Comments by "James Neave" (@JamesNeave1978) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

  1. I believe Poland even has a full technology transfer allowing them to design, build and sell their own variants to other nations. Poland will become the arsenal of Europe.
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  2. The legacy is: You managed to make the Chinese PLA look really stupid. Well played America, will played
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  3. I'm pretty sure reason the US started using this "Universal Camouflage Pattern" digital Camo was to trick it's enemies into using one themselves, causing them to be easy to spot and shoot... https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/raw/p03ny45f.jpg
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  4. Ghost what now ballistic fibre poles?? Hey dude, I heard you like tactical so I put some tactical in your tent poles
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  5. OK, the thing about us (🇬🇧) not using APCs before the cold war. During the second world war we built and used the 'Universal Carrier' Tracked, lightly armoured (7-10mm) 3 ton open top vehicle. It is, in fact, the single most produced fighting vehicle in existence at 👉👉 113,000 👈👈 Ford 4.0L petrol V8 Many different configurations, Scout, Machine Gun, Mortar, Artillery, Battle Taxi, 40mm anti-tank, flamethrower. Used by 33 different nations from my 1935 to 1960.
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  6.  @EE-kt8sh  Pretty sure we defended Kuwait against Saddam pretty well, tankie. All of us members of, oh, wait, the UN?!? Goodness, guess you don't know what you're talking about....
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  7. Not true, Russia makes a fancy new gun.... Shows off photos of it and then quietly puts it away because somehow that single one cost 35 billion rubles??
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  8. Indeed, I have a friend who has flown one, they are wonderful to fly around in, the closest you can get to actually being able to fly. And it's STOVL, very STOVL Not quite VTOL but close, you can use your garden as an aerodrome.
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  9. Fire control was from Thales though? So French, I don't think there's anything from America on this tank, which is not surprising because of their Draconian export controls.
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  10. Who'll give me good odds on, "After 2 years of investigation and purchasing foreign systems to test, the US Army has decided to stick with M777 and M109 but paint go faster stripes on the barrel and soldiers manning them"
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  11. Wait, hang on, has anybody checked to see whether SIG Sauer makes helicopters? 😱
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  12. I am so god damn proud of the Ukrainians. They rebuilt their army with a hybrid doctrine, this is their victory through and through. I hear way too much "NATO this NATO that" as if NATO is the ONLY reason they are doing this will. It's not and this is a magnificent victory for Ukraine. I mean, it's 3 days later and even Twitter map updates can't keep up, this video is already ancient history. It's very foggy at the moment but we're seeing Ukrainian units where they can't possibly have got to yet except in one scenario, a total collapse of the LNR held front. And that's it for supply routes, they have I think one railhead left? And their Northern flank is now utterly exposed, they might be able to roll up the whole Eastern front. And that's it, it's over, Russia is a surrounded pocket of troops North of Crimea.
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  13. Correct, our land based telescopes use three or four reference lasers to measure atmospheric jitter. A computer then calculates the required inverse optical device to cancel those aberrations out. Finally, servos in the adaptive optics reshape the optics to match the computer model and now your telescope behaves such that there is no atmosphere. And this process is completed hundreds or thousands of times per second. It's why we're building bigger and bigger land based telescopes instead of launching them into space ala Hubble or JWST.
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  14. It wasn't just a 105mm canon. It was the 105mm cannon. The Royal Ordinance L7!
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  15. They don't give these guys guns, right?
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  16. ​ @just-incase3483  I think you'll find it's actually Parrrrrrrrrents
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  17. What began as a war over the transference of mind from flesh to machine...
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  18. Technically until you've observed, it can be both the best and the worst stealth fighter at the same time.
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  19. At first my brain heard double action and thought that included rotating the chambers...
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  20. It was the British snipers who started using camo to hide first in ww1. They were Scots, stalkers and gamekeepers and they wore their Ghillie Suits.
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  21. During the Falklands War my father was at the tail end of his time on HMS Coventry, a Type 42 Destroyer. He was supposed to disembark on the way at Gibraltar but was unable to. He was finally helicoptered off Coventry on the morning of 25th May, 1982. She was sunk a few hours later and was hit in the engine room which was his duty station, the engineer that took over his station was killed.
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  22. Bay Systems? Nah, it's Bee Aay See Systems, British Aerospace Engineering. As far as I know, and it may have changed now, it's the world's largest arms manufacturer
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  23.  @Tounushi  It's the bright blue MRBM TELs that get me. Do they float??
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  24. Yep. Convection Heat Transfer describes how most fluids and gases (which are also a type of fluid) move heat setting a system. There will be hot air blasting out those holes while pulling cold air in probably through somewhere underneath. And I bet building a good trigger isn't that difficult. Just needs something better than "an rod". A proper linkage to transfer forces, or maybe all the trigger feel bits are up front and just a link to a hammer at the back. Doesn't sound difficult.
