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About the merkava... it has a autoloader, sort of. Behold:
It's a revolver, with 10 120mm chambers. You still need a guy to refill it, but it allows rapid fire on the Mk IV merkava and V tanks.
David Steel / LazerPig / Ricewynd / Malquistion - Pathological Liar, Reddit Historian, Femboy Thirster, and Vore Connoisseur
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It's a revolver, with 10 120mm chambers. You still need a guy to refill it, but it allows rapid fire on the Mk IV merkava and V tanks.
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I agree with this, a lot of people assume he's a borderline communist from his association with leftpol types, however, one of the things I noticed when going through some of his reddit comments over the last week was how much he reminds me of Sargon, he wants to sound smart and be respected, however, unlike Sargon, LP is purely a bandwagoner. He hopped from being more anti-sjw with things like the RPC (basically "non-sjw" SCP) and being okay with hearing racial slurs to then the Ukraine crisis where he's with NAFO despite not really seeming to share their politics much beyond the Ukraine itself.
Fatniggo1488
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I haven't thought about it but the gun pod would really make more sense for a CAS aircraft anyway.
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I do get bandwagon vibes from him, but I feel he's always been a bit on the left. He's a SNP simp and whines about brexit despite having been on welfare a lot of his life FROM the British government, and thinks he's entitled to it.
But in the end, he's a guy with numerous nervous breakdowns on his record that somehow found a boom mic with his T-34 video (will pull up my rant from the private thread soon on the welds and steel, which I might just do now)
His T-34 video was absolute shit that he made while drunk that fooled many people, despite the T-34 being the hammer that blew through the eastern front. I'll focus on the welding and metallurgy, first the metal.
He claimed that penetration tests and tables are shit that the soviets just took a rusty plate out and shot. First rust doesn't work like that. It's gonna only be on the surface and can be cleaned easily, either by a acid like vinegar, or just good old grinding. 2, what matters is the steel composition. Steel is a alloy. Armor steel is gonna have loads of good shit in it, like tungsten and mobendium. That's what they'll shoot at for a penetration test. Just because they're Russian doesn't mean they can't rig up a test plate you absolute faggot.
2, the welds. There's actually a archived reddit post we have that does a pretty good breakdown of the welds. But needless to say, while very early ones may have popped, not later ones. They were using the process SAW
Basically this is done by a machine, with a operator guiding it, making sure it doesnt fuck up. It dumps Flux pellets which help cool it, and that extremely thick wire feed penetrates deep and glops metal like no tomorrow. Reports during Korea reported cracking on T-34's, but not catastrophic failures. Why? The process is inherently stronger than the base metal. The metal will shear apart before the weld. I will give credit, this process was EXTREMELY new. The T-34's guenipigs, yet they held up, and because of the speed of the machines they went extremely fast.
Tl;Dr, LP knows nothing about cannons, metal, or welding. I'm certified in 2 welding processes, familiar with all the main types, and took a metallurgy course with a lot of book work. Bite me
If that reddit thread archive could be linked, much appreciated.
Fatniggo1488
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Honestly, I think the biggest tard statement I saw him make was about the smooth-bore cannons not being as accurate. The UK is one of the few countries that still uses rifled tank barrels mainly because what happens with rifled barrels is that the rifling wears out, and then their accuracy drops significantly. The other two tanks he praises constantly are the Leopard 2 and Abrams, and both of those use smooth-bore cannons.
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There is a accuracy difference, BUT you lose penetration, which is a significant drop. It's why the russians haven't looked back since the T-62, and why only artillery uses it anymore.
DNNS-2
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There's an accuracy difference for full bore spin stabilized projectiles. However, most relevant ammo types like HEAT-FS and APFSDS, it being fin stabilized, rifling is negated anyways. HEAT-FS needs the fins because it were to spin it would lose a lot of penetration (see WW2 era shaped charge rounds). So that's why the Brits use HESH with their rifling.
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Eh... fin rounds need to be calibrated for the gun. That's why the British gun didn't just rip regular 120mm projectiles out and put them in, but you're right about HESH. Its just a decent general purpose round that needs rifling to work. Its why 105mm guns still have it.
Fatniggo1488
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Idk, I think HESH is too dated to be practical. Even primitive spaced armor makes it pretty much useless. From what I've seen, even the British only really keep it around because it's still one of the best rounds for dealing with things like concrete bunkers, but that's not something you see that often on a modern battlefield.
