Alternate Weapons of War thread...
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Thats a better description than Petikes but not exactly. A modern tank destroyer is basically an APC with a bunch of anti tank missile launchers on it. Armor and speed values can also vary greatly throughout history. So in the end a tank destroyer is an AFV who's purpose is primarily to destroy tanks while a tank is an AFV thats a tank.
Um, well, yes. Modern tank destroyers are essentially just ordinary IFVs and APCs with better anti-armour equipment.
Some armored car designs I was mulling over earlier today. There are a number of them pressed into service of the various Freikorps during the course of the Russian intervention, and here I've depicted one unit attempting a breakout from a besieged city near the Volga.
Somali pirate: Ah, another container ship! Our clan will be rich! Jamal, prepare the grappling hooks!
Jamal: Done! By the way, what is that thing on the foredeck?
Both: OH FUCK!
Jamal: Done! By the way, what is that thing on the foredeck?
Both: OH FUCK!
I see the Lumberjack Union is quite influential in the Banner Union.
Heh, more seriously EXTREMELY nice. The cargo container ship as well.
During the conflicts that defined the beginning of the 21st century, several deficiencies were identified with the standardised NATO rifle ammunition. The standard rifle round, the 5.56x45mm round, was thought by many to lack sufficient power and range in the conflicts being fought (although this was disputed by many). The previous standard round, the 7.62x51mm round, was still regarded as being too powerful and heavy.
Over the second decade of the 21st Century, serious steps were undertaken to address these deficiencies, by adopting a new round. Several intermediate rounds of different Calibre, such as the 6.5mm Grendel and 6.8mm SPC, were proposed, but none offered a radical enough change or improvement to justify a complete switch.
One of the key projects developing a new round at the time was the Lightweight Small Arms Technology (LSAT) program run by the U.S. Military. The LSAT program experimented with a series of Caseless and Telescoped Cased ammunition that were smaller and lighter than the then standard ammunition.Once the technology had been perfected, the LSAT program moved on to developing a new round to go with the new style of ammunition.
In the intermediate, Plastic cased versions of the regular 5.56mm and 7.62mm were developed. These reduced the weight of the round significantly, by replacing the brass cases with high strength polymer. Early versions of this ammunition required small modifications to the weapon, as the early cases had a tendency to warp on firing, although this was rectified in later batches.
Finally, in 2018, the LSAT project released the 6.7x41mm Cased-Telescoped round. The 6.7x41mm round was lighter and smaller than the 5.56mm round, yet packed a larger bullet and was considerably more accurate at longer ranges. The 6.7x41mm round was adopted by NATO conference as the 6.7x41mm CT NATO, and was selected as the future standard rifle round. Western-bloc weapons designers quickly set about designing new weapons to use the new round, and by 2021 the first of these new weapons were being delivered.
At the same time, LSAT also released another round, the 6.7x41mm Caseless. The Caseless round had the same power as its cased brother, but was light and smaller in size again. The Caseless round was also adopted by NATO as the 6.7x41mm CL NATO, although it has not seen as widespread adoption as the cased round, due to the stigma around weather resistance and cook off issues that surrounded earlier Caseless rounds, although thanks to high temperature explosives and water repelling polymers this is not an issue.
The CL round has proven popular, however, with special forces engaging in covert or long distance missions, as the cartridges light weight means more ammunition can be carried. Regardless, due to it being designed in the same project as the CT round, the two rounds use the same action, a sliding or tilting chamber, and weapons designed to fire the CT round can usually be modified to fire the CL round by replacing a single part, the chamber itself.
