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

  1. ​ @RemlapL99  exactly.
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  2. ​ @andyfriederichsen  it didn't. Omly tanks with crew compartment ammo storage tosses turrets.
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  3.  @gantulgaganhuyag717  or trigger the commonly sexist jingoists to meltdown just by existing and humbly pursuing knowledge about the vehicles she's in love with.
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  4. ​ @mrmacias4217  Satelite image proof needed for that claim to be credible.
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  5.  @davidty2006  simplicity of a slightly modified reliable extreme mobility work horse of a civilian chassi married to a state of the art self loading, self deploying and fully protected howitzer superstructure.
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  6. Volvo
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  7. But... crew served weapons are a perfect family entertainment system! As long as all the pets and children have proper ear protection! One kid each for traverse and elevation control, granny in the gunner's seat, grandpa at the ammo prep station, parents as loaders by the gun while the dog is fitted with a slead for shell and charge hauling ;)
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  8. I'd watch the hell out of that series.
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  9. Because Boris Johnsons master in Moscow needs it in order to prevent a less corrupt UK government from redeploying those tanks to interfere with his territorial ambitions in mainland Europe...
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  10. ​ @max2008abhi  and it has to be powerful enough to cover out to 60km radius beyond your own forces to have any chance of jamming it early enough. And that opens the jammer up to a big fat HARM strike...
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  11.  @alanbstard4  stagnation in tradition on principle drives potential recruits away at best and causes unnessesary casualties at worst. (French red pantaloons in 1914-1915...) And the only time a military organisation can't be democratic is when it's in the field. It's perfectly possible to have a democratic structure paralell to the chain of command and with limited influence over things like equipment, officer assignments in peace time and other quality of life issues.
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  12. Yoans45 and you'll need them all if Putin decides to test EU & NATO structural integrity in practice :/
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  13. ​ @ajr993  canada doesn't have the same constitutional liberties, other democratic countries have both better and worse variants of the US 1st ammendment, often both better and worse at the same time in different aspects.
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  14.  @exo068  I presumed the Strf9040C and later used modular addon armor. Also, the 40/L70 as is might be a bit long in the tooth and it's brass is a bit cumbersome and heavy, but it's rounds, sights and stabilizers definitely isn't 2nd rate. The reason the bofors 40/70 was picked in the first place was that it was cheap as dirt to adapt and install, had litterally millions of HE rounds already in invasion readyness stockpiles since the cold war when it was the main close in AAA of the Swedish armed forces, it doesn't leave the brass inside the vehicle and it's APFSDS has enough punch to comfortably ruin the day of any east block vehicle caught side on at all estimated average engagement ranges in Swedish terrain and thus eliminate a need for Bradley style ATGM launchers. That 40mm is also not offered in export versions iirc. The turret can also be fairly easily replaced to customer specs. I wouldn't be surprised if Hägglunds is already working on an unmanned turret, on their own or in cooperation with other countries due to that market trend. All in all, the chassi as a platform is second to none, the rest is modular plug and play enough to make up the difference in most cases.
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  15. Which is also why none of the European NATO countries uses Humvees if they had a choise, they are just too wide and bulky for European roads and woodlands, especially the kind very common in rolling hills and ridged rural areas where farmers build field enclosures with the granite rocks they clear out of their fields, and when a significant number of those fields has been farmed since before Leif Eriksson found his way to Newfoundland, those field enclosures are thick, tall and won't care about any vehicle lighter than an MBT...
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  16.  @exurgemars  link? The only military equipment I know India use(d?) Is the semi-self propelled Bofors Field Howitzer 77B that blew up as a huge scandal due to the grifting and bribery done by Bofors got exposed... Despite the fact that the howitzer itself, in my own oppinion, was, and still is one of the best 155mm towed assisted loading artillery pieces in the world and probably would have had a more than decent chance to win the deal in a fair competition anyway. Almost no defence contracts has ever been a fair evaluation since the industrial age.
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  17. And that's why you, in a democracy want a conscription based army where "we the people" also make up the army and thus can never be used for domestic opression, rather than a professional force where politicians and comissioned upper class officers can groom and manipulate the information and perception availiable to the troops.
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  18. Umm... the Volvo chassi on the Archer is an all wheel drive articulated civilian logging and mining vehicle. It can go wherever it needs to as long as the fording depth is less than 5ft. Including some places a tracked vehicle can't go. Such as broken forest terrain with large rocks comparable to dragon's teeth.
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  19. I think the smallest guns with proximity fuse atm is 35/40mm
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  20. There were similiar preparations of infrastructure in Scandinavian countries. Things like you won't find a single bridge, airport, highway, railroad, or permanent harbor facility constructed between 1940 and 1994 that doesn't have built in demolition chambers/culverts for modular explosive charges of a national standard template design. Charges that were stored in secure monitored bunkers no more than 5minutes drive from the object the charges in each readyness storage was intended to demolish, with a small margin of extra charges so that in case a few modules had been compromised in storage,those modules could be instantly swapped on site by the troops assigned to conduct the demolition. On top of that, if you ever visit Sweden, look at the corners and beside doors of public buildings, appartment houses and religious buildings built after ww2 as well as random doors in road tunnels or modified rock faces for a blue triangle in an orange square. Every door and building marked with that symbol contains some kind of public bomb shelter.
