I’m pretty much done with the slow, plodding and drawn out pace of TWD. I can’t tell if the writers simply don’t have ideas, or if they have an idea that they wan’t to remain employed indefinitely, and therefore, to hell with the notion of “story arc”. Yes, I realize there’s the comics, but those are the comics. The…

I was never 10th Mountain. On paper I never left basic, being assigned to the 198th Infantry Brigade while I went through all the various training schools for my MOS. I was pretty badly injured while training out at Ft Leonard Wood, and the Army cut their losses and discharged me. But hell, it was a LOT of fun while…

No doubt, most tanks are actually very vulnerable to infantry. We trained on how to disable just about every tank out there when I was in the Army. Including tanks fielded exclusively by allies (Challenger, Merkaba, etc). But on the antenna issue, there’s technologies out there you wouldn’t believe. Printed, high…

Modern antennas would be very difficult to “shoot off”. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to spot them these days.

Especially where Ballaban is concerned. I don’t think I’ve read a story by him yet where a little digging didn’t turn up a quite different picture of reality. Then again, I don’t go out of my way to read his articles. It’s not like he’s Tavarish or anything...

I think this part of the difference between the approach of the old TG team, and these new upstart whelps. This kind of shit happened to Jezza/Hamster/Cpt. Slow, they’d make it part of the shoot, then go to a plan B like buying three used local cars than racing them on an old soviet airfield. Against a T-32 tank. The…

....nope.

You’re going to figure out really quickly (if you haven’t already) that you’re arguing with someone who hasn’t a clue about what he’s saying.

“If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying.” - Joe Montana

I’m smart enough to recognize that the Mythbusters crew did a test for particulate emission (aka “dirty”), and both the deisel and the petrol met the same standard. Then, Ballaban goes on to write “but, but, that test doesn’t show NOx emissions!!! #MANBEARPIG!”.

This is about the dumbest thing I have read in a long time. (Like, since 11:34 AM EST on March 30th, 2016. That long.) The author writes:

It’s crap journalism, and you simply don’t know how to recognize it.

You do realize that the majority of the last 15 years of GWOT have involved almost entirely MOUT? And those grunts patrolling the streets are deploying from armored vehicles and supported by tanks? Hell, I’d be willing to bet that an Abrams, Stryker or LAV25 was involved in killing a terrorist (or haji, or taliban, or…

If the head is warped, then you can have exhaust gasses farting out of the cylinder into both the water jacket and into the oil galleys. This would over-pressurize the cooling system, forcing coolant out through the overflow tank and/or radiator cap. It would also increase crankcase pressure, forcing oil into the air…

Sorry, let me say “fucking useless”. I’m happy that the Chair Force can watch the action and occasionally relay info that’s fifteen minutes old, but I’d rather have something that can drive through a wall, put steel on target, and provide cover as it does. Tanks > UAVs.

dirac delta is continuous across all real numbers, so no... this only applies in the range of +/- 1/x, where x is a very larger number.

Disclaimer: I’m not a mathemetician. But I know some shit.

Remember... this is the same EPA that spilled millions of gallons of contaminated poisoned water into the Colorado... on purpose.

There’s a field of study in mathematics - I think numerics - where zero doesn’t exist as zero, but just represents really small quantities. Therefore, dividing any number by zero results in a very, very large number. This concept is familiar to most people via limits in integral calculus, but even in calculus zero is…

No, but we can orbit REALLY CLOSE...

Tyler, I respectfully have to take issue with your analysis (and I read the article). The weakness of a tank is always the man-in-the-loop. All you need to disable a tank completely is to disable the meatbags inside of it. UGVs not only take the man out of the loop, but you can also shed tons of armor, life support…