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  1. 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? 

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    You guys watch to much porn...but now that we are talking of it, watch this video closely:

     

     

    and then look at this image from a frame at around 1:05..

     

    waitwhatw.jpg

     

    Am i the only one who sees it?

     

    I know its off-topic, just a little excursion.

       

     

     

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

  3. 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! ;)

  4. 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!

  5. Thanks BTR! Good stuff.

     

    That has to be max fragment range. 50 meters is about accepted lethal burst for 152/155 mm artillery just for perspective. I don't think even Naval gunfire like the old 16 inch guns had a 500 meter lethal effect range.

     

    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?

  6. 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. ;-)

  7.  Fragments which would scratch the paint on a tank or armored vehicle could bring down an aircraft. The goal is to keep those warheads FAR away.

     

    Ken

     

    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.

     

    So, reading that, the self-defense weapons takes the place of any offensive ordnance??? The reason the plane launches is to defend itself? Um, I seem to be missing something...

     

    The future of weaponology in aircraft is directed energy. Sure, bombs need to be dropped. But for air-to-air (including defensive systems against missiles) energy travels at the speed of light, is rechargeable, and reusable. You don't run out. There's a reason the USAF is hot to trot with the F-35's clutch technology. Tap off some of the energy from that 35,000 lbf engine, and you can get some impressive beams zapping stuff. The USMC lift rotor (which is missing in the USAF/USN versions) makes a large volume available...for stuff.

    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?  ;)

  8. Howdy,

     

    Question.

     

    After you spend about 25 minutes setting up a turn and you decide you DON'T want that javelin with the team you gave it to, but saved for another team later, how do you put it back?

     

    In this case I'm asking about putting gear and ammo back before you press the go button.

     

    Outstanding, thanks.

    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.

  9. I have quite interesting situaton: my BMP has sneaked behind Bradley  and is engaging it from the flank.

    But stupid BMP crew shoots only few rounds of 30 mm and then wait for some time to fire another burst.

    Bradley is thick skinned beast and has high probability of surviving several penetrations from BMP cannon.

    So it just swallows rounds and destroys BMP.

     

    I suppose that prolonged burst would have much higher probability of taking out Bradley before it can fire back.

    But how to make my crew do that?

    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.

  10. 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.

  11. Using BMP-3 as an example, if I order "target", it uses its 100mm gun and if I order "target light", it uses its machine gun to fire.  So how I suppose to ask it to use its 30mm autocannon? 

    And for BTR-4E the same thing, I don't know how to order it to use its AGS-17 since "target" goes for 30mm and "target light" goes for machine gun. 

     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. :(

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