Why does the barrel of this Abrams shake so much on the move? Did they disable gun stabilization during the parade?
>>64258350All tanks have stab on/of and some form of internal or external travel lock for when the stabilization system is not active. But internal travel locks tend to give a bit of wobble, and normally the barrel is locked in an elevated position to reduce the front weight, see pic
>>64258350Yeah yknow what's actually been a secret failure? Fucking m1 abrams
>>64258360Why not just set it like that for the parade, it looks better anyway, like having your dick pointing up in the air. They must have wanted to avoid triggering anyone.
>>64258350>Did they disable gun stabilization during the parade?of course
>>64258427Who the fuck knows why Pete does what he does
>>64258350yes/thread
>>64258427Because the US Military is pissed off being forced to do a dog and pony show for Cheeto Panini. They purposely did it badly so that they don't ever have to do it again. Notice Drumpoli never mentioned about parades after that.
>>64258408Des your village have water yet? The Abrahams absolutely mogged the middle east. For 20 years. Fact.
>>64258554God Bless America I say. Deathmarch parades are a hallmark of tyranny and struggling dictatorships with weak and ineffective militaries.
>>64258554Based. Orange man learnt the hard way.
>>64258427Because military parades like that are gay. We're not russia or China who need to roll down the street to show how cool we are. Put those man hours, fuel and maintenance into training instead
>>64258554Posts like these make me glad I voted for him.
>>64258583>Put those man hours, fuel and maintenance into training insteadIt is training. Training the public to tolerate and embrace a belicose foreign policy. A policy I already embrace and support. America, FUCK YEAH!
In that case? locked stab and resonance.Tank barrels are designed to be as light as possible, if there're problems related to that you have to use the stab/FCS to compensate it.
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>>64258583Yeah, only shitty third world countries have military parades, like France.
>>64258710Not that I have a problem with it, but I thought you guys voted for no wars and isolationism by any other name. What happened?
>>64258446He does what he does because he's effectively sidelined from real decision making by the pentagon, and he knows it but he doesn't know how to assert control over the generals and admirals who on average have 30IQ points, 40 years of political infighting experience and the advantage of sobriety over him. So he focuses on window dressing and optics so that he "looks busy" to Trump, who also doesn't really know how to manage or run anything and doesn't know what he's looking at.
>>64258350They've seen russian cope barrels do that and just copied it. Same as with cope cages and cope cubes.
>>64258864In case it's not obvious, BOTH sides of American politics have been engaging in levels of demagoguery never seen before. We're almost at 1984 levels of flip-flopping on policies and pretending it was always that way.
>>64258864That just counted for sand biomes. Snow biomes like Greenland are fairplay.
>>64258350Barrel shake for better anti-infantry saturation saar please understand
>>64258554Definitely seemed like malicious compliance when they sent a bunch of dorky looking multi-cam REMFs who could barely keep step.
>>64258864>Not that I have a problem with it, but I thought you guys voted for no wars and isolationism by any other name. What happened?It's a meme and people don't understand Trump. During Trump's first term there was this whole "Jacksonian" thing (now Trump is apparently into McKinley) and he hung up a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. The choice of portraits that go up is a symbolic thing that presidents do. The plot twist is that while this "Jacksonian" tradition is skeptical of foreign entanglements and alliances, it's also really bound up in an honor culture and can be even MORE warlike when provoked or threatened or attacked. The ethos is basically that if America goes to war, it should go all out. It's like viewing war as an "on" or "off" switch rather than a dimmer switch that phases up and down. So it's totally compatible with something like the Persian Gulf War where we just attack enemy forces with overwhelming force and crush them.You hear Trump say we're not about nation building anymore and it's true, Jacksonians don't care about that. But they also have a "don't tread on me" mentality. It's quite the opposite from pacifism. It's like how you hear Trump talk about the Gaza war. He'll say things that people misinterpret as critical of Israel and they need to "wrap it up" but that's also totally compatible with turning Gaza into a parking lot. Trump campaigned in 2016 on the Iraq War being a mistake because we didn't go in and "take the oil." It was a mistake because we weren't harsh ENOUGH. People somehow meme Trump into a pacifist (for some reason) then he bombs Iran, barbecues some Venezuelan drug smugglers, bombs the shit out of the Houthis, etc.
>>64258932Hegseth, that Indian motherfucker, and probably a dozen others were appointed to their positions to look the other way and keep their mouths shut. Trump appointed a handful of real patriots with actual talent during his last admin (Powell, Mattis) and he won't be making that mistake ever again
>>64258695>I'm glad I voted for a senile pedophile with a spray tanWierd flex, but go off King.
>>64258554It was pretty obvious because you know they have units that can march much better than that. He wanted a goose stepping military show and he got a small town 4th of July parade. He was only missing the old man with the funny steam organ.
>>64258554i mean it's pretty clear the active duty were sandbagging the parade pretty hard, but it seems more like nobody gave enough of a shit to try more than anything else. there's parade-ready units, but it seemed like the decision was 'put as many people out there as we can' and they weren't going to cut other duties to go practice marching.
>>64258554I'm legitimately surprised Kegsbreath kept his position after that. I think the only reason he wasn't fired right then and there is because that syphilitic dumbass doesn't actually know what proper marching is supposed to look like. The US doesn't train people to march. Marching is a method of introducing the idea of unit cohesion, it's not the end in and of itself. That's why thirdie militaries doing ridiculous motorcycle stunts and smearing themselves with baby oil for back of a truck gay pushup competitions looks so bizarre to American vets. To us it's analogous to saying that doing that stupid little arm movement like Salt Bae somehow makes you a good cook.
>>64258554take your fucking meds
>>64259371>shriners>local business floats>old guys with classic carswould've been kino
>>64259173It doesn't help that he has a very poor understanding of basically everything a good leader either needs to know, or have advisors tharlt know. The only thing he sees besides his own self importance is number on bottom line must be what he considers "good". He views everything through the eyes of a businessman that has failed spectacularly at every thing he's tried except for real estate, where he's kept afloat by owning a massive building in one of the most expensive cities in the world and fraudently acquired loans.
>>64258554I think he said something about the Navy doing one next year but i'm pretty sure that's been planned for years since it's the US' 250th anniversary
>>64258859>Frog and Bong parades>regiments with hundreds of year of history parade a bit showing off their historic honors and traditions>zig/zhang/shitholes>retards with no history that have never won a war walk about like Charlie Chaplain trying to impress their supreme overlord
I'm from europe and I enjoyed the US army parade. It's typical american.
What blew up in west taiwan?
>>64259825Just the normal economy stuff, deflation continuing points towards continuing weakness in domestic consumption.
>>64259804Any of the battleships able to participate or are they all too far gone in being museum ships by now?
>>64259848It's happening in Philly and i see the New Jersey mentioned but i'm not sure if it's actually capable of moving?
>>64259854Someone should convince Trump that getting the New Jersey back up and running would trigger the libs.
>>64258576kill yourself faggot and go back
>>64258350What are travel locks? The barrel is locked in place, which means it feels the full vibration of the tank.
