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No reply on that invitation for insemination.
Be that way, fagbag new jordans.
I just watched that AOC x Zucc thing and oof, she is just a bulwark of stupid isn't she?
So super fucking late but re: tank design... WWII tanks still operated largely on the principles of steel plates for armor, and the "fanciest" you got was spaced armor and sloping. All shit that you can mentally approximate the effectiveness of without a physics/chemistry degree.
Nowadays we use bullshit ceramics and reactive armor and stuff. Some of which actually works better for direct, straight-on hits than angled "effective thickness" hits.
Comparing a modern MBT to WWII tanks is just not something you can really do any more. I mean, fuck, the M18 Hellcat had paper-thin armor and was ludicrously fast at the time, boasting a top speed of *50 mph* and the Germans constantly thought we had more of them than we did because they'd dance between flanks with that speed. The M1 Abrams, meanwhile, has a top speed of like 40-45 mph, and is *heavily armored*.
And that's before you consider the cannons- modern tanks are pretty much all smoothbore rather than rifled.
yeah, modern tanks have solved almost every compromise WWII era had to make
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if i know correctly the abrams is smoothbore because it messes with the type of round
but i think the t72 or something is rifled
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It's because you can fire missiles out of a smoothbore
that too
like literally
That's what caused the switch
all the further development of tank ammo was to compensate for or take advantage of the lack of rifling.
you know what I mean
I'm circumcised new jordans, so even black my dick is damaged :/
and shitty shoes
end laces, tbh, they're obsolete
it's the kinetic energy round
you can't spin them
the sabot
it's like a rocket
with stabilizing fins
ah, fin stabilization. nothing else like it
APFSDS armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot
but it's much better up to around 700 meters than heat
and higher velocity
Well, HEAT rounds' advantage was more that they were only reliant on the gun for accuracy, their pen was pretty much fixed to the ammo itself.
yes but they just aren't good enough against modern armor which is why they needed a better gun
otherwise they would get too heavy
Oh of course, they're a relic from the steel plate days
well they're not terrible