HUSKER2142
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7 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
We are not sure when the Engine 5 Upgrade will be released. It will be for all games at the same time and a free Upgrade.
When will the first news about Engine 5 come out, what will we expect and what new features will there be ?
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1 hour ago, Bulletpoint said:
Manually unscrewing the fuse of a 250kg(?) bomb while another guy pours on water from a plastic bottle.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-60689562
This made me laugh, as an explosives engineer I was surprised why the bomb was not deformed, why the fuse was not damaged.
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1 hour ago, Bulletpoint said:
I wonder how many of those volunteers will throw down their weapons as soon as they arrive in Ukraine, then make their way to the Polish border with the other refugees and claim asylum in Europe.
It seems to me that this is purely for propaganda, why should they, if more than 100k people applied to the military registration and enlistment offices in the first week to sign up for the army. He is a mercenary and in Antarctica he will be a mercenary. In this case, the idea will do more harm than good.
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9 minutes ago, kraze said:
No. Our troops tested those against javelins way back in 2020 and they have zero effect
An interesting answer was posted on the Combat Mission discord.
Quote[HA]Krasnoarmeyets — 27.02.2022
I am not aware of any publicly available information about Russian testing so far. Ukrainians tested the concept last year, but incorrectly: the chances of the missile missing are supposed to be increased by shifting the thermal signature away from the tank by utilising a pyrotechnical device hanging over the left side of the tank near the engine exhaust (to be augmented by exhaust gases); Ukrainians however put the flames on the tank turret (after the first missile missed):https://andrei-bt.livejournal.com/1912504.html
(Andrei_bt is A. Tarasenko - researcher of Soviet and Ukrainian armored vehicles from Kharkov.)
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5 minutes ago, Holien said:
The arming of civilians looks pretty chaotic but does seem that they will be working alongside military units. I just hope they have AT support in trained hands to deal with the armoured vehicles.
Brave people who stand up to the Russian cabal.
In Kiev, armed men shot at a car with unarmed people, saying that "there were saboteurs in it." I think a regular military man should be assigned to self-defense units in order to prevent such cases.
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2 minutes ago, arkhangelsk2021 said:
My honest thought is Oh God, no. I'll be the unpopular one here. The best thing Ukrainians can do for themselves at this point, frankly, is to sue for peace.
Putin is ready to send a Russian delegation to Minsk to negotiate with the Ukrainian one, Peskov said.
According to him, Russian delegation will include representatives of the Defense Ministry, Foreign Ministry and Kremlin administration.
I really hope that this is the hope for a cessation of hostilities.
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I am ashamed of the actions of my government, I hoped to the last that there would be no war and this is just a bluff. Now anti-war rallies are taking place all over Russia, no one supports this war, there are a bunch of idiots who support it, but I assure you that the majority of the population is AGAINST THIS WAR.
I honestly empathize with Ukrainians, but in no case will I rejoice at the death of our Russian soldiers! Young guys who could live a long life and do so much good in life, and not die for the sake of crazy ideas.
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3 hours ago, ncc1701e said:
What is the risk of Russia capturing javelins, analyzing them and developing their own or sending them to China?
It will only speed up the development no more, in 2020 the development of a domestic ATGM with an attack in the upper hemisphere began.
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I am ashamed of my government.
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5 minutes ago, domfluff said:
Yup. My understanding was that it's not likely that the Russian army would use MT-12s in a direct fire role in a scenario like CMBS presents. They'll still exist, sure, but then lots of things still exist that I imagine they wouldn't deploy to the front if they could help it.
Yes, they will be used as conventional artillery, or in defense in difficult terrain.
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BMMP is a transcription in latin from russian designation БММП. Literally translated as "Fighting Vehicle Marine". At the same time, this is most likely not an official designation, but only the name of the program for RF Marines.
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6 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
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2 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
My point entirely.....If JK really must make these posts, IMHO he should try to keep them to General Discussion, don't f**k up the game forum.
But this is very far from the first time we have had this discussion.
He is not the only one, there are other users who also create topics that are not related to the game not for the first time.
@BFCElvis Please close topics that are not related to gaming topics.
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27 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
Nah, here's a much better idea.....Why don't you stop posting political c**p on a games forum, eh?
It is better to prohibit discussion of politics altogether, the Black Sea sub-forum has become "Russia will attack soon in 201x", "Russia will attack", etc. Where the hell is the discussion of the vision of how we want to see CMBS, where is the talk about how it would be nice to add the US and Russian Marines, etc.
I would very much like the administration to remove all these topics. I think there are other forums for this.
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10 hours ago, John Kettler said:
One of the things that really stood out was heavy Russian use of multi-role battlefield radars which, unlike US systems, can be fitted to such weapons as machine guns. By multi-role, I mean use against ground targets and, at the very least, air attack warning, presumably especially vs. helicopters hugging the terrain.
This refers to the reconnaissance stations of "Fara" family SBR-3 or SBR-5, in US army there is an analogue in the form of "AN/PPS-15 GSR" or "SR Hawk GSR". Previously, these stations were stored as a dead weight and units in my memory knew how to use them. Since the beginning of the conflict in Donbass and the campaign in Syria, the question has been raised about training specialists who finally really appeared in the troops, now I can say with confidence that the intelligence stations are not so dead. And with the arrival of thermal imaging devices, they complement each other well.
