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Ok, I'm going to make the dreaded question.
Could normal size mechas (like, 1.5 storey tall) be actually viable in warfare?
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>>4454
>>4452
Kalashnikov Concern demo'd a mecha walker in 2018 called Игорёк. It's for civilian use, with a multi-person cockpit, with manipulators resembling that of a Deep-Sea submersible and leg structure reminiscent of the ED-209 or Star Wars AT-ST.

>A Purely Practical Look at Mechs and Mech Combat
>Jason Wolfe

“Pistol calibres, and rifle calibres, why would a soldier need an intermediary calibre? The future of combat is longer ranged rifles with bigger bullets!” - Probably some MIC fudd in the 50s

Mechas are needed, badly. Infantry equipment is getting constantly heavier and knees get exploded. An arms race is occuring between ballistic armor and tungsten penetrator unicorn ammo. Theres even plates now that can defeat .50 BMG! What this all means for infantry is that their gear will get much heavier in the future until a threshold is passed where it gets too heavy so ballistic armor is dropped completely besides maybe flak vests. This already occured once in history. When black powder was first introduced, armor smiths were ablo to cope by making their plates thicker, or inventing angled armor (Kastenbrust, look it up), but soon enough ballistic tech would catch up resulting in an arms race just like we see now, arm and leg armor was dropped from the equipment because the theoretical weight of such armor that could stop a musketball anywhere on the body was laughable, and soon enough even breastplates and helmets were dropped because of infeasibility to add any more weight to a soldier.

Same process as now. But now mechas are in our reach. An intermediary. Instead of only having naked infantry and armored vehicles, a new unit type could emerge, having mobility close to infantry (especially useful in an urban environment) while at the same time surviving small arms that infantry can carry. Closing the gap so to speak.

>>5255
Mecha is retarded. That's why they don't exist.

>>5255
I agree with this notion, although it is a possibility that soldiers' equipment only comes to weigh less and less. You bring up the example of black powder, but now we have developed assault rifles that achieve the abilities of a power musket tenfold.
>Same process as now. But now mechas are in our reach. An intermediary. Instead of only having naked infantry and armored vehicles, a new unit type could emerge, having mobility close to infantry (especially useful in an urban environment) while at the same time surviving small arms that infantry can carry. Closing the gap so to speak.
I would like to see these tools to be developed for more capabilities then pewpew, for instances the development of entrenchments or transportation across shit terrain.
>>5256
Locheed Martin has devoured your soul I take it.



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Picsrel (top to bottom):

>UAVs

>reconnaissance drones (these are quadcopter drones used for aerial filming that were disguised as toys)
>unmanned submarines that operate autonomously and navigate using GPS
>"ayyash" missiles (made from metal pipes leftover after the zionists got kicked out of Gaza, some warheads lifted from a WWI-era sunken British naval ship and a fuel engine w/ pumps that has a range of over 200km and can hit anywhere in Israel)

Is this the final intifada? Are they capble of ever standing a chance against Israel?
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>>4047
>You fail to understand what foil does to spoof low-power RADARs. It not only creates a RADAR profile, but distorts it, so that you can't actually get a good idea of the target's actual location or proximity, thus the Tamir missile seeker may 'think' that its on top of the target and detonate, when in fact it is ahead or behind the rocket, since the target is so imprecise.
False for two reasons. Tinfoil doesn't distort radar that much and the Tamir uses a laser fuse together with the radar seeker at shortest range.

>Now again I'm just postulating this based on what I know about RADAR and chaff, so I could be wrong, but I wasn't the person that suggested foil as a method to begin with, I was only repeating a claim by a Raytheon engineer I heard of and thought interesting.

These rumors are lies in 99% of time and just cite authority to look more credible.

So in review, Hamas drones were an absolute failure once the invasion kicked off.

>>3825
Very well. The weapon market is at an all time right and there is now a popular demand from both side for more public spending. Every single weapon manufacturer get filthy rich from the taxpayer's money. This war is a total American victory.

>But all the people who die?

Leave that detail to the unwashed masses. Come on do you think the war on terror was about fighting terror? It's over, we need something new.


>>3549
Is there any Hamas left alive? If the combined forced of Egypt Syria and Jordan lose to Israel then these guerillas stand no chance.



 

Since tank warfare is a hot topic right now I'll drop some good tank vids.

