After the Chieftain...
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Nice. All British tanks.
For a time, I worked at a military fan and impeller manufacturer in Sunbury, Airscrew Howden (I wonder if they're still around?). My job was testing various aspects of electric and hydraulic fans. Once a week, I had to test the (hydraulic powered) fans that cool the engines in the Challenger II tank.
This is a bank of two fans approximately 3/4 of a metre across each. In application they spin at up to 2800rpm if memory serves me correctly, and at that speed they produce a lot of noise. The main test we were required to perform was for impeller integrity, because as you can imagine, if a fan blade a square foot in area and a centimetre thick comes off at 2800rpm, we're going to ave a scenario for the crew, somewhat similar to putting a spider in a jar of nails and shaking it.
So, we put them up on hydraulic rigs in soundproof chambers, and spun them up to 5800rpm for 15 minutes. This noise could be heard a mile away, from a soundproof room. I never had any failures, thank god (it was dangerous for us as testers, too, naturally), but a colleague did, and one of the blades came flying off, went through one soundproof wall, through the walls of the next booth and through both walls of a third booth, before embedding in the wall of the fourth.
It was nucking futs I tell ya.
For a time, I worked at a military fan and impeller manufacturer in Sunbury, Airscrew Howden (I wonder if they're still around?). My job was testing various aspects of electric and hydraulic fans. Once a week, I had to test the (hydraulic powered) fans that cool the engines in the Challenger II tank.
This is a bank of two fans approximately 3/4 of a metre across each. In application they spin at up to 2800rpm if memory serves me correctly, and at that speed they produce a lot of noise. The main test we were required to perform was for impeller integrity, because as you can imagine, if a fan blade a square foot in area and a centimetre thick comes off at 2800rpm, we're going to ave a scenario for the crew, somewhat similar to putting a spider in a jar of nails and shaking it.
So, we put them up on hydraulic rigs in soundproof chambers, and spun them up to 5800rpm for 15 minutes. This noise could be heard a mile away, from a soundproof room. I never had any failures, thank god (it was dangerous for us as testers, too, naturally), but a colleague did, and one of the blades came flying off, went through one soundproof wall, through the walls of the next booth and through both walls of a third booth, before embedding in the wall of the fourth.
It was nucking futs I tell ya.
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Tiger!
No, wrong side
sry
No, wrong side
sry
Squaw?
That will spin up the PC police almost immediately.
No frelling copper's getting me alive!
Maybe somebody should explain this to all the people moaning about how the T10 is "mis-named"?
Clearly it should have been called the TOG II.
After the Chieftain will be the Krait.
Probably some other Old Ships Revisited before we actually get anything really new.
Still waiting for the Saud Kruger Stingray and the Imperial (Gutamaya) Hoplite (Medium ships, Stingray as a combat-centered ship, Hoplite as a multi-role).
Probably some other Old Ships Revisited before we actually get anything really new.
Still waiting for the Saud Kruger Stingray and the Imperial (Gutamaya) Hoplite (Medium ships, Stingray as a combat-centered ship, Hoplite as a multi-role).
We could also see the Matilda, Scorpion and Scimitar
I hope no one seriously expects a spacecraft named "challenger" to appear anywhere in fiction or real life in the foreseeable (perhaps indefinite) future.
Don't forget XCOM, which means it's also perfect for an anti-alien ship name!
http://xcom.wikia.com/wiki/Avenger_(XCOM_2)
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Type-59 pls.
We could include the KV-2, but then the Thargoid would never get off a single shot. hahaha
Seriously, Frontier is a UK company and all of them are British tanks.
Missed that one. Obvious choice. As a minimum there should be three (Small, medium and large.)