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That doesn't answer the big question. What do vampires thing about the taste and mouthfeel of the artificial blood? Is it palatable, or like the sludge at the bottom of a Navy coffee maker? Would go three towns over to pick up a bottle, or just go down the village at the bottom of the hill for a fre...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 12:49 pm Help I need a subduction pun.

What happens when two continents are attracted to each other, with one taking the lead?

That's clearly a case of subduction.

The 'Gibraltar Arc' was *inside* the Med. This pumice marked the very, very start of the Eastern Atlantic Margin's failure, incipient descent. Okay, it would take a million years or three to really get going, but... However, that, as they say, is another story... Advance planning is very important....

That was done quite a few years ago on the old board, as the place had gotten rather heated at times and non-members were visiting to pick up pieces they could then quote out-of-context, or in-context, on other boards to show how degenerate and troglodytic we were here.

As expected, given their actions.

Now, I'm unsure of actual UK procedures. Would the PM have announced awards like this, or would it have come from the Monarchy? Is there a civil list of awards given through #10 and the rest of the Government, or are all of these basically Royal appointments?

What the ever loving F&#K did they do to make the ship rotate in two dimensions during the launch? Forget to remove the stops in the middle or something? I've seen videos of a bunch of sideways launches because I like to see the idiots watching from the opposite shore get chased away by the wav...

Forgotten Weapons just released a video looking at the AK4, showing the differences compared to the standard G3 if anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/n8C5CzYQgqQ Best part of it was a commenter there recognized the serial number as the one he had decades ago in Swedish service. It's pinned as o...

Nicely told about the disaster recovery, albeit from a limited perspective. Our two main characters are seeing what's in front of them and how they are helping. Given the competent village, I would also expect that there is someone coordinating things behind the scenes. Sending runners in vehicles t...

The biggest difference is in the launch costs. If it takes $400 million to get a satellite to orbit, it better work the first time, every time, and it's worth building it for half a billion to make sure. If it costs $50 million to get to orbit, save some money, skip some of the redundancy, and spend...

"Having a fleet of mobile missiles standing air-borne alert on a Mach 3 CARRIER aircraft would have struck fear......" :shock: :shock: :shock: Forget the bomber. I want to see how big a carrier they were building to make this possible. Although I would like to see the kind of missile a F-...

Oops, indeed. If something moved the generator off it's mountings, or just moved the mountings, then they were very lucky indeed. The most unbelievable part of the story was the kitten wrangling. Extracting three kitties from their preferred spots and getting them into a carrier in less than half an...

Tarrantry on the old Navweaps board

Not a problem here on Android.

It's the Alaska class of armored vehicles. And a M1 is air droppable. Once. I don’t think the M10 is intended to be air dropped by parachute, even if theoretically capable of it. I think the plan is to have the paratroopers secure an airhead and then fly these things in to expand the perimeter. So ...

It's the Alaska class of armored vehicles.

And a M1 is air droppable. Once.

I know that isn't true. One of the primary tenets of Soviet tank design from WWII onwards was to reduce the size of the tank to make armoring it cheaper and lighter. Now, there are obviously costs in ergonomics and Soviet tank crewmen having to be under a certain size. It doesn't work out that way....

Nathan45 wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 3:54 pm Honestly a unmanned afv seems likely in the near future, if we can deal with jamming and ew. (Just make the armored hunter killer machines autonomous...)

Something like this:

But with a different payload?

Not enough. The 105mm gun is too big for the desired weight. The amount of armor is too much for the desired weight. The extra crew person probably only accounts for around 500 lbs at most, and an autoloader would weight at least that much. What they needed to do is scale the gun down to something ...

Make a s-tank but made of titanium. :D Actually this sort of the question I can in here to ask. How much weight could be saved if we dropped the turret and used an autoloader with only a 2-3 man crew? Which now that I think about it is basically an S-Tank. Not enough. The 105mm gun is too big for t...

The thing should have been down selected at the detail design point. 38 tons is not just a little bust on the weight limits. According to Page 4-2 (176) of FM 4-20.116 (FM 10-516) Reference Data for Airdrop Platform Loads , the limit for both the C-5 and the C-17 is 60,000 lbs on one load platform. ...