NS Military Realism Consultation Thread #3

[San Benedict e San Francesco]

Would it be poor taste to go post an inverse-storefront in GE&T (lawlz!) looking for each piece of equipment I want my army to have without designing myself? I have no real desire to start designing armour or trucks and it's hard to weed through all the PMT/FanT arms consortiums to find non-lulzy tanks for late PT early MT.

[Purpelia]

The massive use of atomic weapons on the French border will make it Christmas in August.

Don't eat the glowing snow. ):

Even a strategic nuclear exchange wouldn't cause a world war to end immediately. All it would do is destroy massive quantities of civilian infrastructure, generate tremendous casualties among civilians, and generally ruin every major city of note in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. The European combatants in WWII were able to deal with similar levels of destruction, massive civilian casualties, and firebombed cities and continue to support their armies in the field just fine for years.

In the lead up to WWI, it was said the war would be short and violent due to the incredibly deadly advances in technology. In WWII, they thought it would be over just as soon after the Battle of France and the demonstration of developments in air power. Who's to say WWIII would buck the trend when nations have demonstrated a capacity to absorb the kind of damage a nuclear exchange would deal and keep on fighting?

Except that not. Any strategic nuclear exchange would focus primarily on destroying the very things required for warfare and not just murdering civilians. In fact, any civilian casualties that would come out of it would be entirely collateral damage. The notion that as you put it "every major city" would be ruined is false. You would have to shower a modern metropolis with hundreds of nuclear weapons to ensure that. And every weapon wasted on it is a weapon not used on disabling your enemies capability to fight. In fact, most cities would not be targeted beyond destroying the few point targets. That is not to say that there would not be millions of corpses. These are nuclear weapons after all. But at the end of the day it is the war effort who would suffer worst as they would find them self cut off from any future supplies and pressed between an enemy at the door and social collapse behind them.

[The Akasha Colony]

Would it be poor taste to go post an inverse-storefront in GE&T (lawlz!) looking for each piece of equipment I want my army to have without designing myself? I have no real desire to start designing armour or trucks and it's hard to weed through all the PMT/FanT arms consortiums to find non-lulzy tanks for late PT early MT.

You can, but IMO, the best storefronts usually don't advertise. The ones that do are usually in my experience somewhat subpar. The better ones let word of mouth and reputation sell their products.

[Ea90]

Would it be poor taste to go post an inverse-storefront in GE&T (lawlz!) looking for each piece of equipment I want my army to have without designing myself? I have no real desire to start designing armour or trucks and it's hard to weed through all the PMT/FanT arms consortiums to find non-lulzy tanks for late PT early MT.

Normally, such a request is called a Request For Tender (RFT), and they do happen reasonably often. However, as Akasha said, quite a lot of the people that respond to such a request would be the lower-quality ones.

[Anemos Major]

Normally, such a request is called a Request For Tender (RFT), and they do happen reasonably often. However, as Akasha said, quite a lot of the people that respond to such a request would be the lower-quality ones.

Q_Q

[Spirit of Hope]

Normally, such a request is called a Request For Tender (RFT), and they do happen reasonably often. However, as Akasha said, quite a lot of the people that respond to such a request would be the lower-quality ones.

Q_Q

You are of the highest quality. However GE&T is a pile of manure through wich one has to shift for diamonds. The diamonds tend not to jump out. On a side note do you do commissions/requests?

[Anemos Major]

On a side note do you do commissions/requests?

Not in general, no - why?

[Spirit of Hope]

On a side note do you do commissions/requests?

Not in general, no - why?

Because I like your style and was wondering if I could make one. Isn't any big deal.

[Anemos Major]

Because I like your style and was wondering if I could make one. Isn't any big deal.

Ah, righto. Sorry about that :S I'm in the process of linearting quite a lot of stuff right now, so my hands are more than full.

[Ea90]

You are of the highest quality. However GE&T is a pile of manure through wich one has to shift for diamonds. The diamonds tend not to jump out.

Very much this.

[Rich and Corporations]

Would it be poor taste to go post an inverse-storefront in GE&T (lawlz!) looking for each piece of equipment I want my army to have without designing myself? I have no real desire to start designing armour or trucks and it's hard to weed through all the PMT/FanT arms consortiums to find non-lulzy tanks for late PT early MT.

You can, but IMO, the best storefronts usually don't advertise. The ones that do are usually in my experience somewhat subpar. The better ones let word of mouth and reputation sell their products.

When I was running a ponzi scheme on GE&T, Yohannes contacted me about her stock exchange.

[Oaledonia]

Boeing x-32 (In my lore it was upgraded profusely) or F-35 as a JSF?

