catalog to be exact, http://www.estesrockets.com/rockets/engines/e-and-f-29mm ), it was the first real numb...

Nice to be able to read some things over. Thank you. First, we're not talking about cheap components. We're talking about military grade equipment. Missiles that accelerate to multi-mach numbers at dozens of G's carry the necessary propellant to do that. It's not a small part of the missile in any e...

Nemo's math is dead on. For comparison, a .50 BMG round (as fired by several Barrett heavy caliber rifles), delivers about 15 kilojoules of muzzle energy. If only a third of that reaches the target for a long range shot, that's still 5 kilojoules, delivered with better time on target, cheaper, and f...

sen: dude, all the parts of this was created and put into use over 40 years ago(sprint missile proving that 100g accel missile is possible in service 1972, guided anti tank missiles since the fifties), it's nothing new, just make it SMALLER. and no, the obscene accel and top speeds are not what mak...

Used to own a Nagant, BTW. T'was among my favorites along with a Mauser 98, .30-40 Krag-Jorgensson carbine, and a S&W Model 19 as a favored defensive carry piece. I can't say anything bad about my current Glock, but the good ol' revolver still had a one up in terms of mechanical simplicity and reli...

Now Now. Thats not exactly apples to apples is it. You can do similar things with guided munitions and rockets, with similar added costs, complexities, failure rates etc. The proper machining, propellents, quality control levels will always favor the simpler bullet. Pretty much. Kinda telling that ...

*Stops gnawing on a large, unidentified bone, blinks eyes sequentially... Gnaws some more.*

*politely lurks*

Welcome, friend, to the land of the Blue Space Elves! Enjoy your stay!

I'll be around, and checking in, whatever happens. I know I don't say much outside of IC posts (and the navy thread we had), but I check in at least every other day, just to see.

I'm sure you'll think of something, Roeben. Got faith in you!

With little else she can do for the moment, Tinel avails herself of any firefighting equipment that might be handy, if any... And does what she can against the new round of damage, swearing to herself mentally and making a note-to-self to get down to engineering and see if there is anything to be do...