Military Ground Vehicles of Your Nation [NO MECHS] Type 6

[Fordorsia]

Hm. I have never used such an application. I may look into it, seeing that it gives a better appearance versus my line-heavy models in SketchUp Make.

On another note, what are the beneficial and detrimental qualities of the use of track return rollers?

I tried it a while ago. Gave up. I may try it again and put some actual effort into it though.

They keep the track tight and stop the top of the track flexing and hitting the fender or potentially throwing itself off the wheels. No idea about any downsides. Harder to change the track, maybe?

[Mozria]

Hm. I have never used such an application. I may look into it, seeing that it gives a better appearance versus my line-heavy models in SketchUp Make.

On another note, what are the beneficial and detrimental qualities of the use of track return rollers?

I tried it a while ago. Gave up. I may try it again and put some actual effort into it though.

They keep the track tight and stop the top of the track flexing and hitting the fender or potentially throwing itself off the wheels. No idea about any downsides. Harder to change the track, maybe?

How do they keep the track tight, though? It appears that the tracks just sit on top of them, with no tension being applied.

[Rich and Corporations]

Would it be unreasonable to design and build a Merkava style IFV with 4-6 passengers and a 76mm HV gun?

[Mozria]

Would it be unreasonable to design and build a Merkava style IFV with 4-6 passengers and a 76mm HV gun?

Are you meaning Namer-style, or really as a Merkava analog?

[Fordorsia]

I tried it a while ago. Gave up. I may try it again and put some actual effort into it though.

They keep the track tight and stop the top of the track flexing and hitting the fender or potentially throwing itself off the wheels. No idea about any downsides. Harder to change the track, maybe?

How do they keep the track tight, though? It appears that the tracks just sit on top of them, with no tension being applied.

Maybe tight is the wrong word. Taut is probably more appropriate. Still, they're just there to stop the track from falling or and or from having the track damage itself or the fender from being too slack and flapping all over the place.

[The Kievan People]

Would it be unreasonable to design and build a Merkava style IFV with 4-6 passengers and a 76mm HV gun?

[Mozria]

How do they keep the track tight, though? It appears that the tracks just sit on top of them, with no tension being applied.
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Maybe tight is the wrong word. Taut is probably more appropriate. Still, they're just there to stop the track from falling or and or from having the track damage itself or the fender from being too slack and flapping all over the place.

I see. I shall add them to my suspension immediately.

Silly that I did not remember to put them in before, though.

[Rich and Corporations]

Would it be unreasonable to design and build a Merkava style IFV with 4-6 passengers and a 76mm HV gun?

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RAND tank?

Would it be unreasonable to design and build a Merkava style IFV with 4-6 passengers and a 76mm HV gun?

Are you meaning Namer-style, or really as a Merkava analog?

Mainline Namer has no gun...

Merkava, yes.

It'd be more like the M3/M2 Bradley, one variant has more ammoracks in the rear and less passengers, and the other variant has less ammo and more passengers.

[Fordorsia]

Maybe tight is the wrong word. Taut is probably more appropriate. Still, they're just there to stop the track from falling or and or from having the track damage itself or the fender from being too slack and flapping all over the place.

I see. I shall add them to my suspension immediately.

Silly that I did not remember to put them in before, though.

I think they're only really needed if the vehicle is likely to get up to any high speeds. The reason why many German tanks during WWII didn't have them is probably because they were all fairly slow and the tracks were so wide and heavy.

[The Kievan People]

It's an IFV for six passengers based on a heavy tank chassis with a 75mm autocannon in a remote turret. Obviously.

[The Kievan People]

My bad, it's a 90mm autocannon and a CKEM box launcher.

[Purpelia]

I see. I shall add them to my suspension immediately.

Silly that I did not remember to put them in before, though.

I think they're only really needed if the vehicle is likely to get up to any high speeds. The reason why many German tanks during WWII didn't have them is probably because they were all fairly slow and the tracks were so wide and heavy.

Ford is right. Basically what happens is that because tracks have to have a bit of slack as the tank moves is that the unsupported upper track will tend to flap around. And as the vehicle gets faster and faster this intensifies. And after a certain point they start bashing against both the upper fender (not important) and road wheels (which hurts). And this tends to damage the tracks. So it all depends on the speed.