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It's good anti structure and just blowing shit up, but you're right about armor, Sabot is where its at. LP like a lot of brits however, act like it's the second coming of Christ rather than just a good demolition round.
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"bat'ko the manarchist"
ah yes, the frog king of proto-breadtube. he's now relegated to bitching and posting coomer art on twitter, where he belongs.
it's so funny to see anyone leftypol-adjacent, especially an anarchist, brag about being involved in that shit, considering that shithole was decimated by retarded purity spiralling and weird infighting over catgirls only a few years in, leading to most of those types disowning leftypol and moving on to bunkerchan. it's even funnier to see these people go from the gayest leftist politics to sucking the western MIC's cock and becoming bigger warhawks than your average red state representative.
i mean, the vibe was sort of there at the time, but a lot more subtle, like the leftypol anarchists supporting rojava, the US proxy faction in syria and all, but now they straight up yell at you, calling you an UNGRATEFUL UNPATRIOTIC SUMBITCH and to respect the LGBT TROOPS PROTECTIN YER FREEDUM
i guess the trotskyist to neocon pipeline is real after all.
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IDGAF about the T-14 Armata
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you likely didnt miss out on much. 100 dollars says that this video is just him reading a wikipedia page about posadism because it's le heccin le funny le nuke le alien communism le meme ideology
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Most likely. It's just propaganda, whitewashed of every massacre and gulag to make communism look so heckin wholesome. And he wants to teach history with that background. While also being a mega weeb. Buddy, say what you will about Japan, they don't like commies or China, as seen by their laughable communist party and recent alliance with SOUTH KOREA, of all people. He's literally the basket weaver meme, with the guy with the AK telling him to dig more coal
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Animarchy claim that he is an anco commie (Lol) but he still simps all the time for USSR and Lenin.
He is one of those who say "It was Stalin who ruined USSR" while he ignore the crimes of Lenin.
He is one of those who say "It was Stalin who ruined USSR" while he ignore the crimes of Lenin.
Falcos_Commisar
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I'd also highly recommend a visit to the USS Intrepid and the USS Lexington. The Intrepid has a well done presentation in its hanger deck regarding a Japanese kamikaze attack.
The Lexington is also great.
Agreed, the anime waifu vtubers who make light of events where THOUSANDS of people (mostly men) were killed in single battles or even in a few minutes of even seconds is disgusting.
The 20mm or the newer 25mm is enough gun for everything a CAS mission would use a gun for in 2023.
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I just realized the T-14 is the newest edition of the "Janes Hypothesis Virus", and Lazerpig tried to jump the gun trying to counter that and got laughed out of any credibility. Context is needed, so I apologize:
So when the T-14 rolls out and is announced, with all these new technological achievements, or so the Russians, always trust worthy on their military capabilities, would make us believe, it happened again. Panic, speculation, new projects roll out. Suddenly Russia, once again, has the "Killer Tank."
Now if we were living in the Cold War, intelligence agencies, professional military experts, and even tank designers would give out their opinions and assessments, before we either captured one that was fighting in a third world dump, drag it back home, run it through a proving ground, and determine its flaws, its advantages, and eventually determine it wasn't a superweapon. Unfortunately we live in the internet age, so experts and actual professionals are drowned out by mewling retards and pop historians.
So where does Lazerpig fit into all this? He's trying to counter the same type of narrative that the Janes Virus spread in the 1980s and such. He and the rest of the NAFaggOts are rushing to instantly throw the T-14 as "Overpriced trash that isn't a superweapon" like all the other Soviet hardware. Which is fine, if there wasn't one tiny problem.
We don't know shit about the Armata. We barely know how it fights, capabilities, deployment history, testing, ANYTHING. He's reaching the "Oh it turns out it's shit" phase before we have any idea about it. He's looking at the modern version of the Jane's silhouette and due to his political beliefs is automatically saying "No threat". At best, he's just being a stupid retard, which he is, at worst, he and his unfunny Shiba pals are disregarding a serious threat to an already overstretched Ukrainian military. Doubtful, but entirely possible. Even the most skeptical and knowledgeable analyst wouldn't have instantly thrown a T-72 or T-90 in the bin and not cared if he had no basis other than photos and videos, so I'm calling further bullshit on his "Intelligence Agency" employment. No right minded person in that field would ever be as callous and dismissive of an enemy weapon, especially one we still can only hypothesize about for the most part.
