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How big would an army of conscripts, armed with Dragunov pattern marksman rifles and iron sights, with between 1 and 3 magazines each, a radio headset that allows them to take orders on a platoon level (50 troops to be specific), and a single platoon artilleryman armed with an RPG-7 with 5 rockets, with assistance from a Mitsubishi Type 89 IFV (35mm autocannon, 7,62mm M240 pattern coaxial machine gun, tracked) and an aerial command/reconnaisance/attack/close air support aircraft, need to be to deal with an army of 1000 heavy pikemen, 50 elite knights, 200 heavy cavalry, 100 light cavalry and 200 longbowmen? The pikemen are armed with a pike and wear breastplates, pauldrons, gauntlets, a helm and chainmail. The heavy cavalry are armed with a heavy lance, a sword, cuirass and helm. Longbowmen use English yew bows and wear gambesons and a chainmail on the head. Light cavalry are armed with a spear, a short bow, and a small sword. The elite knights are armed with a heavy lance and a sword, and armoured in a full body suit of plate and horse barding, and they will move with the heavy cavalry.

Okay, so, for the record, you're not really supposed to use an SVD's iron sights. (SVD is short for “Dragunov Sniper Rifle,” so, these are formally called, “sniper rifles,” rather than just DMRs.) They were (supposed to be) issued with PSO-1 scopes. This can be a little amusing, because once you know what a PSO-1's range finder looks like, it's absolutely unmistakable, and you will see films and TV shows use them on other scopes. I bring this up, because the SVD has an effective range over 600 meters. (Specifications say it's good to almost 1.3km, but, that's very hopeful.)

However, with optics, those SVDs are going to massive out range any archer.

Your infantry have somewhere between 1k-3k packed rounds. So, if they were the only participants, they would need to be a little careful about ammo conservation. But, when you start factoring in the IFV, it doesn't matter.

This scenario isn't extraordinarily different from early battles in WWI. Where cavalry and infantry charged entrenched heavy machine gun fire, and were annihilated.

This is also a moment when the whole, “elite knight,” bit really doesn't matter. You have a minor noble, who spent almost their entire life training to be a better melee combatant. You put them in the best armor you've ever seen. And, then a bullet fired from a mass-produced sniper rifle, designed to be easily fabricated by anyone with a basic machine shop, and simple enough to be maintained by a barely literate conscript will drop them in less time than it takes to read this paragraph, before the knight even knows that someone is aiming at them.

I will say, this is a little bit of a weird combination, the Type 89 IFV, is a Japanese vehicle. The JSDF (to the best of my knowledge) has never used SVDs. These days, I think their DMR is the H&K 417. Until a few years ago, their primary infantry rifle was the Howa Type 89, which is basically a redesigned AR-18. Prior to that, they used the Howa Type 64, which was a 7.62mm battle rifle. (As far as I know, the Type 64 was domestically designed.)

The Russian/Soviet equivalent to the Type 89 IFV would be the BTR-80. As with the SVD, because it's a Romanized translation, BTR stands for, “armored carrier.” Somewhat obviously, these don't work particularly well if they're not maintained, or if the motor pool Sargent is stripping them for spare parts and siphoning gas to sell on the black market, because the government hasn't paid any of you in six months, but it's still going to have a fairly similar effect on those elite knights from the 11thcentury.

The 50 SVD rifles is weird. Full stop. It's a specialist weapon, not a general infantry weapon. In a situation like that, you'd expect to see conscripts armed with AKMs or AK74s, maybe a few SVDs and RPKs.

Now, if you were looking at a contemporary NATO unit from the 60s or 70s, then, yes, you would likely see battle rifles like the M14, FN FAL, or H&K G3. And, when you're describing using an SVD's iron sights, that's more how you have used one of those cold war era battle rifles. Also, while those rifles do have automatic settings, they're intended for semi-automatic fire.

If you're wondering why I'm not even addressing things like the areal support or the RPG, it's because they really don't matter that much. Areal reconnaissance means never having to wonder where the enemy forces are, but basically anything on this list except the RPG, could probably deal with all of the enemy forces on their own. Stacking them together would be absolutely devastating.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think you could use pretty much any modern IFV as a one-size-fits-all siege breaker if they're dealing with medieval forces.

