Kyle Harmse

About to peace out from grad school.

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@gatnerd Wonder if it's tendered in SOCOM's HICAR programme?

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@heatloss1986 @BaA43A3aHY South Africans got lucky twice when Cuban 23s locked on to SAAF Mirage F1s and C-130s with R-23s. CGI target allocation foul up vs F1s, R-23 fuzed short vs C-130. After Piercy's F1 got hit, SAAF largely stopped trying to contest air superiority, worried about front-aspect shots

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@ronkainen7k15 1000mm RHAe seems ambitious if the interim round was only using a 680mm penetrator

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@heatloss1986 @RSimbacca @TomcatJunkie I'm guessing the same pool of rumint is where Tom Clancy's F-19 in Red Storm Rising came from? Weird hybrid of F-117 and ATF?

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@AUserofNoImport @SashoTodorov1 Stinger deliveries, hot and fresh

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@voyager212 Does it need the winglets or canards? Probably not. Do they look cool? Absolutely.

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@the_engi_nerd What's even worse though is that Stevenson's argued this purely from the perspective of the F-22's visual signature vs something like an F-16. Completely stuck in a Vietnam-era attitude on the performance of radars and the conduct of BVR, immune to F-15/AIM-7M performance in GW1

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@Daniel15305815 Jeeeeez. Stevenson apparently inhabited an alternate universe, content to ignore both the actual performance of F-15/AIM-7M in Desert Storm, and the actual conduct of BVR. Funny that his ideal fighter characteristics also largely apply to BVR

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@1TrueRicardo If you zoom in on the features like I did trying to figure what image they lifted this from, it also becomes apparent that it's not even a real F-15, but a a really appalling AI hallucination of one :)

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@Trotes936897 Also, the countermeasures one could field against drones (APS, RWS, etc) won't do a particularly good job dealing with a DM-11 style round, so there's a degree of future-proofing inherent to heavy ground firepower as well.

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@academic_la 2) is also why Trophy doesn't work against drones. It's a solvable problem requiring a shift away from Doppler towards point-cloud processing, but the IDF has been extremely slow about implementing it.

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@ChrisHatt11 Perhaps this will result in a white paper. Or heaven forbid a commission of inquiry.

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@Dawidaltexian @sebastienroblin 15 ready rounds in an automated bustle. I agree the hull storage isn't great, but doesn't this doesn't look like a hull cook-off to me. Fire's concentrated at the bustle, compare with this Merk blown in place on Oct 7.

https://t.co/kfc2h8DDhr

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@ConIbims @ChungTzuW Great posts. You pre-empted my comment about the footage not matching :-D. 35mm HE-Prox is curious, wonder why they assessed it as tapped-out growth wise. No reservoir of structural strength to go the tungsten PFF route, so AHEAD instead?

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@ConIbims @ChungTzuW Excellent upload, thanks. My main reservation on that theory is that the brochure itself dates the development of the prox fuze to the late 80s and the decision for XM247 was made in 1981. Maybe a response to losing to Sgt York?

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@BlokeOnTheRange Watling's other analyses of larger systems is pretty good, but I'm not convinced either of these authors shoot much.

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@ModernConflict 1981 recession didn't help either, caused a squeeze on the gov budget and rent increases in Transvaal that were at least one trigger for the 84 upheaval

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@ToughSf Slush H2 is... bold.