For those unaware, during the Cold War, the Janes company would publish these MASSIVE books that catalogued every type of ship, plane, weapons, radar system, etc. that was being fielded by militaries. Except for the Soviet Union, of course, because they had no one in the Warsaw Pact, and would actually keep their shit secret.
So, whenever a new piece of hardware was released, Janes would basically have a black silhouette and some possibilities about it, including a possible name or designation, for example, the early guesses about the MiG-29, the Akula submarine, even the KA-52. Shortly after something like this happened, the media or milfanatics would freak the fuck out about it, overestimate its abilities, and make projects to counter the Soviets new superweapons. Then, as we would learn later, most of these "superweapons" were not good at all.
For this conversation, the T-72 was initially determined to be a new type of tank to replace the T-55 and be the poster child of the coming attack on West Germany. Then we fought them in the Gulf War.
And they were shit.
As it turned out, the real secret project was the more advanced, never exported tank called the T-64, which was also hypothesized about. It was a more tech advanced MBT, but the T-64 had more tech and design problems than an Engineering for Dummies book. It was also more expensive, the T-72 becoming the standard not because it was better, but it was cheaper and easier to produce. The T-80 would also be produced from the T-64, and was also never exported, but few in the west knew of its existence, much like the T-64.
So, whenever a new piece of hardware was released, Janes would basically have a black silhouette and some possibilities about it, including a possible name or designation, for example, the early guesses about the MiG-29, the Akula submarine, even the KA-52. Shortly after something like this happened, the media or milfanatics would freak the fuck out about it, overestimate its abilities, and make projects to counter the Soviets new superweapons. Then, as we would learn later, most of these "superweapons" were not good at all.
For this conversation, the T-72 was initially determined to be a new type of tank to replace the T-55 and be the poster child of the coming attack on West Germany. Then we fought them in the Gulf War.
And they were shit.
As it turned out, the real secret project was the more advanced, never exported tank called the T-64, which was also hypothesized about. It was a more tech advanced MBT, but the T-64 had more tech and design problems than an Engineering for Dummies book. It was also more expensive, the T-72 becoming the standard not because it was better, but it was cheaper and easier to produce. The T-80 would also be produced from the T-64, and was also never exported, but few in the west knew of its existence, much like the T-64.
So when the T-14 rolls out and is announced, with all these new technological achievements, or so the Russians, always trust worthy on their military capabilities, would make us believe, it happened again. Panic, speculation, new projects roll out. Suddenly Russia, once again, has the "Killer Tank."
Now if we were living in the Cold War, intelligence agencies, professional military experts, and even tank designers would give out their opinions and assessments, before we either captured one that was fighting in a third world dump, drag it back home, run it through a proving ground, and determine its flaws, its advantages, and eventually determine it wasn't a superweapon. Unfortunately we live in the internet age, so experts and actual professionals are drowned out by mewling retards and pop historians.
So where does Lazerpig fit into all this? He's trying to counter the same type of narrative that the Janes Virus spread in the 1980s and such. He and the rest of the NAFaggOts are rushing to instantly throw the T-14 as "Overpriced trash that isn't a superweapon" like all the other Soviet hardware. Which is fine, if there wasn't one tiny problem.
We don't know shit about the Armata. We barely know how it fights, capabilities, deployment history, testing, ANYTHING. He's reaching the "Oh it turns out it's shit" phase before we have any idea about it. He's looking at the modern version of the Jane's silhouette and due to his political beliefs is automatically saying "No threat". At best, he's just being a stupid retard, which he is, at worst, he and his unfunny Shiba pals are disregarding a serious threat to an already overstretched Ukrainian military. Doubtful, but entirely possible. Even the most skeptical and knowledgeable analyst wouldn't have instantly thrown a T-72 or T-90 in the bin and not cared if he had no basis other than photos and videos, so I'm calling further bullshit on his "Intelligence Agency" employment. No right minded person in that field would ever be as callous and dismissive of an enemy weapon, especially one we still can only hypothesize about for the most part.
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Mostly but not completely. Most recent variant of the AC 130 has a 30mm bushmaster for AP punch and general HE, it also helps its fire rate is 200 rpm
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I just realized LP is the milfag equivalent of Bert Kreischer
>fat
>stories that are mostly bullshit
>unfunny save for a chuckle here and there
>always drunk while saying it's not a problem
>claim to fame is something regarding Russia
>has a massive ego the size of the sun
>fat
>stories that are mostly bullshit
>unfunny save for a chuckle here and there
>always drunk while saying it's not a problem
>claim to fame is something regarding Russia
>has a massive ego the size of the sun