First vid is a long one covering American tanker school.
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>>5161
I stay away from kiwi-farms because it's like /pol/ but with quadrupled autism. That being said, please link me that good shit

>I don't think there has ever been a one man tank with the rest of the crew being remote

It's been tried, hell recently Russia jury-rigged a T-55 with full remote control, so it drives, aims and fires while remote controlled.
>what do you mean by inability to mount heavy weaponry
There's a reason why the Uran series don't mount 125mm guns. You need very heavy calibers and heavy caliber weapons need a chassis that has a good amount of weight. The T-72's 45+ tons is already pushing the limit. It's gun is so powerful that firing the gun rocks the whole tank with recoil. Building an unmanned vehicle in that weight range is arguable in terms of viability and design, although I suppose the argument for it could be made. .

>>5162
That T55 was fully automated though. What I propose is leave the driver in so that he can drive back if the signal to the remote control breaks.

Despite the lessons of Ukraine demonstrating how wheeled "tanks" are a terrible idea, the Italians have ordered more Centauro IIs.
https://topwar.ru/245231-ukrainskij-opyt-tak-i-ne-nauchil-italjanskaja-armija-zakazala-novuju-partiju-kolesnyh-tankov-centauro-ii.html

Interestingly enough the problem has been around for a while, and its the reason the USSR never adopted such wheeled AFVs mounting heavier guns. Among the issues of it being inevitably too lightly armored (due to wheels having much higher ground-pressure, requiring lessened weight) there's also the issue of stability, and while vehicles like the Rooikat dealt with it by having very wide bodies with low centers of gravity, many such glorified gun-trucks are long, tall and unstable, which is why I literally laughed out loud when Taiwan unveiled its Cloud Leopard II IFV. My reasoning is based on the Stryker 105mm M1128 mobile gun system. This Centauro inspired modification was a failure (like the Stryker in general) due to how it couldn't fire on the move, and even standing still had trouble firing from the side, since the gun recoil shook the vehicle like crazy, which you can see in old promo videos for the Stryker (vid1 rel). That's of course forgetting that it has no stabilizers (which would add more weight BTW).

>inb4 the BMP-3

Besides it being tracked, it's an actual personnel carrier and isn't just a light anti-tank SPG like the Centauro II is. And the Sprut-SD is meant as a light tank for desant and marine operations (hence it being amphibious) and not as a dedicated tank destroyer of the overall army, which is why we haven't seen it in use in Ukraine.

>inb4 "le Ratel"

>During Operation Protea and Operation Askari, Ratel-90s were to face Angolan T-34-85, PT-76, and T-54/55 tanks, with mixed results.
>In the wake of Operation Askari, South African field commanders began complaining that Ratel-90s were being expected to fulfill the role of light tanks rather than serving in their intended role of infantry support.
The Ratel had a hard time dealing with old medium/light tanks and only the nature of combat in Africa meant it had any viability.

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Apparently the manual for the T-90M and T-80BVM have been leaked and translated (files rel). RedEffect made a video on it. As RedEffect stated, these manuals lacks critical information that is actually secret such as penetration values. However reading through the excerpts and data I have the suspicion that these are somewhat outdated manuals from about a year ago, because I know for a fact that the T-80BVM's reverse speed was increased by about 25% (so somewhere in the ball-park of 15-18km/h, with a future upgrade being planned to raise reverse speed to 25km/h) and that they have similar thermal sights to the T-90M, evidenced by the footage we've seen and that I've posted ITT. Further proof is the inclusion of instructions for the GTD-1000 as well as the GTD-1250, which means that this includes instructions for the T-80BV and not just the BVM.
The T-90M's reverse speed is also higher than is stated, but not by much. Also the limit for a 125mm HE-Frag shell is 12000 meters, not 10000, and Russian gun-launched missiles have exceeded the 5000 meter guidance limit several times during the war, so I'm reckoning that the manual is intentionally downplaying or averaging the actual capabilities by a small margin, less to "trick the enemy" and more as a way to make sure the crew doesn't over-estimate their tank's capabilities and put it in unnecessary situations that push the tank's limits.

BTVT despite being Ukrainian favoring and a cynic, does make some good posts
https://andrei-bt.livejournal.com/2251551.html?utm_source=3userpost
His telegram is full of anti-Russian stuff though, most of it being armchair opinionshit. I won't say that their criticisms are entirely wrong, but some of it is clearly a reach.
https://t.me/btvt2019/11845



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What do we do about e guns, e cannons, drones and other electronic based weapons in future wars? How will these machines respond to tech like EMPs and multilayered radars?
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>>4076
That's such an easy method to cause friendly fire. You'd need to have an identification system as well.

