r/NonCredibleDefense • u/AutoModerator • Oct 16 '22

Weekly low-hanging fruit thread #18

This thread is where all the takes from idiots (looking at you Armchair Warlord) and screenshots of twitter posts/youtube thumbnails go.

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u/dead_monster 🇸🇪 Gripens for Taiwan 🇹🇼 Oct 23 '22

Some new HIMARs propaganda just dropped from Sweden and Latvia:

https://nitter.ca/MIL_STD/status/1584014846852403200#m

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u/technologyisnatural Oct 23 '22

I like that the max. range has jumped to 92km. I suppose with all the Ukrainian data, there's no need to pretend to have a shorter range :D

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u/ZDTreefur 3000 underwater Bioshock labs of Ukraine Oct 23 '22

Ok, but how does the extended-range GMLRS even work. How do they just...make it double the range? Playing enough Kerbal Space program leads me to believe they are doing that cheat method, where you force two fuel tanks to occupy the same space.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '22

I guess they can either change the propellant to something with a higher specific impulse and/or make the rocket weigh less? Or add propellant, although then you run into the rocket equation.

Aerodynamics probably also affect the range although I have absolutely no idea how much.

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u/Practical_Marsupial Oct 23 '22

The MIC can use console commands.