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  25. Great grandad was a First World War veteran, army. My grandfather was Army, British Parachute Regiment. He fought in the Korean War and built bridges in what were, at the time, British Empire Colonies (Malaya, Borneo, Singapore) My father was Royal Navy, serving mostly on our carrier HMS Invincible. He was present for the Gulf and Yugoslavia, he was a marine engineer. I almost joined the RAF throughout the UAS (University Air Squadron), but by the time I had researched it and gone to apply, I'd missed the cut-off date by 2 days! I could have waited a year but decided against it and just went to university. And nobody else in my family cohort (nan and granddad's grandchildren) joined the military, my father was the last.
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  26.  @tbthedozer  We are, we have been for years, a lot of these Polish deals were already in the pipeline. The Poles do NOT fuck about with Russia, all of East Europe and the Baltics have long memories
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  27. 7:30 Apparently, due to drones, the scoot part has stopped. You're safer camouflaged and behind an anti drone screen than on the road that's being watched
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  28.  @josegaucho2830  Family who turned up one day with terror weapons and made home movies of Uncle Frank committing sexual violence, torture and murder against cousin Benny. Family who set fire to your city Family who rounded up three Joneses and LITERALLY locked them in a room and SET THEM ON FIRE. Then PHOTOGRAPHED it, sent this the photos and said, "look what you did" Is this the family you're talking about? Child, I think you need an education.
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  29. Will, don't forget that the Ukrainians (and Poles) are already skilled in: 1) Maintaining high tech military weaponry 2) Operating a LARGE military logistics system 3) Training new staff to perform all of the above 4) Defending all of the above 5) Doing all of the above while at war Don't, for even a second, compare Ukraine to the Iraqi or Afghan situation. These guys are for real and have spent a decade rebuilding their military from the ground up. From the ground up and very successfully too. They had prepared for years for this and when those first strikes came in and the West was drooling on the floor, the Ukrainian military ghosted Russia. They preserved most of their air force, air defence, rocketry and artillery, feel back in good order, extended the Russian supply lines and then spanked them in front of the world. And that was planned and practised. In Putin's wetest dreams his "modernised" military isn't this good. And then they sunk an air defence cruiser with no ****ing navy Yes Russia's navy is hot garbage, but that's still somewhat like sinking a Ticonderoga with bad language. I don't think parts with English names and mph on the dial are going to phase them.
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  30. One of the myriad reasons Moskva sank was all the firefighting equipment was locked up to prevent theft and only the captain has the key, who wasn't present 😂
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  31. ​ @TinyBearTim  Ground pressure is directly proportional to weight, half the weight, half the ground pressure. However, ground pressure is inversely professional to the area of the tracks, so the inverse square law comes into play, a small increase in task length gets you a large decrease in ground pressure. But, ground pressure means nothing to bridges where it's only weight. The biggest obstacle to river crossing, though, is preparation of the entry and exit, which needs lots of work otherwise you just beach getting into or out of the water.
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  32. Oh wait, Navy, no, of course not.
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  33. If this story I've read is true, it's a stunning strategic use of their artillery, which I'm assuming is their new batteries of M777s located in 6 the high ground west of Severodonetsk. The infantry in the city drew the Russians in Then, when they had exhausted themselves, the Ukrainians counter attacked, pushing them back But then, they opened up with the artillery, cutting off the Russian infantry's paths of retreat. The Russians were sandwiched between infantry and artillery Oh and apparently they're advancing artillery has destroyed all the cover they could have used to batten down. If this is true and not retroactively declaring it their plan all along, well, round of applause. Encircling units without risking your infantry
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  34. Yeah, this seems strange to me, the ak47, as in the 1947 pattern, was retired in the 50s. 40s: ak47, 7.62 WP 50s: AKM, 7.62 WP 70s: AK74 (1974 pattern) 5.45 00s: AK12 with more recoil suppression Soviet and subsequently Russian doctrine calls for massed fairly accurate fully automatic fire from a conscript army. Russia's moved to a professional army with reserves but kept the fully automatic requirement. You can see this in the recoil impulse of the 5.45, much smaller than the 5.56.
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  35. And they're completely deaf too
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  36.  @Taskandpurpose  I saw an Firearms Unit shopping for his lunch is Asda the other day. Seeing a policeman with a pistol and a taser is really weird in the UK. Although I used to work where they made the credit cards and if anybody even scuffed their knee near that place, G36s with police attached materialised like magic.
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  37. "I'm not biased to one tank or another, they're all equally terrifying to me and my small arms fire"
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  38.  @Taskandpurpose  Think you need to put some girth on those bones there, sailor.
