Chieftain's Q&A 14. Ares cannons, IFV Missiles, and exposure times.

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  @TheDrew2022 · 6 years ago

  Just realized after a trip to a local museum I've been watching Chieftain far too much. My first thought on seeing a farm caterpillar tractor, was "I wonder how they adjust track tension?" as my eyes were looking for the track tension adjustment mechanism.

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  @501strookie · 6 years ago

  I appreciate the googly eyes on the missile in the back.

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  @GregAtlas · 6 years ago

  "The interesting question now, with the advent of remote weapon systems, is where to put the .50?" The answer is yes and multiple.

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  @aidansnowhawk1 · 6 years ago

  My dad was a tanker in Germany and then a spec 4 tank commander in Vietnam. He had several funny stories. One of my favorites was when he was at ft. Knox and a group of cadets from west point. He had been ordered by his commanding officer to assist a lucky cadet in firing the coax gun into targets on the range. The officer the was in charge of the cadet told him sternly that he would fire one to three rounds into each target. They then buttoned up the tank and my dad having just returned from Vietnam looked at the kid and said that what WAS going to happen was that the kid was going press and hold the trigger and he was going to traverse the turret, and the loader, who was linking together ALOT  of 30 cal belts together, would pour 3 in 1 oil in the receiver wile he was firing to keep it going until they ran out of bullets. The kid grinned and said what about my CO? My dads response was that this was his tank and the kids CO wasn't HIS CO. They got the range clear signals and the order to proceed and the kid did what my dad told him to do and cut the man sized targets in half. The CO of the cadets was trying to yell over a flame spitting machine-gun. Meanwhile all the guys from Knox where dieing laughing. Also the 30 cals action welded itself open on the last round.

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  @fathead8933 · 6 years ago (edited)

  In the Stryker, the turret monster is called “that f**king hole my pen fell down. Lol <br><br>Seriously though, there is plenty of areas on the Stryker that you can lose stuff. The General Dynamics instructor told us during Opnet that they had to have the local bomb disposal on hand every time they got a shipment of battle damaged strykers because for a while they kept finding hand grenades in the vehicles. The problem is that the Stryker has a sub floor and it has plenty of fist size holes in the interior. Even more if systems like the NBC systems aren’t installed.

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  @matthayward7889 · 6 years ago

  Best book on the falklands war: ‘Don’t cry for me, Sargeant Major’ hilarious, shocking and brilliantly written.

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  @daveybernard1056 · 6 years ago

  You badly need a small plastic dinosaur next to those tanks.

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  @rodrigodepierola · 6 years ago

  &quot;My camera team comes from Minsk&quot; sounds like the pass phrase on a spy movie.

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• MR

  @MrAnton275 · 6 years ago

  Regarding the CV90 and it not having any ATGMs.<br><br>You got most of the points in your video (cost, ammunition size etc), but there was one reason we didnt fit it you didnt mention. Sweden has forrests, a lot of them infact. And a study came to the conclusion that since most of the fighting will probably be done at ranges shorter then the minimum range of most ATGMs (or at least at ranges where ATGMs isnt optimal). Fitting them to every vehicle would be a huge cost, with little benefit. Back in the 90s every mechanized battalion had (or at least was supposed to have) a dedicated ATGM unit instead, with dismountable ATGMs. <br><br>These days BAE does offer a variant of the CV90 Mk IV with ATGMs tho for export, but as far as I know none has actually been sold so far.

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  @cmikles1 · 6 years ago

  For civilians the turret monster is that space between the seat and the center console.

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  @davefranklin7305 · 6 years ago

  I live in Colo. Springs, and it&apos;s funny that I didn&apos;t remember the &quot;killdozer&quot; rampage. &nbsp;I do remember when a couple of guys stole an M109 SP 155mm howitzer from Ft. Carson back in &apos;87. &nbsp;I was heading home from a softball game, and up north on I-25 it looked like the car chase scene from The Blues Brothers. &nbsp;AFAIK they just let the M109 run out of gas, but then they were just driving, not destroying anything.

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  @blakewinter1657 · 6 years ago

  Also, I have to ask: I hear that your compatriot from Infantry Branch, having changed his mind about the new Elbonian government, has come up with a plan to bring the Elbonian infantry back from the brink. If you were also to decide to try to fix their armored branch, having done your best previously to sabotage it, how would you go about doing so?

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