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That video at the end about the army throwing Humvees without properly setting up the chutes was pretty incredible
From what I read, not so much "without properly setting up", more sabotage: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/07/05/soldier-...
"Johnny Lodern: One issue is they where dropped from seperate aircraft, each crew is supposed to inspect cargo before drop, so there is more than 1 person at fault if it was not equipment failure."
Isn't the advantage of using tracks supposed to be the increased surface area for traction and weight bearing? This seems to only slightly increase the surface area. It doesn't seem that this would have enough traction advantage to make the complexity worth it.
Back of the envelope: One car weighs ~3500 lbs. If I keep 35psi of air pressure in the tires, that works out to ~100in^2 of contact patch. With four wheels, that's 25in^2 per wheel or 5in square. This looks like the tread-extended contact patch is more like 12in long times the original width, or 60in^2. That halves the weight per square inch.
You don't. Off road you lower the tire pressure significantly.
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That has little bearing on the cost of fielding/maintaining a vehicle. Fatalities are so rare they won't have an impact maintenance costs unless a sizeable chunk of your fleet is getting driven off a cliff. In my experience men and women tend to be about equally hard on things. The male outliers tend to create more maintenance work by being hard on chassis/suspension ("hold my beer and watch this"). The female outlie…
I looked for statistics on maintenance cost of equipment for male vs female operators but didn't find any, just the un-documented assertions in https://www.equipmentworld.com/men-vs-women-who-are-the-bett... that basically say women are easier on equipment and specifically Attention to detail “I’ve always been impressed by how women take care of their machines” Smith says. “They keep them clean and don’t leave trash…
Ok, well my undocumented assertion is roughly the opposite. Where does that leave us?
>I'd be happy to look at any statistics you can provide that show "equally hard on things".
Post on /r/mechanicadvice, dump out the 80% that were written by someone who's never actually turned a wrench and sift through what's left?
Regarding trash specifically I think the difference between a company vehicle and a personal vehicle is going to make a bigger difference than gender.
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Boring, exists for decades already.
That's a good point. There's got to be a way I can replace these wheels with some sort of modern javascript framework.
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Did the US engage the Germans in heavy armor combat similar to that of the Russia’s e.g when Hitler was trying to take Moscow?
Infrequently. The US were early proponents of combined arms tactics. Find heavy armour? Call in artillery or air support -- one of the advantages of owning the airspace over the battlefield. Oh, and the only Tiger tanks that got close to Moscow are the captured ones on display at Kubinka.
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No, no, no, the comedy tank of the era was the Sherman Tank. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-m-4-sherman-tank-was-he... Favourite quote: Hence, the Sherman’s grim nickname—Ronson, like the cigarette lighter, because “it lights up the first time, every time.” Everything was wrong about it and the Russians that got given these on Lend Lease knew that they had been given a death sentence. Aforementioned article jus…
> as advertised over the skies of Syria You mean in an uncontested airspace, with no AA to speak about, disregarding any collateral damage because there is no one to hold them accountable (unlike US forces that are panned by US press)? Right, those plane may be fit for that purpose. Meanwhile, US&allies measure up their planes against each other during Red Flag, where both F-22 and F-35 have stellar performances. FIY…
... and Russia still managed to lose about 1/3 of their carrier's planes.
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Reminds me of the book. The inmates are running the asylum.
I still can understand the dislike HN has for this wonderful book. But given generally anti-user stance maybe I do understand it a little. Edit: "anti-user" may be to harsh. Let's say "developers first, users second".
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No, no, no, the comedy tank of the era was the Sherman Tank. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-m-4-sherman-tank-was-he... Favourite quote: Hence, the Sherman’s grim nickname—Ronson, like the cigarette lighter, because “it lights up the first time, every time.” Everything was wrong about it and the Russians that got given these on Lend Lease knew that they had been given a death sentence. Aforementioned article jus…
I dunno, forcing everyone to equip their armies with suicidal weapons seems like a great way to discourage future wars.
Thus senior military leadership is keenly interested in readiness. This requires training, R&D, and intelligence. "Are my officers and troops more physically and mentally prepared than the enemy's?" "What's the best weapon I've got?" and "What's the best weapon they've got?" are critical questions.
See T. R. Fehrenbach's "This Kind of War" for the US's brutal baptism into the darker side of their role as a superpower, a war no American wanted to get involved in. The short-hand in history for this necessity of readinesss is Task Force Smith (2).
(1) https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1574883348
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Osan#Task_Force_Smit...
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That's a good point. There's got to be a way I can replace these wheels with some sort of modern javascript framework.
Internet of Things means that we can enable new synergies with Web Scale techniques, like making each tread run its own software package with logging, analytics, self-maintenance, and the normal operational features, each implemented as a reliable, portable Electron app.