#Dust and Debris

[bestcarpetcleaningtipsblog]

Managing Carpet Cleaning During Renovations

[avephelis]

NEED to check these things for fleas. take them to the VET! so sad they can't have deviantart they would have loved deviantart.

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

EMERGENCY WEATHER ALERT OH FUCK-

[ninja-boo]

i hate this drawing

[jcmarchi]

Abrams Tanks May Have Some Problems in Ukraine - How Serious Are They? - Technology Org

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Abrams Tanks May Have Some Problems in Ukraine - How Serious Are They? - Technology Org

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are using a bunch of different types of Western tanks. Those include German Leopard 1 and 2 tanks, British Challenger 2 and, of course, at least 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks. All of these tanks have certain peculiarities about them and crews have to be prepared for each of these types individually. However, the Abrams main battle tank may pose the most serious problems.

Ukraine absolutely needs main battle tanks. The more the better. And the more advanced the better. However, the West lived in peace for so long that the tank reserves are not that great. NATO countries don’t have that many tanks to spare actually.

On top of that, the choices of which tanks to supply need to be made in a smart way, because Ukraine does not have any experience with the Western-designed tanks, there is no servicing or ammo supply infrastructure there.

M1 Abrams tanks are special in many ways. They also require special care. Image credit: Oregon National Guard via Wikimedia

And now the Ukrainian Ground Forces have a mish-mash of tanks, which have their own peculiarities:

The Leopard 1A5 is not only the oldest in its architecture, but also has a rifled 105 mm gun. This means that it needs special ammunition, which is not common in NATO anymore.

The Leopard 2s are the most standard, but Ukraine is getting a bunch of different versions of this tank, including 2A4s, 2A5s, 2A5s (Stridsvagn 122) and 2A6s. There are differences between these versions that need to be learned in training.

The Challenger 2 is of the same era as the Leopard 2, but it uses a rifled 120 mm gun, which also required special ammunition.

Finally, the M1A1 Abrams can share ammo with the Leopard 2, but has a multi-fuel turbine engine, instead of a regular reciprocating engine with cylinders and pistons.

Abrams tanks can burn any fuel – diesel, petrol, vodka, doesn’t matter. They are powerful and resilient. However, these gas turbine engines do need a lot of care.

Forbes writes that despite the engines in the Abrams tanks costing an unbelievable amount of money, they can succumb to dust and debris if the crews don’t maintain the filters very well. This is something crews learn during long months of training, but the Ukrainian tankmen had to learn this very quickly.

If the tank filters are not cleaned every 12 hours or so, the damage can be so severe that the engine and possibly the transmission will need to be replaced. Obviously, in a battlefield that could bring the tank to a tragic ending.

How do you clean the filters? Ukrainian Abrams crews will have to rev the tank’s engine to redline twice a day to start the pulse-jet system and blow air through the filters clearing out the dust and debris.

Power unit of the Abrams tank out of the hull. Image credit: Lance Cpl. Zachery Laning via Wikimedia

Even with the filters being kept up to, the Arbams will cause some issues to the Ukrainian Ground Forces. These tanks use a lot of fuel and require deep maintenance, which will have to be performed in Poland. Getting them there will not be easy either, because the Abrams is rather heavy at over 62 tonnes.

However, the effectiveness of the main battle tank mostly depends on the tactics. And if the defenders of Ukraine manage to exploit the strong sides of the Abrams well, these tanks will do a lot of damage to the Russian invaders.

Written by Povilas M.

Sources: Focus.ua, Wikipedia

[lavampira]

watching a quiet place day one and I am so stressed about the cat !!

