Real Life "Kerbalisms"

[DDE]

Firearms (and FPS) enthusiasts may have heard about the Nikonov AN-94, an attempted Kalashnikov replacement that used a ridiculously complex layout with the barrel recoiling independently from the gun in order to squirt an incredibly quick two-shot burst, while having a sane rate of fire in full-auto.

AN-94 was developed in response to the Abakan (The Program to Develop a 50% More Accurate Assault Rifle than the AK-74) requirement, as were several other weapons with the same feature.

Now, back when AK-74 was adopted, the Soviets did hold a (rather hopeless) trial for its competitors. Among them was a Konstantinov rifle featuring a counterweight-based recoil dampening system. Garev and Koksharov resurrected it for the Abakan trial as the AEK-971.

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Now, their recoil dampening system was designed for full-auto fire. Nevertheless, they emulated the trendy two-shot burst feature... by changing the three-shot burst mode to a two-shot burst, and ramping up the cyclic fire rate to 1500 RPM. A minigun-like RoF in an assault rifle with a 30-round magazine. I think they changed everything back by the end of the trials, but how the heck did the gun survive that?

Edited August 27, 2021 by DDE

[kerbiloid]

3 hours ago, DDE said:

to a two-shot burst, and ramping up the cyclic fire rate to 1500 RPM. A minigun-like RoF in an assault rifle with a 30-round magazine. I think they changed everything back by the end of the trials, but how the heck did the gun survive that?

As it has a limited, fixed,  and known amount of shots per burst, it should survive a greater stress than when it has to survive an up to 30 shots burst, so isn't it usual?

Say, G11 had 600 RPM infinite / 2000 RPM fixed.

Also this make the second bullet leave the barrel before the barrel could move significantly from the aimed direction, so raises the shot grouping.

[DDE]

44 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Say, G11 had 600 RPM infinite / 2000 RPM fixed.

1500 RPM infinite, 1500 RPM fixed.

[kerbiloid]

7 minutes ago, DDE said:

1500 RPM infinite, 1500 RPM fixed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11

Rate of fire	460 rounds/min (full auto) [2] 2100 rounds/min (3-round burst) [2]

I remember since 1980s.

[DDE]

Just now, kerbiloid said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11

Rate of fire	460 rounds/min (full auto) [2] 2100 rounds/min (3-round burst) [2]

I remember since 1980s.

I mean in case of the AEK prototype.

Not the G11, or the AN-94.

[Lisias]

7 hours ago, DDE said:

A minigun-like RoF in an assault rifle with a 30-round magazine. I think they changed everything back by the end of the trials, but how the heck did the gun survive that?

By drinking lots of beer before shooting?

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Often, in a pinch, when water was short we were forced to fil the barrel jacket with urine – it helped make the war a bit more personal.

Veteran Corporal John Young, 12th MG Company on an interview to Goldsmith (1994). Source.

 

[DDE]

On 8/23/2021 at 2:53 PM, DDE said:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/08/23/russian-man-swims-to-japan-to-apply-for-asylum-reports-a74867

Japanese official rebut Russian claims that a Russian vagabond has made his way from Kunashir to Hokkaido to claim asylum by swimming 24 km.

What, does Japan have some sort of special visa for individuals with the "BadS" trait that they want to avoid granting? 

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To be clear, there's absolutely nothing to justify a political asylum request. His lifestyle had previously got him deported from Japan in 2011.

If you go down the link to his 2019 profile, he states he deliberately claimed his hectare so that he'd be provided a security pass for the Kurils. That's downright premeditation.

He just wants to go to Australia.

Obviously a BadS.

 

OK, turns out his wetsuit has been found...

https://ria.ru/20210825/gidrokostyum-1747129513.html

...and the Japanese authorities were not impressed by his asylum pitch, and have arrested him.

https://ria.ru/20210829/rossiyanin-1747702389.html

[kerbiloid]

Like Godzilla was not enough, this guy has gotten them even more.

[Lisias]

The future of the motorized personal transport (I refuse to call this a car!) 

 

[cubinator]

On 8/20/2021 at 12:43 AM, DDE said:

Just chilling.

They're just getting those "EVA while flying low" reports.

[DDE]

5 hours ago, Lisias said:

The future of the motorized personal transport (I refuse to call this a car!) 

 

Look here.

And it makes an unmistakable high-pitched noise that you can hear even without zooming in.

[DDE]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Palace

[Lisias]

Mobile Nuclear Plant, 1950. Of course, from Russia.

On the post-war, Russia was in desperate need of providing electricity to the Country, and this is the solution they cooked up. What could possibly go wrong?  

Source.

Source.

Not a russian privilege, by the way. US Army also toyed with the idea:

Source.

[DDE]

Someone unlocked the Ace Combat mission.

21 hours ago, Lisias said:

Mobile Nuclear Plant, 1950. Of course, from Russia.

Careful with your mirth. The various portable reactor projects are enjoying a renaissance with the newfound focus on the Arctic. Rosatom has funding for R&D of 400 kW land-based and 10 MW unmammed underwater reactors, as well as a live contract for a 55 MW powerplant (using icebreaker reactors, it seems).

Meanwhile, the US wants to bring reactors into warzones... given the coherence of their recent exit strategies... uhm.

[Lisias]

33 minutes ago, DDE said:

Someone unlocked the Ace Combat mission.