When you're looking at modern military forces time traveling into the past, the biggest logistical issue is long term depletion of supplies. There isn't really a question of, “who's going to win? A guy with a rifle that's effective at a range of over a 1km, or 10 guys with pointy sticks. The issue is what happens in six months, or a year, when there's only three or four rounds left for that rifle on the planet, and, there won't be any more for another six hundred years.

-Starke

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British Armadillo Mark III armed with a 35mm COW gun and some Lewis guns. Armadillos were improvised armoured self-propelled guns based on any available lorry chassis for airfield defence. The ‘armour’ consisted of wood and/or steel plates lined with gravel. The Mark I and II were armed with two Lewis Guns mounted in an open-topped ‘fort’, plonked onto a flatbed lorry that itself lacked even an armoured cab.

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最後一張星空了 舊方法的全都沒了，期待之後用新方法 新器材的拍攝效果 🌌

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Wk 00, 13th of October, 2024

as if from dreaming... projecting video in a darker space

ashley singer, as if from dreaming, 2024, digital video taken on my iPhone through the viewfinder of my 35mm camera

Here, I am trying to convey how I look at nature: I see the leaves, the bright sunlight dappled on the leaves. In a process using the camera to generate my ways of looking, I am thinking about the camera as an 'eye' in which to see the vegetal world through.

This video being taken in Eden Gardens in Maungawhau, is to me the brightest day of summer in 2023, I shot this and many other short clips through the view finder then. It has taken me throughout the year to edit this clip down to its size and flow. A lot of my gleaning happens from the point of Maungawhau suburb street-side gardens and berms, so this is a key location that my practice gets energy from. Because of the sacred nature of Maungawhau to tangata whenua, I make sure to not gather on the mountain space, to collect from introduced plant species that drop matter, and to take only one or two pieces for collection (which then gets composted in my garden bed in Hillsborough).

With the help of Sonya Lacey my supervisor, I was able to have the colours adjusted and the video cropped to work with the projector.

The video is quite grainy or buffy as it comes from filming through such a small gap in the film camera's lens. The viewfinder brings in a lot more glimmering light than the regular lens of the camera, film or digital. I liked when the video felt dreamy and hazy, this sense of looking at nature in a mystical ways conjures a haze, a glimmer and a sense of soft golden light. This has stemmed from reading and unpacking in my contextual research tales of math in the Mabinogion and the poetry of bard's like Taliessin, who spent a lot of emphasis in their writing on the way Middle Welsh times glimmered. Often women were heavily jewelled, the landscape was bright with metal armours, and nature was lush and abundant. I am trialling the short video work in the space to hopefully elude to a dream-like feel of these times past.

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Denmark to Upgrade Its CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicles - Technology Org

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Denmark to Upgrade Its CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicles - Technology Org

Denmark has ordered the defence contractor BAE Systems to upgrade its fleet of CV9035DK infantry fighting vehicles. These vehicles will receive many important upgrades, designed to help them to keep up with the demands of modern warfare.

CV9035DK infantry fighting vehicles are great weapons in the arsenal of the Royal Danish Army and they should continue serving for a couple of decades more.

CV9035DK is a Danish version of the Swedish infantry fighting vehicle CV90. Image credit: Pfc. Shardesia Washington via Wikimedia

The Royal Danish Army uses infantry fighting vehicles CV90. The CV90 ( Combat Vehicle 90 or strf 90) was designed in the late 1980s and entered service in 1994. Although it is technically a Swedish weapon, it is produced by BAE Systems AB, which will upgrade the Danish machines. Denmark is using the CV9035DK, which is an export version of the CV90 with a 35mm Bushmaster III autocannon.

Similar infantry fighting vehicles are used in the Netherlands, where they are designated CV9035NL, but are essentially the same thing. However, the CV9035NL already has a new turret and now the CV9035DK will get it too.

The Bushmaster III is a serious autocannon that fires 200 rounds per minute. The armour of Russian BMPs can be pierced through with no problem whatsoever, and if they hit well (that is, from the side) these rounds can even go through main battle tanks. But still, it’s time to upgrade its turret.

The Danish defence procurement organization DALO commissioned BAE Systems to modernize the fleet of CV9035DK infantry fighting vehicles. Denmark has been using 44 CV9035DKs for about 20 years now and would now like to upgrade them from the ground up. This will be a mid-life update, which could mean that these infantry fighting vehicles will be good for another two decades. War machines last a long time when there is no war.

The main upgrade for the CV9035DKs will be new turrets, but they will also receive lighter and quieter rubber composite tracks, better protection and mobility. The first upgraded infantry fighting vehicles will return to Denmark in 2026, the rest until 2029.

