Good comedy means thinking outside the turret.

Not enough innocent bystanders at risk.
Room for improvement. :)

An obvious design consideration is relative insensitivy to anything but actual tank ordnance.

Should have made a standalone reply to the story to your comment here.
The Cold War-era T-series tanks often had thin, ballistic side skirts, and that was fine. As Soviet ERA research progressed, it’s inclusion in huge glacis, turret & finally skirt-side & turret top arrays became increasingly prevalent.

The weight of…

Well, interesting takeaway in operational terms is that the significant damage to the mounting of the side-skirt ERA seems to be a bit of a sore point currently for Russian tanks through T-72. (I’m sure Armata being a clean-sheet design has improved significantly on this)

Remember seeing an ANNA video of SAA T-72…

It’s a well-known fact Clutch Braking is overkill on many Soviet tanks — they just drift harder. (T-54 Lightweight, looking at you)

Upon examination of the actual video (potato cellular couldn’t load that promptly, only saw GIF till now) he actually got whipped by the overhead telephone wire (or whatever it is) and didn’t lose his footing.

Well played regardless Belarus.

Bwahahahahaha, looks like at the very end the TC loses his footing and eats shit down the hatch; the insult & injury are complete.

70,000 tons, no catapult & a dinosaur burner... just why?
That’s big enough to be a far better ship with those 2 attributes.
The United Kingdom makes me sad.

The HiBex from a plane wasn’t my idea, it’s in a series of historical fiction novels which would be ... I’m gonna say patently-offensive to the more-left leaning sensibilities of this board.

But it’s mature technology — 60's-era research.
It’s one of those things just waiting around for a proper use, again.

Replying to myself, there is 1 trump card in the future which will change everything:

Speed & altitude are the new stealth.

TFW you realize the Feminist Left is as puritanical as the Christian Right.

sniggering intensifies How’s it feel to be as puritanical as Mike Pence?

Not really shocking considering it abuts up to the Golan Heights.
Helping rebels out in that precise area essentially enlarges that buffer zone & enhances their security.

Not bad. Ideally IMO, it should be a word with word-like syllables.

PEBSEDS: Problem exists between steering wheel & driver’s seat.
Not quite as catchy as PEBKAC I admit... ideas on the definitive gear-head analogue to “problem exists between keyboard & chair?”

So the other day y’all posted this:

As a biker, if you want to be a gigantic cock, the rear view mirror makes a nice, soft target you can legitimately break.

Of course, it’s still categorically stupid to escalate the situation into what could end up you being railroaded off your bike into virtually anything at highway speeds.

Being in the right or…