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You know what kind of movie this was. There was nearly all wrong. If you look to the soldiers in the back, this is Wehrmacht, not east german army. It would be the same to say all american girls are black, fat and ugly.

I got the message, that my tactical numbers for israeli tanks are not correct. Thatswhy i reworked the design and made new israeli tank numbers, consisting of a hebrew letter as tank designation number, a normal number for the platoon designation, angles for the company and rings on the barrel for the battalion designation. (not on Centurions, there were strange stripes along the whole barrel, thatswhy i deletet the stripes again) Its a confusing system.

Tactical numbers and insignias for stock tanks. Here: the Israelis. M60 Magach 6, M48 Magach 3, Centurion Shot Release: X-Mas

No. No such tool available. You must do the work by hand.

This is a pity.

Tactical numbers and insignias for stock tanks. Here: Leopard 1 Planed release: X-mas.

In SF2 world none. In reality it was not uncommon during WW2. Here a picture of the front turret of japanese Battleship Nagato. On the top you can see two tripple Flak guns. The picture was taken at Bikini Atoll some days befor an A-Bomb test.

Because its historically correct.

At ships and planes this problem not appears.

Sometimes it works. And then, some seconds later, its the same rubbish as before. I think it is really a limit of the game engine, that it cant handle correct a rotating cuppola on a rotating turret. Not satisfying.

The node names i have taken from LOD viewer. They are correct. The anti-aircraft-gun turret and barrel are moving as they should. But they are often not shooting in the direction in which the barrel is aming.

Unfortunatly it dont work.

You must post here a mandatory screenshot together with your question. Its a screenshot threat. And to answer your question. It are tga files. I will release the tactical numbers and insignias for stock tanks at X-Mas.

Where must i look for this "attached node"?

This are my lines from M60A1_data.ini [FlaGunner] SystemType=GUNNER GunnerID=1 TargetType=AIR_AND_GROUND GunRange=1500.0 GunMinAltitude=0.0 GunMaxAltitude=1500.0 PitchAngleRate=30 MaxPitch=60.0 MinPitch=-15.0 DefaultPitchAngle=0 YawLimited=FALSE YawAngleRate=30 MinYaw= MaxYaw= DefaultYawAngle=0 YawModelNodeName=cupola turret PitchModelNodeName=machine gun ViewportPosition=0.55,-0.30,3.05 VisualSearchTime=4.0 IndependentSearchChance=60 LookAroundChance=50 [FlaMG] SystemType=GUN GunnerID=1 GunTypeName=50cal_M3 MuzzlePosition=0.50,1.384,2.82 MaxAmmo=1000 TracerLoading=6 BurstAmount=12 EjectShells=TRUE The muzzle position is taken from LOD viewer. The problem is, that the gun moves in one direction, but is firing in an other direction.

The old chinese strategos Sun Zu said, you must try to understand your enemy if you want to get the best for yourself. Lets try to look with iranian eyes. Iran is in a weak situation. It has no powerfull allies. Hizballah and Assad are not counting, they are mor a burden than helpfull. Russia is not really an ally. In Syria the Russians play their own game, with the aim to hold and secure their only naval and air base at the Mediterranaen Sea. In the Gulf area the russians ar no existent and their only base south of the arab peninsula (Socotra) they gave up 30 years ago. With other words, Iran is alone. And it is surrounded by nuclear powers. There are the Russians in the north, Pakistan and India in the East, Israel in the West and the US Navy in the Gulf. So the Iranians feel encircled and under siege. What they need is a powerfull deterrence. And this can only be the nuclear weapon. They have learned, that the possetion of nuclear weapons makes unassailable. Without nuclear weapons they fear a western, suni, israeli or whatever attempt of regime change, or worse a military invasion. Examples are the so called Arabellion and the annihilation of Ghadaffys Libyan regime by french and british forces. The example for inviolability is North Korea. The fat boy of NK can do what he want, nobody will not touch his regime, because all fear the nuclear detterence. The aim of Iran is to get the same safety level as North Korea. Thatswhy they want the bomb. Not to use them, but for deterrence. (May some iranian hardliners cry bullshit about erase of Israel, they know for sure, that a nuclear strike against the jewish state will be answered by a massive retailiation and afterward you can swim from the Gulf to the Caspian Sea. Iranians may have a martyr cult, but they are not willing to suicide their whole people.) The economic situation of Iran is bad. There are no powerfull and monetary resources for a longer war. So on the short Iran is only able to stir up trouble on secondary theatres of war. The same strategy the British used between 1940 and mid 1944 in WW2 against Germany. Try to make the enemy busy to defend against pinbricks, like rocket salvos of Hizballah at Israel or drone attacks at Saudi fuel depots, or support of guerilla activities in Yemen. This does not cost much for the Iran, but the defenders have a lot of trouble and a lot of costs, because they must guard all of their strategic and economic assets. (An old military rule says, for a small war (Guerilla war in modern terms) you need only a tenth of the power of the defending army. In an assymetric war of today this relation is much worse for the defender) On the long run, the very long run it may change a lot. The world economy is changing. The renewable energies are coming, so the oil is on the long run a discountinued model. And the arab economy is more or less basing on oil alone. When the time is come and the western and chinese economy will not need oil anymore, the arabs will have a major problem. They are running out of money and without money they will have no power. This will be the time for the Iran to expand his zone of influence. But till then 50 years or more will go.

