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Got on my hard drive! Thanks!

Some ATGM rounds are fired through the main weapon barrel. Those are purely internal and should have a delay, but only insofar as that needed to select that round, load it, program it/link it to the guidance system, and then fire it. That delay would/should be far less than those ATGMs which are fired from outside the hull. Some examples include the TOW and various Russian BMP types. (The exception being when there are multiple launchers, e.g., TOW can fire 2 before needing to reload.)

That video was a great help. Thanks for making it. I'll double-check that the issue exists, and that SeinfeldRules' fix works, then I'll send it in to BFC. (I see no reason why I wouldn't see the issue: I just need to verify it before passing it on.) Thanks for finding it and sharing. Regards, Ken

Thanks for the link. Whoever did that, great job!

Yeah, found it and verified. It'll get reported. Thanks for the spot! Ken

Thanks for reporting this. If it double-checks, it'll be reported. (Other than Elst, do you know which other current scenario or qb map contains this building?) Ken

Well, my experience was that you do damn well with Churchills! Ow. As mentioned, the 76mm and 3 inch had different chambers, ammo, and purpose. The 3 inch started out as a triple-A weapon. It was the only immediately available high velocity weapon which they could stuff in a Sherman chassis, so that's how it got used for anti-tank purposes. Similar to (copy?) the German 88. The 76mm was purpose-built as a high-velocity weapon to correct the anti-tank shortfalls of the medium velocity 75mm. The 3 inch was a stopgap. A lot of barrels have the same size because that's what the manufacturing is set up for. Different barrel lengths, chamber sizes, etc., make the ballistic differences. (Cool story: the Soviets used the Mosin-Nagant barrels cut in half for SMG barrels. I'm sure they thought about 1/3 length to triple production! But, cutting a rifle barrel in half means that you just focus on one run. You divert some finished product to one more step, and everyone's happy. Is it perfect for the bullet weight, muzzle velocity, etc.? No. But not so much that it really matters.)

Mobile beats towed every time. I don't know the cost and rarity factors, but as soon as a towed gun is spotted, it dies. They cannot packup and move in any tactically meaningful way. If the enemy outflanks them, they are worthless and they die. Enemy infantry can suppress and destroy them. Enemy tanks can use HE to destroy them with near misses. Mobile AT assets can hide behind buildings, move 10m, pause for 30sec while shooting/cover arcing, then retreat back. Mobile AT assets can rapidly shift to meet the enemy's attack. Mobile AT can relocate if arty comes down. Etc. The only reason I'd use towed assets were if I wanted to recreate a historical use; if I had a preponderance of points while on defense and wanted a deep, zone, coverage; if the oppo requested it; if my points did not allow any other AT purchase. That's my .02.

Using a laser rangefinder in an Abrams is usually followed by 1700m/s projectile obliterating the target. If the target "senses" the lase, well, it still goes boom: it just knows about it half a second in advance.

Simply stunning...

^^^ Agreed. It took 8 seconds from firing to ejection. It also took 13 seconds between shots. For whatever that's worth.

Hmm....interesting. I know that CMSF modeled the relative ease of retrieval of the M1's ammo. The ready racks were fast/easy. The extra rounds stored in the sponsons/floor? took a LOT longer to load and were only used when the bustle racks were empty. Time to check the T-72/T-90.

This thread just made Khloe cry.

What a shame.

Yes. Many such tests have been done. What's up?

Nice links. Thanks.

Yeah, the guys messing around and playing with the main gun vs. the stick was good. But, for sheer comedy, the woman yelling at the BMP driver who had backed into the house was a classic.

