#tank talk

[keelpay]

Jumbo & Patty talking about Mack and Will living with them during their rookie season

[bedmints271]

“its fun for you and mack to be together, there’s no question about that, i see the fun you have … on the flip side, isn’t it super important for you guys to have each other, as colleagues, as friends, as whatever you consider yourselves to be … for each other?”

[mk4landship]

mmm i should make a pinned post. also i shouldn't do that at whatever fuckin time it is, but whatever, it's not like i've ever been a dumbass at o dark thirty before

so basically i'm some weirdo dipshit that's kinda smart and kinda stupid. mostly stupid. also i'm kbity :3. but i repeat myself.

oh yeah also you can call me cataria. that's not my actual name but it is a name i like so it's cool :3.

i like machines and boats and math and biting people and rambling incoherently and also homestuck a lot. admittedly most of those don't come up super often but that's neither here nor there. the homestuck one is gonna come up a lot tho. really like homestuck.

ok that's it for now i guess

[bthebettababe]

Got a new lid and light for the 5.5 gallon. The natural light coming through the top looks gorgeous and I'm so mad that my camera can't do it justice.

No fish yet, but the cycle is doing well. We had 0.50 ppm ammonia, 0.25 ppm nitrite, and 20 ppm nitrate this morning when I tested! So hopefully soon!

~💛 B 07/06/24

[spl00ge-t4nk]

Ougghghgh portal 2 pet play gghegehehehhe(This mainly applies to the corrupted cores)

[spricket-central]

it appears that Pachinko has discovered The Ceiling.....

and im just realizing i forgot to give him a climbing wall? so he was DETERMINED to get up there! I'll have to remember to give him one later so he can climb to his lil heart's content!

[i-identify-tanks-in-posts]

Bit of a different one for you. Found this art of a hypothetical post-war Ukrainian Abrams. It looks really cool; what I would like to know is, with your knowledge of tanks, could all these upgrades/changes be done, and how difficult would they be?

To make a long story short: Yes, all of these changes are possible.

However, the question that arises is the level of difficulty, and whether it would be a positive change. As far as the gun goes, I assume OP meant the KBM-2, which is a Ukranian 120mm smoothbore gun meant to convert a T-72 to use NATO standard shells. However, I personally do not see any advantage to outfitting an Abrams in this way, as the L/44 M256 120mm gun on the M1A2 is specifically designed to mesh with its stabilization and targeting systems, and quite frankly, any conversion would be more work than it's worth.

Now, on the topic of mounting Nizh ERA modules, this is one area where I can't say much, as the USG is notoriously tight-lipped on the exact countermeasures employed on current-gen Abrams systems, however I really do like the Nizh, and the conversion, to my knowledge, would be possible, though I can't speak to level of difficulty.

Now, when we come to the engine, this is where news gets a lot more positive. One of the largest flaws in the design of its 1500hp AGT1500 gas turbine engine, which, admittedly, has fallen somewhat behind the curve in the modern level of tank development. When the Abrams was being produced, gasoline turbines were by far more effective, powerful, and cost efficient than any diesel engine. However, as time has gone on, technology has advanced to a point where that is no longer the case, and modern diesel engines have caught up, meaning that a diesel engine with similar specs would likely bring operational costs and logistical difficulties down significantly. So, a change to an engine like the Ukranian 6TD-3 would be beneficial for the M1, though the difficulty in doing so could prove challenging. However, if an open collaboration between General Dynamics and Ukranian sources were established (as has been done with Abrams localization projects in the past), I'm sure it could be done.

Hope that was what you were looking for, and hope this wall of text isn't too much to be worth reading.