But steel is heavy and there is a strong push to make the next generation of tanks lighter. So this got me thinking why not make tanks out of something lighter like feathers?
Tanks are made of steel
But steel is heavy and there is a strong push to make the next generation of tanks lighter. So this got me thinking why not make tanks out of something lighter like feathers?
Why not make tanks out of morons? they're abundant, modular and mobile.
I mean… Unleash a couple hundred syndrome boys dressed in these armed with grenade launchers and promise them one bag of nerds rope for every enemy scalp they bring back… probably at least as effective as a few tanks
>I mean… Unleash a couple hundred syndrome boys dressed in these armed with grenade launchers and promise them one bag of nerds rope for every enemy scalp they bring back… probably at least as effective as a few tanks
There was a very chilled bomb disposal anon who used post here years ago. If he is reading hello, I hope you did not blow up.
>bomb disposal anon
They already do. Look at the Russian one in OP's pic.
Wizard, healer and a tank walk into a bar.
What is wrong with this statement?
tanks have tracks, they can't walk
Wizards can't enter bars, alcohol vapors cause them to melt.
You address one of them by class and the majority by role.
What's heavier: a pound of flesh or a pound of cure?
A pound of flesh, because a pound of cure weighs the same as an ounce of prevention.
Make the tanks out of diamond
But diamond is the hardest metal known to man (barring Dragonforce, ofc)
Memes aside, using synthetic gemstones composited with aluminum for flex (such that it deforms and dents instead of shatters) has been chatted around a lot as the next big breakthrough in windows technology. Has anything come out of it yet?
>why not make tanks out of something lighter like feathers
Go ask a duck how bulletproof feathers are.
Gentleanons, there is a scientist with us! Look at the brain on this one. Are you very brown?
> Professor Brown of the department of brown studies in the University of Brownistan has done his peer review. The answer is brown.
Ok. He said "Quack!". Now what?
feathers are for flying, if you do that you get a plane
I think the latest jap tank is made out of nanocrystals..whatever that means
Make tanks from beryllium then, according to Ashby chart its the strongest lightiest material
Just use water, the rounds will pass right through then, and you need need less of it.
Why don't they make tanks out of diamonds, aren't diamonds the hardest things??
Diamonds are hard, but they are really fricking brittle, and are not particularly good with dealing with impacts.
then just have a thin coat of small diamonds and some metal behind it...
T64 hev corundum balls in its armour
Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows:
Pocket-protected scientists built a wall made of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed. They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors. They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond travelling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall made of metal into 400 miles an hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted earths orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles an hour. They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused over 10000 wayward planes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with over 10000 buildings in downtown New York. They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall travelling at miles per iron, and the result proved with out a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man.
No, this is not true. In fact, there are several inaccuracies and impossibilities in the scenario described:
Diamonds are not metals; they are allotropes of carbon, while metals are elements or alloys that exhibit metallic properties.
The statement that diamonds are the hardest metal is contradictory because diamonds are not metals.
The described experiments involve impossible scenarios, such as crashing a diamond car into a wall made of diamond and expecting "no survivors." This scenario does not make logical sense.
The descriptions of the experiments involve exaggerated and unrealistic outcomes, such as shifting Earth's orbit or causing fatal crashes involving thousands of planes and buildings in New York City.
The language used in the description is highly exaggerated and nonsensical, further indicating that it is not based on factual research.
In conclusion, the claims made in the scenario are entirely fictional and do not reflect any actual research conducted by the University of Pittsburgh or any other reputable scientific institution.
Can't tell if autistic or just not funny
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Strongest materials are metals. And strongest metal based on weight factor is beryllium
tanks are measured in tons, so it does not matter if you make one from the lighter materials
in fact you should use heavier materials if you want to make the same weight tank smaller
>tanks are made of steel
>steel is magnetic
Guys, I've got a plan.
You can make tank out of austenitic steel which is not magnetic.
Schurzen were made to counter anti-tank rifles, not shape charges.
I don't get it
a kilo of mobik is lighter that a kilo of steel
can 70 ton of feathers be as bulletproof as 70 ton of steel?