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  21. It was developed in 1958, but it's essentially a belt fed Browning Automatic Rifle turned upside down and with the semi-auto mode removed. And it weighs about 8kg with a 100rnd belt stuffed mostly in the ~75rnd capacity marching pouch.
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  22. Tar den sig fram hyffsat på ojämna hyggen och i blockterräng med som det kortare civila chassit?
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  23.  @Spider-Too-Too  and that it tried to compete with the US industrial complex...
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  24. Glad he didn't require surgery... daamn.
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  25. The factory test drivers have managed to climb a 3+m vertical wall, drive across the roof of the building and then do a controlled climb down on the other side
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  26.  @seandalton1709  for infantry, yes. For artillery and mortar crews, it's more important to maintain an energy reserve for the mobility needs of pulling out in less than a minute instead.
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  27. And avoid alcohol.
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  28.  @reika1104  oh no, it's even better, it's ammo redundant and fitted with a fuel homing sensor array capable of detecting any viable fuel source from beyond visual range under any light conditions and either seize control of it on it's own or signal for it's logistics staff to deliver at a predetermined dead drop site.
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  29. Swedish army melee training uses a combination of krav maga techniques and old bayonet drill, only the actual bayonets are not issued in peace time, except for the royal palace guard duties rotated between most army and home guard units.
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  30. Sounds like yours is very very worn
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  31. Everyone needs a grandma deuce for emotional support ;)
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  32. It would become too heavy and loose the amphibious capacity with just half the things on your wishlist. Besides, from the shore and 40km miles in land, the marines already has air and artillery support from offshore navy assets.
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  33.  @mortuusunburied44  but in Ukraine, that blood glows in the dark ;)
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  34. Only way to reach that volume of fire is using about 50 12cm AMOS systems firing MRSI from about 3km out using firing data sent back in time to 2min before the observed ranging shot impacts...
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  35.  @stupidburp  and it has direct fire capacity.
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  36. That's what many sgts do regardless of what they pack under the uniform.
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  37. Ummm...sarcasm?
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  38. Yes.
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  39.  @youtubeuser_custom_1  not as foolish as completely dismissing the possibility of it reoccuring.
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  40. Also an instant cure for milder sinus infections with runny/clogged nose.
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  41.  @00yiggdrasill00  and one thing that weirdness is doing is allowing it the ability to climb up a 3-4m tall vertical wall! And then down again in a controlled manner with a skilled driver!
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  42.  @ristoreipas21  as far as I've heard, the AMOS couldn't load the STRIX anti tank round from the breech and when the budget cuts came down hard 2003 and then the 2006-2014 shut down of the conscript system, the Army thought it better to keep the Archer program going as that replaced both Bkan1 and Haub77 with a single highly automated and mobile system. And then in 2014, when mechanized protected mortars was needed again, I guess it was a combination of cost as well as political prestige to why the Mjölner was decided on, a somewhat simpler system than the AMOS with assisted muzzle loading that allows any shell length that fits the tube, but without the 360 turret traverse or the direct fire self defence/assault gun capability of the AMOS
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  43.  @budiman-kx8dt  it all depends on how much your political power relies on free public elections and how much your constituents care about civilian casualties as collateral damage... In most of the former USSR, neither is any significant factor in their strategic or tactical or ploitical equations
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  44. Wrong. The autonomous weapons we have today such as torpedoes or missiles are not allowed to make target priority or force deployment decisions. A fully automatous armed system cross that moral line.
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  45. With NEMO's accuracy, the only direction Pirates would be "moving on" would be to feed the local aquatic fauna...
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  46. What does the line infantry do when the artillery corps go to the yule ball? They dig foxholes as if they were living on borrowed time... 0;)
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  47. The day I did this during conscript training in 03, it was 25+C in the shade... and one of our Sgt's went inside to see if the gas was dense enough in the hut... He came out very quickly, cursing like only a Sgt can... Turns out that the last thing he did before going in was to take a piss, and forgot to close his fly after going around in rubberized rain clothes for half an hour... The pants have a low cut front to allow access to BDU fly and pockets underneath... XD When my turn came, it was allright, the kit worked and fit as intended. The agent felt like a sun burn on sweaty parts of the body for some time after getting out in the fresh air.
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  48. It was, *bandkanon btw ;) And there is still operational examples of it in some of our military museums 😉
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  49. It can be if the buyers want it on that platform. Any platform that can fit an AMOS can fit a NEMO.
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  50. Designed to deterr others from destroying more lives on a political level.
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