[dustedmagazine]

Peace De Résistance — Lullaby for the Debris (La Vida Es un Mus)

Like some doomed lovechild of the later Velvets and Diamond Dogs-period Bowie, with the most hypnotically rocking tunes by the Swell Maps (think “Midget Submarines” or “Secret Island”) as close avuncular relations, Peace De Résistance’s new LP Lullaby for the Debris shuffles into earshot. Louche and low-slung, but also jittery and jumpy; groovy and gravid in equal proportions — the record’s feeling tone can be hard to inhabit, but it’s simultaneously so seductively easy to dance to. It just about demands a tapping foot, a shaking hip and a shimmying pair of shoulders, if you can shed enough of our collective state of existential dread to get up off the floor and shimmy. (Shaking is a simpler prospect these days, if you are willing to do so in fear.) This reviewer enjoys moving in tune with “Coddle the Rich” or “I Am,” songs that realize the variety of mordant delight Peace De Résistance excels at creating. Listening to Lullaby for the Debris won’t solve any of the problems generating all that fearful trembling, but the record can take some of the sting out of things. In our current conjuncture, that’s just about enough.

Listeners familiar with Bits and Pieces (2022), the first LP Moses Brown released under the Peace De Résistance name, will encounter some similar sounds and textures here. Brown hasn’t effected significant changes to the project’s sonic identity: glammy punk with a grimy bit of a funk on it. These new songs are more polished without losing much of the ragged quality that distinguishes the project’s musical atty-tude. Brown sounds sorta jaded, sorta grossed out, but not entirely hopeless. And maybe that’s not such a great thing: it would be so much easier just to shrug and mumble a cynical “fuck it.” Having hope means that you can’t turn entirely passive. What a drag.

So we get songs like “40 Times the Rent” and “Fast Money,” curling their lips at capital’s unjust disparities of wealth and the increasing difficulties of affording space in which to exist and have something like a private life. Those are intractable problems also addressed by Institute, the Austin-based punk project Brown participates in. Peace De Résistance is more glam than anarchic, and Brown’s loose-limbed grooves clash with his sprechtgesang vocal style, akin to a more nasally and dissipated Leonard Cohen, c. I’m Your Man. Like Cohen, Brown makes that relatively flat delivery feel urgent, mysterious and reckless, even as the music strikes more decadent stances.

It's a complicated sound, despite its druggy and dissolute surfaces. The songs’ content demands to be taken seriously, and depending on your politics, you may find the sentiments of smartly written tunes like “Ain’t What It Used to Be” (about gentrification and its historical erasures) and “Pay Us More” (yep) sharp and moving, critical and edging toward something like aspirational struggle. The music is both less sanguine and more oriented toward pleasure. The combination of style and content isn’t jarring so much as weirdly on edge, a pose of careless aloofness that wants to lose its cool. This reviewer enjoys those surface-level pleasures enough to hope that Brown can stave off the hotter affect. But the political won’t wait, and the debris is accumulating noisily, however effective Peace De Résistance’s lullabies might be. Harsh daylight will cut through those black-lensed Ray-Bans soon enough.

Jonathan Shaw

[joowee-feftynn]

the littlest diamond but i finally got to color her puppet's body. and i think it looks sick

[star-mum]

local girl wakes up not in a good mood, minor inconveniences and period pains make her absolutely insufferable. More at 7pm

[suboptimal-xenobiologist]

Heeheeheeheehee... Calliope's eyes being described as "perfect glass" in canon gives me evidence to assume that cherubs have reptilian spectacles <3

[risingsunresistance]

a collection of my favorite tags so far

[foegs]

all of a sudden I’m a huge stars fan

[rememberthelaughtermp3]

what do you think about that image tell me

i think. i need to die. Badly

[radiojamming]

OKAY ONE MORE DOODLE I PROMISE AND THEN I'M DONE FOR THE NIGHT

this is just from a super self indulgent AU that has an audience of like two and a half people

[weepingfoxfury]

I do not own a duster, I do not move my dust, no domestic goddess me, in dust in dust I trust ...

[thatferrybroad]

BECAUSE THE DUST IS YOU!! YOU KEEP LEAVING YOURSELF EVERYWHERE!!!