Why are we making them lighter? Fuel efficiency standards? Are all tanks mandated to be electric by 2030?
Mud
why not fiberglas, epoxy resin and some ceramics? I identify as tank with bean/beans pronouns
>why not fiberglas, epoxy resin and some ceramics
You know what? This is a less stupid idea. Soak sheets of fiberglass in epoxy resin will give you something like Micarta. Then tile the outside with ceramics to break up incoming rounds.
Anon, are you drunkposting again?
Shitposting aside I wouldn't be surprised if there's some testing being done building tanks out of what's effectively (strong) plastics with ERA giving the only "real" protection.
It goes back to the whole plate armor vs no armor for infantry thing, if your suit of heavy ass expensive as frick plate armor can't stop a modern bullet it's an active detriment to wear anyways so instead of outfitting one guy with expensive armor you can have a dozen guys with rifles and cloth uniforms.
So instead of having one super-tank that will get penned by artillery or aircraft as soon as it's spotted regardless go full vatnik mode and send a dozen fast as frick dirt cheap plastic tanks to rush down an objective before artillery can kill all of them
>plastics
Aka NERA. Old tech.
>"advances in the use of ERAs include using polyethylene flyer plates as opposed to steel plates. This approach is behind Verseidag Ballistic Protection and Dynamit Nobel Defence’s Composite Lightweight Adaptable Reactive Armour (CLARA). When each module explodes, the flyer plates shatter into relatively harmless fibre shards (Ogorkiewicz 2007). Consequently, the risk to dismounted troops and civilians in the local area of the vehicle is considerably reduced. Each CLARA bolt-on module weighs 18.5 kg and is only 100 mm thick excluding the stand-off required. CLARA has also been tested on a Rheinmetall Landsysteme Marder 1A5 Infantry Fighting Vehicle using a surrogate RPG warhead. Although the surrogate warhead was capable of penetrating 320 mm of RHA without any reactive armour protection in place, the jet was almost completely destroyed by the action of CLARA with only 6 mm of penetration into the steel armour.280 Armour
Kauffman and Koch (2005) used a 50-mm diameter shaped charge warhead to test a variety of candidate flyer materials. They examined a variety of materials including steel, aluminium, polycarbonate, polyethylene and a GFRP as candidate ERA flyer plates. Their work showed two important results. Firstly, the protection efficiency of the low-density materials is good compared to steel, and secondly, to reduce the collateral damage, it is advantageous to use brittle materials, producing small and lightweight fragments."
>low density flying plates
I didn't know. That's interesting. Polymers by themselves are already very effective against HEAT, I wonder if someone already tested something similar+ceramics against darts.
Plastics are shit because even though they appear strong on paper they have very low melting point and any explosives will melt through them.
I talked with some head researchers at a major plastics company and they had a project of making walls to protect from explosives and grenades.
> very low melting point
And yet many of them are really useful for very high temperature shields... (ablative/endothermic coolant)
It's not so simple.
>It goes back to the whole plate armor vs no armor for infantry thing, if your suit of heavy ass expensive as frick plate armor can't stop a modern bullet it's an active detriment to wear anyways so instead of outfitting one guy with expensive armor you can have a dozen guys with rifles and cloth uniforms.
attempted with the leopard 1 and AMX series, where they only had just enough armor to stop 30mm APDS and nothing more, under the assumption that HEAT makes all armor useless might as well strip it down and go fast
the experiment was a dismal failure, with leopard 1s getting increasingly uparmored throughout their lifespan because crews want more protection
the israelis were unhappy with the AMX-13 and requsted the AMX-13 gun be mounted inside an M4 sherman tank because the older tank had more armor and would be more survivable
the "no armor is best armor" theory was inherently flawed, because stripping down to light armor to go faster was instantly nullified by the fact that light vehicles travelled slower to maintain concealment
and even if HEAT can penetrate heavy armor, crews desired heavy armor regardless to protect against autocannons, small-diameter HEAT warheads from handheld weapons, and artillery fragments
the future is always going to be the heaviest armor you can fit and still move as fast as a truck