Derpy Donut

Just a guy who's into military tech

[Derpy Donut @Derpy_Donut_]

@AnaEscobarShow The Dolphins are pretty standard conventional submarines beyond the suspected capability of launching nuclear SLCMs. There's no "built to evade American early warning systems", that's a sentence you can only string together if you don't know shit about subs.

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@Thechungo4814 @Britt4rva No.

Subs used for nuking people are SSBNs, carrying intercontinental ballistic missiles. They're, to the contrary, placed far away from enemies, in relatively safe waters, where they're almost impossible to counter.

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@NikdeBai1 @nicholadrummond Germans already tried playing the optimisation game. Cut down the dismounts, make it cramped as hell, use the most compact components available. It ended up 44 tons in combat config, without APS. And if you're too tall you literally can't fit inside properly.

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@NikdeBai1 @nicholadrummond Your point on APS is also BS. APSes cannot handle HMGs and autocannons, they have to be defeated entirely by passive armour. There's no way around that fact. And ACs have only gotten stronger over the years.

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@NikdeBai1 @nicholadrummond Even the stupid APS want ignores the fact that:
- APS can't defeat certain threats (KE and mines, even .50cal protection isn't light)
- APS oftentimes can't fully stop an attack, and passive/reactive armour is needed to absorb the rest

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@NikdeBai1 @nicholadrummond That's just plainly wrong.

IFVs need mine protection, good ergonomics, volume for equipment, power generation, passive and reactive armour, active protection systems...

All of that adds weight and it's borderline impossible to make an effective vehicle under 40 tons.

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@NikdeBai1 @nicholadrummond That's what you build if you want the vehicle to be survivable and effective.

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@SealOfTheEnd @RadarFennec @Polar000077 Like, just look at the area of Meteors's tube cross section vs intake's cross section, if you make the intakes fold into the tube you suddenly loose massive amount of volume that either ruins your performance or has to be gained elsewhere, plus you get extra complexity as a bonus

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@SealOfTheEnd @RadarFennec @Polar000077 Specific impulse doesn't help much when you have massive cavities in your AAM that do fucking nothing. To acjieve the same performance you then have to make the entire missile larger and you arrive at square one, but with a more expensive POS.

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@RadarFennec @Polar000077 It packs the same as AIM-120s and F-35's bay design is goated

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@SealOfTheEnd @RadarFennec @Polar000077 You can. Now you have empty space inside the airframe that doesn't do anything and have just added an extra mechanism that doesn't improve performance. There's a good reason such intakes are very rare and completely absent on AAMs.

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@H7pernerd @Polar000077 It's quite a bit harder, as it will always need forward are for the intakes. This means either placing them outside the main fuselage (Meteor) which increases footprint or putting them in the nose, which limits the seeker's size. Either way there's a compromise somewhere.

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@Polar000077 Wouldn't it be able to 6-pack with the cropped fin Meteor? Aiui it should have similar dimensions to AIM-120C/D at that point, and those can be 6-packed with Sidekick.

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@Fandango831 Surprisingly good looking, even if it might be pushing topweight margins

This one might interest you as well:

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@Fandango831 It does make sense if you go for a centerline uptake I suppose, it's a bit hard to judge depth from this perspective. Agree on the bay shifting if needed.

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@ManxFreeState @heatloss1986 AMRAAM isn't. LRASM and JSM are. AIM-9X are tricky, as the ones slated for F-35 are given a RAM coating, reducing their RCS. Hard to say just how stealthy that solution is tho.

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@Sgt_Hellian @heatloss1986 Making the weapon bays A-G capable would be even harder with a twin-engined setup on a small airframe, what are you talking about?

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@RealistJad8372 @heatloss1986 "why didn't they just buy more F-15s instead of making the F-16"

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@lexaandclarke72 @heatloss1986 There's more to military operations than measuring ordnance on target. If that were the case, the Army would be entirely artillery and the Navy would only have a massive Tomahawk barge.