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All I can say is Oops! Thanks for the catch!I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes
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IS-3 T-10 What did the Soviets do, raid a boneyardOriginally posted by Vespers War View PostI'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes
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Object 757 dates to 1959 and Object 282 to 1961, so when they were built their hull types had been introduced 15 and 9 years earlier respectively. They were probably trying to find a use for the old heavy tank hulls after the introduction of the T-54/55.Originally posted by pmulcahy11b View PostThe poster formerly known as The Dark
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It's about the MiG-31 - but not the one you think.
While you're watching it, remember the date today...I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes
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Going for something a bit older, Jonathan at the Royal Armouries did a video last week about efforts to attach an external magazine to the Martini-Henry rifle to make it a manual repeater and thus not completely obsolete in the late 1880s. It's actually a pretty ingenious little device with a feed arm that pushes a round out of the box magazine and into the chamber of the rifle when it functions properly. There were versions for both the .577/450 round and the .402 that was never officially adopted because .303 was picked instead. The follower has a little catch at the bottom of the magazine so it can be locked down while rounds are being loaded, then released once the magazine is closed. In theory it could be dump loaded in probably two actions (one to lock the follower and open the mag, one to dump rounds and close the magazine and release the follower), but with the rimmed ammunition in use that might increase the risk of rim lock, so careful loading (one action per loaded round) is more likely except in case of emergency.
Martini-Henry with Harston device, .577/450
Wt 3.96 kg, Ammo 5+1, ROF LA, Dam 3, Pen Nil, Bulk 8, SS 3, Rng 101
Martini-Henry with Harston device, .402
Wt 4.02 kg, Ammo 7+1, ROF LA, Dam 2, Pen Nil, Bulk 8, SS 2, Rng 78
Fire, Fusion & Steel wants a longer barrel for the .402 round, which only drops from 85 grains of black powder to 80 - at 105 cm (instead of the actual 84.4 cm), the range would be back up to 101 with Dam 3 and SS 3.
Probably not many of these were made as they were never adopted, but like an Alofs device they could make an interesting little bit of kit for a PC with eclectic tastes.The poster formerly known as The Dark
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I ran across a reference to a tank that apparently never got built, but was proposed in the 1990s. The recently reunified Germany had a lot of incompatible tanks, and when Malaysia was looking for something better than what they had, Germany proposed taking the hull of a Leopard 1 and putting the turret from a T-72 on it. While the hull would be rather underarmored, it wasn't much worse than a T-72 and was considered mechanically better (particularly for cross-country mobility), while the 125mm gun provided a firepower upgrade over the 105mm mounted in the Leopard's turret. Most Twilight timelines would never see this exist, but in Merc it might end up being produced for export - with over 2,000 Leopard 1 hulls available and 549 T-72 turrets, a decent number could be manufactured even if they didn't acquire more turrets.The poster formerly known as The Dark
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Arrrrggghhh...where are you guys finding all this stuffI'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes
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When Rheinmetall mentioned wanting to send Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine, I went over to Google to look up information on them because I couldn't remember how modernized they were. Looking through links about Leopard 1 modifications, I ran across mention of the whatever-the-hell-this-is-called on Reddit's TankPorn channel and then a few mentions here and there across the rest of the internet. I think it was involved in the competition where Malaysia selected the PT-91 Twardy over the K1, T-90, and T-84, but finding solid references to that competition is beyond my skills.Originally posted by pmulcahy11b View PostThe poster formerly known as The Dark
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One proposed modification which was never implemented was mounting an M102 Howitzer on the back of a dual cab (seats 4 or 5) M548 cargo track. The gun could be fired through about 270 degrees and the carrier would mount a plow at the rear to dig in the track (just like an M110 does). An ideal tool for a shoot-n-scoot mechanized artillery unit.
Today, for Ukraine's urgent need, I'd postulate mounting our now surplus M198 Towed howitzers on a lowboy connected to a HEMTT heavy haul. Mount the gun on a 360-degree plate and equip the lowboy with hydraulic outriggers. The gun could be manned from ground level and would provide a heavy shoo-n-scoot capability with lower maintenance costs and high movement speeds.Comment
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Have I got a doozy for you guys this time! Jonathan Ferguson at the Royal Armouries did a video on the Kretz Rifle, a Pattern 13 modified to use a Mannlicher straight-pull bolt, then further modified to be an automatic rifle (note in that era a machine rifle did automatic fire and an automatic rifle did semi-automatic fire).
The mechanism is a wonderfully bizarre blow-forward chain-driven repeater. When the barrel shroud is pulled forward by gas pressure, it pulls a chain on the left side of the rifle that's connected to a pulley on the left side of the butt. That winds up a spring and also rotates a pulley on the right side of the butt. When the gas pressure declines, the spring returns to its normal state, pulling the left chain back and also rotating the right pulley, which now pulls back on the right chain that's attached to the bolt, opening the bolt and ejecting the spent cartridge, and disengaging from the left pulley. That also winds up a second spring attached to the right pulley, which releases when the trigger is released, driving the right chain in the opposite direction and closing the bolt on a fresh round.
It's specifically called out for being excessively heavy, and I'm trying to find out just how much weight that chain drive added to the rifle. It's a terrible design that couldn't work as built and wouldn't work well even if the fundamental flaws were corrected, but I can't help but love the Rube Goldberg-esque effort that went into making this armorer's nightmare.The poster formerly known as The Dark
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Well, that's properly...weird. Wouldn't want to go into combat with one.
Is a "Bicycle chain rifle" what we call "Frankenweapons" in the USI'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes
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lav 75 that the Chieftain found
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