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>>34636445
nothing can take out a maus my grandpa was a crewman on one in 1944 and it got hit by a hijacked v2 rocket and came out unscathed

>>34636445
Yeah probably. Sabots ain't no joke son.

Unrelated though, I do want to see what a modernized or futurisitic version of an American "maus/ratte" super heavy tank would look like if our armored generals were given infinite monies.

>>34636223
Bump

There is literally no good reason not to practice with the shit you intend to use.

>>34636223
Sometimes guns won't feed properly or won't feed with certain ammo. You might as well shoot a couple magazines and find out, instead of just blindly trusting it'll work.

>>34636117
Because T-72 had an armour that made it frontaly immune to 120mm APDS and HESH. T-64/72 seriess were imune to any Nato ammo until Abrams came with Silver Bullet APFSDS.

T-62 in the other hand well 115mm ammo is very similer to 120mm ammo. It was the first tank used APFSDS and 115 was a great cannon but T-62 was a shitty tank.

Chieftain had a good gun and very good FCS but the engine was weak and unreliable (blue smokes) It also used horstmann suspension. For looks though Chief is the sexiest

>>34636117
because the iranians were using L15 standard. in combination with the wrong bag charges.

During the battle of the bridges in kuwait some chieftains took out t72s frontally with L15A4 without loss.

The leyland engine became reliable just around mk5.

M60 was

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>>34636117

The engine was at first pretty unreliable. But once they had upgraded them over a few years they got a lot better. Just that initial period was so bad that the reputation stuck, similar to how the Crusader MkIII fixing the reliability problems isn't well known since the MkI was so bad for it.

It was a great tank overall for its intended purpose though. Great gun, great FCS, great protection, had a few fancy innovations like the reclined driver and muzzle reference system, regenerative steering. Very upgradable too. They just were never particularly the fastest around, but as a defensive tank, it was never expected to be rolling around at 72kph anyway.

Iran-Iraq War was a poor example given >Arab tactics. Driving into an open area at medium/close range mostly side on against T-72's, yeah no wonder they suffered.

Do note though, in the Gulf War in 1991, Chieftains shrekt T-72s in return at the Battle of the Bridges, when used as Chieftains were intended to be used.

It's probably one of my favorite tanks, it's just this really interesting anomoly on the bridge between 2nd to 3rd gen tanks. Like a 2nd gen tank trying its very hardest to LOOK like a 3rd gen.

And yes, it's also sexy as FUCK.

>>34636091
i just solved the budget crisis

youre welcome everyone

Yeah and camouflage is obsolete anyway, we should allow painting of corporate logos and slogans on uniforms and vehicles.

espirit de corps

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>>34636068
I like the new M50.

GP5 My dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzhyCm_S-Pw&list=FLyYwCvjsM0_wtEhA3JcFkeQ&index=1

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FTW, and its user friendly

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>enlisted lifers
Has there ever been a non-SOF enlisted lifer that could be considered successful?

Every retired NCO I have ever met was a fuckup.

>>34635552
>$1,000
nigger my SRB's are $100,000 cash for 4 years and I am still not re-enlisting

>>34635592
yes I have met at couple, but usually after "retirement" they go back into government work on the civilian side.

Not specifically. Certain areas have a bit of mystique around them, like if someone tells you they were in Fallujah in 2004 or Sangin during the surge, you sort of assume Wow, he must have been in the shit.

>>34635590
Alright, but I assume there must be some kind of measurment, even if it's inofficial.
On a resume you'd probably write so and so many years of military experience and in which areas. But for special ops units there would probably be something like so and so many hours of combat, count of accomplished missions or total mission hours? I just want a grasp on how a military guy would describe it.

>>34635638
There is no objective measurement of combat experience. You would just have to list off ops you were in and people would infer your experience from what they know about those ops.

>>34635292
shoot it anyways breh fuk the rso

>>34635293
yo listen ta this nigga breh fuk rules

Op if you wanna be sure, pull a round from the case and chop it with a hacksaw, bring in said round to RSO

>>34635101
Dont store guns in foam cases.

>>34635120
What why

>optics towards the hinges

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>>34635010
As long as they don't move to Europe or the US, I could give a fuck less. Self-removing kebab is a feature, not a bug. And the moderate and radicals are all members of the same dysfunctional tribe. We could glass them and lose nothing. Absolutely nothing.

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>>34635025

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/21/isis-islamic-state-suicide-brigade-interpol-list

Rudaw Arabic: "Nouri Al-Maliki: 20.000 soldiers of the (Iraqi) Army and the (Federal) police forces have been sacrificed during the operations of the Mosul liberation."

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>>34634979

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Proceed.

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>>34634985
Ivan discovers his tankfu.

I just got the glock brand glock e-tool since it was fairly cheap and in stock. Seems pretty neat, haven't used it yet.

>>34634945
How is that handle effective? I can't chop wood easily with that

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>>34634945
Wood handles are better, or at least feel better.

Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQVSW9KlIhc

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>>34634795
This door is square.

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>>34634795
>germany's problem solvers

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>>34634800
This is a battleship door.

Being effective past 200 yards and having more suitable AP properties.

>>34634731
>Being effective past 200 yards
doesn't 556 ballistics get molested hard by the lack of barrel length and lose lots of it's velocity and effective range?
check a ballistics calculator

>>34634731
And AP pistol ammo exists.
MAC shows an lv3 plate getting pierced by a 9mm AP round

>>34634673
>Why did the US opt for the trap-door design instead of a bolt-action?

Because it was cheaper and used existing stocks of weapons. Remember that for most of US history the standing army was kind of an afterthought until war broke out.

>>34634673
If we are talking about the gun with the diagonal firing pin I heard that congress "didn't trust the look of the new gun" so they put a "lock" on the side of the gun to make it look like a musket.

>>34634673
It was cheaper to retrofit the bazillions of muskets left over from the Great White Trash Uprising Of 1861 that to design and buy a new rifle in an era where the greatest military threat were the goddam Indians.

>>34634714
>Remember that for most of US history the standing army was kind of an afterthought until war broke out.
Also this.