What’s so special about those new turrets? BAE Systems developed them some time ago and Dutch machines already use them. They have many improvements. For example, the position of the main gun has been adjusted to better balance the vehicle and to provide new opportunities to integrate other weapon systems (for example, anti-tank missiles).

According to the manufacturer, the new turret is also more ergonomic for the crew. This should not be overlooked, because soldiers can be more efficient when they are more comfortable.

It is good to remind people that while main battle tanks are great, it is infantry fighting vehicles that perform the majority of the tasks in today’s combat. Denmark has 44 CV9035DKs and 44 Leopard 2A7DK main battle tanks.

Written by Povilas M.

Sources: Tech.wp.pl, Wikipedia

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LUCIA from Jacob Møller on Vimeo.

A film written & directed by Franck Trozzo Kazagui.

Starring Lucia Cabrera Pedroso.

E.C.R. presents in collaboration with Dog Eat Dog & Obvious.

Executive Producers: Harvey Ascott, Ellie Goodwin, Maximilien Rivolet, and Franck Trozzo Kazagui. Producers: Harvey Ascott & Colin Vielliard. Producer Assistant: Lydia Martland. Art Director: Franck Trozzo Kazagui. Scriptwriters: Franck Trozzo Kazagui, Lucia Cabrera Pedroso & Sophie Yukiko.

Cinematographer: Jacob Møller.

GERMANY: Service Production: TRUST'N'TRY Producer: Timm Gillner. Producer Assistant: Tom Stix. 1st Director Assistant: Dominik Leingartner. 1st Camera Assistant: Tim Adam. Steadicam Operator: Lasse Liebelt. Gaffer: Thorsten Kosellek. Sound Operator & Voice-Over Recording: Adam Asnan. Styling: Peninah Amanda. MUA: Maria Ehrlich. Scanning: Laser Scanning Europe. On-set Scanning Technician: Vladyslav Buriakovskyi. Scanning Technician Supervisor: Oliver Niemann.

KOSOVO: Service Production: Circle Production - KS Producer: Besnik Krapi. Production Assistants: Blerta Cakaj & Erblina Hajdari. 1st Director Assistant: Eshref Durmishi. 1st Camera Assistant: Filip. Gaffer: Jetmir Zenelaj. Sound Operator: Gezim Berisha. Props: Blerim Shala. Art Director: Burim Arifi. Styling: Peninah Amanda. MUA: Ana Dervishi.

Post-production supervisor: Colin Vielliard & Franck Trozzo Kazagui. VFX Artists: Clément Milot c/o Katlas Production, Gerry Lindfield & Dan Sollis. CGI Artist: Leon Monschauer. CGI Camera Movement: Dane Armour. Editor: András Guti. Colorist: Manuel Portschy. Title Design Artist: Johannes Schauderna. Digital Print Service: Cinelab London. Music Service: Pace Music. Music Compositor: Brit Myers. Mixed, Sound design and mastered by Adam Asnan.

Brands and designers: GUCCI, LANVIN, BALENCIAGA, TOM FORD, VETEMENTS, ISSEY MIYAKE, BJOERN VAN DEN BERG, ALALA & UGLY NEW CUTE.

Shot on Alexa Mini and transferred to Kodak film 35mm - 3perf - 250D.

All rights reserved - © 2023

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Leopard 1A1

Leopard 1A1

The Leopard was originally called the Europanzer due to it being a joint project with France however the French pulled out as the German prototypes weren’t what they wanted so they went and designed the AMX-30. The Leopard was the first tanks the Germans designed after WW2 and continued the theme from WW2 of naming their tanks after felines which is a questionable decision as they were trying to distance themselves form the second world war. The three companies involved in prototyping the Leopard were Porsche, Rheinmetall and Borgward, Borgward was the first company to fail as they didn’t manage to produce prototypes in time. Porsche won the competition as the most pre production designs were ordered. The Leopard was armed with one Royal Ordinance L7A3 105 mm gun and one coaxial MG 3. The top speed of the Leopard was 40 mph which was fairly standard for the time it was made. The Leopard had armour of around 70mm on the turret and 35mm on the hull which by itself isn’t great but with the armours angles it’s not bad. I unfortunately couldn’t find anything about it’s turret traverse rate but I would presume it’s on par with the M60s as it was designed to replace it’s predictor in Europe the M48 Patton.