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  39. I want one: "In 2019, Ford launched an mHEV version of the 1.0 EcoBoost engine first fitted to the Puma SUV, which uses a belt-driven integrated starter/generator-motor (BiSG); which is in essence a starter motor, alternator, and propulsion motor in one. Fundamentally, the engine is identical to the 2018–present 1.0 EcoBoost, but features the electric starter/generator and its battery system. The motor itself is not used to propel the vehicle on its own, and is mainly used to increase efficiency by reducing engine load, provide extra power during acceleration, and to reduce the perceived ‘turbo-lag’ at certain engine speeds while accelerating. The starter/generator makes use of a 48-volt battery system in the car, although vehicles fitted with these engines are not plug-in hybrids or full hybrids. Further developments introduced include a more comprehensive ‘start-stop’ functionality, which was previously available but did not cut the engine off until the vehicle was completely stopped. The new engines can turn off while the car decelerates, at a maximum speed of about 15 mph. The new, electrified engines are available with a manual- or Ford’s new seven-speed dual-clutch PowerShift automatic transmission, and are available in either 125 bhp or 154 bhp outputs."
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  40. ​ @jblob5764  No, they both refer to MDMA, or one of the variants or isomers.
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  41. No K11?
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  42. We could make a positive speculation though, maybe they'll have stacks of unibodies and you just pull the parts from the damaged AMPV, green the spares for what got junked and slap it on a new frame. Maybe it's just quicker, cheaper and easier to just discard bent frames. Training certainly would be cheaper, as their job is make the AMPV Legos go, no need to train up expensive metal fabricators as it's more like a factory line than repair shop
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  43. I'm just going to stick an oar in and say Ford of Britain is an absolutely amazing car maker. I've had both a 2nd Gen Ford Focus C-Max with just the best French common rail turbo diesel, 2.0L straight 4 16V VG Turbo through a six speed manual and remapped to 185bhp and infinite torque it accelerated like this driver off a cliff. And sat 5 Real Adults comfortably for a 1000 mile trip plus their luggage and looked great doing it in black. All seats folded down, then up and even removed and it was a transit van. She was replaced by a Ford B-Max Titanium with its 1.0L straight 3 Turbo, called the Fox platform it's got an A4 footprint and is a wholly British piece of enginerding. So freaking cool and even the B-Max is gone Fox lives on in its combined 48V Starter/Hybrid version, I'll dig the stats up for the Ford Fiesta ST with it in.
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  44. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there really was an autostereogram (magic eye picture) in UCP that said "I can't believe you idiots bought this off us" I can make magic eyes, so if anybody has a good hi Res image of UCP I can make one. That's a good T&P t shirt idea
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  45. Although we did learn we needed to carry more ammo in the Falklands, we've been trying to get nato to switch to intermediate cartridges and bullpup assault rifles since, um, 1945. Sa80 actually started development in '76 I think? I think it was just dumb luck that we had one ready (for given values of ready) shortly after our Falklands adventure
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  46. ​ @Dingusdoofus  NLAW is not a tandem HEAT, it's an overfly top attack EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrator) Coped up tanks stand no chance because: 1) the heavy Tantalum EFP goes through even proper armour like tinfoil, mild steel bar armour may add will not exist. 2) Bar armour is designed to trick the stand off fuze of heat Warheads to fitting early. NLAW is magnatometer driven. 3) even if there's multiple layers of ERA between the tank and the NLAW, EFPs don't need a tandem charge as they rely purely on brute force. Dense tantalum slug going Mach 3 does not get deflected by ERA because ERA is pretty drained to disperse a high pressure liquid copper jet. It's like putting your finger over the end of the hose, you can turn deflect the water jet. The slug would need more of a baseball bat to deflect it
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  47. Sergeant Dipprasad Pun held off a Taliban attack, killing 30 of them. In all, he fired off 250 machine gun rounds (from the hip), 180 SA80 rounds, threw six phosphorous grenades and six normal grenades, and one claymore mine. I've no idea whether the claymore he threw at the enemy worked as intended. He did, however, choose that before he picked up his sa80. Which eventually jammed, at which point he engaged the enemy with the machine gun tripod Pretty sure he also used his bayonet at some point So it works as advertised these days https://www.businessinsider.com/gurkha-dipprasad-pun-took-out-30-taliban-2016-5
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  48.  @Taskandpurpose  It's the guys who were pissed at no ammo that you don't call back next year. They were probably looking forward to heroically shooting looters.
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  49. Have you seen the photos of the damage done to a Chinese hypersonic missile that flew through rain? Took quite a lot of damage and that's just being hit by hypersonic water droplets. Imagine if you threw up a cloud of steel particles to fly through!
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  50.  @samoldfield5220  In regards to the 2 day timetable, the reason this was reported as such in because Ukraine captures lots of enemy documentation with timetables. Lukachenko also noted it out on TV and the propaganda corps trotted out their victory speech on the calculated day only remembering they hadn't actually won when people started reporting on it. Then they removed it but it was already too late, archive had taken a copy They really did believe their own hype about Nazis and the public throwing off the oppressors when they drive into Kyiv unopposed! 🤣
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