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I had the unit in my master but I have now re-nationalized it.... JUST IN CASE things change ( again )
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Hunting for 155mm M777A2 howitzers already started here Russian movie from drone. That must be very valuable asset for Ukrainians.
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Looks like my June 2022 estimate for the Ukrainian PzH 2000 was pessimistic by a couple of weeks. Reports are saying they are in use now and some suggest there *May* be over 100 of them delivered ( eventually...)
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Also suggested is that the few 2S35 Koalitsiya the Russians have are based on the T-90 chassis not the Armata and this proves to be a valid point and the wheels are the clue
Armata https://www.19fortyfive.com/wp-conte...rmata-Tank.jpg T-90m https://nationalinterest.org/sites/d...ade_558-22.jpg 2S35 Koalitsiya https://www.janes.com/images/default...rsn=8997e5a5_2 Armata has 7 solid wheels--no indents, T90 6 wheels with 6 indents per wheel Original info suggested this was to be built on the T-14 but it appears not or there just where not enough T-14 chassis to fill the order so the early versions are hybrids........ time will tell but I will "adjust" the Icon https://forum.shrapnelgames.com/atta...1&d=1652964574 |
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US Army's Directed Energy Maneuver Short Range Air Defense system (or DE M-SHORAD for short)
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I'm just wondering how battlefield lasers could be handled within the game; you would need special code to handle them; as they'd have different effect levels: Anti Drone/Mortar/Rocket (50 kW) Anti-Artillery (150kW) Anti-Aircraft (300 kW) i.e. an anti drone 50 kW laser wouldn't be capable of defeating incoming artillery or enemy aircraft; etc But all three would be able to operate in "blinding" mode -- i.e. be able to degrade a target's FCS -- it's been 30 years since Desert Storm and 25~ since the Chinese/Russians permanently blinded a helicopter pilot; so I'd imagine all modern FCS have anti-laser blocks built in now... |
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Mark you would be correct about the anti-lasing tech on FCS and more. Like a radio wave it has a frequency range, pulse rate etc. and like a radio wave if you figure out the above (And more.) you can jam it or interrupt the signal. The Russian Shtora-1 system for example, employs its own laser across the frequency spectrum to disrupt the same from an incoming ATGW.
https://defense-update.com/20051012_shtora-1.html https://bklein.ece.gatech.edu/laser-...-light-source/ This is like the "classic" battle between people buying radar detectors and the police developing radars that can defeat them so the driver will get that speeding ticket. I used the Shtora-1 to illustrate how long this has been going on even previous to it. So, using a ATGW of a different sort, the STRIX which uses a multi band radar along with a "backup" optical targeting device. With lasers we're talking frequency shifts in nano seconds. The targeting against things like FCS in the "space of time" is a newer area in use of lasers to defeat those systems however, like the police, counters are in place against that. You don't need a war to figure that out. The advanced countries and based on their technologies are all developing offensive counter measures while at the same time developing defensive ones at the same time. That's just simple R&D. We are seeing this in the practical sense now with the JAVELIN and others versus some of the Russian protection systems. I've seen the video on mainstream news of this concerning one of Russia's most advanced jets, you judge for yourselves who's winning the technology war. https://www.businessinsider.com/russ...ards-uk-2022-5 https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...strike-fighter (And several have been shot down.) I would have to think this would be a tall order to get this to work in the game. Also, nobody yet has successfully fielded a practical system yet and for us the USN is further along than the rest I believe. I also believe those systems at this time and into the near future would have a hard time against multiply targets. "Don Sherlock Holmes" that was a fine piece of detective work! Regards, Pat :capt: |
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Well, it appears the M777A2 artillery systems we sent DID NOT COME WITH THE COMPUTER AIDED TARGETING SYSTEM. So it can't for instance fire EXCALIBUR with the precision the computer would've allowed for. But as the article notes they are getting precision fires because they're getting GPS targeting data from drones and spotters.
If we didn't send them you should understand by now nobody else did either. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...out&li=BBnbfcL Regards, Pat :capt: |
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It doesn't matter if the optical sight used in the fire control system is coated with an anti-laser coating good against that laser; it just means it takes 50 milliseconds longer (number out of nowhere) to burn through to the internals of the system. At that point; the best thing the optical system can do is to fail gracefully and go "dark" before the damaging laser energy can be transmitted to the crewman's eye(s). Honestly, at this point; the best defense against laser attacks is to be moving fast enough and erratic enough that it becomes almost impossible for the laser tracker to lock onto an optical/thermal sight or vision block. |
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