Hah! What you didn't know was WHY he makes these pbem offers to newbs: he posts his wins over them in his "Official Battlefront Win Loss Record". (You newbs won't have access to yours until your men have killed 10,000 enemy.) A doff o'the cap to JoMc67. Ken

1 kW. Let's think about that. With a thermal imager, how far away can you spot a 100 watt light bulb? Yeah. That's part of the electromagnetic spectrum. If the APS is really putting out 1 kW (1,000 watts), that's enough radiated energy, even if only 50% of the consumed energy gets radiated, to be noticed MILES away. The key would be tuning the receiver to the APS' frequency. The WWII Soviets learned the hard way why emcon is so important. The US lagged behind the Soviets in this regard for some time. I cannot believe that Russia has forgotten those lessons... APS is great. Really, it tips the balance away from ATGMs. However, the free radiative approach to sensing will lead to first order adversaries taking advantage of a self-powered, mobile, armored, homing beacon.

Well, let's continue with the 5,000 man French victory in Mali, for just a moment. If my history is correct, the Sykes-Picot accord granted France all of Syria. Call it a "protectorate" or whatever you'd like. France owned it. In that regard, since France owned it, France should be responsible for it. I say we call for a UN Security Council resolution which makes France clean it up. They have to have a spare 5,000 men somewhere... Okay, that's out of my system. What US national interest is at stake in Syria? Once that is answered, the next question is, "can that national interest be saved/restored/protected?". If so, with what resources? How will that objective be known to have been attained? After gaining it, what will be needed to preserve it? Etc. I think a negative response to any of that chain of reasoning would mean no US involvement.

Aren't the shtora eo elements on the front of the turret? That facing may cause what you're seeing.

Fuzz buster is for the platoon element to detect non-visible Armatae. Also as the basis for seeker to be used as a cheap guidance unit for warheads to home on the various Armatae. grid coords would be provided to firing elements by dedicated Elint assets. All you'd need would be 1km accuracy with the Elint. Toss the homing shells up from your arty unit into the center of that grid and let them home in on the Armata on the way down. yes...I hate thumb typing and autocorrect.

Nah. They hit a rock and deflect downwards. Look under the map next time. (I get what you mean. Some bocage can be over 6' thick. That's rock, roots, and packed dirt. I'd have to do a bit of looking to see what kind of kinetic energy would be left over after hitting something like that with a 3" diameter projectile.)

LOL! Spot on... If I had my druthers, I'd grab a Panzerfaust 3 IT-600 for home defense purposes. The RPG-7, though, is ubiquitous, cheap, and has an incredible array of munitions available. It's very good at what it does. (Firing HE within firefight ranges and keeping AFV's on their toes around the crunchies.)

Err, the radar is a mmw defensive system for the APS, not a targeting system like Khryzantema. As such, the APS emits a much lower power (or, it SHOULD!), than a search/ident/track/target setup. At a guess, I'd put it an order of 4 (10,000) lower req't. Depending on the sensitivity of the receiver (a function of aperture size), the power transmitted, interference from similar transmitters (like, all the other APS antennas on that tank and on the tanks around it; maybe up 80? emitters), the range for a countermeasure lockon would be tight. I'd guess. Back of the envelope work: the APS is meant to detect penetrating rods about 100m out. (It could be further, but this is very rough.) A rod is only about 2cm in diameter. The radar has to hit the rod and bounce back to the receiver. So, if your aperture is the size of the rod, it should pick up the same signal as the APS antenna from 200m away. However, the APS antenna has to take into account the MUCH weaker return, not just the to-and-from distance. So, a 2cm aperture should pick up the signal at the same strength as the APS antenna at ~ 400m. (Giving a 1/2 power loss for reflecting energy off the rod. Oh, I know: it's MUCH worse.) If the aperture is 15.5cm (a 155mm homing shell), that's going to have over 6 times more energy hitting it, so 6x the distance. About 2400m. That's a big "come hit me" sign. But, a friggin' APS seeker bolted to a 155's warhead, tossed into a "basket" over a platoon of Armatas would be sure to find one or two emitters. "Boom". That knocks out that Armata's emitters (4 emiters per tank for full azimuth APS coverage?). A few minutes of sweaty work by the 155s and no Armata would be eager to keep its APS turned on. Just a thought.