Well considering it’s done 80kph, 100kph could be possible with more power and more importantly composite rubber track ;)
Then just need another 60kph from somwehere to get it too 100mph
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light work xD
Im thinking some RATOs :P
the humble cliff
They need to do better haha.
On the other note there probably a couple of these bad boys in german stockpile.
I’d say 6 and your Chally will be ready for take off.
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Perhaps, but still, how are they making such basic mistakes
I’ve seen kW and hp mixed up on MOD documents relating to Challenger 2 in the national archives. Mistakes happen.
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This comment makes me wonder if anybody has thought of making a tank entirely electric? Silent (mostly, the tracks and sheer weight of the tank going over terrain will still make a lot of noise.) possibly more power and torque? Though the sheer amount of logistics it would take to charge up a… electric tank would be nuts, can’t exactly say troops will find fast chargers in a battlefield anywhere, probably a stupid idea now that I’m saying it out loud xD
Ever seen a SpaceX Super Heavy booster?
The M1E3 is planned to be a diesel electric hybrid
“More Lethality” makes the entirety of Army Leadership gives off Kylo Ren vibes.
And this is why NavyLookout is better for Naval bits. They are unflinchingly critical about how Defence (Naval) is run.
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They have, and a few tanks have been trialed with hybrid combustion/electric powerpacks
Generally though electric vehicles need a lot of very delicate infrastructure to power and batteries are very heavy. Alongside that a lot of batteries are very reactive and wouldn’t react very well to being hit.
Supposedly the new Type 100 tank china has made is hybrid diesel-electric, but from what I know the electric power is only used to give it limited ability to move with reduced thermal/acoustic signature rather than a general 50/50 hybrid split.
Britain also tested a hybrid vehicle, in the form of the TRACER LANCER, but it never went into production.
This could come to War Thunder as it worked automotively and the cannon was installed to be functional. It shares the same cannon as the AJAX, the CT40. A lot of lessons from the TRACER program went to develop the AJAX, which is generally a less ambitious but still significant project.
“The FMP included a hybrid electric drive with over half a megawatt of power via a battery/diesel-generator hybrid power system; Advanced Power Converters developed by UDLP on the DARPA- and TACOM funded CHPS program; advanced Lithium-Ion batteries, continuous rubber ‘band track’ and a ceramic-composite armoured structure from the TACOM-UDLP Composite Armored Vehicle program.”
With a weight of less than 20 tonnes and 670+ horsepower, they’d be pretty fast.
So I guess hybrid vehicles may be viable, but fully electric seems kinda far off apart from for ground based drones.
So i just did a test drive of the Buccaneer S.2B and my radar would not lock onto aircraft. Would lock onto ships no problem, but i thought the radar could lock and “see” aircraft as before or is that not the case anymore?
I genuinely do not remember lol.
"groundClutter": false,
"targetRadiusMin": 10.0,
"aircraftAsTarget": false,
"groundVehiclesAsTarget": true,
"shipsAsTarget": true,
"friendFoeId": true,
From the files for the search of the ARI.5390
"groundClutter": false,
"targetRadiusMin": 10.0,
"aircraftAsTarget": false,
"groundVehiclesAsTarget": true,
"shipsAsTarget": true,
And similar for the track
The radar used to be able to detect aircraft in game, but now it can only detect ships. TBH It always struck me as odd that they added it as an air to air radar, I could only ever find reference to it being used against ships.
I believe the radar of the Supet Etendard also is only able to see ground targets, but it will ACM lock onto air targets. Perhaps that works with the Bucc aswell?