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Zarkenis Ultima wrote:Tristan noticed footsteps behind him and looked there, only to see Eric approaching and then pointing his sword at the girl. He just blinked a few times at this before speaking.
"Put that down, Mr. Eric." He said. "She's obviously not a chicken."
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by Anemos Major » Tue Feb 12, 2019 4:28 am
NeuroNet wrote:Love these vehicles! (Not my scale, but the detail is well done.)
I suggest a tweak just to the descriptions. If you're going to field wheeled APCs with a high suspension, may as well include that they have shaped MRAP hull bottoms. Two layers of protection if you have blast resistant seats already, and a shaped bottom could imply better amphibious ability for crossing rivers, essential for rapidly mobile light forces.
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by NeuroNet » Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:23 am
by Manokan Republic » Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:53 am
NeuroNet wrote:
For the vehicle top right, next to the Merkava and over the Abrams...
Question: What caliber is the gun system sticking out between the Chaparral/Sidewinder rails in the turret? IMHO the turret is a tiny box barely room enough for an operator, but if you remove the crew seat, I don't expect there's room for a gun mounting, recoil mechanism and loading assembly for any large caliber (over 30mm) piece...
by NeuroNet » Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:12 am
Anemos Major wrote:you're absolutely right, the APCs are designed to fit V-hulls (though in retrospect, the lineart could perhaps better reflect this) - that having been said, there isn't enough room on the small graphic to describe this, so it'll probably have to be mentioned in the upcoming write-up. The amphibious thing is rather critical though, and I hope to draw up an MA12 fitted with waterjets at some point soon.
by NeuroNet » Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:19 am
Manokan Republic wrote:It was left ambiguously vague and isn't particularly well drawn given how small it is (with my art skills on bitmap being rather poor), but I'd like to imagine it's a 30mm or 40mm turret, even if that seems ridiculous. The idea in my head is it being unmanned and the little hump it's seated on being where the ammunition is predominately stowed. The closest example to a similiar weapon would be AAV-7 chaingun mount, which stored it's ammunition in a drum underneath the gun. In the case of this picture, I'd say it's lightly armored and has other systems attached to it, like FLIR's and missiles and what have you. As it's designed to be pointed upwards for dual use as an anti-aircraft weapon, I figure the gun itself may appear tiny, as what you are predominately seeing is the barrel and not the rest of the gun or ammunition. In essence, the ammunition and the like is stored underneath the gun. The barrel also has a very large thermal sleeve on it, so it's not a 40mm caliber barrel you are seeing, but something drastically larger which, throws off the appearance in regards to proportions. Antiaircraft guns are often times more maneuverable and smaller than guns located inside of turrets, [1][2] sort of like the pandur's main gun. To be fair the way I imagine it in my head is not the way it's normally done, and thus part of the reason why it's maybe not a good idea for the design. It's also the case that many 30-40mm turrets don't actually store a lot of rounds in any case, like for example the Stryker dragoon only holds 150 rounds, and 75 of each type, while a lot of the 40mm CTA weapons have like 50-70 rounds total. However, I probably will change it's appearance later on since it looks weird. Perhaps ironically, I almost didn't include it in this picture out of fear of someone asking this exact question, I did it mostly for color contrast xD
Chainguns also have the potential to be significantly smaller than comparably sized autocannons, so for example while the CV-90 has like a 10,000 pound 40mm bofors cannon in it, an 800 pound 40mm chaingun can theoretically replace it, which is obviously substantially smaller. [1][2] With it being electrically operated, and not recoil operated, the mass of the parts is lower and you also have reduced recoil. Think of it as an electrically operated break action, or perhaps more closely resembling a lever action or pump action. Single shot guns can be much smaller than semiautomatics, and as the weapon doesn't rely on the recoil of the round but electricity to operate, it can retain the small size and high reliability, but fire nearly as fast as many automatic weapons. It requires an external power source, which is ideally powered with a hybrid engine, but if not then there are various electric generators which can be used, such as a Wankel engine like used in the M1 abrams which, actually a real thing. Think of it as a really small electric generator. So, essentially there doesn't need to be room for a large recoil assembly. The 40mm CT is also a cased telescopic round, being substantially smaller and lighter than traditional 40mm bofors rounds.
by Manokan Republic » Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:17 pm
NeuroNet wrote:That does clear things up. I always picture the gun mounts as I remember them from my days in the Fleet (USN). You tend to have the action, stabilizing suspension in the mount, etc. My eye saw that gun barrel as a copy of the Merkava main gun, very thick. Perhaps for later versions of the drawing, it could be thinned out with a smaller caliber barrel look, as 20-30mm dual purpose guns don't need giant thermal sleeves due to rates of fire and ease of swapping out a bad barrel compared to that of a tank.
by Manokan Republic » Tue Feb 12, 2019 2:12 pm
Anemos Major wrote:
That's me! To this day I regret not choosing a DeviantArt username that's not more immediately relevant to my NS nation, but alas, it's maybe a bit too late to correct that.
