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- 12 Mar 2024, 18:51
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: Directed Energy Weapons
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2388
Re: Directed Energy Weapons
Rifle is all weather, from coldest to hottest Def Stan, and every weather in-between. I'm curious as to your accuracy with a rifle when its pissing down with rain and you can't see the target. Same goes for any armored vehicle guns. I know you're a septic, but are you familiar with Sennybridge? Ran...
- 11 Mar 2024, 19:17
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: Directed Energy Weapons
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2388
Re: Directed Energy Weapons
The point you & others are missing is that lasers, & other EO kit, are not all weather yet have scads of value. Plenty of military kit is not all weather from the humble squadies's rifle and on up. I'm not sure anyone has a clue what point you're trying to make. Rifle is all weather, from c...
- 11 Mar 2024, 14:39
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: Directed Energy Weapons
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2388
Re: Directed Energy Weapons
For all the laser experts out there, please note that Dragonfire is installed next to a radar guided Phalanx in the CG movie. Also in the picture are very expensive, clear weather only, EO directors on both the Phalanx systems and the ship itself (for the 30 mm guns). Electro-optic sensors work mor...
- 29 Feb 2024, 08:13
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
- Replies: 193
- Views: 61851
Re: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
An angled roof would be enough to deflect grenades dropped from drones away from the crew and reduce injuries. The Jackel is basically an open bucket inviting them to be dropped inside. There's a tarp on top, does the same job for grenades. On a jackal the whole crew are the eyes and ears of the pl...
- 28 Feb 2024, 13:36
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
- Replies: 193
- Views: 61851
Re: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
I can understand the benefits of an open top design in Afghanistan especially when enemy drones were less of an issue, but do these vehicles actually have a viable use case in Europe? Feels like a contract placed in order to keep a British manufacturer afloat for a few more years. What difference i...
- 22 Feb 2024, 16:29
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 216
- Views: 78025
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
And yet you've posted conjecture and twitter as your "facts" Russian & Ukrainian MOD Press releases are "conjecture". OK. In an information war, yes. You seem to be making less and less sense. I made no attempt to link anything to modern hardware, You're literally in a threa...
- 22 Feb 2024, 14:29
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 216
- Views: 78025
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
Are you sure English is your first language? That's not a meme, it's simply a statement of fact. And yet you've posted conjecture and twitter as your "facts" :lol: None of what you've posted aligns with the memes that you parroted. Only that you've swallowed limited data points on 1940s h...
- 22 Feb 2024, 13:40
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 216
- Views: 78025
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
Clearly you're not aware of what a meme is, you're just a parrot. LOL - so you can't find a single meme that I've posted, can you? Care to note who I was parrotting? I won't hold my breath - you're clearly in the grip of some weird breakdown. Let's see if I can post a meme - I've never done it on t...
- 22 Feb 2024, 13:16
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 216
- Views: 78025
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
That's what triggered you? OK, what "memes" have I been "dripping" on here? This will be interesting, since I've never posted a meme on here. Maybe you meant Twitter? Clearly you're not aware of what a meme is, you're just a parrot. Oh, so you're a vatnik? Oh babes, someone disa...
- 22 Feb 2024, 12:15
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 216
- Views: 78025
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
They're active mines, not geological storage...
- 22 Feb 2024, 07:20
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 216
- Views: 78025
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
Winsford, and?
- 22 Feb 2024, 07:18
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 216
- Views: 78025
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
Russia has neither taken AFV out of fields or taken 10,000 maxims out of a forgotten warehouse. Thanks for demonstrating that you didn't even read what I said before deciding to be a complete arse. I think you also demonstrated that you have no idea what has been going on in Ukraine. Russia has bee...
- 21 Feb 2024, 19:56
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 216
- Views: 78025
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
In the very early days following the retreats from Kyiv, Sumy and Chernihiv they were pulling tanks from open storage with little to no refurbishment. 2 years in they tend to go to a tank repair facility for a modicum of upgrades but in the first 6 months that wasn't the case. Plenty of T-80 and 72...
- 21 Feb 2024, 16:38
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 216
- Views: 78025
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
Russia seems to be producing large numbers of tanks & APCs after leaving them to rust in a field for 50 years. Ukraine also just dug 10,000 maxims out of a warehouse somewhere to convert into anti-UAV systems It's not exactly rocket science either (unless you choose to make it so) Are you tryin...
- 21 Feb 2024, 14:09
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 216
- Views: 78025
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
But certainly if MoD (and Treasury) are not seriously re-examining disposal policy they're insane. The value of them won't be high, and MoD must have a shed where they can stick 100 L118...its not like they take up much space when they're folded... You wouldn't store them folded, and you would need...
- 19 Feb 2024, 10:27
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: Directed Energy Weapons
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2388
Re: Directed Energy Weapons
Would say the limitations of loaded CIWS ammunition have only been a minor irritation over the last 100 or so years and not to compare with lasers unable to fire in adverse atmospheric conditions, rain, fog etc. When was the last time a CIWS was engaging multiples? Probably the C-RAM units? Don't b...
- 18 Feb 2024, 15:46
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Boxer / Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)
- Replies: 2788
- Views: 712843
- 18 Feb 2024, 15:17
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: Directed Energy Weapons
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2388
Re: Directed Energy Weapons
There is an assumption that lasers can defend against a high number of near simultaneous threats and do wonder if its a realistic assumption, surely it will depend on the targets resistance to heat and that will vary and the time the laser beam takes to burn thru, the power of the laser, the operat...
- 18 Feb 2024, 12:20
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Boxer / Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)
- Replies: 2788
- Views: 712843
Re: Boxer / Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)
245 CT40 plus spares/training were binned off WCSP.
- 17 Feb 2024, 14:38
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: Directed Energy Weapons
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2388
Re: Directed Energy Weapons
Would note Drangonfire was a technology demonstrator programme assessing the viability of laser technology and not envisaged as an operational weapon system and so not surprised at the comments on the limited capability expressed in the video. But the video is drivel. The video doesn't understand l...
- 14 Feb 2024, 14:22
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: RBSL Challenger 3 (Future) Main Battle Tank (British Army)
- Replies: 349
- Views: 64588
- 14 Feb 2024, 13:33
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: Directed Energy Weapons
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2388
- 13 Feb 2024, 06:32
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: Sheffield Forgemasters
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1754
Re: Sheffield Forgemasters
https://bnnbreaking.com/world/sheffield-forgemasters-revolutionizes-nuclear-power-with-electron-beam-welding In an industrial corner of Sheffield, England, a British steelmaker is rewriting the rules of nuclear energy production. Sheffield Forgemasters, a storied engineering company, has developed ...
- 10 Feb 2024, 12:52
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Ground Based Air Defence
- Replies: 684
- Views: 190225
Re: Ground Based Air Defence
Quick thought, what about using laser guided SNEB's or HYDRA's for drone defence? Surely a better solution to using Land / Sea Ceptors? In a swarm scenario you would struggle to track and lock on multiple targets using laser guidance. If each missile has independent seeker then it's more expensive ...
- 05 Feb 2024, 13:09
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
- Replies: 193
- Views: 61851