We can make the Fla-MGs (german term for anti-aircraft-machineguns, is shorter) of tanks movable, so that they are aiming on ground and air targets. We can make them shoot too. But there is often a distance between muzzle of the gun and muzzle flash. Is there a way to solve this problem? At ships it works fine, but at tanks not. Screenshot that explain what i mean: GK's M-84, you see the flash right of Fla-MG stock M60A1, the muzzle flash is left from gun muzzle.

Tell this the hatepriest from Kiev. From him came no single fact about the topic.

Insignia and tactical numbers on stock tanks. Here M48A2, M48A3 and M60A1

SPR-1 was soviet made. It came mid 1980th to us. At this time the NATO introduced arti ammo whith radio controlled fuse. It should explode over the target to increase the ammount of destruction. SPR-1 operated in two ways. Either to switch off the radio controlled fuzed by burning through their electronic devices. Or second to ignit the ammo in a distance that was safe for the ground troops. IIRC the west germans had a similar system based on Marder.

What kind of stuff you are drinking?

Good question. If the Anti-Radar-Missiles are able to detect the jamming frequences, then sure. But electronic warefare is a wide field. A continous jamming is not neccessary. A point jamming, focused on a spot, can be done in a short time. And then is the question, what is quicker, the jamming of the drone or the Anti-Radiation-Missile? Could be very interesting. Interesting, because you can lure an Anti-Radiation-Missile on a wrong way. Do you remember on Kosovo war in 1999, when a HARM missile, which was aimed on a serbian radar, was victim of decoy transmitters and finaly exploded in a suburb of the bulgarian capital Sofia. Electronic warfare is the battle ground of the future. It is the main defence against swarms of drones. A lot depends on the technic, but also on the quality of the soldiers. And one thing i have learned in the past, that it is very stupid to underestimate the abilities of an opponent.

I know you hate the russians and the germans too. Your statements are full of hate. A discussion with you is nearly impossible.

Russia Today? Do you think i believe their propaganda bullshit? My source is DW (Deutsche Welle), the german broadcast agency for foreign countries. https://www.dw.com/en/osce-drone-shot-down-while-spotting-russian-surface-to-air-missile-in-ukraine/a-46125199

True. But all depends on the quality of the soldiers and it is a well known fact, that the caucasians are better dancers than soldiers. They lack disciplin. The drones in Nagorny Karabahk conflict were really game changers. Their advantage was that the armanians were not aware of that threat. The armenians beliefed in a conventional war with tanks, artillery, helicopters and planes. But drones were unexpected. Thatswhy they had had no defence against drones. Their soldiers were not trained to detect and fight against drones. Drones are mostly small objects which are often stealthy. And they are slow. So they were missidentified as birds and their signals were ignored by the radar operators. In future you can expect, that "bird" signals on radar screens will get more attention by the radar guys.