If you go back far enough on one of these threads, you can actually find the discussions that we had prior to the lineart considering the effectiveness of the concept! Much like the Otomatic that got me thinking down these lines, the essence of the design is its inherent trade-off - on one hand, yes, it has sufficient reach to challenge today's breed of attack helicopters more effectively than a 35mm weapons system, but you pay the price in terms of ammunition stowage (which decreases steeply as a result of the vastly larger rounds). What that means is that it's highly unlikely that such a vehicle would actually be able to serve as a dual role air/ground support vehicle, because when you're an anti-air vehicle with a stowed ammo capacity of ~70 rounds, you're going to need all of those to be AA optimised.
That's not to say that I think the core principle is necessarily a bad one; with developments in contemporary smart rounds, it's probably going to be fairly good at hitting helicopters and drones. It's just not going to be trawling around the battlefield destroying anything lighter than a tank, sadly.
by Manokan Republic » Tue Feb 12, 2019 2:45 pm
by Anemos Major » Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:24 am
Manokan Republic wrote:Hehe, I understand, but I figure that you could still shoot an APC as there's a lot of cross over between anti-aircraft armor piercing rounds and anti-vehicle one's, although, it wouldn't be as good for anti-vehicle work. But since it's so crazy powerful, it would perform alright.
Manokan Republic wrote:Also smart rounds are the way to go! I recently found a 76mm AA-gun that has similiar properties to what you might want this one to be, with smart rounds and everything, so that's promising in terms of ballistics although, it's rather huge, particularly given it's not a chain-gun or similiar weapon. It holds 80 rounds and is only 7.5 tons, so as a turret, even in it's exact configuration as it is now, it's not that bad. It has a 20km range with the DART rounds fairly easily, so that's pretty nice helicopter engagement. The 40km is only against ground targets, utilizing "Vulcano" rounds which fly extremely high in the air, and then free-fall the rest of the way to be guided to target.
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by Anglomir » Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:47 am
Zitravgrad wrote:"In every man, there is an animal that wishes to dominate. But in Anglomir, we are already the dominating race."
The English Regions wrote:Nationalistic and overly serious, whose idea of fun is having a beer whilst making jokes about foreigners.
Convallaria wrote:Paternalistic Conservatism with elements of theological dominionism.
Painisia wrote:Neo-fascist monarchy
Tondo Federation wrote:Germano-Nordic Vikings who drink a lot of beer and work for 40 hours a day
by Manokan Republic » Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:20 am
Anemos Major wrote:Manokan Republic wrote:Hehe, I understand, but I figure that you could still shoot an APC as there's a lot of cross over between anti-aircraft armor piercing rounds and anti-vehicle one's, although, it wouldn't be as good for anti-vehicle work. But since it's so crazy powerful, it would perform alright.
Probably not, actually - an AHEAD round might have some luck shattering the external sensors of a vehicle (maybe), but it's probably better used against its intended targets. Even loading, say, a handful of APFSDS rounds for anti-vehicle work would be shaving a shocking amount of stored AA capability off the vehicle - in an ideal world, you'd have some other vehicle with a big cannon to stop vehicles from getting to your SPAAG
So, funnily enough...
My idea isn't the most original thing in the world - what I sought to do was essentially to bring together the Otomatic and the Pantsir in one handy turret!
by Korva » Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:22 am
Anglomir wrote:How would I go about making my own custom soldiers and tanks with the waving custom flags on the tanks or insignia on the uniforms as seen in some of these photos?
by Manokan Republic » Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:08 am
Anglomir wrote:
How would I go about making my own custom soldiers and tanks with the waving custom flags on the tanks or insignia on the uniforms as seen in some of these photos?
by NeuroNet » Wed Feb 13, 2019 3:29 pm
by Corindia » Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:35 pm
Manokan Republic wrote:Anglomir wrote:How would I go about making my own custom soldiers and tanks with the waving custom flags on the tanks or insignia on the uniforms as seen in some of these photos?
You have to be really good at drawing. I'm a cheater-cheater pumpkin-eater, so I steal/copy other people's drawing and modify them slightly. Sometimes they turn out completely different, so you can sort of think of it as drawing over an existing stencil. Eventually you can change so much it's nothing like the original, but it's still basically stealing.
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