DDE Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Garrett STAMP You take this and remove all the "unimportant" bits: Well, considering one of the earlier competitors was a literal flying saucer, this isn't too weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 "Yes, I have a radio in my tophat, how could you tell?" The wearable gadgets of 1922. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Still too many details. That's the aim: Spoiler P.S. Noone fastens seat belts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 TIL how the Maus ended up with a 75 mm co-axial... at the time they were focusing on the 150 mm gun, someone wanted an anti-infantry secondary turret. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 M3 looks reasonable, when compared to it. The big gun is inside the body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 6 hours ago, DDE said: TIL how the Maus ended up with a 75 mm co-axial... at the time they were focusing on the 150 mm gun, someone wanted an anti-infantry secondary turret. The German designers would have loved Sprocket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Yak-55 x 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 1923 English Electric Wren. The stupid brave pilot had to live with a 3 HP engine to fly that death trap marvellous craft!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 On 12/15/2023 at 9:17 PM, kerbiloid said: M3 looks reasonable, when compared to it. The big gun is inside the body. Its some system to the madness, yes it was an bad design but it was an patch. The mouse was an brand new gold plated tank and it was already too heavy, then why an 150 mm main gun, no tanks uses this large guns today. Yes you have 155 mm guns but they are artillery. Why not an smaller gun still able to kill other heavy tanks at range, but make room for an larger gun if you upgrade. Now the top turret sounds like an smart idea but with it own ammo will get hit and set off the entire stack and you will not build many of them anyway. Stupid idea in the first place, wish Germany focused all their tank efforts on the mouse in 1942 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 45 minutes ago, magnemoe said: The mouse was an brand new gold plated tank and it was already too heavy, then why an 150 mm main gun There doesn't seem to be a decent explanation. Ever since the Löwe in 1941 there was a fierce competition between a 149 mm (data presented below), a 128 mm or an 105 mm L/70. Spoiler Ultimately, it seems that late 1941 saw the Germans suffer the same fear of secret enemy wonder weapons that the Soviets were suffering in early 1941. A March 1941 report indicated that the Germans already had a 90-ton Panzer VII with a 105 mm gun on the production line. The reaponse were design requests for gargants like the KV-5. Logically, you can see how this in turn would fuel German developments. They expected KV-5-like tanks by 1943, i.e. at Kursk, whereas Fall Blau would have provided the Germans with enough petrol for an army of superheavies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 "I've got good news and bad news" "Bad news?" "We mistook the landing strip with the river." "...And the good news?" "It's -40⁰C." https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-plane-lands-frozen-river-by-mistake-prosecutors-2023-12-28/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 On 12/28/2023 at 8:24 AM, DDE said: "I've got good news and bad news" "Bad news?" "We mistook the landing strip with the river." "...And the good news?" "It's -40⁰C." https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-plane-lands-frozen-river-by-mistake-prosecutors-2023-12-28/ One of the best of the Year! (hey, everybody walked from the stunt, and the aircraft could take off again with little to no maintenance - other than some totalled underwear, I call this a huge win!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Today in this thread: Boeing engineering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, DDE said: Today in this thread: Boeing engineering. Meanwhile in War Thunder: T a i l c u t l o o s e *crash* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 (edited) On 12/6/2023 at 5:20 AM, Lisias said: I sincerely curious to meet the guys that made such "concept" Have you heard of Tsiolkovsky's corrugated all-metal airship? Well, someone by the name of Perelman got so enthusiastic he proceeded to, ahem, imagine a "structurally feasible" craft 1000 m long and 300 m tall capable of "lifting" (i.e. was he judging by weight alone?) two hundred thousand people. Edited January 3 by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Kirov airship carrier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Kerbal in every picture. https://topwar-ru.translate.goog/233473-poslevoennoe-ispolzovanie-upravljaemyh-protivotankovyh-i-zenitnyh-raket-sozdannyh-v-nacistskoj-germanii.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp (Ignore the comments, like always.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: Kerbal in every picture. https://topwar-ru.translate.goog/233473-poslevoennoe-ispolzovanie-upravljaemyh-protivotankovyh-i-zenitnyh-raket-sozdannyh-v-nacistskoj-germanii.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp (Ignore the comments, like always.) I have a truck with a missile on it that is supposed to be a GAZ-69 and it looks exactly like one of those pics (but with a rotating launcher for the missiles instead of the fixed one). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 "Pass me the manual." "Oh, now of all times you're going to start reading it?" "No." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Ok, maybe the airstrip is a kerbalism. But the piloting is Jeb at his best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 In an unofficial NASA VK group. "Wait, the wheels of the rover on Peregrine can be spun while in flight? Can these be used for attitude control?" "Unfortunately the momentum on those won't be enough" https://vk.com/wall-22468706_163341?reply=163343 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 (edited) Now I have a doubt, if the Peregrine tomb raider exists at all... Spoiler Edited January 14 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 On 1/13/2024 at 9:20 PM, DDE said: In an unofficial NASA VK group. "Wait, the wheels of the rover on Peregrine can be spun while in flight? Can these be used for attitude control?" "Unfortunately the momentum on those won't be enough" https://vk.com/wall-22468706_163341?reply=163343 How to use for attitude control? Now they could be used as reaction wheels to change orientation but they are small, not designed to rotate fast and has drag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 (edited) 53 minutes ago, magnemoe said: How to use for attitude control? Now they could be used as reaction wheels to change orientation but they are small, not designed to rotate fast and has drag. Being exactly this the reason it would be a Kerbalism - this is exact what a aerospacial engineer says about the Reaction Wheels! — — POST EDIT — — Humm, perhaps I had missed the point? Spoiler Edited January 15 by Lisias post edit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/26176-migbus-airbus-crazy-spacecoaster-idea/amp Somewhere in an alternate universe, MiG-31s are launching tourists into space, instead of Kinzhals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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