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4·12 hours agoWatership Down 2: The Bunpire Strikes Back
1·12 hours agoI mean, the French sure have their issues, but I wouldn’t say they can’t make a proper armored vehicle. They know how to do that as well as pretty much anybody in the world, they also understand artillery better than almost anybody in the world, Exhibit A. being the Caesar SPG.
7·13 hours agoextends spy glass
Hey I mean Poland apparently build a pretty good tank out of the T-72, it definitely has aspects to it that make it globally relevant but at the end of the day… especially when drones come into the picture, no not having a proper reverse gear I think actually does completely undermine the point in having a main battle tank in the first place. I would rather have all of that logistics in other supplies than a russian tank, they are worse than useless without a fast reverse gear since they cannot fulfill the battlefield role of a main battle tank at a basic tactical level in my opinion.
You can use a russian tank as a combat engineering tool to destroy enemy machine gun nests that have already been surrounded, but you cannot use them as main battle tanks. It is the equivalent of trying to use an airplane with only one wing as a bomber. It needs two wings to fly…
Or… it is like having a Queen on a chess board that can only move towards the enemy side of the board, it almost entirely eliminates the point of having your Queen in the first place, and it certainly makes your Queen into a disposable one time use asset. Yes technically your Queen still is very offensively powerful but it is more accurately described as a guided munition than an actual piece in the same way russian tanks aren’t really main battle tanks.
Comparatively an Abrams is like a proper Queen chess piece, it ideally exists the entire game moving back and forth across your forward assaults, exploiting and creating opportunities and punishing the hubris of the enemy.
There is a story of an Iraqi Abrams playing a crucial lynchpin role in defending a ridiculous number of assaults on a town by overwhelming numbers of fighters, and the Iraqi crew just got good enough that they tactically demolished them one after another. You can’t develop that kind of extreme tactical proficiency over your enemy in an inherently disposable asset such as a russian tank, especially since the crew is considered disposable as well which is psychotic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/1hnlx9m/iraqi_9th_armored_division_abrams_tank_still/
RENK of France has made a superior powerpack with proper reverse gears, this makes a T-72 into a real tank or at least begins the process.
The aforementioned powerpack provides the maximum road speed of 60-70 km/h and a backing up at a speed of 4-33 km/h. The clutch and transmission brake control valve linkage has been replaced by a steering wheel, while the control system has retained both pedals. These nodes and components drastically increase the cross-country capability of T-72 and T-90 tanks. The required to replace the engine compartment is significantly reduced. It takes about 45 minutes to install the [Powerpack 350S] unit. At present, the replacement of the existing T-72 engines compartments requires about 3 days," the source said.
He added that the Powerpack 350S had already been integrated with the Polish-originated PT-91M Twardy MBTs and PT-91M-based armoured recovery vehicles (ARV) of the Malaysian Armed Forces.
According to the official specifications, the Powerpack 350S system is intended for T-72, T-90, M-84, and PT-91 MBTs, as well as for the vehicles that have a combat weight of 40-55 t. It features a powershift transmission with eight speeds forward and four speeds reverse, an electronically controlled gearbox that can be used in either manual or fully automatic control mode, a generator drive, an air compressor drive, and a fan drive with fully digital speed control. The transmission of Powerpack 350S has a dry weight of 1,800 kg, while the DI16 engine has a dry weight of 1,340 kg.
52·14 hours agoshrugs I will take incompetent management over drunk, incompetent workers and management.
My clipboard had old url in it when I posted it my bad. I fixed it. Sorry about that!
It is 2026 and Ukraine is all out of checks notes it looks like names AND fucks.
Now that is the kind of question that could get a sentient supercomputer stuck in a vastly complex computation for 10 million years!
Edit actually the answer is easy if you include the brain worm’s intelligence wholistically in with RFK’s overall intelligence. RFK Brain + Brainworm Brain = Clearly Smarter Than Hegseth Brain.
That doesn’t reallllllly answer the question though does it? That answer is far too easy, it doesn’t get at the crux of the issue so I think you have to compare (RFK Brain - Brainworm Brain) to Hegseth Brain.
Edit 2 just incase you do this calculation yourself and end up with an error, remember not to use significant figures in your calculation or else the number of neurons RFK and Hegseth have will be rounded down to 0 and mess up the calculation completely giving you an error.
That’s why combined arm warfare builds doctrines to eliminate the weaknesses of individual systems by meshing multiple things together. But that’s very hard, and Russia is really quite bad at it.
It also requires seeing soldiers as experts in a highly skilled, highly trained profession where leaders do everything they can to keep them alive so they can continue to participate in organized, efficient strategic maneuvers that produce strategic gains for minimum tragic loss.
Culturally it seems like Russia values the drone more than the human in the calculus of war, and not only is that delusional it also makes them hopeless at a Doctrine level about becoming proficient at combined arms warfare again any time soon. Not until Russia has thoroughly had its worhsip of flying bombs as the answer to everything beaten out of them will Russia behave like an organized, modern military again.
Tanks are going nowhere though, not even for a country so desperately lost in the sauce when it comes to tank design. I think Russia was banking on just abandoning tanks for the most part as a newly produced weapon of war continually being pumped out of factories… but I don’t think they were able to culturally/politically pull that off (all the russians saw that awesome t34 movie and now they see tanks as patriotic!) so now they are stuck cranking out obsolete tanks and having to pretend they aren’t.
I am sorry but the T-90 is an attempt to put lipstick on a pig, sure the technologically advanced lipstick is cool… but does the pig have a proper reverse gear yet?
All russia can really do is try to convince us they meant to fumble tanks this hard, or that it is indicative of how other countries might experience success with the use of tanks and honestly that bullshit narrative has worked beautifully on overconfident western journalists who don’t know shit about war.
Nope, they are nearly out of the usable stock, now they are onto T-62s and T-64s.
This a Leopard 1, these are closer to “tank destroyers” than more modern main battle tanks such as later model Leopards.
Like they give a shit, they are mad because their individual person is being inconvenienced by not being able to fly without a hassle.
1·13 hours agoIt is the age old hubris of thinking everything works the way things work that you are an expert about work, dialed up to 11. In otherwords, AI obsessed techbro culture differs meaningfully from a strongly gender-policed organized religion only in the comparative youth of its dogma.
I also believe the sense of narrative control computers give is very unhealthy for a lot of low emotional intelligence people as it is an illusion, not everything is factorio, not everything needs to grow and extinguish at the greatest scale possible, and not everything can be “growth hacked” or automated into a perfectly categorized flowchart algorithm. If it could, fascism would have already won long ago.
Computer people all too often lean into the blindspot that you don’t have to listen when using a computer like you do when having a real conversation with a human and it diminishes their humanity.
I love computers, but for a certain category of people they can be quite intellectually dangerous.
No, their tactics suck, but this is stockpiling for an offensive, whenever that may be.
If you can make a proper tank, absolutely, Russia cannot.
52·1 day agoremoved because you know you are wrong
Now would be a great time for the world to donate a bunch of solar and battery equipment!