Tanks and other Armoured Vehicles Image thread.

[ATP]

Not exactly a spotter...
With some newest missiles, just need to know the general area they are in.
Then launch a fire and forget missile like Brimstone, Hellfire Longbow or some Spike models, programmed to go to said area, turn on its seeker (IR or active radar usually), which looks for targets resembling what is known to be there, and attacks what it finds.

Btw many anti-ship missiles work that way since a long time, anyone who played Harpoon or its newer incarnations knows this.

I read in some old sci-fi novel/forget title,as usual/ missiles with brains of wasps/not american,insects !/ used to guide them.
They somehow manage to fool those brains into thinking,that their targets was flying insects which wasps usually hunt.

Wonder,if it could be done....
Maybe rather made small computers acting like attacking wasps ?

 

[Zachowon]

Aren't there some with IR tracking or I'm just gettting confused?

Missiles, basically MANPADS. Outside of that you can't use IR for very long range reliably as far as I know

 

[Bacle]

...this is just...why did Warthunder/Wargaming camo mods have to become actual battlefield things.

 

[Morphic Tide]

...this is just...why did Warthunder/Wargaming camo mods have to become actual battlefield things.

Because a non-negligible portion of them are made by the people who end up on the battlefield? As should be pretty well understood from all the classified technical documents that get leaked through that game?

 

[Jormungandr]

...I am now imagining a Russian Ukrainian tank (tractor stronk!) having Yuno Gasai painted on the armour.

Any educated Russian soldier should be shitting their pants on seeing that.

 

[Zachowon]

On any military base in the US, you will sre Anime girls on var windows if not on the cars thenselves

 

[Jormungandr]

On any military base in the US, you will see Anime girls on var windows if not on the cars themselves.

IIRC there were some hilarious ones on vehicles during the 2001 Iraqi Invasion?

 

[Zachowon]

IIRC there were some hilarious ones on vehicles during the 2001 Iraqi Invasion?

And tanks are only allowed names for a reas9m but yes.
Imagine stuff now

 

[Jormungandr]

And tanks are only allowed names for a reas9m but yes.
Imagine stuff now

I take it Ghost in the Shell was popular? Maybe Naruto and Urusei Yatsura, too?

 

[Zachowon]

I take it Ghost in the Shell was popular? Maybe Naruto and Urusei Yatsura, too?

A lot was popular and things have just grown...

 

[Jormungandr]

A lot was popular and things have just grown...

Otakus with guns, military training, and vehicles/armoured fighting vehicles. That's a high school bully's worst nightmare, lol.

 

[paulobrito]

Otakus with guns, military training, and vehicles/armoured fighting vehicles. That's a high school bully's worst nightmare, lol.

You just defined GATE protagonist.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Since we don't have an artillery thread... this is probably the next best place.

Euro-PULS MLRS System.

KMW and Elbit Systems establish Euro-PULS concept for next-generation European Long Range Rocket Artillery | Defense News December 2022 Global Security army industry | Defense Security global news industry army year 2022 | Archive News year

KMW and Elbit Systems establish Euro-PULS concept for next-generation European Long Range Rocket Artillery

www.armyrecognition.com

Promo video by the Israeli Elbit Company from a few years ago.

 

[Jormungandr]

While I do prefer the sexy armoured chassis and track design of the M270, the wheels and missile rack versatility make more sense.

 

[ATP]

While I do prefer the sexy armoured chassis and track design of the M270, the wheels and missile rack versatility make more sense.

But,they are no longer sexy,snif,snif....

 

[Husky_Khan]

Someone posted a twenty plus tweet long thread loaded with cool pictures of historical military vehicles they got from a recent trip to the Armor Collection at Fort Benning, Georgia.





Vehicles range from World War One Landships to a Challenger 2 prototype.

Sadly this armor collection isn't typically open to the public.

 

[GROGNARD]

 

[Knowledgeispower]

MSHORAD is, essentially, just an interim design using modified ATGMs before we can develop something that has more longevity. Stingers are getting long in the tooth and need replacing (probably with something akin to GURPS's 'multirole missile' concept, but with an HEDP/HEAT warhead instead of a kinetic one), Patriot and THAAD are more strategic/theater-level than anything and AEGIS is primarily sea and ABM. Avengers? Not that good due to a combination of lack of reaction time and not having at least a search radar fitted to it.

ADATS is, essentially, a SHORAD/Short-range SAM with serious anti-tank capability (the surprising thing is that, conceptually, it's the RL equivalent of the GURPS Multi-Role Missile, but vehicle-borne instead of infantry-borne), something that the army and marines really need and especially so

in light of what Ukraine is beating everyone's skulls in for (i.e., a competent air defense network is stupidly hard to get rid of, meaning that air power isn't going to be widely available).

I mean the MSHORAD can carry Hellfires(and presumably use them in the anti ground role)and sidewinders and either a 50 cal or a 30mm autocannon not just stingers like the avenger. But yeah the army is working on a proper Avenger/ADATS replacement with MSHORAD being a interim replacement that will still probably stick around for a lont ass time even once its replacement arrives due to what platform its mounted on. And for that matter a proper replacement for the Stinger is under development
But yeah the ADATs being canceled was a blunder. One that the army is probably really worried about given the shit happening in the last 2 major wars to occur/ongoing. Albeit its not just the US that's made this blunder. The entire western world save perhaps Israel due to them already having done most of the work needs to do a lot of work on upgrading and increasing the number of their ground based AA of all types

 

[Husky_Khan]

Soviet made Osa Air Defense system in zee German Military Markings.

 

[Aaron Fox]

I mean the MSHORAD can carry Hellfires(and presumably use them in the anti ground role)and sidewinders and either a 50 cal or a 30mm autocannon not just stingers like the avenger. But yeah the army is working on a proper Avenger/ADATS replacement with MSHORAD being a interim replacement that will still probably stick around for a lont ass time even once its replacement arrives due to what platform its mounted on. And for that matter a proper replacement for the Stinger is under development
But yeah the ADATs being canceled was a blunder. One that the army is probably really worried about given the shit happening in the last 2 major wars to occur/ongoing. Albeit its not just the US that's made this blunder. The entire western world save perhaps Israel due to them already having done most of the work needs to do a lot of work on upgrading and increasing the number of their ground based AA of all types

Blame the Iraqis doing as poorly as they did during Gulf War 1 and leaders deciding that their performance is the capabilities of Soviet formations... even though the Iraqis consistently couldn't fight out a paper bag as a group with a map, a compass, a flashlight, and a guide...

... that and no one wanting to stay at near-war level status for much longer without good reason, and no, China being a future threat despite it playing 'by the rules' isn't a good reason.

Also, tax: