Creating Your Own Everything VI [No Advertising]

[Valkiir]

halftrack fitted with 4 water cooled .50 caliber machine guns. as well as a pintle mounted machine gun for additional anti aircraft fire. Of course since the cab and the gun mount are protected from small arms fire it could be used for convoy escort, infantry support, or protecting airfields, depots etc...


Halftrack for infantry transport and fire support....1 .50 caliber Machine Gun and to .30 caliber machine guns. The .30 caliber guns are mounted on rails attached to the inside of the armored box allowing them to move all along the sidewalls. Both .30 caliber guns, and .50 caliber can fire forward or to the rear.

[New Visegrad]

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halftrack fitted with 4 water cooled .50 caliber machine guns. as well as a pintle mounted machine gun for additional anti aircraft fire. Of course since the cab and the gun mount are protected from small arms fire it could be used for convoy escort, infantry support, or protecting airfields, depots etc...

I think there are some issues with this, mostly centering on the forward .50.
Most prominently, it's in the way. That pillar is going to pretty seriously obstruct the driver's view, and the gun itself is in real danger of getting shot up by the turret guns when firing at low elevation.
Secondly, it's gonna be awkward to use. Half-tracks are pretty tall; I figure an average human would come up to...around the view slit in the door, when standing outside. Maybe less. By my rough estimation, that puts the back of the gun at about head height when it's elevated like that. That's...okay, if you only want to shoot up at that angle. Trying to shoot at lower elevations is going to be pretty uncomfortable. Also, because the front of the vehicle is in the way, the traverse is restricted, unless the gunner is expected to climb on the bonnet.

I'm not 100% convinced by the full enclosure of the turret. Most equivalent real systems don't do this, and I figure there must be a reason. But, I don't know exactly what that reason is, so perhaps it could work.


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Stuff of my own:

Taiyo Sa Morze, the Fair Wind

"The universe is too beautiful to live fast and die young."
-- Taiyo Sa Morze

Taiyo Sa Morze is a Jiangshe knight of Cayd Rock, in the Quiet Era. She served under Lord Cannock, Lady Pelecki, and Lady Bauer. She is known for her positive outlook and steady judgement. As a knight, she tends to prefer assignments taking her outside of Cayd space, or to rarely-visited destinations.

Taiyo carries the vectal monoblade "Sakaali" and the Bugorski gun "Yksinäinen Tähti", and captains the vectal corvette AAQS Big Sister

AAQS Big Sister / hyperlight weapon "the Light Fantastic"

"$VAR_WPN_79 selected. Engaging targets 1 through 6. ... All targets destroyed, my lady. No further contacts."
-- AAQS Big Sister

The hyperlight weapon known as the Light Fantastic consists of two components. The first, which is mounted on the ship, is a relatively simple sustained jump-space aperture generator (in other words, a jump gate). The other module is the other end of the gate, permanently open, located 30 light-seconds from the white hole at Witch Deep. This is impossible for numerous reasons, notably: it is impossible to create a jump-space tunnel of this nature; and it is impossible to go within 0.5 light-years of Witch Deep, due to the overwhelming amount of radiation and energy constantly spewing from the white hole. It is the second impossibility which grants the Light Fantastic its destructive power - the jump gate simply transmits a beam of white hole output wherever it's pointed.

By the Quiet Era, the mobile component of the Light Fantastic was mounted aboard AAQS Big Sister, a vectal corvette in the Cayd Fleet under the command of the knight Taiyo Sa Morze.

Further reading:
Hyperlight

[Valkiir]

I think there are some issues with this, mostly centering on the forward .50.
Most prominently, it's in the way. That pillar is going to pretty seriously obstruct the driver's view, and the gun itself is in real danger of getting shot up by the turret guns when firing at low elevation.
Secondly, it's gonna be awkward to use. Half-tracks are pretty tall; I figure an average human would come up to...around the view slit in the door, when standing outside. Maybe less. By my rough estimation, that puts the back of the gun at about head height when it's elevated like that. That's...okay, if you only want to shoot up at that angle. Trying to shoot at lower elevations is going to be pretty uncomfortable. Also, because the front of the vehicle is in the way, the traverse is restricted, unless the gunner is expected to climb on the bonnet.

I'm not 100% convinced by the full enclosure of the turret. Most equivalent real systems don't do this, and I figure there must be a reason. But, I don't know exactly what that reason is, so perhaps it could work.

I would say your fairly right about what you are saying....the forward mount is not the most practical , and the closed in cab is a bt iffy compared to the original incarnation of halftracks...
The Forward gun mount can be removed and stowed. it's an anti-aircraft mount so the high angle fire is the intended use of it....This is where I got the idea.


This is the base hull with the same weapons mount so you can see where the muzzle blast of the gun would firing forward would be for the river...


now the sealed cab is more to protect the driver from the muzzle flash of heavier weapons...like on this version that mounts a howitzer with the quad 50 it would be down right painful if the gun rotated over the drover while firing, with the howitzers it would be about as pleasant as a stick of dynamite going off over your head.....with a fully armored cb and armored roof the driver can stay in his position to shoot and scoot as needed. Additionally vehicle can provide direct fire support following closely behind the infantry....in the quad 50 configuration the gunner is in his own around tub, while the driver and loaders for the 50s are in the cab area ...that allows the guns to be used for direct fire support as well as anti aircraft fire...and lets face it four 50 call gun firing into the front of the average brick building will result in drastic lowering not only property value, but its value as a tactical position. The water cooled guns can maintain a ferocious rate of fire until its ammo cans are completely empty....800 rounds of .50 in less than a minute should nicely ventilate/renovate almost any structure.

Or this Anti tank gun carrier...

[Rostavykhan]

I'm finally learning how to make animated .gifs after having trouble with it forever.

[Anjung Batu]

Anjung Rainstorm


Anjung Atroia

[Corindia]

a swedish friend

[Legendary Island of Atlantis]

Here's two Eterian Cold War soldiers as well as two jets.

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My NationState has the first one. Planning a declaration of war on Western-only left-wing anti-Nazi nations (by that, I mean that if it is true in your current culture that left-wingers are more sensitive to World War 2 and anti-fascism than right-wingers, I'll bomb you) that were the Allies in world war 2, for being such an absolute truth. Drone bombing planned to be run from 7/5/2020 to 4/16/2022.

[Alteran Republics]

Modern Harrier Carrier represent.

Bonus Round:



Stealth Frigate

[Gallia-]

It looks 30 years old.

Not too modern.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

The carrier looks shorter than what I'm really comfortable with tbh... I look at a CV and if it still has fixed wing complement with a hangar capacity below 15 I'm starting to question the utility really.

[Corindia]

finished coloring the swede guy. Might also mess with some camo looks.

[Alteran Republics]

It looks 30 years old.

Not too modern.

Hah, probably because it was largely inspires by the Vosper concept.

The carrier looks shorter than what I'm really comfortable with tbh... I look at a CV and if it still has fixed wing complement with a hangar capacity below 15 I'm starting to question the utility really.

That's the beauty of SVTOL for you

[Gallia-]

The one that was new in the 1970s? That's not modern. The 1970s were 40+ years ago. A Gearing would be more modern in that time than that carrier would be today.

The biggest problem with those little micro-carriers of the 1970s is that they were too small to operate appreciable air wings. A cargo ship would be a better platform to build a carrier on, despite what nerds might think, since it's big. Air wings want big room for all the things they use, like ammunition, spare parts, pilots, fuel, and workshop space. Making a hardy 8,000 ton "carrier" just results in a billion dollar destroyer with a marginal air capability, which defeats the point.

I guess it looks cool but that SMART-L probably costs more than the rest of the ship put together.

If it were just helicopters with a TACAN and some boxes for sonobuoys it would be fine I guess. The tonnage wouldn't need to be mega huge or anything and a helicopter isn't going to go far enough for it to matter much. You could easily fit half a dozen helicopters like SH-60 or SH-3 on something that big and shave off huge amounts of money in electronics. Jet aviation like F-35 or Harrier really want something in the 20-30,000 ton range to be viable though.

[Danternoust]

I'm finally learning how to make animated .gifs after having trouble with it forever.

The future is APNG and webm, if you can find a host for them.

[Danubian Peoples]

Ar-3 (Naval Variant)

The Ar-3 was in development for an extended period of time, first envisioned as a two engine dive bomber. New advancements in aircraft technology and economical concerns would render the two engine design moot, as a slightly smaller payload could be delivered by a single-engine craft. Eventually prototypes of the single-engine design would be field tested during the Spanish Civil War (1935-1936), and the new ground attack aircraft was proven successful. It would take another 3 years until the design hit mass production. In 1940, upon the Soviet Union's entry into the Second Great War, the Ar-3 found success as a ground attack aircraft in Eastern Europe, and in Manchuria, where they would also be used against the Japanese. Come 1942, the Soviet Union needed some airplanes for its meager carrier force, and the Ar-3 was retrofitted for the job, with the introduction of a tail hook and a new color scheme. The naval variant (pictured) saw some success against Japanese ships up until the end of the war.

