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  1. Why aren't they supposed to financially compensate the full cost of whatever they steal? It's not some random dude, who breaks into your house and then nobody can find him. Isn't a class lawsuit supposed to be used in such situations?
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  2. This gun as well as very few post-WWII AT guns(there were less of them designed then during the war. Apparently recoilless rifles took the main part of the niche) showcases how their design requirements are different from normal artillery. These guns need to be as low as possible to have small target profile, need to have a very wide horizontal traverse instead of vertical elevation and ideally should have a ranging rifle(which this one lacks). The fun part is that soviets also had 125mm one, Sprut-B if I recall right. And that both it and this one can use barrel fired ATGMs from their respective tank counterparts(yes, there is a 100mm barrel launched ATGM designed for rifled gun of T-55).
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  3. Engine shielding troops from fronts, dismounts leave through ramp in the back. Already safer then BTR-80 and it's much older then that one.
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  4. Mi-12 lifts 44 tons. T-72 weights 42 tons. ... Oh. Oh no.
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  5. Ah yes, the classical elbonian armed forces question. The answer as always is yes. However it's more valuable as recovery or transport nowadays as those parts of it hadn't become obsolete(if it was maintained and has spare parts).
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  6. There's another StarCraft 2 cosplayer - DoW3.
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  7. Inbefore all the "it's T-72 that goes turretless, not T-14 jokes" 🤣 What do you mean by "you're late"? How dare they steal my spotlight?!
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  8. AT niche is big and layered. NLAW is a PTRS to Javelin's 6 pounder to TOW2/Shuhna's 17 pounder. They best work when all are available as options.
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  9. Since you usually cover the questions from engineering standpoint, the title and thumbnail of the video kind of puzzled me before I clicked😅
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  10. A good comparison on german side would be MG-151/15. And just like MG-151/20, after the war soviet made a lower velocity 23mm autocannon using 14,5*114mm case as a base. Thankfully for soviet tankers, germans never came up with AT rifle that used their 15mm round... sadly for soviet tankers, T-26, BT-5/7 and T-60 weren't immune to already exististing german AT rifles:(
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  11. I get some Tropico "competence" vibes... except Tropico is a f//cking satire:(
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  12.  @Mygg_Jeager  look at scheme of NLAW projectile and at result of detonation on targets, then repeat your statement. I feel like one of us is going insane...
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  13.  @pavegray  you don't need similar system, you just need NLAW. NATO uses common equipment standards for a reason. Just license it or better make transfer deal with brits to get them small amount of Javelins for big shipments of NLAWs. The only thing that might need to be added in is that I don't recall if NLAW has DP mode.
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  14. Now imagine for a second that military would have vehicles with electric drive in next 50 years or so.
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  15. Is there any info on amount of propellant charges used, velocity, armor penetration and effectiveness of AP round of 25 pounder? That thing was used as AT gun in North Africa on few occasions so here's historical interest. It's also the earliest modern gun above the punching weight of 2 pounder that is available to british before 6 pounder and especially 17 pounder are ready. So here's althistory interest, Churchill armed with 25 pounder(no, turret ring fits, proven by aussies).
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  16.  @ken0272  why is it called that on english then? It's as if someone would suddenly start calling Battle of Moscow as Siege of Moscow just because their language doesn't have a differentiation.
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  17. Vigilante and Sergeant York combined seem to have had a potential to make a good denial weapon for close range AA role. Not to mention allow troops on march to have their own land based CIWS decades earlier.
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  18. I'm pretty sure that soviet/russian nuclear submarines have proven competent enough to do the job of killing themselves on their own on numerous occasions. But if they want to dedicate a helicopter to "commissar" duty to prevent Red October book/movie from becoming a prophetic scenario, it's their right to do so 👍
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  19. Because it highlights parade vehicles and government priorities, duh 😅
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  20. I still wonder how would it had performed nowadays with VT fuzes, laser rangefinder, FCS and radar(think of it like a mix between Object 520 proposal and ZSU-37-2, which didn't enter production). And of course with powered gun training😅 Edit: I wonder if some "third party" could have purchased ZSU-57-2 and M51 Skysweeper in bulk and smash both systems together to make a more modern solution that would be an absolute menace for helicopters?
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  21. Note to novice sci-fi/space opera writers: Just grab this thing, mix it with Tu-160 and call it a fighter. Yes, a craft with 76mm autoloader in a turret, 36+ tons of missile/bomb load and crew of like a dozen people would be a fighter.
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  22.  @AlexanderTch  Она утонула, bro ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
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  23. Ah yes, the next generation russian fighter... What? What Su-57? The one produced once in two years for parade duty? Seriously?:D Let's face it, eventually Russia will give up on that vanity project it has no specialists to support and will just buy export version of chinese J-20A. Unless they'd want to drop the 5th gen capability entirely. That's two options. There's also a third in which Russia becomes democracy, fights corruption, builds economy and fights against Putin's rot in educational system to eventually in several decades time regain capability to produce and maintain such fighters themselves in serious manner. But that's just fantasy, just like if aliens arrived and did it all themselves for russians, lol;)
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  24. With 12,7 and either slaved to APS radar or with independent electro-optical sensors OR both, that thing should be the main defense against FPV drones for AFVs.
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  25. Wow, it's as if soviet and russian tanks with their low weight, low profile and other features were made for lowlands, steppes and floodplains with plentiful rivers, swamps and lakes ie their own homeland instead of "landing on american coast"™
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  26.  @cav1stlt922  aaaand?
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  27.  @maioralofknowledge2658  because it's sponsored by iraqi refugees being funneled into EU through Belarus and Poland as "revenge" for not accepting Turkey into EU?
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  28. Incorrect question since Bofors has their own 57mm gun and during WWII soviets had 37mm and 45mm Bofors copies. With 45mm being only prototype not chosen for production. If that was the right decision remains to be seen and was a hot topic(power vs weight and price) for years. Tbh I was leaning more towards 45mm one exactly because post war both Bofors and soviets developed bigger 57mm version ie real battlefield experience had likely proven that bigger round with more explosive filler and higher kinetic energy was better. 45mm definitely is better option for "fuze setter" solution and for being dual purpose as it can actually pose threat to even some medium tanks.
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  29. Incorrect question since Bofors has their own 57mm gun and during WWII soviets had 37mm and 45mm Bofors copies. With 45mm being only prototype not chosen for production. If that was the right decision remains to be seen and was a hot topic(power vs weight and price) for years. Tbh I was leaning more towards 45mm one exactly because post war both Bofors and soviets developed bigger 57mm version ie real battlefield experience had likely proven that bigger round with more explosive filler and higher kinetic energy was better. 45mm definitely is better option for "fuze setter" solution and for being dual purpose as it can actually pose threat to even some medium tanks.
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  30.  @WingcommanderLuna  armies? Maybe. Navies? Nope, those are quite widespread guns.
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