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Made a #Starsector build for the Atlas Mk2 where 4 of them (4 x 24 = 96 DP) can take out 3 Onslaughts (3 x 40 = 120 DP) without losses.
No officers but 2 s-mods (might work with 1).
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I removed my motherboard since it very likely is the reason I can’t boot my system anymore. Currently trying to organize a replacement. Tuesday video might be delayed, keep in mind in Austria everything is closed on Sunday.

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Ryan A. Then: About the T-72's Gun and its Limits

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At first glance, the T-72 seems like a small tank with a turret to match... then you notice the gun. The 125 mm D-81 smoothbore gun was larger than the 120 mm Rh120 L/44 on the Leopard 2 and matched it in muzzle energy. It seems impossible to reconcile the size of the T-72's turret with the size of its gun without exacting a heavy sacrifice from something else, but with Soviet tanks, appearances can sometimes be deceiving.

Good stabilization quality and ease of control comes naturally to a tank gun balanced on its trunnions, but achieving that balance can be difficult when it's so much easier to add weight from longer barrels and thicker mantlet armour than it is to counterbalance it. The designer's options are to enlarge the breech ring or to move the gun inboard by putting the trunnions further up the barrel.

Soviet designers chose to instead abandon the gun mantlet for a narrow gun embrasure that would need only a small, lightly armoured gun mask. The recoil system was placed beneath the gun's breech so as not to add extraneous width. The gun stabilizer's parts were put to use as counterweights by mounting them to the underbelly of the gun cradle. Then, to slim down the gun as much as possible in width and height, the walls around the barrel chamber were thinned down with the help of advanced metallurgy, and the top of the breech ring was lowered to give more clearance for the gun to depress.

All this meant that the D-81 acquired a bottom-heavy appearance typical of many Cold War era Soviet tank guns, but it sacrificed no gun depression and its breech ring was slender for a 125 mm gun. It was just 505 mm wide, practically identical to the 115 mm U-5TS gun on the T-62 and the 120 mm Rh120 L/44 on the Leopard 2. It also took up little space in depth; its swept length, which is its inboard length plus the recoiling distance, was just 1,560 mm against 1,652 mm on the U-5TS and 1,745 mm on the Rh120 L/44.

There was, however, one downside: a short inboard length meant that the base length of the supports for the gun was also quite short - just 890 mm. The support base on the Rh120 L/44 was nearly twice as long (1,640 mm) because its cradle could extend far forward of the trunnions under the protection of the gun mantlet. The D-81 cradle was later redesigned in the 2A46M model to extend the support base length to 1,300 mm, and the 2A46M5 model we see most often today achieved a base support length of 1,460 mm by extending the front end of the cradle further into the gun mask.

A tank in its very essence is just a means to bring a powerful gun to a fight. Its tracks may let it to go off-road, because that's where you find the enemy. Its armour might take a hard knock, because the enemy tends to shoot back. But without its gun, a tank is just a very heavy tractor. In T-72 - The Definitive guide to the Soviet Workhorse, the design of the D-81 gun is taken apart analytically to understand how it works and why it was made the way it was, because apart from the log, it is the most important big stick on a T-72. The book is currently 20% OFF until 27 September exclusively on Lulu Press, additionally other books the Military History Group are reduced up to 10%: militaryhistorygroup.com/ It is also available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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