Re: [WW] how do vehicles work?

[Nathaniel Bennett <nathaniel_bennett@yahoo.com>]

Alright, if the war gets extended, this P 1000 thing
has GOT to hit the field. Battleship turret...heh
heh...



--- nvdoyle <nvdoyle@home.com> wrote:
> Mr. Hopler writes:
> 
> > Hope I didn't scare anybody off with that last bit
> of technobabble about
> armor >and penetration. I added it because it
> sounded like there were some
> grognards >lurking around that might be interested.
> 
> Not in the slightest. I'm actually -very- glad to
> see that Real World data
> is being used. That means we can (relatively) easily
> convert over stuff that
> isn't covered - and gives a pretty good feel for how
> things worked. I'd like
> to see more like this.
> 
> > As far as Noah's Maus request, don't you think the
> Jagdtiger is overkill
> >enough?
> 
> No such thing as overkill. :)
> 
> MikeEdwR writes:
> 
> >Curiosity
> >what is a Maus?
> 
> Ah, yes, the Maus. Heh. A marvel of German design
> and technical engineering,
> and of the concept that bigger is better. It was one
> of the German
> 'supertank' designs. It was a development of another
> contemporary
> super-tank, the 'Lowe', or 'Lion', which never made
> it to prototype. There
> was never production of the Maus, only about two and
> a half prototypes. It's
> rumored that one saw combat defending against the
> Soviets, but that's never
> been satisfactorily confirmed.
> 
> I would go into techspecs, but...Aw, John, you beat
> me to it. :)
> 
> Sooo...I'll go into the next Allied Nightmare...the
> P 1000.
> 
> Weighing 900,000 to 1,000,000 kilograms (that's
> around 990 to 1100 English
> tons), it's 35 m (115 f) long, 14 m (46 f) wide, and
> and 11 m (36 f) high.
> It was planned to have either two 8500hp MAN
> Diesels, or eight 2000ho
> Daimler-Benz Deisels, both marine designs. Triple
> tracks on each side, 3.6m
> (12f) wide would carry it at an estimated 40 km/h
> (25 mph). It would have
> had essentially a heavy cruiser turret on top, with
> 2 x 280mm SK.C/34 L/54.4
> (same guns as on the Scharnhorst and Gniesenau), 1 x
> 128mm Kanone, 8 x 20mm
> Flak 38, and 2 x 15mm Mauser MG 151/15.
> 
> Yes, this was really planned. There's some arguement
> about how much it would
> have weighed, from those dimensions, and some issues
> with ground friction
> (super-heavy tanks might be articulated so they can
> turn).
> http://members.tripod.com/~fingolfen/index.html is a
> great place for such
> discussions.
> 
> Noah
> 
> 
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