>>4079
to go into further detail, there would be a button and a screen that shows what the camera is seeing, you would have to hold the button to make the barrel adjust itself, and if your targets are mixed in with friendlies just don't hold the button and try firing without the autoaim or not fire at all at friendlies, idk

>>4053
https://topwar.ru/231286-rabotu-rossijskih-sistem-rjeb-v-sevastopole-vidno-iz-kosmosa.html

Apparently Russian Electronic Warfare and jamming is so strong that it's visible from satellites. It's part of the reason AWACs and Global Hawk drones are used by NATO to support Ukrainian operations for missile strikes in Russian territory.

The EW environment of the war means a lot of FPV drones on both sides use analog systems that are grainy as shit, since they're more resistant to jamming. Analog is also cheaper and it helps that drones are designed like a more advanced RC system that is resistant a lot because of the need to operate in areas like cities where Wi-Fi and other interference is everywhere. On top of that non-standard frequencies are used as back ups. Antennas, range extenders/repeaters and other relay systems are also used to actually make any sort of operations possible.

>>4129
>>4129
>Apparently Russian Electronic Warfare and jamming is so strong that it's visible from satellites
I'm fairly certain that a lot of that is due to inexperienced EW troops heavily jamming both Russian and Ukrainian stuff, as well as the relatively small size of the battlefield relative to the amount of EW weaponry

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>The US Army is developing a multi-domain artillery weapon (MDAC) capable of combating air targets, which is planned to be operational by the end of the decade.

>A key feature of MDAC will be the use of hypersonic projectiles (HVPs), originally developed for the canceled US Navy electromagnetic railgun program. These projectiles, capable of achieving ultra-high speed, can provide effective protection against cruise missiles and other airborne targets.
>The system will be based on a wheeled self-propelled 155 mm howitzer, which will ensure its mobility and relative cheapness compared to traditional air defense systems.
>The US Army is currently starting the MDAC prototyping process. Prototypes should be ready by the end of 2027, and tests will begin in 2028.
<BAE systems hyper expensive rail gun ammo
<On a platform far less suited to a rail gun
<Barrel is obviously not a fucking rail gun or a coil gun or anything EM projected
<we couldn't make railgun work on a ship
<but we will make it work on some ghetto looking 6x6
Embezzlementbros, we are so back.



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Chopper Thread
Thread for helicopters and related VTOL aircraft such as tilt-rotors, autogyros and gyrodynes.
Soviet, Western and other rotor craft welcome, civilian or military.

Russian sites: https://avia.pro/vertolety
https://www.aviastar.org/index_rus.html
https://robo-wiki.ru/robotics-blog/history-helicopters/
https://poletomania.ru/stati/o-vozdukhoplavanii/pervye-vertolety-v-mire-kto-i-kogda-ikh-pridumal-istoriya-sozdaniya/

English sites:
https://www.britannica.com/technology/helicopter

P.S. Be civil on this blade whirling forum

https://topwar.ru/245811-rabotaetsja-bystree-i-udobnee-polskie-aviatehniki-sravnili-vertolet-apache-s-mi-2.html
>Polish helicopter pilots praise the Apache as being better and easier to maintain compared to the Mil Mi-2
I fucking laughed at this. A modern Attack Helicopter is better than an old early modification of a helicopter, wow, who would have thought!? The poles are really going out of their way to suck up to the USA.

>>5227
The Mi-2 and the AH-64 are not even in the same class of helicopters lmao. The Mi-2 is a light utility chopper whereas the Apache is a gunship. Even if you can mount weapons on a Mi-2 (like some variants) it's nowhere near as much as a dedicated attack helicopter.
Funnier even is that the Mi-2 was exclusively produced in Poland. Funny how Poland loves to bash the USSR when it allowed them to have the industry necessary to do things like that.

>>5229
That's the funny part. The even funnier part is that they also have the Mi-24, but they omitted any comparison, which leads me to believe that the Mi-24, has advantages (as usual). Oh but there's more. The Mi-2 may take longer to maintain but its also more rugged, requires maintenance less often overall and can be repaired pretty much in the field, as compared to the Apache that needs a dedicated workshop.



 

<Russia is currently developing a line or network of barrage balloons to protect against devastating drone attacks from Ukraine.

A barrage balloon is a ground-anchored light gas balloon, either hydrogen or helium, that supports a large physical protective net in the sky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_balloon

<In the first week of July, the Russian company First Airship announced its intention to switch from producing cargo airships to defense manufacturing, according to Business Insider, citing Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti.


https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-use-wwii-tactic-defend-against-ukrainian-drone-strikes-2024-7

<The barrage balloon nets are quite large in size. The balloons would be raised to a height of 300 meters, and 250-meter-wide defense nets would be suspended from them.


<A single balloon can carry a load of 30 kilograms, suggesting that the nets are woven from rather thin lines.