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Congratulations to everyone on the year 2022, and what are the rough plans of the Battlefront developers for the Combat Mission series ?
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Combat Mission: Star Wars ..... then have to share with Disney
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3 hours ago, John Kettler said:
That's 5'9", which I believe I could deal with. Is the average height you cite for the soldiers with or without helmet?
Without a helmet, if I correctly calculated your height ~ 175 cm. In theory, it should have been easier for you. But I am already problematic with my height of 183 cm. Apparently, when they created combat vehicles, the designers did not expect how war would change.
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When the BMP-1/2 and BMD-1/2 were created, the average height of the soldiers was ~ 170 cm and then there was still no body armor and other equipment. The maximum that the soldier was carrying was an assault rifle, 4 magazines for the assault rifle, several grenades, an OZK with a gas mask and a duffel bag. The BMP-3 is actually only soviet vehicle that was made taking into account the equipment of a soldier and his height, which by that time was already an average of 180 cm.
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Hi, I have a question for those who found themselves in their country when they canceled conscription into the army, for voluntary service under a contract.
1) What this foreshadowed and became the reason ?
2) How did the army prepare for this and start a recruitment program on a contract basis ?
3) Were there opponents in the army to cancel conscription ?It will be interesting to hear the opinion of those who know how it all happened.
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The ugliest and sexiest tank at the same time.
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On 7/12/2021 at 4:55 AM, John Kettler said:
Did you ever see, hear or read about shipping raw recruits directly to the receiving unit, rather than going through basic training (or similar) at a large dedicated recruit training facility? Seems like the Red Army of the early 90s and early 2000 was much like the US Army in the aftermath of the Vietnam War--a huge mess, made far worse by a host of high leverage related issues.
I have not read, but saw how it was in 2008-2010. Soldiers who did not require specialized training (shooter, machine gunner, grenade launcher) were sent immediately to the active military unit. Maximum of such soldiers passed the YOUNG FIGHTER COURSE for 1 month. Then they received experience during military service, this applied to both a conscript and a serviceman. In fact, the training of soldiers then turned a blind eye still. And then BUM burst out in the middle of 2010 with big reforms, then a lot of people were fired due to non-compliance with military service.
After 2010, for military specialties that do not require special training, the COURSE of a YOUNG FIGHTER was increased to 2-3 months. And the serviceman were required to additionally undergo a survival course for 1.5 months, the conscripts were not required to do this.
For specialists, the training period remained before 6 months. Unless, of course, this is a highly specialized military position.
YOUNG FIGHTER COURSE is a course during which a soldier is prepared physically, emotionally and mentally for military service. The soldier literally breaks his previous thinking and adapts to military service. The soldiers are taught how to respond correctly to commands, how to walk correctly in a squad-platoon-company formation. And they give basic knowledge of the AK-74 / PKM / RPG-7 weapon used.
SURVIVAL COURSE - they teach you how to survive with a minimum of tools and then throw you into a deep forest / mountains / steppe on the seashore for 2-3 weeks. Those who can't stand it are given another chance, and if they can't stand it again they are dismissed from the service.
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@John Kettler Demobbed "ДМБ" - this is a funny banter about the army, but close to what it was in 90s and early 2000s. My senior commanders told me what was happening in the army in the 90s, I wanted to laugh and cry.
Combat reconnaissance vehicle BRM-1K (Object 676) and a little about thermal imagers.
in Combat Mission Cold War
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On the forum and in various discords, the topic has been raised more than once as to whether there was a ground-based radar on the BRM-1 in our gaming time of 1979-1982. Last week I started researching the topic and came across a reconnaissance vehicle operating manual from 1982. All that is known about the radar itself is that it began production in the mid-1970s. Perhaps the information provided will give us in the future a ground radar on the BRM-1K in one of the patches, since I can judge that a ground radar could initially be on all reconnaissance vehicles.
Documentation of BRM-1K operation
In addition, I studied the topic of thermal imagers in the USSR and learned some interesting things.
The first Soviet zero-generation thermal imager to go into small-scale production was 1PN59 "Posobie-1", which consisted of 50 sensitive elements and had a scanning frequency of 16 Hz, and a target recognition range of 2000 m. This device was installed on PRP-4 (1984) - a mobile reconnaissance point used for reconnaissance and target designation of missile and artillery systems.
The second thermal imager of the first generation was 1PN71 "Posobie-2" with 64 sensitive elements and a scanning frequency of 33 Hz. The target recognition range increased to 3000 m. This device was installed on PRP-4M (1988).
The first two thermal imagers did not find widespread use in sighting equipment and were used only for monitoring the terrain on highly specialized reconnaissance vehicles. However, even if one wanted to, 1PN59 could not be used as a sight due to the low scanning frequency.
Directly for equipping tanks, work was carried out on "Agava-1" thermal imager, which already had 100 sensitive elements and could recognize a tank-type target at 2000 m. "Agava-1" successfully passed tests, but the military abandoned it due to unsatisfactory characteristics, so the timing equipping Soviet tanks with thermal imagers moved back again. After this, the development of an improved version, "Agava-2" began. The number of sensitive elements was increased to 256 pieces, and the target recognition range increased by 20-30%. “Agava-2” suited the military, but its mass production took place in the early 90s, when the country no longer had time for thermal imagers, however, this sight will be installed on some Russian T-80U/UK tanks.
Image from the screen of thermal imager 1PN59.