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  • MH-60s have 3 engines. 2 for the main rotor and 1 (the APU; aux power unit) to provide air (I can’t remember if it pushes air somehow or is geared to the engine turbines) to start the two main engines and provide initial electrical power. All three run on JP-5, which is jet fuel. (I was stationed in a helicopter squadron for a few years.)

    JP-5 is a kerosene based fuel, and not very special if I remember correctly.

    I don’t know if it was the case here, but water in the fuel is a common issue and it should be tested for on a regular basis.




  • Maybe RPGs, if the distance of the plate was far enough away from the main hull of the tank. The blast from shaped charges in RPGs can dissipate fairly quick once it has gone through one bit of armor, so, it needs to detonate against the actual tank hull itself so the jet of molten copper has a higher chance to give a big hug to one of the shells in storage.

    But an AT missile? Highly unlikely it will be stopped. It’s probably also going to have a shaped charge, but it will be much more powerful than an RPG and could penetrate multiple layers of armor. A top-down trajectory is also more likely where actual tank armor would be the weakest. (There are multiple types of anti tank missiles and some can be set for different attack trajectories.)

    Turtle tanks may or may not still have an active main gun. If they don’t, they shouldn’t be carrying any live shells so crew survival rate should be a touch higher depending on where the missile strike happens.




  • I would tweak that a hair and tell people just to make an account somewhere and observe for a bit. Lemmy can have some very distinct groups that reside on very specific instances. Or not. It’s a “pick your adventure” kind of scenario, IMHO.

    It took about six months or so for me to settle into .ca after bouncing around a bit. It’s not really a pain to switch instances, but I personally like my chat history in one spot and I like the concept of a ‘home instance’.

    Depending on your client and your settings, your feed could have a bias that leans in the direction of the posts on your home instance, so that is something of note. Not saying that is bad or good, it just is what it is.