(Don't say neither :c)

[Rich and Corporations]

Boeing x-32 (In my lore it was upgraded profusely) or F-35 as a JSF?

(Don't say neither :c)

The shaft driven lift fan of the F-35 would provide superior performance.
That component just adds slightly to the overall cost though.

Stealth planes are really expensive.

[Graznovia]

Is it a bad idea to equip platoon 'command' (not so much command as in dedicated command versions of the vehicle but rather the vehicle in which platoon command rides) with a mortar (probably 2B9 Vasilek), considering that it would imply to the adversary that the vehicle with the mortar contains the command element?

BAMP.

On another note, does anyone have information on Soviet/Russian rifle (yes, rifle and not motor rifle) formations?

[Fischermann]

First time doing a vehicle in Paint, let alone a jet.

Any glaring issues? It's mostly based off the F16, the Kestrel and the Me 262.

Know that I've no idea what I'm doing

[Mozria]

(Image)

First time doing a vehicle in Paint, let alone a jet.

Any glaring issues? It's mostly based off the F16, the Kestrel and the Me 262.

Know that I've no idea what I'm doing

Scale?

[Fischermann]

(Image)

First time doing a vehicle in Paint, let alone a jet.

Any glaring issues? It's mostly based off the F16, the Kestrel and the Me 262.

Know that I've no idea what I'm doing

Scale?

No scale.

As I said, I've no idea what I'm doing. The only planes I know of are WWII ones.

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I made a pilot highlight -

[Triplebaconation]

Very interesting design.

[Transnapastain]

My apologies for not catching this previously, and thanks to The Akasha Colony for bring it to my attention. Usually, I would not accept nominations not using the proper template, since I provided it in the OP, but due to my error, I'll trawl the thread and find them.

Never say I haven't done anything for you lot.

Nominations will now be closed and the poll added to the OP. I will disable voting at page 495(ish)

This is my Nomination. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Nominee: Transnapastain
Back up Nominee: Who ever finally just does it so we can go to the new thread, or is reaching 500 now some new fad?

Threads are locked and began anew at 500 pages.

[Samozaryadnyastan]

The massive use of atomic weapons on the French border will make it Christmas in August.

Don't eat the glowing snow. ):

Even a strategic nuclear exchange wouldn't cause a world war to end immediately. All it would do is destroy massive quantities of civilian infrastructure, generate tremendous casualties among civilians, and generally ruin every major city of note in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. The European combatants in WWII were able to deal with similar levels of destruction, massive civilian casualties, and firebombed cities and continue to support their armies in the field just fine for years.

In the lead up to WWI, it was said the war would be short and violent due to the incredibly deadly advances in technology. In WWII, they thought it would be over just as soon after the Battle of France and the demonstration of developments in air power. Who's to say WWIII would buck the trend when nations have demonstrated a capacity to absorb the kind of damage a nuclear exchange would deal and keep on fighting?

WWII will be an inconvenience compared to a targeted all-out strategic exchange.

You will never be able to deal with a nuclear strike, you can only hope to salvage what evades them.

[Novayan Unifed Republics]

What would be the required mass for a tank gun using a 155mm gun firing rounds using Combustion Augmented Plasma 'powder' that masses, at most, 50kilos at 5km/s? Include calculations for both recoil reduction equipped and non-recoil reduction equipped tanks if you would please.

[Samozaryadnyastan]

What would be the required mass for a tank gun using a 155mm gun firing rounds using Combustion Augmented Plasma 'powder' that masses, at most, 50kilos at 5km/s? Include calculations for both recoil reduction equipped and non-recoil reduction equipped tanks if you would please.

Your gun will have a theoretical ME of 625MJ (about 50 times that of 120mm guns), plus propellant ejecta.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this gun could never be used.

[The Akasha Colony]

What would be the required mass for a tank gun using a 155mm gun firing rounds using Combustion Augmented Plasma 'powder' that masses, at most, 50kilos at 5km/s? Include calculations for both recoil reduction equipped and non-recoil reduction equipped tanks if you would please.

Leaving aside propellants, at 50 kg and 5,000 m/s, you'd need a tank weighing 278 tons to fire it in a comfortable manner for the crew. This cannot be practicably reduced through recoil-abating measures.

[Kouralia]

RKG-3 has an impact fuse, so if it lands on the floor (imagine like a plane - not landing like a missile with the point down) would it go off, and would it detonate after a period of time?

[Lamoni]

Impact fuzes typically depend on hitting a target within a set range of angles (though typically a 90 degree angle works best).

This means that the answer to your question would depend on the exact fuze used by the RKG-3, and how sensitive it is. About it going off after a period of time, that I do not know.