Swedish Fm/29 one of the most advanced armored cars for its day. Only 1 ever made
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It was very expensive for its time and cost in 1927 50.000 sek or 150 848,85 USD in american dollars today (adjusted for inflation)
What made it advanced aside from all the steel riveted onto it?
It had all wheel drive and also steering on all wheels. It had angeld armor witch was very inovative at the time. It also had a special gearbox with two steering wheels (one in each end of the vehicle) this combined with the gearbox meant that you did not have to reverse it and also allowed it to run at the same speed both backwards and forward. Funfact: the vehicle was so ugly that the swedish people nicknamed it the toad.
DAF YP-408
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The only post-war APC built and designed by the Netherlands. It was used by the Royal Netherlands Army in the armored infantry battalions for almost 30 years, alongside the AMX-VCI and the YPR-765, until everything got replaced by the YPR-765 in the late 80's
The design of the vehicle was based on the DAF YA-328, a cargo truck, and it kinda looks like a tiny, Cold War version of an MRAP
we made quite a few variants of it too
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The main armored infantry troop carrying version
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it was tight as fuck in there
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an ambulance variant
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a variant with a TOW launcher on top
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a mortar towing variant, all the mortar rounds could be stored in the back
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a fucking radar variant
and also platoon and company command vehicle variants and a cargo carrying variant
This thing never really saw combat except in Lebanon with the UNIFIL, though
I can't decide if the blocky front end on some of the variants (like the ambulance) is really cool or really stupid, but I definitely like it.
[QUOTE=notrabies;49515624]I can't decide if the blocky front end on some of the variants (like the ambulance) is really cool or really stupid, but I definitely like it.[/QUOTE]
Not sure about the slope angle, but what IS wierd imo is it's surprisingly low front end profile. I mean, it's usually pretty high and kinda resembles the shape of a boat nose to make a vehicle more floatable while swimming.
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[QUOTE=antianan;49516136]I mean, it's usually pretty high and kinda resembles the shape of a boat nose to make a vehicle more floatable while swimming.[/quote]
It's also to aid in getting up slopes. If your front end is too low then you'll end up just ramming the vehicle's front end into steep slopes before your wheels reach it.
So I was unaware this existed...
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T-34/76 from '42, but the turret is a bit odd, yes? It's certainly not riveted, since well, there are no rivets in it. It's very smooth and rounded for a welded turret, so that can't really be the case, can it..? Maybe the rounded shape is because it's a cast-turret, like we all know and love from the Sherman M4A1?
Nope. It's stamped. Stamped steel tank. Because why the fuck not? Apparently, Factory No. 100 where this thing was made just happened to have a [I]giant-ass fuckin' steel press[/I] lying around, so when they were told to make tanks, they just used that motherfucker to do the turret. Bam.
stamp out tanks
stamp out fascists
I love how the fascists never expected to be outmatched so horrendously by the Soviet peoples. Even though the Russians have at all times been mired in utter shitheads who fuck up their nation, we probably owe them our freedom today.
Are claymore mines with proximity detonator real yet or videogames keep doing them wrong?
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They're done like that in video games for the sake of gameplay. Hiding in a nearby bush with the detonator wouldn't really work for most video games you see claymores in.
BF4 claymores shoot out 3 wires and detonate when one of them is tripped, I think that's a pretty neat way of doing AP mines
[QUOTE=FloaterTWO;49524686]They're done like that in video games for the sake of gameplay. Hiding in a nearby bush with the detonator wouldn't really work for most video games you see claymores in.[/QUOTE]
are you telling me this is not how you handle claymore mines in real life?
[video=youtube;6vDtTFvG8zU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vDtTFvG8zU[/video]
[QUOTE=seba079;49524828]BF4 claymores shoot out 3 wires and detonate when one of them is tripped, I think that's a pretty neat way of doing AP mines[/QUOTE]
There is a real landmine that does that.
It's issued to special forces to stop tracking during escape and evasion. The wires are electrically charged and set off the landmine when the voltage changes. It's also designed to destroy itself after a few days.
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Looking it up, it's called the M86 Pursuit Deterrent Munition.
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Oh my god it's a block of cheese!
Is that a mine?
I will admit my confusion as to why it's cheese shaped.
its so you can put lots of them together in a wheel shape and make a super cheesemine
[QUOTE=download;49528371]I will admit my confusion as to why it's cheese shaped.[/QUOTE]
I'm more puzzled by the four dildos flying out from it.
Do your dildos really look like that
[QUOTE=download;49528371]I will admit my confusion as to why it's cheese shaped.[/QUOTE]
Im guessing its for ease of storage and transport. You could make "cakes" of them and store those cakes in a tube, stacked on top of each other. that kind of wedge is a pretty efficient packing shape.
That just looks silly. I do like AKs in all flat dark tan desert brown earth or forest green woodland olive drab, but that reddish brown looks like it's just trying to draw back to the aesthetics of the actual-wood AKs, and failing at that.
personally i think it's a great shade of macchiato
[QUOTE=Riller;49531538]That just looks silly. I do like AKs in all flat dark tan desert brown earth or forest green woodland olive drab, but that reddish brown looks like it's just trying to draw back to the aesthetics of the actual-wood AKs, and failing at that.[/QUOTE]
They're supposed to be fakelite orange-ish
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MP5/10 in the wild
[QUOTE=Riller;49531538]That just looks silly. I do like AKs in all flat dark tan desert brown earth or forest green woodland olive drab, but that reddish brown looks like it's just trying to draw back to the aesthetics of the actual-wood AKs, and failing at that.[/QUOTE]
Well I want one now.
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