<First Airship also envisions equipping their barrage balloons with cannons that would launch smaller nets over incoming drones.

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Take a tin can, take an airbag inflator w/ sodium azide in it for the shock-sensitive primary explosive and either Guanidinium nitrate w/ an oxidizer (like copper nitrate) or Ammonium nitrate to surround it in to act as the secondary explosive (optionally you could instead use a mixture of potassium nitrate and silicon dioxide to send hot particles flying everywhere to make the reaction retain heat. Then just add a wooden dowel from a broom handle for the grip, and after that's all attached, drop it from a height and watch it explode as it lands on the bottom (you could add some kind of weight to it optionally). Also, I've experimented with the idea of using compressed helium or argon-helium mixtures for the explossive as opposed to a chemical explosive propellant that you can put in a gun. You could possibly wire a car's airbag alarm sensor as a detonator for a bomb as opposed to an impact-activated grenade and make it remotely detonated for you to activate it.

R8 my weapons.

>a shock sensitive explosive to set off a bomb
OP that's retarded
anyway here's my idea:
>put TCCA in a PET bottle
>insert a sealed test tube with HCl in the bottle
>add a spring loaded spike or whatever to break the test tube when desired
>when activated, Cl2 will build up in the bottle until it bursts
you now have something that'll cause concussion/hearing damage, throw plastic shrapnel around and also functions as a chemical weapon. hooray!

Hexamannitol nitrate is rather easy to make

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Fuel: Take an old beer bottle. Fill it up with gasoline, some paint thinner for good measure and a sprinkle of manganese.
It's less hassle to use a slow burning match or some equivalent, and a soaked rag has greater potential to spread the fire to unwanted places plus makes the bottle less aerodynamic and harder to aim.

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>The F-22 Raptor, the United States’ fifth-generation stealth aircraft designed for breaching enemy air defenses, encountered a formidable adversary in the form of the Korean-made FA-50 fighter jet.
>The most recent encounter of these two aircraft in a combative setting took place in the skies over Luzon, where the FA-50 belonging to the Philippine Air Force [PAF] closely contested the American war jet and even alleged to have achieved a successful “kill” against the F-22. A noticeable surge in defense collaboration occurred between the Philippines and the United States in the year 2023.
>The Philippines, a nation of islands situated in the South China Sea, witnessed the arrival of numerous cutting-edge fighter jets for the first time. The Korean-made FA-50 was reported to have defeated the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptor during the 2023 iteration of the ‘Cope Thunder’ exercise between the U.S. and the Philippines, an event making a comeback after a hiatus of 33 years.
>In a recent journal entry, the Philippine Air Force [PAF] disclosed an unexpected achievement. Notably, the radio was alive with the confident proclamation of a Filipino fighter pilot during an aerial combat exercise with the F-22 Raptor, “Fox 2! Killed one Raptor on the right turn!”
>The journal entry elaborates, “This incident marked a momentous development in military history. The Philippine’s Lead-in Fighter Aircraft triumphed over a 5th generation fighter jet in a simulated court of air combat, which took place in the airspace over Luzon, within the context of the Cope Thunder Exercise.”
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Wow, a Lockheed Martin jet was exercise killed by a Lockheed Martin jet, really a blow to American supremacy

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>>5213
Being intentionally obtuse and ignoring the important details does you no favors, /k/oper.
70% of the TA-50 is funded and designed by South Korea, and it still damages Lockheed's reputation that a training aircraft is capable of taking down its best jet. Not to mention the Filipino version is an export model, it's like a BMP-3 destroying an M1A2 Abrams. This isn't the first time the F-22 has failed like this either, with French Dassault Rafale and the Eurofighter Typhoon also outmaneuvering and landing kills.
>muh BVR
the ACEVAL/AIMVAL tests demonstrated that a force of smaller but more numerous aircraft was capable of dealing with heavier, higher-tech fighters. This still applies, as F-15s still lost to MiG-21s in Air to Air simulations at Cope India and even the F-16C has AoA that exceeds the F-22, with the MiG-29 and Su-27 having similar numbers and the the rest of the Su-27 series and the MiG-35 exceeding that.

>>5214
Russian aircraft you talk about couldn't even come in BVR range of F22s in Ukraine lol, how many Mig 29 and Su 27 got blown up trying to go against the hohol ragtag volkssturm again? Now compare that with the losses of F22 and F15s which actually went deep in AA covered Iraq or Syria, but yeah jerk off about exercises sure. At least don't shame yourself and compare US aircraft to an actual peer adversary such as China instead of using a broke state like Russia that can't even maintain properly its soviet legacy gear.

