gunnersman

Cooy. Paste. Google translate. (Poet and didn't know it). It's a short article.

Thanks BTR! That kinda breaks my heart a little bit (It feels weird to say that about a war machine I have no real connection with). I have played many a tank sim against the T-80, starting with Microprose's "M1 Tank Platoon".

It just occurred to me that there is the T-72 and the T-90...but where is the T-80? I did a quick search on Wikipedia. Apparently it is still in service. A quick search here did not reveal anything. It must be an obvious answer I know nothing about if nobody on this forum has said anything about it. I can't believe I am the first person to wonder this. I would have thought it would be as prominent as the T-72, at the very least. Is it strictly stationed in Battalions up farther north away from the Ukrainian theater?

I thought that too, for a while. Look close. The orientation of the twin barrels is a staggered over/under which are stacked right on top of each other.

I've seen this several times. What I'm REALLY interested in is where that guy came from who ran from behind that tank?

25mm? What about resistance to the .50cal at the very least!?!?!

It always struck me as interesting that such a geographically small sliver of Ukraine (separatists, AKA, miners, etc) is putting up such big fight.

...on their heads.

Wow. Impressive. Thanks! It seems if anything the Poles took from the Russians it is the military parade.

The spacebar is a classic. It will always be. For ever and until the end of time. Amen.

It looks like they are reverting to their old tactics when out of ammunition. On another note, it looks like they have a good view from up there.

My dilemma is always where to put the TRP where it will do the most good. Its kind of a crapshoot. You really need to anticipate where the enemy is likely to advance, such as covered routes (trees). Its something that really requires a lot of thought. There are never enough of them!

Why, oh, why is the Army using .50cal for air defense? I love Ma deuce as much as the next guy. But I would feel much better with at least 20mm from a Gatling type weapon shooting at fast movers. Bring back the M163 VADS! Put the C-RAM on a Bradley chassis and call it good!

And have them deploy first before more troops move into the same room?

"Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse." :-)

Thanks BTR! Good stuff. That was my assumption. I see nothing to the effect of "Effective range" or "lethal range". What is more impressive, in my mind, is the exact angle at which the fragments scatter. 9 degrees?

1) You have to remember the scenarios are tested, retested, and tested some more. The designer will find the optimum placement for his defense or offense. At least the good designers will. This can lead to a feeling of inferiority. Then I realized not all Generals or Company commanders in real life are perfect like Combat Mission scenarios might lead you to believe. 2) Your are going to take losses. That's war. Particularly in Combat Mission! See first bullet point. ;-)

As a civilian rotorwing/fixedwing pilot (mostly helicopter) the idea of things exploding around me freaks me out. Anything APS like in its current form I would not think would work too well. Any explosive interception would need to be well away from the aircraft, rotor blades and all. And then there is sucking any FOD into the turbine inlets. Most turbine helicopters have excellent filters systems...but airplanes...not so much. So in the case of airplanes, all explosions would need to be above, below or behind the aircraft. This is fascinating. It would explain why the Air Force wants to get rid of the A-10 so bad. Directed energy weapons for CAS? Is that the future too?

Also, two missiles fired in rapid succession, one immediately after the other, will stand a higher chance of defeating all APS. This is because APS will need to take a short time to reset.

Somebody is having a bad day. Keep it to yourself, brother.

You can't. Your stuck with it. Once you acquire, you acquire for good. That's the draw back. Make sure you really want it.

How long is "sometime"? Long enough for your BMP gunner to reload? It is unusual for the AI to only shoot a few rounds and then pause for too long. However... It depends on the range as well. If the target is far aways It seems that the AI will shoot some ranging shots upon the first few shots and then once it is determined the shots are hitting their mark, the following bursts will be longer. But that is only my observation.

Correct me if Im wrong, but at one point wasn't 1500m "battlesight" for the sabot in the Abrams? Meaning, the sight of the Abrams is set at 1500m with no laser range finder doing any work. With todays ammo traveling at almost 1 mile per second, 1500 meters is pretty much point blank range. 650m is a knife fight in a phone both. As long as your last ranging was not 4000 meters, I would think the gunner could just lay the sight on the target, point and click...dead.

Yes. While in game look under "hotkeys" in your menu, in the GUI. You'll see it there along with "remove smoke", "Show Paths", "Remove Trees" etc. Its usually an ALT-XX combination of some sort. I never use it so I cant tell you off the top of my head.

Yea, I think that is a hurdle Battlefront has not dealt with yet. Most AFV have either a Cannon for "Target Heavy" and a Coaxial MG for "Target Light". But the BMP-3 has 3 Weapons that can do the same job (for infantry): 100mm cannon, 30mm Cannon AND a 7.62mm MG. It must be that the default is for the "Target light" is for a machine gun. But yea, otherwise as Stagler said, the AI attempts to pick the right weapon for the right job. But sometimes you want the 30mm when a 100mm shell is too big and the machine gun is just not enough.