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I guess it depends if it is creating an image, or superimposing detected movement onto a range scope (ie top-down). If it is showing the operator an image, they will be able to use it to spot stationary targets through obscurants and at night. It could even do 3D mapping etc. Seems a waste to just use doppler. For example: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/countries/europe/united-kingdom/markets-we-operate/defence/air-systems-uk/isr-air/imaster

Perhaps stationary targets might be detectable if they have different reflectivity to the radar beam. If they are distinguishable from the background in any way that can be visualised by the operator or distinguished by the device they could be detectable. This would be easier in open ground or with tanks in cover. A good analogy would be that (as I understand it) IR systems like the Javelin lock via visual differences in the image. Similar systems can map large areas over time (not using doppler shift) and show changes over time (eg vehicle tracks).

Golf now too?!

Spin obturation ring slip obturation ring/slip obturator. I wrote the wrong word, you're right.

Of course, but as compared to the fragmentation (?) shell the powder charge is larger it seems. In the photo, the segmented AP round is approx 3/4 filled with propellant, whereas the shell in the diagram seems 3/4 explosive for effect on target. From what I understand, driving bands are different: they induce spin in a rifled barrel, whereas a spin obturation ring would prevent spin being transfered to the projectile. Edit: driving bands can be made freely rotating it seems, presumably all spin obturation rings are a type of driving band in this case. Anyway I don't want to encourage you, otherwise your tour of Moscow for "Sgt. Squarehead: Cultural Learnings of Russia for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of UK" might begin and end at Lubyanskaya ploshchad'

I would also like to know the answer, as The_MonkeyKing said, GSR is actually modelled in Black Sea.

Everyone who has mentioned corn is now subscribed to my monthly email #CornFacts as part of my role as EIC of Corn Digest: "Separating the Wheat from the Chaff". Please note, Chaff Gazette is a sister paper of ours (as part of the UniLever publishing family) available at all good newsagents. As they say, "there are enough grain derivatives for everyone".

Via Wiktionary: ENGLISH Etymology 1 From Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, Low German Koorn, German Korn, Norwegian and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë[1], Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum, Lithuanian žirnis and English grain. In sense 'maize' a shortening from earlier Indian corn. Noun corn (usually uncountable, plural corns) (Britain, uncountable) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales. quotations ▼ (US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays. quotations ▼ A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. quotations ▼ He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley. A small, hard particle. quotations ▼ DUTCH Etymology 1 From Middle Dutch koren, corn, from Old Dutch korn, coren, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Compare Low German Koorn, German Korn, English corn, Danish korn. Doublet of graan. Alternative forms koorn (archaic) Noun koren n (uncountable) grain; corn (any cereal) De boer zaait het koren. The farmer sows the grain.

I suppose there is no reason why a larger powder charge wouldn't increase the speed of the round, and that seems to be what is shown. The cannon/AGL could also have had modifications made, they could still be economic if the chages aren't radical to the re-purposed guns, but if not many were made and are in storage, then what would be the point? A new/modified design would be more appropriate, surely. AGLs I think normally make use of rifling, however only a small amount is used by APFSDS, since too much will induce drag. They can still be used in barrels with a normal (?) amount of rifling if the shell makes use of a "spin obturation ring" which I don't see. They could be mock-ups to show potential uses which are in fact impractical, or could even be fakes, to mislead the enemy or for other purposes as mentioned earlier. I have read elsewhere that Kurganets-25 may have been cancelled. A couple more pictures: https://forum.cartridgecollectors.org/t/russian-57-x-93mmrb-ags-57-described-by-some-as-a-hybrid-between-grenade-launcher-and-cannon/39639

"FS"= "Fin stabilised", which it is, judging from the picture, and assuming the picture is of what we are talking about.

Ryeforger '79 - "Flatten Cereal"

[German farmer voice] "Bastards are in my corn! That's good corn that is! What are you driving on my corn for! Get off my corn!"

Still has APFDS round though apparently!

Ok yes I see now what he means. Yes I think I read the law on things like that has gotten more strict recently. I think the left image contains the 57mm light assault gun round, kornet, and bulat "multi-purpose guided missle".

"Turret down" is used to mean just the sighting systems/crew are exposed above the terrain, "hull down" should be appropriate for the M113 with TOW - the TOW counting as the turret. Turret down is not a command, however I think the effects of turret down are more present than some may be aware: I have been able to use the BFIST to call in artillery while turret down and turned in, though not under experimental conditions. RE the "tent". Another example of safety equipment (which may well have worked to some extent) going unused because it doesn't look cool enoough. The giant bike helmet effect. Or seat-belt effect perhaps. On the other hand it looks like it may have increased it's silhouette.

Thanks for that. http://warfaretech.blogspot.com/2015/05/while-we-are-on-remote-turrets-enter.html They look more like smoke launchers to me, there are two more units on the back of the turret according to a model in the article linked above. It marks them as "система постановки завес", "sistema postanovki zaves" or "curtain setting sytem" according to Google.

Thanks.

Interesting piece, thanks for sharing. Did you use Google Translate? Just so you know there is a section that is duplicated and a section that remains in Russian. The author refers to "all-aspect KAZ". Does this refer to APS, air defense or a manufacturer/design bureau?

Or you could tell us if you are allowed? Can you switch them on and off? I imagine not, though a few more buttons (even just a single context-specific one) in the game wouldn't go amiss as far as I'm concerned.

Meh, let's not jump on him for voicing an opinion that something should be present in a certain time-frame and scenario. Un-patriotic/counter-revolutionary behaviour and all that.

A couple of weeks ago the YouTube channel Caspian Report released a video on the water situation in the Crimean peninsula. Caspian Report make accessible summaries on geopolitical topics.

Thanks, interesting.

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Interesting video thanks. Ridiculous coda there at the end though, "...the spectre of nuclear war is not as terrifying today as it was then, but other threats to your personal well-being remain, loosing your password or having your identity stolen may not be as completely earth-shattering to the planet, but it can be earth-shattering to you, and [company] can help".

As far as I know he had the "H" changed to a "V", and the other letters removed, except for the "D" as it would have been too painful. The Cold War soldier... ...became a security guard for an old enemy. You haven't stopped taking your medicine have you?