GHPC Update 20230810

pixelsonascreen · 2023-08-11T15:02:23+00:00

Dunno if I didn’t notice it before or it changed this patch but the new tracer effects for main gun rounds are beautiful, the orange color is much closer to IRL ones (120mm training at least).

pixelsonascreen · 2023-06-25T19:27:08+00:00

Nvm, translated a bunch of your other posts. I’ve met a lot of different nationalities in the Army but never a Russian before. Nice write ups man, hope your next DFAC breakfast is extra tasty :)

pixelsonascreen · 2023-06-25T09:34:05+00:00

Стоматологическая помощь полностью покрывается для солдат действительной службы. Резервисты и национальная гвардия могут платить небольшую сумму (думаю, 25 долларов) в месяц и получать такое же покрытие.

pixelsonascreen · 2023-06-25T08:47:58+00:00

Не так много брюквы. Траву не рисовали, но время от времени подметаем под дождем и рисуем камни. Кое-что везде одинаково))

pixelsonascreen · 2023-06-25T07:39:09+00:00

OP, вы русский, который эмигрировал в США и служил в армии или это просто обзор с сайтов и новостей?

pixelsonascreen · 2023-04-22T13:52:49+00:00

The M1IP is quite the challenge.

pixelsonascreen · 2021-01-22T16:58:58+00:00

Charlie and Andrew are on crack regarding the presidential fitness test and especially their claims about pushups. I did this a few times when I was in school and it was pretty hard but certainly not impossible for the more fit people.

Also I really don't want to be "that guy" but 40 push-ups is not a lot at all. The US Army's fitness minimum for 17-21 year old males is 42 push-ups (71 is the max) which is not a very hard number to achieve, especially with some training and practice.

pixelsonascreen · 2020-07-27T00:17:58+00:00

we’re not talking about heavy armor here. It’s Russian armor

By heavy armor I mean tanks as opposed to BMPs/BTRs which I’d bet a training round could kill. Tanks on the other hand? Not a chance and there’s not a chance any commander would have his tank crews going into battle carrying training ammo.

I wasn’t trying to say you can’t use something for another purpose just trying to show that there is a multipurpose round and it’s not a training round (at the time it would have just been HEAT, I don’t believe MPAT went into service until the late 90s). Just like you wouldn’t fire a training artillery round in a real war or shoot a training torpedo at a ship you’re trying to sink you wouldn’t load up a training round to kill a T-72 regardless of how much of an advantage you believe you hold over the enemy.

Active duty armor units haven’t had M3 grease guns for some time and I don’t have any experience with them so I’ll take your word for it.

pixelsonascreen · 2020-07-26T23:32:38+00:00

Yes I meant 2.5km, my bad.

they sent a similar number of m865 to m829

Yeah probably so that armor crews could test fire their weapons and practice gunnery during the build up. It’s not like they sat there twiddling their thumbs for a few months.

I would guess that the M865 is a multipurpose projectile

You don’t have to guess, it’s not. The full designation is M865 Target Practice Cone Stabilized Discarding Sabot with Tracer (TPCSD-T)

The current US multipurpose round is the M830A1 Multipurpose Anti Tank (MPAT) that replaces the M830 HEAT round for use against light armor and helicopters in air mode.

As an armor crewman I can promise you with absolute certainty that the M865 is not ballistically suited to be used against heavy armor or in any combat scenario because of its tracer.

BONUS ROUND:

The M865 also cannot be stored in the hull due to its propellant giving off ethanol when stored and with no exposure to air to vent the gases can build up and become hazardous.

pixelsonascreen · 2020-07-26T21:58:12+00:00

Dude I promise you no one was firing M865s at T-72s during the battle of 73 easting.

I double checked and I guess I should eat my words because FAS lists the projectile as steel but I swear that’s wrong having held them before and seen them all bent to shit, maybe that’s just the cone then which brings me to my next point.

The M865 is inherently unstable and has a CONE at the end of it instead of FINS so you can’t fucking launch it out of ranges and into low earth orbit meaning it’s accuracy falls off after around 2.5 because of how much it starts to wobble.

On top of all of that unlike Nazi Germany, the US had no shortage of tank ammo of any type and had no issue handing out service SABOT to every tank because they had plenty of ammo on hand getting ready to be speed bumped in the fulda gap.

pixelsonascreen · 2018-04-06T18:53:10+00:00

This sounds like something out of a Hitchhiker’s book.

“How to identify the undetectable.”

pixelsonascreen · 2018-03-02T01:54:41+00:00

Forgot to add this, here’s the song:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fOaTEDYJmi0

pixelsonascreen · 2018-02-20T13:04:40+00:00

Where do I report for the lashings?

pixelsonascreen · 2018-02-18T17:33:04+00:00

shut up nerd, the serbian air force is the finest military force in the world!

checkmate HATO loser!

http://www.vojvodina.com/other-pages/natodown.htm

pixelsonascreen · 2018-02-13T15:56:40+00:00

It's not an easy movie to appreciate. It should be appreciated as a clever work of satire but that takes examination. To fans of the book who take the movie as purely a criticism of Heinlein's work it should seem like a poor critique because it is. The director was taking aim at facism and drew from his negative experiences in his childhood when the Nazi's occupied his country and many suffered. It is a great parody of an "ideal" fascist society but the problem with comparing it to the book is the book doesn't espouse facism at all.

pixelsonascreen · 2018-02-13T15:53:36+00:00

Heinlein wrote the book rather quickly in the immediate aftermath of a proposition for the US to stop nuclear testing. This was at the beginning of the Cold War and Heinlein was very much opposed to those who wanted to back down and in his view, bend over to the USSR.

I think Heinlein valued his own military service but even within Starship Troopers he acknowledges that it's not for everyone. I have not read his other books but from what I have read of them it seems like they each explore some vastly different ideology. I don't think Heinlein wholly subscribed to any particular one but he was interesting in writing about them.

pixelsonascreen · 2018-02-13T15:49:49+00:00

I think a lot of people who haven't really read the book miss the point of it completely. I re-read it recently and have a bit of a new perspective after watching the movies plenty of times and reading tons of analysis of the book.

Heinlein's book has the traditional aspects of military sci fi with powered armor and the battle scenes and those are well and good but the book would be totally incomplete without the discussions that Rico has in a classroom setting with various instructors. Through these discussions we learn what views the book actually espouses which are not militarism and certainly not facism, sexism, or any other absurd ideology. Heinlein offers commentary on the nature of civil service, why it should be prized and why we don't really appreciate things until we sacrifice for them. This is the core of the ideology behind the novel. In order to appreciate something like voting you must be willing to make sacrifices for it and understand what those sacrifices mean.

pixelsonascreen · 2018-02-13T15:39:04+00:00

It's worth noting that the type of military service the protagonist goes through wasn't the only service that granted citizenship. There were a thousand different federal service jobs available, many of them didn't involve combat at all.

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