Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Armourer's Bench" channel.

  1. "One lost Abrams is a tragedy. A hundred lost T-72s is a statistic." - Josef Stalin
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  2.  @botondkolumban8399  It's a joke. Whenever something is adopted by a military, it becomes "milspec". There absolutely no meaning behind "milspec" other than it meets military specification.
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  3. It's okay they already used the civilian customer as beta tester so they've done design revisions.
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  4. An Ukrainian government official showed his Kel Tec Sub 2000 on a TV interview. This conflict is a treasure trove because almost any weapon can be "clone correct".
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  5. SIG is willing to sell at dirt cheap prices to get contracts. The M17 unit price is actually offensive.
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  6. Wouldn't work against FPV RPG-7. The detonator is two loops of wire so they are sensitive to even glancing passes, and adding standoff may actually increase effective penetration. Slat armor works by crushing the warhead in an attempt to turn HEAT into just HE. Wire mesh actually helps the HEAT jet become more focused.
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  7. Because fin and spin stabilization achieve the same purpose, and HEAT warheads need to be spin-compensated. The copper cone for a regular HEAT can be made through rudimentary means but a spin compensated cone needs to be pressed with complex dies.
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  8. ​ @GermanTopGameTV  That's not how any of this works, at all. Toe popper mines are designed to blast a foot but don't have enough payload to game-end someone. Even bounding mines (bouncing betty) are designed to go off at knee/waist height for better coverage.
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  9. ​ @DOCTUSCUMSCIENTIA  Underbarrel shotguns add weight to the rifle even though they're not used 99.9% of the time. There's a reason breaching shotguns are carried at the hip or on the rear of a plate carrier instead of underslung.
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  10. The bullet is small enough in mass that there's very little felt recoil, most felt "recoil" isn't even true recoil but transfer of momentum from the bolt to the receiver. By slamming the countermass forward to make up for the slamming of the bolt to the rear, you get less aim shift from the cycle. In competition ARs the same effect is acomplished by removing mass from the carrier and purposefully "undergassing" the system. But this makes them less reliable in combat conditions.
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  11. And you're planning to enforce the ban how?
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  12. ​ @steezydan8543  Still, don't say "AI". We had algorithms and even visual recognition before AI.
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  13.  @Treblaine  If the choice is the weight of an optic or a grenade launcher, the calculation is on the side of adding weight to increase rifle functionality. You're not guaranteed to have your rifle by your side when you get targeted by a drone. This cannot be thought of as a weapon, but more of a life vest. It stays strapped to the body. You were riding on a BMP that drove over a mine and you got flung into a ditch? Your rifle is in the bushes. The drones show up to pick off the stragglers. Is this a weapon or a life vest?
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  14. Therere's the M93 Hornet. EDIT: derp, mentioned in the video
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  15.  @Treblaine  If you watch the footage, many people taken out by drones aren't even carrying their rifle anymore. You actually don't know when you're going to use a breaching shotgun if you enter a building you've never laid your eyes on and thus don't know which doors can be/are locked. You're thinking of a Battlefield scenario where you're having fun shooting your rifle and see a drone so you click the button to switch to the underbarrel attachment. Instead, people are targeted when walking around, eating, etc. and sometimes have their rifle laid out by their side or even stacked in a triangle with their squadmates' rifles. The grenadier is a grenadier. His job is being the grenadier. This is a last minute life saver. Not a job.
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  16. So HIMARS turning a modern army into a convict meatwave army is not a gamechanger. ATACMS wiping out S-300 batteries, Ka-52 bases, etc is not a gamechanger. But this is...
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  17. Russian IFF Identify, "F*ck it!", Fire anyway
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  18. Yo dawg, I heard you like tubes. So we put a tube on your tube.
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  19. So a tank with good crew survivability and ease of training (the Abrams was praised by the ease of training) is no bueno, but welding scrap to tanks that send you to orbit when hit and have obnoxious controls is the bee's knees.
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  20. ​ @CharveL88  Droppers will fly closer than spotters. Spotters just have to see. Droppers have to be close enough to make a hit and not get wind deflect the shuttlecock, etc.
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  21. ​ @Excludos  FPV drones are fast against unaware targets. When foot moblies are aware and attempt to dodge the FPV and put obstacles between temselves and the drone, they start circling around to get a good angle on target.
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  22. ​ @Treblaine  It would add weight to the rifle.
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  23. ​ @jerkerbergstrom6663  Geneva conventions don't mention shotguns, and neither do the Hague conventions.
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  24. Because to produce G36s you need to issue a contract. You can't just hand a IOU to HK and say we're in a war footing so get 100,000 units out the door.
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  25. ​ @paulthiessen6444  in urban combat they're dropping entire buildings with glide bombs. Why would you breach a door with a shotgun? The guy with the PK on the other side will just aim and the wall and fire through the concrete.
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  26. Mine rollers were a thing before turtle tanks. So basically nothing changes - lead tank pops a few mines before it bogs down. Super.
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  27. The less ammo you have the lower chances of the ammo carousel detonating.
