the sherman in the particular photo I posted was used as target practice for Dutch tank crews post war
Maybe it's just the audio recording, but it sounds like it has a deeper, heavier thud than my ARs I've fired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zApjAY5Hbog
what's with communists naming their weapons or vehicles someting like "TYPE 666" or "OBJECT 8008"
It's not the different from calling a rifle an M16.
It just fucks me up because I keep thinking they're names of entities the code of a video game haha
it's not communists its just how things are named in East Asia, most of the Japanese tanks are also translated as Type X, in accordance to the year of the current era.
Typically the "object xxxx" thing is Russian prototype nomenclature. The actual fielded end products are known by different classifications.
Contrary to US military terminology, where prototypes are simply given an X letter prefix (ala, XM1, XM16, XM8) and the final product is the same but loses the X.
You've also got military designations vs. manufacturer/design bureau designation. The M16A1 for example was known in Colt's product catalogue as the Model 603. The XM177 is the Model 610, etc. I'm sure some of the Soviet 'object' designations were used similarly.
The Soviets tended to name things after the manufacturer that produced them, which i guess it still a thing. While the United States would name a fighter jet F-XX, the soviets named them after the manufacturer, i.e. Mikoyan-Gurevich being MiG-3, MiG-21, MiG-29 etc, and Suhkoi Su-27, Su-35, etc. Avtomat Kalashnikova and so on. Most other nations simply have a prefix letter or word and then a number, and the Type designation that many east asian countries use is literally identical in form to the US Model(M1, M16 M240, etc) designation or the British Land Service designation(L85, L96, etc).
For aircraft and firearms, that is the case. The 'object' classifications only really tend to be applied to armor. A lot of Soviet/Russian tanks are made by UralVagonZavod, or UVZ, but you never see the manufacturer's label applied to those. It's just T-xx.
In that sense, the Soviet/Russian system makes even less sense than the US equivalent. At least the US system is fairly standardized nonsense than three or four different types of nonsense.
I like to think in an alternate timeline, the 1911 didn't get adopted by the US military and instead went on to have the Hi-Power's alternative name, the Browning Automatic Pistol.
Yup I love me a good ol' BAP .45 lmao
.40 S&W Hi-Power is basically just an improved 1911.
Shame we got rid of ours fucking fucking glocks of all things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-N7trI0sw
I don't understand what this design does better than any currently existing ones.
Probably higher stability and higher cruise speed (which in turn means longer range)
Yeah, the design has much higher cruise speeds. Looks expensive though. The design looks a bit overly complicated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f72WZwvMTj4
Conventional helicopters can't really go faster than 250 mph due to the reasons shown in this video.
The Defiant's design with two symmetric counter-rotating rotors plus a push rotor makes it more stable at high speeds
https://youtu.be/EvwDjmMOnyw
Alternative Title: Crazy man from Texas build anti-tank gun for hunting pigs.
Reminds me of the video where a guy using a fucking minigun to mow down boars.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2mDePuWwAIPmGl.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2m8s_nWoAAVYuL.jpg:large
Newest version of the M8 Light Tank being submitted to the US Army. Notable addtions are the Trophy APS, Barracuda camo, and front facing driver camera.
that's a wee tank
It was originally designed to be airdropped from a C-130 back when they were trying to replace the Sheridan, though the current contract just requires that 2 of them can fit in a C-17.
I was thinking a few months back "Gee, with all those drones about, infantry will need a miniature CIWS to deal with them soon". A minigun hooked up to a small radar is what I expected.
Mechanically the Hi-power in its entirety is an improved 1911. Essentially Browning was making a knockoff of his own gun, a pistol that accomplishes all the functions of a 1911, but incorporates none of the patents from the 1911 design.
A .40 Hi-Power is an affront to the pistol's design. The thing will just fall apart so much faster than today's plastic fantastics.
So this was rather unexpected
https://cdn.athlonoutdoors.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/04/BT.jpeg
The US Army has officially adopted a new SMG in 9mm para. the Bruger and Thomet APC9K. It's quite surprising not only that we actually did this in 2019, but also that we went with BT of all people.
Should never have dumped the Mac 10
Love that smg, now I'm thinkin' about making it a MAC tonight.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/527/d6a9486f-8eb8-4cd5-ad1f-f5752e0d8581/IMG_20190318_170253.jpg
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