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I love the camo on that HUGE FUCKING GUN-THING. Really helps hide it from enemies in that open field.

Yeah, that camo is photoshopped on. I remember seeing a picture of it before on here, and it was a uniform color of some sort.

In case anyone's wondering, it's a noise suppressor for firing range tests.

Crayz9000 wrote:In case anyone's wondering, it's a noise suppressor for firing range tests.

Thanks for the clarification. I was getting kinda scared.

Well, to me, it looks like something very masculin

Well, if I'm not mistaken, that's a German vehicle in the picture. In Germany, they have postage-stamp firing ranges, with houses nearby. And the neighbors don't like hearing guns go off all the time, so the military has some rather stringent noise regulations that they have to adhere to on the firing ranges.

Bizarre things like this are the natural result.

So basically it's a GIANT 'Silencer' for the tank gun. I'm wondering: Wouldn't everyone still hear the ballistic crack from the tank projectile anyway? I think they fly at Mach 1.5-2 give or take half a Mach (I looked at tank shell schlieren photos and they all have mach wave angles between 30 (M. 2.0) and 45 degrees (M. 1.4).

It looks to me like they have to fire at a given angle. I wonder what happens if you want to fire that gun at a lower angle. From the look of that platform, it seems it's not gonna be easy.

And wouldn't the recoil throw the alignment away? if the shell flies into the walls of that thing, it will look like Looney Toons

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:So basically it's a GIANT 'Silencer' for the tank gun. I'm wondering: Wouldn't everyone still hear the ballistic crack from the tank projectile anyway? I think they fly at Mach 1.5-2 give or take half a Mach (I looked at tank shell schlieren photos and they all have mach wave angles between 30 (M. 2.0) and 45 degrees (M. 1.4).

I suppose, but that's still preferable to hearing massive thunder every three minutes.

I used to live near the Rock Island Arsenal and they would fire off a round of something every work day. I'm not sure what it was but you could hear it from pretty far away and see the burst where it detonated in the air.

Crayz9000 wrote:Well, if I'm not mistaken, that's a German vehicle in the picture. In Germany, they have postage-stamp firing ranges, with houses nearby. And the neighbors don't like hearing guns go off all the time, so the military has some rather stringent noise regulations that they have to adhere to on the firing ranges.

Bizarre things like this are the natural result.

Those Europeans and their little countries

Actually, it looks more like one of our Paladin artillery guns.

Actually, it looks more like a giant robot's cock n' balls.

Galvatron wrote:Actually, it looks more like a giant robot's cock n' balls.

Are you referring to a particular robots Naughty bits?

Galvatron wrote:Actually, it looks more like a giant robot's cock n' balls.

I was thinking the same thing. Is the phallic resemblance intended?