[Fordorsia]

I think they're only really needed if the vehicle is likely to get up to any high speeds. The reason why many German tanks during WWII didn't have them is probably because they were all fairly slow and the tracks were so wide and heavy.

Ford is right. Basically what happens is that because tracks have to have a bit of slack as the tank moves is that the unsupported upper track will tend to flap around. And as the vehicle gets faster and faster this intensifies. And after a certain point they start bashing against both the upper fender (not important) and road wheels (which hurts). And this tends to damage the tracks. So it all depends on the speed.

I'll still never understand how slack tracks flex on the top side yet are taut along the bottom. Don't even try and explain that shit to me.

[Purpelia]

Ford is right. Basically what happens is that because tracks have to have a bit of slack as the tank moves is that the unsupported upper track will tend to flap around. And as the vehicle gets faster and faster this intensifies. And after a certain point they start bashing against both the upper fender (not important) and road wheels (which hurts). And this tends to damage the tracks. So it all depends on the speed.

I'll still never understand how slack tracks flex on the top side yet are taut along the bottom. Don't even try and explain that shit to me.

The reason why tracks are always a bit slack in the first place is so that they can flex along the bottom. That's what happens when ever your tank drives over something and the suspension raises one of the road wheels. If they were perfectly tensioned the tracks would remain rigid whilst the wheels move up and would either break, be thrown or just make the suspension useless.

[Fordorsia]

I'll still never understand how slack tracks flex on the top side yet are taut along the bottom. Don't even try and explain that shit to me.

The reason why tracks are always a bit slack in the first place is so that they can flex along the bottom. That's what happens when ever your tank drives over something and the suspension raises one of the road wheels. If they were perfectly tensioned the tracks would remain rigid whilst the wheels move up and would either break, be thrown or just make the suspension useless.

I know. I just don't understand the physics behind this.

Edit: Panthers were pretty big.

[Purpelia]

The reason why tracks are always a bit slack in the first place is so that they can flex along the bottom. That's what happens when ever your tank drives over something and the suspension raises one of the road wheels. If they were perfectly tensioned the tracks would remain rigid whilst the wheels move up and would either break, be thrown or just make the suspension useless.

I know. I just don't understand the physics behind this.

What in particular do you not understand?

[Lydenburg]

My bad, it's a 90mm autocannon and a CKEM box launcher.

Are you being serious? A 90mm autocannon?

[Pteroslavia]

Kind of wanting feedback on this, built in 1923. The engine's been modified to allow the gunner into the back turret The other ZPM-20 is in a mount next to the Driver, in the front.

[Fordorsia]

I know. I just don't understand the physics behind this.

What in particular do you not understand?

The fact that the parts of the track that are in contact with the wheels are taut and shit, and the rest is slack. I try to understand it, but my subconsciousness always rests on the idea that having the track that slack would make it just make it fall of the wheels when it was driving, regardless of speed. I don't really know what I don't understand. I think I just can't understand the idea that the track can be both taut and slack at the same time, in separate places.

Like I said, don't try to explain it to me, because it will most likely not work.

[The Kievan People]

Are you being serious? A 90mm autocannon?

Yes?

[Fordorsia]

Are you being serious? A 90mm autocannon?

Yes?

I take it you mean a semi-automatic cannon, not a fully-automatic cannon?

[New Tsavon]

Yes?

I take it you mean a semi-automatic cannon, not a fully-automatic cannon?

He could well be using an upscaled ARES gun.

[Purpelia]

The fact that the parts of the track that are in contact with the wheels are taut and shit, and the rest is slack.

You mean the bottom track? I think it's just the fact that you can't see the slack because gravity, strong as it is can't make them bend into and through the ground.

I try to understand it, but my subconsciousness always rests on the idea that having the track that slack would make it just make it fall of the wheels when it was driving, regardless of speed. I don't really know what I don't understand. I think I just can't understand the idea that the track can be both taut and slack at the same time, in separate places.

You have to stop thinking of the track as different pieces and start thinking of it as one big rubber band.

[Gallia-]

My bad, it's a 90mm autocannon and a CKEM box launcher.

Are you being serious? A 90mm autocannon?

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[Purpelia]

If an autocannon can only fire in semi-auto does it still count as one?