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6 hours ago, Lisias said:

Holy Ugliness, Batman!!!

Boeing Vertol BV-235 . It was the Apache competitor on the AAH program.

The enemy would die of fright by seeing this thing - probably lost the competition due some clause about cruelty on the Geneva Convention...

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Because it can.

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Step by step, the tanks are going from textures to the combination of wireframe and voxel graphics.

A hedgehog ball of extendable needles, surrounded by wireframe meshes, with ball chains hanging around, that's what the tank of the future will look like.

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2 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Because it can.

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Looks like a bandstand, to tell you the true...

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India, 2016, military parade.
https://www.news18.com/news/india/republic-day-live-states-tableaux-depict-culture-ministries-showcase-schemes-1194889.html

It looks like they somehow knew, or at least were guessing right...

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The submarine on top is to disorient the enemy.
He will think that it's a ship, impossible on land, while it's an assault tank.


And the killer feature

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The famous Sturmtiger  Grosspanzerkampfwagen, with built-in camouflage.

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6 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

You know... These guys would not do bad on Brazilian's Carnival - or even on the Parintins' Boi Bumbá.

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Bell YFM-1 Airacuda

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This thing had to compete against the P-39. No, those aren't really gunners but mostly loaders, the thing had centralized fire control for the 37 mm guns.

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3 hours ago, DDE said:

No, those aren't really gunners but mostly loaders

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Coal loaders for the engines.

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That's why they're there.


Actually, it's like reversed Pe-8 motor nacelle gunners.

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Who never did this on KSP?

(on a side note, underwear shops in the airport had a nice profit that day...)

 

 

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Boeing 767X . They literally took a 747, inverted the X axis and replaced the wings and engines.

Mostly Kerbal. :)

 

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Probably just winter tyre storage, but it might make the neighbors wonder where you're putting out fenders to moor an airship to the balcony below yours.

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Very useful from any pov.

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Should be a standard part for the lunar base and rovers.
Anti-meteoroid, anti-rad, anti-UV, just a place for any junk.

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Castle Bravo. "We accidentally overshrimped the Shrimp, and so our 6 Mt H-bomb output 15 Mt" Combined with a "nah, it will be fine" attitude to wind forecasts, this led to extraordinary radioactive contamination across more or less the entire Pacific region.

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They were sure that the white powder

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is of just 40% concentration, and the dealer had ensured them the other 60% is just a ballast and doesn't make trips.

But that 40% of the powder had hammered them so much, that the other 60% joined, so they were completely overdosed.
 

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They were saving expensive 6Li by using 60% of 7Li, presumably being inert, but at that temperature it fused very well as well, so the yield was 250% of expected.

If I were them, I would call that shrimp LiLi. Because 6Li7Li.

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8 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

is of just 40% concentration, and the dealer had ensured them the other 60% is just a ballast and doesn't make trips.

Manager: _"We need to filler up 60% of the compound with something inert and cheap."

Jr Engineer: _ "How about using Rocket Fuel?" (Lithium7)

Manager: _"Great idea!!"

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On 6/13/2024 at 11:49 PM, DDE said:

St. Petersburg's Gunboat Isle looks like something I desperately avoid in Cities: Skylines:

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Looks like an elevated railroad track, now you will notice an freight train passing on it, on the other hand my sister had an apartment 5 meters from an railroad track, it was just separated by an one lane road to the apartments. 
And its places closer in Oslo, as in they cut off part pf an block to add more tracks. 

Now in Trondheim, Norway they bolted an pedestrian and bike path to the side of an railway bridge. You noticed then trains passed. This is more common on narrow bridges who was designed with sidewalks but they bolted it on the side to make both the road and sidewalk wider. 

4 hours ago, Lisias said:

This:

I don't know what it is, neither want to know. :D

I say its an useless small pickup, now it might be an decent 2 seat car with an useful trunk, you have an decent crumble zone and its still short while not looking as stupid as many mini cars. 
But they made it an pickup, probably for tax reasons. 

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On 6/17/2024 at 7:57 PM, Lisias said:

1964 GM Bison. This thingy used a turbine as engine.

Incredibly futurist (The Jetsons cartoon were regularly mentioned when talking about it).

Incredibly impractical.

Incredibly Kerbal. :)

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Yes, it looks very hard to drive without the trailer.  One major benefits for semi trailers is that you can drop off an container sized trailer and leave. They can even be sent by ship or rail and picked up by an truck and moved to destination. 
Much more expensive than an container but do not require heavy machinery to put off. 
Also why the small low driver compartment?  As you say cool but impractical. Is the engine in the rotating part? 

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