Geez!! Now someone need to implement tunnels on KSP, so we can do it too!!!! 

 

And also, this one!!

 

Edited September 7, 2021 by Lisias
and also this one!

[StrandedonEarth]

1 hour ago, Lisias said:

Geez!! Now someone need to implement tunnels on KSP, so we can do it too!!!! 

No air for actual flight, but I suppose one could try to fly a VTOL through the Tylo cave. And it’s always fun to rocket through a Mun Arch. Oh wait, isn’t there a catwalk at the KSC R&D complex to fly under?

[Lisias]

ZELL. The Luftwaffe's project to launch F-104 Starfighters with a booster attached on its… humm… tail.

Source.

For people preferring English!

Spoiler

 

 

[kerbiloid]

Should attach it to the fin.

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[magnemoe]

19 hours ago, Lisias said:

Geez!! Now someone need to implement tunnels on KSP, so we can do it too!!!! 

 

And also, this one!!

 

Now that than was insane, probably less dangerous than it looked, but why have stuff in the tunnel in case he had to abort, but assume it was just props. 

18 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said:

No air for actual flight, but I suppose one could try to fly a VTOL through the Tylo cave. And it’s always fun to rocket through a Mun Arch. Oh wait, isn’t there a catwalk at the KSC R&D complex to fly under?

Don't think the cave is straight enough to orbit trough, you will also be moving at around 2 km/s so good luck. Still people has done impossible stuff in KSP many time like reaching escape velocity on the ground or made Eve SSTO or docking with something on an suborbital trajectory on Eve. So let us give Tylo some love. I can land on it with mechjeb and lots of retries and tweaks. 

 

[StrandedonEarth]

44 minutes ago, magnemoe said:

Don't think the cave is straight enough to orbit trough, you will also be moving at around 2 km/s so good luc

Which is why I said VTOL, ie some sort of rocket powered hovercraft 

[Lisias]

1 hour ago, magnemoe said:

Now that than was insane, probably less dangerous than it looked, but why have stuff in the tunnel in case he had to abort, but assume it was just props. 

"Do what you do, Jeb, DO NOT EJECT!!"

[magnemoe]

On 8/27/2021 at 9:05 AM, DDE said:

Firearms (and FPS) enthusiasts may have heard about the Nikonov AN-94, an attempted Kalashnikov replacement that used a ridiculously complex layout with the barrel recoiling independently from the gun in order to squirt an incredibly quick two-shot burst, while having a sane rate of fire in full-auto.

AN-94 was developed in response to the Abakan (The Program to Develop a 50% More Accurate Assault Rifle than the AK-74) requirement, as were several other weapons with the same feature.

Now, back when AK-74 was adopted, the Soviets did hold a (rather hopeless) trial for its competitors. Among them was a Konstantinov rifle featuring a counterweight-based recoil dampening system. Garev and Koksharov resurrected it for the Abakan trial as the AEK-971.

  Reveal hidden contents

Now, their recoil dampening system was designed for full-auto fire. Nevertheless, they emulated the trendy two-shot burst feature... by changing the three-shot burst mode to a two-shot burst, and ramping up the cyclic fire rate to 1500 RPM. A minigun-like RoF in an assault rifle with a 30-round magazine. I think they changed everything back by the end of the trials, but how the heck did the gun survive that?

Now for the complexity, don't thing it beat the G11 even if not seen the AN-95 internals as the G11 was ridiculous. 
And you generally don't want that fast full auto rate of fire unless you move very fast or trying to hit an fast target as in trying to hit planes or in an plane against an ground target. 
Most bullets in an war is used just to have the enemy hug the ground to avoid them. You can now use an flanking force, or stuff like artillery or air power to kill them and you don't need an very high rate of fire to do this. 
Now an very high rate of fire is nice in some cases like an ambush on an large enemy force, but this adds a lots of complexity and only relevant for something belt feed as you will be out of ammo so fast. 
On many machine guns you can swap barrels, for normal guns the issue is how many times you shoot over time not the rate of fire. 
Modern artillery with auto loaders and good fire control can drop multiple shells at once on an target by aiming some high and other low. This rate of fire is not sustainable as it will damage the barrel because of overheating. 
 

[Starhelperdude]

11 hours ago, Lisias said:

ZELL. The Luftwaffe's project to launch F-104 Starfighters with a booster attached on its… humm… tail.

Source.

For people preferring English!

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Deutsche qualität! 

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''German quality!'' which is a meme here in germany

 

[DDE]

3 hours ago, magnemoe said:

Now for the complexity, don't thing it beat the G11 even if not seen the AN-95 internals as the G11 was ridiculous. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gtMssTSnRHU

3 hours ago, magnemoe said:

Most bullets in an war is used just to have the enemy hug the ground to avoid them. You can now use an flanking force, or stuff like artillery or air power to kill them and you don't need an very high rate of fire to do this. 

We're basically talking about two different things: a high RoF for "personal" use and a high RoF for tactical use. The idea was to ensure a tight grouping of an individual's shots, but not necessarily to generate more shots over time (althought I have seen graphics of a G-11-derived SAW).

IIRC at least one SPIW gun used two bullets per cartridge to attempt the same.

[DDE]

I've stumbled upon a photo and realozed we've not mentioned Dora/Schwerer Gustav yet.