The spall damage is pretty minor (maybe not ‘minor’ but far from a tank crew’s biggest concern). Assuming we’re talking about the HEAT variant, It’s the molten hot copper jetting through that is the real killer.

Hard to tell from here. That’s either HE, HEDP, HE-SD, or HEDP-SD.

They have considerably more ass than an HE 40mm for a 203.

Stoked for the Mexican Navy to be the ones credited with nabbing this fucker. They’ve been stalwart studs, valuing their honor above money and have been nigh incorruptable. I’ve done FID with them. They’re good people and certainly deserve this.

About equal to a hand grenade. They are great penetrators on the cheap. And RPG-7 will punch through just about anything that hasn’t been specifically designed to handle them. It would punch through 99% of the Mexican government’s armored vehicles. Basically anything shy of a modern MBT with ERA. That said, I saw M1s…

This is the Sinaloa cartel. I’m sure they have plenty of NODs to make use of an IR laser.

For what they’d be using that rifle for, any cheapo optic you can slide on a rail would be more than fine. It’s a pretty good anti-material rifle. It’s a horrendous anti-personnel weapon.

Source? The limited projections I’ve seen says they will have no problem with keeping pace with any changes.

Absolutely!

Not sure if srs but I’ll bite since I’ve seen people legitimately respond with that answer.

You dont seem to understand an ounce of this even after Tyler has written novels on all aspects of it.

Stellar post. Tyler does some stuff really well. Playing arm-chair general (with zero experience or background mind you) with tactical and strategic analysis isn’t one of them. As you said, he should stick to the facts.

Man you’re really reaching. Out of all the possible reasons for weapon selection you fixate on one of the least likely. What a joke.

We’re both pretty rude to each other. It evens out ;)

Do you have any clue what IOC means? Really? You do? Good, now compare the F-35’s IOC to any other IOC and you’ll notice that there is YEARS separating an IOC to any legitimate deployment.

bueno

That’s some pretty interesting “history” you subscribe to. Way to highlight 10% of things while leaving 90% out.

That insignia was in use long before the F-14.

Fair enough. I didn’t recognize your user name. Nine times outta ten when that happens, it’s someone hanging on every word Tyler types.

As you should.