fireship4
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I would advise anyone in Ukraine at the moment refrain from clicking on links that are posted on here. As paranoid as that sounds, it could be used to establish your location without the correct protections.
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You missed one:
2014 - Russia did invade Ukraine.
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I read that Soviet tanks would bombard with HE at long/max range (I'm thinking 5km or so) as they advanced on a target before switching to other ammunition. I suppose that would be possible using area fire.
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2 hours ago, John Kettler said:
PzGr40, which was SHOT, known in British service as APCR and to the US as HVAP.
Isn't it "APCBC"? I think it was indeed composite though. (tungsten carbide). It was like the 39 (APCBC-HE-T) but the penetrator was smaller and without a bursting charge.
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OK, a list, which progressively strays from the timeline. First we have a playlist of the soundtrack to "Operation Flashpoint":
...only missing the USSR national anthem which played during install:
The theme to Airwolf, 1984 so close enough:
The OST to ThunderHawk... 1993 but it rocks in that cold war baby, gulf war teen way. Like the first Offspring album. Track 4 was used for the intro and is a straight banger:
A choice from one of my favourite indie bands Harvey Danger. Hey it mentions tanks rolling into Warsaw...
Finally, back again all the way to 1939:
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Interesting read, thanks.
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On 2/25/2021 at 10:27 AM, 37mm said:
This is said to be the original WP map...
Cool map. I also spotted sarin and Vx on there. Madness. I know many films and books have been made on the subject but I feel it may be some time (perhaps only after we have fully emerged from it) before we come to grips with the nuclear holocaust that could have been.
On 2/25/2021 at 11:47 AM, IMHO said:I had a course at the university taught by...
Cool. More stories like that if you can.
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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.
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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).
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Golf now too?!
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Spin obturation ringslip obturation ring/slip obturator. I wrote the wrong word, you're right. -
1 hour ago, IMHO said:
There's a limit to that.
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.
1 hour ago, IMHO said:You have them on the picture
You'd have driving bands for artillery rounds in this or that form practically everywhere.
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'
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I would also like to know the answer, as The_MonkeyKing said, GSR is actually modelled in Black Sea.
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7 minutes ago, Lethaface said:
Hehe corn grogs.
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".
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1 hour ago, Lethaface said:
That's not corn
29 minutes ago, chuckdyke said:Corn is derived from the Dutch word 'Koren' which is Maiz in Dutch. He should have written wheat, barley, rye or whatever. Hard to tell the difference from this photograph.
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 ▼
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A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. quotations ▼
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He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
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- 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)
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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
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"FS"= "Fin stabilised", which it is, judging from the picture, and assuming the picture is of what we are talking about.
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Ryeforger '79 - "Flatten Cereal"
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[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!"
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Still has APFDS round though apparently!
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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".
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34 minutes ago, chuckdyke said:
We should have one step further down for the "Hull Down" and that's "AFV" just down.
"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.
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15 hours ago, IMHO said:
Yeah. Copy-paste, copy-paste again and again. Here's the translation for the Russian part
Thanks for that.
13 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:the tiny little Bulat 'ATGMs' on the Epocha turret
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.
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You'd have driving bands for artillery rounds in this or that form practically everywhere.
September is coming
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Posted · Edited by fireship4
Narrowing down the internet when you know the people you are looking for and where they post (this website/forum/thread as an example) can be done in myriad ways.
They want your IP address first, this is available to Battlefront, and compromising their logs may show it. It is probably easier to find the user elsewhere on the web, via similar names and other information. But you could make posts here with invisible pictures that you host on a server you control and see who downloads them, or have a Twitter account which does something similar. In this case even opening the page (if your browser loads images automatically) will put you on the list.
Tying an IP address to a location can again be done in many ways, now that Google establishes this (via e.g. phones with known locations connecting to open wi-fi networks etc.) whether you want them to or not, and records it, you could access their Google account logs & Google Maps data.