Chibot Mk IX

Thank you for sharing, it's an interesting video, we have witnessed the history. I saw the uploader mention that this is the second known incident of Russian forces surrendering to a drone, but it should be the first documented case of humans surrendering to a drone. This surrendering appears to be low efficiency. Perhaps in the future, we might witness each squadron of drones with one drone assign to a special task, carrying a loudspeaker, communicating with the Russian forces below?

The terminated HGV project belongs to USAF. That is a wise decision because AGM-183A ARRW is not fit into USAF arsenal very well. It doesn't improve USAF's strategic(nuclear) strike ability. And in the face of the vast arsenal of tactical weapons in the USAF, ARRW project appears redundant at tactical strike level. Invest into HACM/Scramjet can be helpful in the next generation air to air missile R&D project The US army and USN's joint HGV program LRHW/IRCPS is still in progress. Army just deploy one unit in training mode.

I have been away from China for a while, and it has been a long time since my last returned to China. I know several other Chinese members on this forum. Wondering if there is anyone from ROK and Japan?

And, some clips from CMRT. 120mm mortar kills T-34/85 and Panther tank 120mm mortar destroys T-34/85 120mm mortar strike hit Panther's ammo rack

Not from CMCW, but here is a prefect example of mission kills in CM First a penetration on upper hull kills the driver, then a penetration on the front turret kills the commander , disable the main gun and the coax MG last, the tracks are trashed by hand grenade. A team of Germany infantry sneak out of the woods, assault the M4/76 with hand grenade. Fortunately the crew made the right decision. they keep the hatch closed and stay inside. Germany infantry team run out of grenade and retreat back to woods before the reinforcement arrives. But the tank is totally f**ked. I am considering bail out the crew, let them pickup the PPSh from the fallen comrade and join the infantry formation.

Yes And in fact almost all the man-portable anti-tank launchers in CM's WW II title are very effective against troops in buildings. I have seen a panzerfaust took out six soviet troops in a wooden building. Sometime it could be a little tricky to have the AT Team to use their launcher, but what is the distance in your case?

One of the IS-2 Early fall victim to the 88mm , note the two on the upper hull failed to penetrate. One partially penetrate through the driver's vision port. Probably it kills the driver as it cause the IS-2 early panic and turn the side armor to the KT. An IS-2 Mid, same as the pervious one, it withstand several 88mm but got one partially penetrate through driver's vision port Another IS-2 mid , one shot by KT, it was penetrated on the upper part but during the game the text reads "low front hull penetration" And here is the beast, IS-2 late even the hit on the driver's vision port cannot penetrate, the killing round went through the weapon mount Another IS-2 late, it was killed by "low front hull penetration".

The IS-2 in "Tigers at Ogledow" are IS-2 (mid). So they are kind of underdog compared to KT, but KT should still respect their firepower. I build a sandbox scenario, I put 1 KT vs 1 IS-2 early + 1 IS-2 mid + 1 IS-2 late in an open terrain at 1000 m distance. No way to run a monte carlo simulation here, but from my limited tests, I do feel the KT side has a 20% chance to suffer a humiliated defeat (got killed without take out any IS ) and 20% to achieve a total victory (by kill or disable all 3 IS) . The rest are KT taking out 1 or 2 IS then killed by the 122mm. Same as my pervious impression, all the fatal penetration happens at the low front hull. If KT's low front hull was hit, there is a small chance it won't cause a serious damage (armor spalling) , but very likely 122mm will penetrate through KT's low front armor plate, causing the KT destroyed. On the IS side, IS-2 late is a monster, 88mm/L71 APCBC is just like a pingpong ball in front of its upper front hull armor plate (120mm/60 degree). But it can still be killed by penetrate low front hull/ turret/weapon mount. I remember in CMBB, the IS-2 early version's front upper hull is just like a paper plate (the incorrect casting process which caused defect on armor plate was simulated). But in CMRT it is much more resilient than my thought. KT can penetrate its upper front armor but chance is not too high, you would rather the 88mm aim at the low front hull or turret to ensure a quick kill.

The armor penetration table from CMBB, no surprise the IS-2 has a hard time to deal with King Tiger at front arc. But on the other hand, I noticed that in CMRT, the KT has a fair high chance to get its lower hull part be hit. That means KT is still vulnerable to 122mm in <1000m distance

Regarding ChatGPT make stuff up while answering questions with confidence, couple days ago I asked ChatGPT if Radium - 238 exists.

that is correct.

And here are some screenshots Before: Hit, see the driver disappear 1s After. See the Radio operator changed to the driver position

Hope this can be improved in the future CM engine. I am playing a CMRT PBEM game, "CMFR Deep Raid". As you can find out from the video below, my M4A2 was ambushed by a Marder. The AP round kills or incapacitate the driver. But the radio operator replaced the driver instantly, reverse the tank back to safety. CMRT M4 incapacitated driver replaced by radio operator.

Mit Karacho is a masterpiece and a very fun scenario. But I am afraid how the score system works makes this not very balance for PBEM FR Mit Karacho - Combat Mission: Red Thunder - TheBlitz

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Yes, IMHO, those potentially damaging stuff may not be so easily secured from the beginning. It will be leaked one way or another. So from a military deception perspective, these information can be used as ingredients for a poison. As people says, the best way to deceive is to mix the truth with the lies (at 70:30 level). So you have the potential damage stuff sent out as the "truth", to convince Russia the authenticity of the leak, and cover the "lies" to be successfully transferred to Russian. Russia, if takes the bait, is unlikely to publish information contains "lies" to the public as they could consider these are critical information. Anyway, we will see if this is a brilliant deception operation or a stupid leak. Time will tell.

Maybe this is another round of Maskirovka. Remember this one?

Another tank thread from Suyi 控

Two questions here, not sure if these have been discussed before: 1, While we have occasionally seen some cases of AFV deploy smoke, neither side has used artillery smoke rounds to generate a smoke screen protecting the attack, what is the reason behind that? 2, For the BMP-1/2 used by both side (except new built BMP-2M), none seems to carry turret roof ATGM launcher. Are these ATGM Launchers removed from vehicle due to poor maintenance conditions?

So we have seen a bunch of burning T-80B/M1 wreck. How often do you see these beasts be killed by shot in front arc? I saw one M1 destroyed by penetration at low front hull (at 150m distance). T-80B's low front hull is a weak part, but its front upper hull and front turret are impenetrable to 105mm APFSDS and I-TOW.

Sad...... on the bright side, ATR can be fired when mounted on the SPW. Now I have a brilliant idea, I can 5 x ATR team on the SPW and turn my SPW into a fearsome large caliber Anti tank weapon station The question is, where I can capture the Soviets that willing to fight on a German SPW?

Poor M1

I remember Haiduk mentioned that the line charge firing was messed up by strong wind and the failed to detonate might be caused by poor warehouse storage condition of the charges.

Some of these T-55 might be younger than the T-72 and might still be in a good shape. Soviets kept the T-55 production running until 1981. The newly produced T-55s were sent to Far east military district to buildup the strength of catalog D divisions. Due to the catalog D divisions’ low combat readiness, these T-55s were barely used even on the training ground. I won’t surprise if they have good engine hours left and are in good condition.

Don't worry, it won't penetrate T-80B's front turret.