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12/01/08
This ia already used on the Stryker. It works by destroying the projectile a safe distance from the vehicle so that it's energy can not be concentrated enough to penetrate.
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Obama has his work cut out for him. That's for damn sure.
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What is the deal with the Russian officer hats? The bigger they are the higher the rank? Or is it like cars in this country, merely an extension?
12/01/08
It's a brilliant move actually, if you're selling weapons to both sides.
And as for the hats: you can make them as high as you want, but if they don't have a spike on top or horns on the sides, they'll never be maximum cool.
12/01/08
That's exactly what I was thinking. Sell your old tanks to your opponent and then blow them up real good.
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I think were on the M1 A3 anyway and from my experience tanks, usually traveling in packs of 5, do just sit and get fired at. Nor do all the support crew, infantry, and various other grand war machines and trained fighters that are accompanying them.
Some of the Depleted Uranium rounds we used in Africa could punch a hole through any type of armor we encountered but not the M1. They should be afraid, very afraid.
One more thing check out a Fléchette Round. Now that's fun for the whole family
12/02/08
Best story I ever heard about the M1 was that in either Desert Shield or Desert Storm one of our Abrams got disabled, and when the crew called in to request field repairs, they were told that it would take too long and that they should scuttle the tank. That's supposed to be accomplished by blowing the ammo bay, but when they did that, they discovered that the Abrams ammo bay is designed to blow outwards (so as to protect all the squishy meaty bits inside should something go _WRONG_). A little while later, a repair crew showed up and had the thing running again in no time.
The easiest way to take out an Abrams is probably to "turtle" it, and even that won't really destroy it.
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Alot less than Randy Johnson.
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so, how fast can it fly after it has been laden?
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then I woulda predicted that Raytheon would have no problem.
11/21/08
Wasn't there another system that is already deployed - a kind of "active armor" that essentially just explodes outwards before the RPG hits? That seems like it would work more reliably in all situations. Maybe it's not as effective though. That test sure made this thing look effective!
11/21/08
I think you are thinking of reactive armor that tanks use. IIRC, it doesn't detect the inbound round, but reacts when the round imapacts it.
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I wonder, however, if, when it's deployed, it will still be called the "Future Combat System"?
Surely "Present Combat System" would be more appropriate at that point, but it doesn't sound as good.
Possibly they will need to give it a new name, like BANGWHAMMER or something, then the can figure out words to make that into an acronym.
I guess that's what the DoDs highly trained reverse acronym department (R.A.D) is paid to figure out.
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Phase three goes after his family.
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Sorry, it's reflexive at this point. Thank goodness I don't have to keep that up for another four years...
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