this is due to their design philosophy more than anything. to keep the overall height down they had to put the ammunition in the base of the hull so if it is hit the turret gets thrown. a low silhouette is better for charging across the open farm fields of the north German plain. presents less of a target to hit. NATO tanks were made to fight from positions hull down so a taller silhouette was acceptable. this also allowed the ammunition to be placed in the turret in a magazine separate from the crew so that in a ammo cook off the crew is spared (providing the magazine was closed)
You know what's interesting is the M1E3 next gen Abrams is supposed to use an autoloader with nobody in the turret, just 3 in the center so cook offs are should be nearly totally a non-issue. I hope they pull it off.
Also means less armor can cover more surface area, I wouldn't discount the top-of-the-line Soviet tanks at the end of the Cold War versus their NATO counterparts, they just didn't keep up. Interestingly enough after the Cold War the US panicked finding out that Russian reactive armor might've made the best armor-piercing rounds useless and rushed an improved version into service while at the same time the Russians panicked because they found out their reactive armor might not have actually fused properly at the speed said armor-piercing rounds were traveling at and.... weren't able to do much about it for a while because the Soviet Union had collapsed.
Some of us who took out a reasonable amount of student loans and are well on track to have them paid off soon still recognize that they're a burden upon our cash flow, one which has delayed the milestones of our adult lives relative to what our parents had. Some of us can dislike the notion of a taxpayer-funded bailout, and still think a system that is abusive by design should be abolished.
My neck of the woods is still about $5 per gallon.
I find an irony in how many people didn't understand this until they took an economics course as part of their general education credit requirements for a degree.
If you decide to take tests as you learn whatever in high school, sure colleges will take it — except they put CR on your transcript instead of your score or its equivalent grade*. Then later on, even if you get your degree, certain jobs or programs will decide they don’t count because “you didn’t prove that you can learn in a classroom setting.” That whatever you used to study must be fake or “like the movies,” even if it’s by professionals and covers the same material, the same information in the same amount of detail, as the teachers themselves. Even if the tests are by the same organization that developed standardized tests like the SATs, and those AP programs themselves.
“A loan we took out affected our income in the future.” How bizarre.
Oh fuck off with that smarmy horseshit.
Yeah pilots in Vietnam had higher casualty rates than the infantry. 10% of all US deaths in that war were Helicopter crewmen.
Well, see, the problem I have with this is that you assume all 17-19 year olds are retards who cannot understand loans, interest rates, etc. Now, if that’s the case then we have a bigger problem in our education system. And most of you are saying this is about the age of consent for literally everything. I mean, marriage, babies, military, smoking, porn, (not legally alcohol in the US but wink, wink).
If you meet communists halfway, the outcome is still socialism
Gosh, you mean an education system which directly (financially) benefits from steering its charges into financial indebtedness to it might not be properly educating those same charges about the ins-and-outs of financial indebtedness, conveniently making it much more likely they'll follow its shitty advice into that same indebtedness?
Well yeah, you can't just wipe the debts clean and keep on going with no changes. If you wipe them out now, it has to come with sweeping changes to go with it. Get rid of the subsidies and loan protections. Make it regular debt. People who've proven they can handle debt (by having good credit history at that age) shouldn't have any problems. People who haven't shouldn't be given loans.
I'd like to point out this right here is literally the central thesis of the delightful and sadly underrated film Falling Down w/Michael Douglas. "Do what the system always told you to do. Play by the rules and we'll take care of you. Oh, also, you're fucked now (we lied, lol) and you're the bad guy for noticing. Fuck you."
It happened to me. I took a lot of CLEPs too, and DSSTs. A few jobs, plus a program despite a 4.0 GPA and high scores on entry/entry-level tests. It might not be true for you 15 years ago, but within the past couple it has been.
Two. Jobs are in an industry with an intensive application/hiring process, program is for an industry with an extensive, phase-in training process. And I scored high on industry tests in both, so neither of them can say the knowledge or skill set is fake.
An interesting older movie that's kind of forgotten is Memphis Belle. Talk about almost no chance of survival. Almost nobody at the time did the 25 B-17 tours to get out of it.
I'm happy our paratrooper of circumstance is coming home, he's done more than we could has asked for. America expending all efforts to bring her lost boys back is something I will always appreciate even if no one else does. Also, not to diminish his own efforts, he's a badass for surviving and staying safe until rescue arrived. I hope he gets a medal(and a chocolate bunny) for his efforts and gets to have a relaxing Easter Sunday.
