I found something on NRC that made me laugh as well.
A planned test/build site (they did not specify purpose) that had put in a request (and got a licence!) For depleted uranium because they were expecting two US Army tanks to get to the site for “redacted”. The licence was for 88 THOUSAND kilograms of depleted uranium… We’re they planning to make the entire tank out of uranium?? xD
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Found that one awhile back. If I had to guess they were probably trying out different array set-ups of DU armor to test their effectiveness on a pair of M1A2s
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Makes sense. They never got the tanks though so they requested the license terminated.
But 88 metric tonnes of PURE uranium is still A LOT even for that purpose.
practically saying almost same stuff RedEffect did btw.
Especially when compared to DCS Corporation who only got 4,000 kilograms of DU authorized, although it didn’t specify the number of tanks iirc.
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a broken clock is right two times a day
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Yeah, except you cant even say that the source is just “biased”. Both of these can do their research. Quite more than some people thatz for sure.
Anyways, happy new year.
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same to you
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Leopard 2 SVT*, a vehicle inferior to the TVM. Yes, as it stands, 2A7V doesn’t even match TVM’s protection levels, a vehicle that Germany submitted for Trials back in 1993/4…
Somehow they regressed to pre-TVM levels, and we can all be thankful to Gaijin for that.
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Centainly, I saw your report. Didn’t intend to make it sound like he had an original idea, just so we can steer this topic in a more constructive way outside of the DU hull.
More like “Youtubers can’t be bothered to do proper research.”
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I’m not sure if this source has been used already as there’s a lot of responses and could’ve missed it, but according to https://asc.army.mil/docs/wsh2/2013-wsh.pdf
It says the M1A2 SEP has improved frontal and side armor as well as a picture of having a simulation weight on the LFP.
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just buff abrams in any way possible
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Tbh I feel bad for the poor guy. Imagine just testing some armor and then a jet of flame blasts out at you. Glad he is ok tho.
I mean we should because of the Marines M1A1HC. But when i submitted a paper that was declassified from the navel academy, from the DoD’s website it was closed and addressed as a 3rd party source.
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SorrY bUt i DoNt BeLIeVe dIs 2 b3 TrU3!!!
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While I agree with the statement I think Spooks is winning in the hearts and minds department for not being a pretentious ass hole.
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Nope - doesn’t change the basic facts that RE is unreliable.
Redeffect has form for parroting official Russian claims as fact without subjecting them to the same degree of scrutiny he applies to Western ones. The Ghost of the ‘JaVEliNs DoNt WoRk’ video says hi. He’s a useful idiot at best, a wilful misinformer at worst. He is only wheeled out by certain tech tree mains (cough - Russia - cough) as an almost last desperate gasp in an argument. It’s basically an admission of defeat by that point.
Gaijin have already shown their true colours with the whole missile debacle ‘well it LOOKs similar to an old Igla so the latest Western missile can’t be better!’
The core problem is that these assumptions appear to be positive for Russian additions to the game.
- The Yak-141 would have had weapons and systems developed for…if the geopolitical course of history had changed, if the airframe design actually worked, if Soviet fixed-wing aviation wasn’t so flaky, if the Soviet Union hadn’t imploded and if…whatever other logical jumps they need.
For Western stuff - the assumption is negative.
- Oh, we have no proof that the DESIGNATED ERA-DEFEATING dart rounds on Western vehicles actually work on heavy ERA. So it’s assumed they don’t. Same with Western NERA arrays - all of which appear to be victims of Gaijin underestimates rather than the generous over-estimates of K5 or Relikt.
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What does this even mean it is late and I am incapable of basic reading comprehension