Sources 

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/West_Germany/leopard-i.php

http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product152.html

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Switzerland, 2018

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4 core armoured cable with all croos section

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Selfie with Jackie Lachance patch, 2017

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David Insley working his camera magic in the early days of Under Armour commercials. University of Maryland football weight room. Nikkromat, 16mm. Kodak TRI-X. NIK Silver Efex Pro. 

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🌌 第一次試影全景銀河 完全失敗記錄：

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1. 拍攝概念錯誤 所以只有單張拍攝 合一 Set 全景 無得疊相 爛過渣渣輝 連 Glow Star 都合唔到 🤦🏾‍♂️

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2. 定機方法拍攝 而且無改機 無 Detail 就梗㗎啦 如果唔係影到粒火流星 同埋藍眼淚 一定一早就 Delete 晒佢 😡

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3. 如果可以早一分鐘影完呢一 Set 全景 換得切影魚眼波波 就可以影得晒成粒火流星 而家出曬界 淨係影到三份一 🥲

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4. 再加上用鏡前濾鏡 用 16mm 影 導致有黑角 合完之後 接駁位好明顯 唔知用鏡後濾鏡 有無可能會好啲 🤔

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總結：身處喺光害城市入面 無咩事 都係唔好掂全景銀河 雖然試咗第一次之後 大概已經知道應該要點影 但係呢個題材 就算做到 都一定係會好麻煩 🤯

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CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle Can Be Almost Invisible in Ukraine - Technology Org

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CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle Can Be Almost Invisible in Ukraine - Technology Org

The Swedish infantry fighting vehicle CV90 is highly praised by Ukrainian soldiers. According to them, this armoured machine has many advantages that they have not seen before. In addition, it can become almost invisible to the enemy.

CV90 infantry fighting vehicle in the Ukrainian service. Image credit: АрміяInform via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0)

“Our CV90 performs well. Armour and armament are the most important features. Its armour is very strong, it withstood a hit from a Lancet drone to the front. It also withstood a 120 mm blow to the rear,” said the commander of the 21st Ukrainian mechanized brigade.

The Swedish “Combat Vehicle 90”, CV90 for short, has been in service since 1994. This tracked infantry fighting vehicle, used by many countries, has been deployed in both Afghanistan and the United Nations Mission in Liberia – this is to say that the service in Ukraine is not the first time CV90 has seen combat.

The CV90 is still in production – the Czech Republic and Slovakia are waiting for their own CV90s, having placed orders in the last couple of years. Depending on the version, the CV90 can be armed with a 40mm Bofors autocannon, a 30mm or 35mm Bushmaster autocannon, a 120mm mortar, or some other weapons. There is always a 7.62mm machine gun there, sometimes grenade launchers or even Spike LR missile launchers are mounted on the CV90 as well.

The defenders of Ukraine are using CV90 with the 40 mm Bofors autocannons. The CV90s used by Ukraine have 407 kW engines and reach a maximum speed of 70 km/h. They are very well equipped. The CV90 has a crew of 3 and can carry 7-8 troops in its passenger compartment.

Only about fifty CV90s are said to have been delivered to Ukraine so far. Ukraine plans to buy a thousand CV90s – they liked these machines that much. They will be at least partially produced in Ukraine. The agreement about the production of the CV90 in Ukraine was signed in June of last year, but no deadlines were publicly stated. Some people were not happy with this decision, because Ukraine has its own new infantry fighting vehicle, but the CV90 will help Ukraine switch to the NATO standards and can be produced in larger numbers sooner.

The early CV90s were criticized a bit for their armour, but the Ukrainians received an improved version of this machine, the protection level of which is not inferior to the M2A2 Bradley in terms of armour. Ukrainians sing high praise for their CV90s. Especially their special camouflage.

The CV90 can be covered in Saab’s Barracuda camouflage, which also hides the machine’s thermal signature. This is important when operating at night or in poor visibility conditions, as it is more difficult for the Russians to see such covered vehicles using thermal imaging cameras. Ukrainian officer said the Barracuda’s camouflage “protects the machine from night vision devices and thermal cameras” and that the CV90 is “about 70% less visible than any other machine”.

In many ways, infantry fighting vehicles are the unsung heroes of the war. They carry infantry into the hardest battles, provide close fire support, perform medevac and other missions. They sometimes even engage tanks and other armoured vehicles.

Written by Povilas M.

Sources: Tech.wp.pl, Wikipedia

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