Text 12660, 54 rader
Skriven 2014-03-07 12:05:24 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.71)
  Kommentar till text 12649 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
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On Fri, 07 Mar 2014, Björn Felten wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> that's rather hard to do when running across the field at 40+mph 
 ml> and aiming sideways at targets trying to hit you like a duck 
 ml> flying across the zone...

 BF>    That's just it. Unlike a fleeing duck, the turretless design is 
 BF> much harder to hit. And the turret is usually the week point of a 
 BF> tank, without one, where will you aim?

on first thought, the tracks and front or rear belly... but i wasn't thinking
about a fleeing duck, either... one that is just flying across the zone...

 BF>    Yes mark, I know. There's always pros and cons. But the 103
 BF> proved to be a very good design. I know from personal experience.
 BF> In the military I was in charge of a platoon with two radar-guided
 BF> Bofors anti-air cannons that also was supposed to supply ground
 BF> support (such as taking out tanks), and it was damn hard to take
 BF> those 103s out, I can assure you.

i understand and i wasn't trying to say that it wasn't a good design... only
that i didn't see how it was superior because it can only shoot (at) what's in
front of it and if it is moving, it has to stop and align on a target that it
sees or that it finds shooting at it... granted, being lower to the ground does
make it harder to hit but...

 ml> me? if i'm moving forward and something starts shooting at me from 
 ml> either side or the back, i want to be able to keep moving forward 
 ml> and still be able to aim and fire back at them without having to 
 ml> turn around or divert my direction of travel (other than maybe 
 ml> adding some zig zag to my forward or reverse motion)...

 BF>    The 103 could turn, aim and fire in just a few seconds, and then
 BF> turn back and continue running (at a much higher speed than any
 BF> contemporary tank -- the official top speed was 50km/h but in the
 BF> radar station of ours we could clock it to more than 90km/h), but
 BF> of course you have a good point.

i knew that they ran faster than their documented speeds... everyone does that
to keep those they may be facing off guard... even ships are documented with
speeds lower than they are actually capable of... thanks for the recognition of
my point, too ;)

curiousity: wonder how the 103 can stand up to today's turretted tanks with
stabilized guns on rolling battlefields while moving at speed perpendicular to
or at an angle toward or away from each other...

)\/(ark

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gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin

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