4 20mm cannons on the front
2 7.62mm machine guns on the rear gunner
A payload (not pictured) of either a torpedo, a 500-kilo bomb, 2 250-kilo bombs or 4-100 kilo bombs.

While not my country's airplane per se, I still made this graphic and I'm still posting it, I guess. I was inspired by a recent game of HOIV with the Fuhrerreich mod, which is also where I got the 'sickle and wrench.' I was originally going to make this a normal attack craft, but the design reminded me too much of the Wildcat. I'd like some criticism of the design and backstory, as well as the drawing.
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Ar-3 (Terrestrial Variant)
Got around posting it.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

It looks 30 years old.

Not too modern.

Hah, probably because it was largely inspires by the Vosper concept.

The carrier looks shorter than what I'm really comfortable with tbh... I look at a CV and if it still has fixed wing complement with a hangar capacity below 15 I'm starting to question the utility really.

That's the beauty of SVTOL for you 8)

What is sortie generation rate?

[Kassaran]

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Ar-3 (Terrestrial Variant)
Got around posting it.

Is cute plane, but too smol. It could be like the I-16 Ishak from early-war period, but it looks fundamentally underpowered or under-sized. Rudder could use expansion aft to give more control surface authority in turns and what-have-you.

Naval variant could use beefier hook and reinforced landing gear in later iterations, though the arrestor hook should be beefier from the start. Could also use a fixed tail gear which could make up for not having a beefy arrestor hook. You don't look to have enough space for the hydraulics which would enable you to have a retractable gear there.

[Hundredstar]

[Alteran Republics]

What is sortie generation rate?

Ain't going to give you some arbitrary armchair general number; dependant entirely on weather, sortie type, length into operation, supplies and what was served for breakfast that morning.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

What is sortie generation rate?

Ain't going to give you some arbitrary armchair general number; dependant entirely on weather, sortie type, length into operation, supplies and what was served for breakfast that morning.

I'll give you a number: 1 per 4-8 hours.

[Danubian Peoples]

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Many thanks for the advice. In hindsight, the plane does look a little small, perhaps even too small for the 'attacker' designation I gave it. I'll be sure to beef up the tail hook on the naval design and change the lore and designation (Arkhangelsky dealt mostly in bombers). I think I might also have to ditch the aft gunner and one of the 20mm cannon pairs. Perhaps they'll be readded in later variants, so, who knows?

[Anemos Major]

This is cute as fuck, but proportions are slightly off (canopy in particular is thicc). Will look fantastic with a bit of tweaking.

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[Alteran Republics]

Ain't going to give you some arbitrary armchair general number; dependant entirely on weather, sortie type, length into operation, supplies and what was served for breakfast that morning.

I'll give you a number: 1 per 4-8 hours.

Cute, but not how operations work.

[Danubian Peoples]

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Hey, I've taken both of your advices on my plane. I shrank the canopy like you guys suggested, but now it feels like the plane is suddenly bigger. I also enlarged the aft rudder and mad the tail hook thicker. I unfortunately could not add fixed landing gear because it looked wrong no matter what way I did it. Anyway, here are the revised planes. They're no longer Ar-3s, so, any ideas for which Soviet design bureau would make planes like these slightly bigger fighter bois?

The first is an image of the 'trial run' aircraft I talked about, having been used to some extent in the Spanish Civil War. It was only armed with 6 7.62 mm guns. There were 2 squadrons made of this new plane, the rest having been tried and tested but also dated fighters. It proved moderately successful, enough for it to be greenlit for future mass production. Later, this variant of the plane would see action in the far east against the Russian Republic, rebranded remnants of the White Army in the far east.

The second image is of a plane during 1940, with camo from the Western campaign where the Soviets marched into German-occupied Poland. The plane was initially fielded in too small of number to compete with established German air coverage, but production was quickly ramped up. This variant also saw service in the east, this time against Japan, since the fall of the Russian Republic had paved the way for an entry into Manchuria. This plane had 2 20mm cannons replacing 4 of the 7.62s.

The last image is of a plane from 1943, when the Soviets had begun creating a carrier force. This variant saw the addition of a tail hook and reinforced landing gear. It was used in the Pacific Theater against the Japanese up until the war's end.

Note that many more variants of this plane would have existed, which I will likely expand upon in the future.

[Drongonia]

So I just redesigned my entire factbook layout (only the homepage for now, but I will do the rest soon). Here's a link to it

Thoughts? Also, it's gotta look better than the old one right???