DDE Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Never shall it be said that the amphibious capability on Soviet BMPs is entirely useless. https://t.me/Artillery_Artillery/16611 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Fluffy Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 (edited) Autogyros are pretty strange. Put a helicopter and plane together and you get this. Edited June 9, 2023 by Admiral Fluffy oh hey llok old page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 3 hours ago, Admiral Fluffy said: Autogyros are pretty strange. Put a helicopter and plane together and you get this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 On 6/7/2023 at 7:03 PM, Lisias said: In WW2, some aircraft carriers could launch scout planes from the Hangar Deck - in a pretty kludge way, I think. But, hey, if it works, then it works. Jeb approves! "If your stupid plan works, then it isn't stupid." That could literally be the byline for this entire thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 Dieselpunk space helmets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted June 10, 2023 Author Share Posted June 10, 2023 TweakScale was allowed on WW2???? 6 hours ago, DDE said: Dieselpunk space helmets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 Guess it will also has an effect on autopilots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 On 6/10/2023 at 6:16 PM, Lisias said: TweakScale was allowed on WW2???? You're saying this tradition is post-WWII only? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 Detailed pics on the new Russian air defense decoy drone have just dropped. Orlan-10 was widely mocked for using the cap of a 5-liter water bottle as part of its fuel system, but here we see a an actual 5-liter bottle as fuel tank held in place by duct tape. https://t.me/xronikabpla/4752 Looks like it's a simplification from an earlier pattern. Spoiler There is a perverse beauty in these things looking so WWI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 That's why they made Coca-Cola stop selling their liquid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted June 12, 2023 Author Share Posted June 12, 2023 Everything on this monster screams "TweakScale", by Kraken's sake! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazalassa Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 9 hours ago, Lisias said: Everything on this monster screams "TweakScale", by Kraken's sake! No, they just scaled down their KK static. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 On 6/12/2023 at 11:25 AM, DDE said: Detailed pics on the new Russian air defense decoy drone have just dropped. Orlan-10 was widely mocked for using the cap of a 5-liter water bottle as part of its fuel system, but here we see a an actual 5-liter bottle as fuel tank held in place by duct tape. https://t.me/xronikabpla/4752 Looks like it's a simplification from an earlier pattern. Hide contents There is a perverse beauty in these things looking so WWI. Yes it look very WW 1, but its an crudely build model plane build to draw anti air missiles as I understand decoy drone correctly. Now it might be reusable if not shot down and making it aerodynamic is not an point, kind of wonder about why cut all the holes in the wood? The decoy part is probably the most complex as this thing would be much slower than an helicopter and radars can cut out stuff based on velocity so you need to trick the radar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted June 17, 2023 Author Share Posted June 17, 2023 Dude... someone was drinking on the job... not enough the weird appearance, the fuel tank was placed between the pilot (over the engine) and the gunner. Ok, it was heavily shielded but yet... Ilyushon IL-20 (1948) https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/514891-ilyushin-il-201948/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 On 6/16/2023 at 10:49 PM, magnemoe said: The decoy part is probably the most complex as this thing would be much slower than an helicopter and radars can cut out stuff based on velocity so you need to trick the radar. Well, there is a target type that is just that slow, so they can't afford to keep the Doppler cutoff high. https://t.me/rybar/39258 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 The U-Boat Express managed to ship a V-1 buzz jet to Japan. And the Japanese did... this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanishi_Baika Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 1 hour ago, DDE said: With Hanna Reitsch Overhaul mod. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 2 hours ago, DDE said: The U-Boat Express managed to ship a V-1 buzz jet to Japan. And the Japanese did... this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanishi_Baika Is anybody suprised? They had an rocket plane working the same way, but it had an range of less than 40 km so the bombers carrying them was often intercepted. Make me wonder if anybody thought of using pulse jets for other uses? they sounds nice for stuff like cheap bomber interceptors who Germany needed a lot. They tried a lot of crazy stuff here so this almost make sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/golf-ball-becomes-rare-fungus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 (edited) Edited June 29, 2023 by StrandedonEarth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 A very Kerbal way of shipping cars! https://www.railwayage.com/mechanical/freight-cars/a-look-back-in-time-the-gm-southern-pacific-vert-a-pac/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Lisias said: A very Kerbal way of shipping cars! https://www.railwayage.com/mechanical/freight-cars/a-look-back-in-time-the-gm-southern-pacific-vert-a-pac/ Two downsides, you need to secure the car and you also has to be sure stuff like engine oil and brake fluid did not drain from the car. An more obvious solution who is used today is an double decked rail car you drive cars onto. At destination you undock the locomotive and add an ramp. But I think of the obvious KSP tricks of having probes around an LV-N engine below an 2.5 meter tank, but behind also inverted the decopler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 On the mini-submersible hype wave. Triton subs. https://topwar-ru.translate.goog/171876-sverhmalye-podlodki-semejstva-triton.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://masterok-livejournal-com.translate.goog/1450096.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Подводные_лодки_проекта_908_«Тритон-2»?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://pikabu-ru.translate.goog/story/podvodnaya_lodochka_10346692?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 5 hours ago, kerbiloid said: On the mini-submersible hype wave. Triton subs. https://topwar-ru.translate.goog/171876-sverhmalye-podlodki-semejstva-triton.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://masterok-livejournal-com.translate.goog/1450096.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Подводные_лодки_проекта_908_«Тритон-2»?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://pikabu-ru.translate.goog/story/podvodnaya_lodochka_10346692?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp Hide contents Triton was a wet sub. Can't have hull collapse if there is no pressure hull! Piranhas were fun, though. Tiny but titanium-hulled, with "shoulder-mounted" torpedo tubes doubling as cargo compartments. (Sutton's disallowed image embedding from his own site) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted July 2, 2023 Author Share Posted July 2, 2023 There's an ongoing discussion about what the term "Kerbal" should mean (here). Some people thinks we should see the Kerbals as a highly advanced civilisation, others as janky, others (me) just want to have a good time playing with them and that's it. But… There's a trend thinking that we should treat Kerbals as they would be Humans, and while I was thinking about, this marvellous sweet history passed trough my timeline: How a Marine guard refactored a Tomcat into a convertible. This is not about technology, it's about pure human behaviour, "innovating, adapting and overcoming" an amusingly sequence of mishaps into a Rectangular Pieces of Paper Storm of epical proportions. Delicious. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-marine-guard-that-inadvertently-jettisoned-the-canopy-from-a-parked-f-14-to-sit-in-the-tomcat-cockpit-the-missiles-aboard-1-aim-54-1-aim-7-and-1-aim-9-did-not-have-the-pins-but-were-not-damage/ Art imitates Life. The Kerbals are like us (and vice versa). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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