>>5217
I heard the same thing about the Abrams. A vehicle is a vehicle, and if it exists it can and will be destroyed.

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>>5217
>Russian aircraft you talk about couldn't even come in BVR range of F22s in Ukraine
<in Ukraine
LMAO nobody mentioned Ukraine glowie. And yes, they would. F-22 stealth is not an invisibility cloak and the Russians have tracked the F-22 and F-35 in Syria for years. The USSR was among the pioneers of stealth and stealth detection.
>how many Mig 29 and Su 27 got blown up trying to go against the hohol ragtag volkssturm
None because Russia has never deployed MiG-29s to Ukraine nor does it use Su-27s there either, it uses the Su-30 and Su-35 models, and I have yet to see proof of either being shot down, and most certainly none of them in air-to-air combat. Ukraine on the other hand has lost several MiG-29s and Su-27s in the air and on the ground.
>compare that with the losses of F22 and F15s which actually went deep in AA covered Iraq or Syria
LOL, LMAO even at the sheer ignorance of this comparison.
1) The F-22 has never been deployed against any sort of real air-defense, and certainly not in Iraq which is controlled by the USA at the moment. They weren't deployed in either Gulf War either.
2) The F-15 has gotten shot down by SAMs and even enemy fighters plenty of times, even back in the 1980s during its debut over Lebanon, the Israeli's and USAF just dismissed or hid the air-to-air losses and blamed them on accidents while omitting the number of SAM losses.
3) The F-15 was also never deployed against a peer-combatant air-defense, always being backed up by heavy SEAD, AWACS and satellite uplinks against enemies with older technology that had none of those things and who were a smaller fighting force. The Ukrainians in 2022 were the largest and honestly the most heavily armed and well-trained military in Europe, yet now their air-defense and air forces are all but gone, the point that they constantly fail to defend any targets and Russian aircraft freely hit troops with guided weapons. You might as well start praising the F-35 for being able to bomb the Houthi's and not get shot down… wow what an achievement!
>but yeah jerk off about exercises sure
<N-no simulated combat doesn't mean anything!
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Today, the United States is among a number of nations working to develop and field advanced directed energy weapons, or lasers, for a number of military applications.

Near the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union began experimenting with the idea of fielding a laser-equipped tank that could blind the targeting systems of inbound ballistic missiles or vehicles. Ultimately, two prototypes of the laser-armed 1К17 Сжатие, translated to “Compression,” were built, though they weren’t complete until the Soviet Union fell and was replaced by the new government of the Russian Federation.

Today, the United States is among a number of nations working to develop and field advanced directed energy weapons, or lasers, for a number of military applications. The U.S. Air Force recently announced its intentions to begin fielding lasers on their fighter platforms as soon as 2025, and the U.S. Navy began testing its latest laser, the MK 2 MOD 0, aboard the USS Portland in May of this year. But decades before these programs came to light, the Soviet Union was already exploring the idea of using lasers as a means of missile defense.

The Soviet strategy wasn’t to use these lasers to destroy incoming missiles like the applications in development today intend to. Instead, the Soviet laser tank aimed to blind or burn out the electro-optical sensors missiles used to find their targets. Once blinded or damaged, a missile would miss its intended target, whether that was the 1K17 or other nearby assets. Other planned applications included using the laser apparatus to blind heavy vehicles like tanks, making it impossible for them to aim and fire accurately.
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>>4596
There was a laser revolver version of this too. It reminds me of the laser pistol from the original Alien (1979) film.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лазерный_пистолет?useskin=vector

https://en.topwar.ru/38339-sdelano-v-sssr-lazernyy-pistolet-kosmonavta.html

>>4597
The laser pistol actually looks cool. The revolver has to be the ugliest looking firearm I've ever seen.


Laser deforestation demonstrated in Russia
>Specialists from the Troitsk Institute of Innovation and Thermonuclear Research tested a mobile laser complex produced by Rosatom. The laser was used to cut down forests and speed up the laying of power lines. Using a laser complex, it was possible to cut a tree trunk 200 mm thick in six minutes; by simulating a laser beam, this time can be halved. The laser installation has no analogues in Russia and is capable of cutting even metal structures whose thickness reaches 260 mm, at a distance of no more than 300 meters. Previously, a sunken ship located 50 meters from the shore was cut with a laser on Sakhalin. There are no technical details released yet; the laser complex can be installed on an all-terrain vehicle of median size or larger.
An interesting use of a laser. Perhaps its not so fantastical in the future to have laser cannons.

Russia did a laser show on Victory Day to demoralize the Ukrainians



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