Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "Matsimus" channel.

  1.  @ashcarrier6606  umm... artillery today still have anti tank shells. Ever heard of the BONUS round? 155mm AT cluster round with 3 homing top attack submunitions. I bet it can be set for low arc tradjectory mode. (Eg direct fire at a point about a dozen meters above the targets.)
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  2. ​ @TrangleC  that's where weathering and diorama context comes in
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  3. Daamn that's a lot of sodium...
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  4.  @NUMMEHARBEN  that's one method that could work, as long as the crew remembers to take the optics of the aiming device with them to cover. During my own conscript graduation tests, our Swedish mortar platoon managed to pack up and be 300m away in 59seconds. (Only possible if each crew member has a single thing to grab and stow in the sprint on their way to mount up in the vehicles, and we were allowed to leave the aiming stakes as expendable.)
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  5.  @ghostmourn_alt  the archer can be manually operated aswell if the automation fails, it just gets a lot slower in all artillery aspects and looses the MRSI capacity when it is reduced to hand cranking the gun and artillery charts and plotting tables for the firing sollutions
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  6. It goes wherever you can take the hydraulically articulated 6×6 civilian Volvo logger/rock truck chassi the Archer was based on. Including blocky, undulating, dense forest terrain that most tank commanders would refuse.
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  7. I'd still want my tried and trusted 12cm mortar, but with a shorter tube, because at the extreme elevations you want to lob the bombs over houses, an almost 2.5m long tube gets hard to lift and drop 13+kg shells down from the muzzle end.
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  8. Add to that the fact that CV90s have their exhaust muffled and redirected out the back in a way that reduces both the IR profile of the vehicle AND the sound it makes, especially to anyone in front of it. I have faced and been chased down by the IFV and ARV variant in double sided training scenarios multiple times while on foot and once in a Volvo C303 (Tgb11) If CV90s are coming towards you, you don't actually hear them until they are only around 50-70m away, but you start to feel the vibrations of their tracks through the ground at 400m away, not able to know where they are coming from unless you can see them across a field.
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  9. Yes, both direct and with BONUS smart AT munitions.
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  10.  @MelbaOzzie  hehehe, airburst go BOOM! 😏
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  11. ​ @phunkracy  more real? when it broke down on parade and hasn't been seen in public since? I think they are on exactly the same level atm.
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  12. The service vehicles has a plug and play interface remote weapons station that can fit any nato standardized GPMG/GMG/HMG
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  13.  @corvoattano4777  explosively formed projectile. It's a shaped charge, similiar to an RPG/panzerfaust warhead but using a slightly different shape, and a different metal in the cone that forms the projectile so that the EFP gets a much longer stand-off distance. A regular HEAT warhead like that of an RPG has an optimal stand-off distance of around 20cm between target armor and exploding warhead and will rapidly loose effectiveness if triggered further away, by, for example cage armor or ERA as it's main energy transfer used for penetration is that of the explosion itself focused on a tiny area. An EFP on the other hand, commonly detonates a meter or more away from the target and uses the mass and velocity of the projectile more than focusing the power of the explosion, thus it's a lot less affected by the distance between warhead and target.
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  14.  @False_Saint  actually, vodka fucks you up big time in cold weather. It may help you to keep your fingers and toes a few minutes longer but it does so by thinning your blood and expanding your blood vessels which drops your core temperature quickly, making you drowsy and robs your thinking ability in a dangerous way.
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  15. They did.
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  16. And the weight of the RBS-70 translates directly to longer range than any lighter manpad. Which is what allowed Ukraine to start reliably pushing the Moskovite Ka-52s away beyond those helicopter's effective range prior to the ATACAMs strikes that finished them off
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  17. Carde I bet the B1 is so useful due to It's extreme time over target with that huge payload so that it can be used for dozens of 1-4bomb strikes before even considdering to refuel or rearm.
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  18.  @k53847  if the turret ring diameter on a Bradley is the same as a CV90, the Mjölner or AMOS turrets should be possible to drop right in and wire up with very little modification.
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  19. Each Swedish mechanised batallion has both vehicles. It would be interesting if the Lvkv9040 radar has the ability to detect and backtrack enemy artillery/mortar shells on top of tracking aircraft and helis...
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  20. martinborgen and that's why I'm frustrated to no end by WoT's implementation of the bullshit TD-mode to 'balance' the 103-series and shoehorn them into TDs. They should technically be capable of pulling off snap-shots after side-sliding around a corner at 30-40km/h like a pre-nerf, pre-flip AMX-ELC.
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  21.  @CtrlAltRetreat  depending on size and material of the building... My home guard platoon has used it successfully and safely indoors twice during exercises before I joined it. Once to clear a corridor open in both ends in an industrial facility with only the CG in the corridor itself, loader and gunner lying perpendicular to the tube through the doors of opposite adjoining rooms. Walls, floor and roof of reinforced concrete. Second time it was just inside a huge room at a sugar refinery with the backblast directed out through an open 20x30ft double door and the target at the opposite end of the 300ft long room.
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  22. Only if the trenches are dug the wrong way.
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  23.  @kesorangutan6170  military electronics has been emp shielded by design since a certain US firework display over japan in the summer of 1945...
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  24. To reduce heat warping of the barrel.