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  28. ​ @Drownedinblood  Yeah but a FPV RPG-7 warhead cares not for corrugated iron, and most tanks seem to bite the dust before they ever get to do infantry support.
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  29. It didn't become a norm. They welded THICK angle iron cages on top when they heard they had to fight Javelins and NLAWs (drones were not a concern). Those iron cages were useless against Jevelins/NLAWs or RPG-7s fired from rooftops. Now others have put on lighter cages to catch drone drops before they slip down an open hatch. Totally different purpose, and it's efficiently made with lighter materials.
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  30. There's millions of shotshells laying around. Custom machining a launcher adapter that gets reused is easier than machining thousands of grenade bodies to fire a buckshot load.
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  31. What's the point of a manufacturing method that outpaces drone construction? There's no advantage to stockpiling a million nade bodies while waiting for drone microchip shipments and for the build teams to solder them. 3d printing is perfect as each print farm has low investment cost and doesn't have the footprint of million dollar machinery which can be detected and targeted with cruise missile.
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  32.  @orhan3007  Yeah that was kind of what was attempted with the cages. There's also the fact that there's ways to modulate the effects of the explosive. The HEAT penetration is usually understood to be the superplastic jet, but the liner also can form a slug. By prioritizing the slug formation over the jet, you get an explosively formed penetrator - the shape of the liner and placement of the detonators can create a relatively aerodynamic slug that doesn't lose as much energy with standoff as the jet. I'm unsure of what the NLAW warhead uses but it might be a EFP.
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  33. ​ @are3287  Shotgun range with buckshot is about 80 yards (can hit a deer sized target even with the cheap military unplated buck). With the birdshot and firing against gravity, nabbing a drone 80 yards up is not as straightforward. Three dimensional maneuvering decreases your effective range.
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  34. Observation drones can use slant range and just look at you from a mile away. Even when you're just 300 pixels on a screen, you're still distinctly human and move human-like.
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  35. This, but unironically.
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  36. Because the rifle was designed for feeding a bullet geometry?
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  37. Except that's less useful. You want to keep the rifle light for the several months you're carrying it every day. You'll maybe have the chance to use this once or twice in the entire conflict, unless you're somehow a juicy target for drone operators.
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  38. ​ @clausroquefort9545  Nobody does decent cage armor - it needs to be factory made (or done by very skilled hands) to work and it only works against one type of warhead. Hit a cage with a different shaped charge and it does nothing.
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  39. Except that there's multiple people in a squad and the targets aren't randomly distributed in the big sky, they're coming STRAIGHT AT YOU.
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  40. There's telegram channels saying one of the first "turtle" tanks had a damaged traverse so it was modified like this instead of being sent back for repairs.
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  41. What happens when the drone uses a signal that your jammer doesn't have in its spectrum? There's footage of drones dropping grenades on jammers, using slant range to observe jammer locations and call in artillery to knock them offline, or people writing complaints that newer drones are slipping past their jamming efforts.
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  42. ​ @rklkify  Now Private Konscriptovich drops his shotgun and a small spring breaks. Model is a Vanka 42069, which hasn't been made since the Brezhnev administration. Where do you send it for repairs? You start issuing shotguns, you either send what you have now (an absolute party mix) or you start a formal aquisition with trials, etc. so good luck getting those to the front within a year.
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  43. The standoff distance depends on the design of the shaped charge. Spaced armor is effective because it's based on a warhead being designed to detonate on impact and the warhead itself being the standoff. Spaced armor interferes with the superplastic jet by negating the correct standoff and disturbing its path. If you design a warhead to detonate a specific distance from the armor, you design the shaped charge to account for the spacing.
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  44. Russians put theirs once they were told they were invading Ukraine which had Javelins. Israelis put theirs when they were about to fight an enemy known to use quadcopters to drop bombs.
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  45. Even a primitive pump action is a complex system. The shell lift, the system that locks the bolt and prevents you from pumping until the firing pin drops (or you hit the slide release), etc require little parts with decent precision.
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  46. It's a >1000km frontline with half a million men in each side. Mark Serbu can't keep up.
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  47. Exactly.
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  48. ​ @vvcwwc  The dragon's teeth did nothing. Russia just mined the entire frontline with several minefields of depth. Basically no country on Earth had devised a strategy against 5 minefields of depth, MICLIC charges can only clear 100-120 meters and the minefields were 500 meters deep. And unlike German generals said, Ukrainians couldn't "go around". Let's have a computer simulation and re-run the Zaporizhzhia offensive, but with zero mines. The Russian lines would have collapsed on contact as Ukrainian armor would reach the trenchlines with almost no losses. The Russian defense was based on mines. The Ka-52s, the artillery, the ATGMs, all relied on armor getting bogged in minefields.
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  49. ​ @vvcwwc  Gracious youtube shadow banned my comment. Dragon's teeth did NOTHING. It was 100% the landmines that stopped the offensive.
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  50. ​ @GunSperg  there's almost as many videos of shotguns and rifles succeeding in the anti-drone role.
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