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  25. ​ @joshuajoaquin5099  iirc, the French are also part of that 140mm gun project
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  26. I'm a bit surprised that they use fixed firing pins on their mortars instead of lanyard actuated strikers Also, the angle of that bottom plate looks wonky AF to my mortar senses.
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  27. The hills are alive, with the sound of shilkas... XD
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  28. Nope. Best cure for that is firing a live round out of a Carl Gustaf 84mm recoilless, it's an instant cure as the over preassure zone around the firing team clears every corner of your respiratory system in one savage gut punch! <3
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  29.  @petter5721  hopefully going to see some of those in action myself in a few weeks! Things have moved on a lot since I was a conscript on the old towed m/41D's😁
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  30. Paul Hannoever the swedish politicians did nerf it before it was implemented for economic reasons, the Finns finished it though afaik
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  31. And both the Danes and the Swedes brought their different CV90s to Afghanistan
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  32.  @JeffWaynee  I honestly don't know, the Swedes mainly operated out of Mashar e Sharif while the Danes operated a lot in Helmand, I have no idea of how close those areas are geographically. But if it was a Bofors 40mm/L70 with that distinct conical recoil booster, then it definitely was a Swedish Strf9040 Also, Idk if the danes had upgraded their CV90s to the fully stabilized and climate controlled C version, most easily recognized by the much more merkava-like flatter turret and that the front idler wheel housings doesn't protrude beyond the hull armor. Swedish vehicles also have a very distinct four tone fractal pattern cammo, either in desert or forest colours.
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  33. What does the M2HB in the weapon station look like to you? Decoration?
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  34. They weigh around 40-50kg/shell depending on payload.
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  35.  Arup Ratan Mitra  don't underestimate conscripts, the Russian, the Israeli, the Nordic, the Baltic and the Israeli armed forces are also conscripted.
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  36. We had seargeants that would take their field jackets off, lay on the floor on their chests and slide under all the beds. If they had any dust or dirt on their pine green undershirt when they got up, from any of the four barracks rooms, the whole platoon had to clean all of their assigned areas again, same if they found any dust on their black tanker beret after swiping the window spars or the boards around the door frame or the top of the lockers with it. Also, our female sgt. had a tendency to wear white cotton gloves during weapon inspections, and she could get her pinky finger into places on our modified FNC carbines we conscripts couldn't reach with a cotton swab or even a smoking pipe cleaner... Commonly, we locked up our carbines due to time constraints long before she was satisfied with the inspections... And we were a 12cm mortar platoon! If we had to rely on our carbines in direct combat, odds are, most of the battalion we belonged to would already be or about to be KIA, MIA or POWs... Don't regret pushing through those 300 days though, and nowdays I'm doing the same thing I did then, 16 years ago, only as part time national defence militia and with an older, G3 based battle rifle instead of an FN FNC based carbine.
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  37. Don't you?
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  38.  @davidty2006  even indirect fire is arriving at an angle, every scrap of material between you and any source of supersonic bits of red hot metal has the potential to prevent a really bad last day...
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  39.  @yelectric1893  but the ammo production IP is partially owned by the Swiss, and they refuse exports to active conflicts.
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  40. Principle is the same, but the electronics and avionics has been upgraded a lot since.
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  41. Problem is, a teathered drone exposes the tanks position, a free ranging drone can be jammed to land/crashed/hacked. And for artillery, they are so far away from the targets they engage that having their own drones doesn't help anything.
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  42. ​ @Archer89201  because the F-117 mission planners got unforgivably lazy and reused the same approach and return routes several days in a row...
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  43. Pretty much
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  44. It's just sad that the world we have made as a species has so much intolerance and greed that this creativity and geniality has to be dedicated to weapons design instead of something like disability aids, space exploration, clean power etc. I'm just as proud as you of our industrial engineers, and of my comrades in the Home guard, the contracted regulars and the teenage conscripts who accepts the duty and oath to keep the friends, family and people living in our country safe and free to be ourselves as each of us see fit. I just wish that some day, that an armed defence force won't be needed to safeguard from threats posed by others of our own species.
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  45.  @Inkkari9  only that's exactly what the Swedish army did several years ago when the Mjölners started rolling off the production lines. The previous towed 12cm mortar m/41 got passed on to the Home Guard part time volounteer defense militia.
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  46.  @hermes6910  then why did you even use civilian PCs as a reference?
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  47. Not if it's owned by the local HOA Karen...
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  48. It definitely can if the platform suspension can handle the recoil and the drive train and cabling can handle the power requirements.
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  49. Similiar, but I'll settle for frequent visit to the local museum where one of the conservatory organizations running the place are ex. Tankers with a collection of govt. owned armored vehicles, most in running condition.
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  50.  bojo perez  where I grew up, the whole countryside for about 20 miles were a military security zone, no foreign nationals were allowed outside the main towns or highway. Any strangers noticed outside the allowed areas got reported by local land owners and checked by police or military patrols. If foreigners, they got patted down and bags/vehicles checked for weapons, suspect tools, maps and recording devices. If clean, they were reprimanded and escorted back to allowed areas, if suspicious items were found, they would be processed by civilian law enforcement on carges of tresspassing in a restricted zone and prepared/attempted/conducted acts of espionage/sabotage.
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