The Armored Vehicle Thread

Sharp cheddar. Shaped in the form of APFSDS.

I was thinking like a chiseled down fruitcake or something.

Old and seasoned Parmesan cheese.

Tough enough to be used as armor.

A grilled cheese made with tortillas instead of bread is how you end up with a Quesadilla.

My dad once asked a very deep question: Would a very large Quesadilla just be a Quesa?

So, to get this tangent on topic because I'm a rebel like that: I bet it'd be fun to make grilled cheese using the hot engines from a tank. I bet an Abrams makes them pretty danged toasty.

Yeah but you probably get that nasty petrol fuel exhaust after taste

If you like carbon sandwiches...

• 1 wrap whatever you want to cook in tin foil and inside a pan with a closed lid
• 2 place it atop an engine block, radar emitter or jet engine exhaust
• 3 ???
• 4 Profit

Here and there I hear stories of people cooking MREs using vehicles' manifolds. If you time it just right and have the driver gun the engine at exactly the right moment, a perfectly-cooked bag of rations will pop out of the exhaust.

I bet the number of edible meals cooked by such a method is about a quarter of the number of meals ruined.

A great way to piss off the motor sergeant.

You heathen Colonials don't have the glorious Boiling Vessels in your panzers, do you? Because they are perfect for boil in the bag meals and the aforementioned nice spot of tea.

I bet the abrams would just burn it.

Who the hell heats their MRE? Just eat it cold. There are the water "heaters" that are famous for the "Rock or something" instructions.

I never heated anything. Just ate'em as there were.

edited 11th Oct '16 9:48:54 PM by TairaMai

Taira; They actually have palatable flavors when warm.

Nope, except for the ones with Reeses (chicken mostly). Temp don't matter, only the desert silly Tuffle. Oh and the MRE-bombs (tobasco, innards of a heater, a bottle w/cap and the tent of people you don't like).

Trust me, most of the "beef" courses are definitely better at least warm. The rice is actually designed to be eaten heated.

Taira is too operator as fuck to have time for your pogue-ass bullshit, TH.

Which reminds me. Nothing says fun like having to deal with smarmy senior NC Os who insist on getting all up in my oatmeal and trying to mentor me because they are bored.

The defining moment of the ordeal was one of these guys wanting to take time out of our day to explain to me how to use an MRE water heater. Like, OK? I've been doing this for a decade, and wasn't complaining about the heatedness of my meal anyways. When I wasn't receptive to the mentoring, he proceeded to sulk about it.

Incidentally, both of the SNC Os who were annoying me were from LRS. I can see why my wife hated being an airman in that squadron at every base we were at.

Taira is about as operator as dialing 0. :P

Not my fault they can't properly teach the army how to eat hot chow in the field.

Who said anything about MRE's? Smuggle in some sandwiches. Maybe a burrito or two.

As long as it isn't the British Armed Forces favourite non-issue snack, the frankly horrible "Pot Noodle" brand instant-pseudo-ramen, I'm happy with anything I get to nosh on in the field.

Pot Noodle? You mean they were too cheap for Nissin or Maruchan type Cup Noodles? That stuff's like pennies on the dollar compared to just about anything else!

edited 12th Oct '16 4:16:11 PM by MajorTom

Pogy bait depends on your Top Kick. I had one who was a Nazi about "no pogy bait, no outside food, not even the gut truck/indian boy". Indian Boy is the name of a Fort Bliss vendor with various food trucks that had a fat "indian boy" as the mascot.... NO ONE TELL TUMBLR! THEY'D GO INSANE.

And there were those 1SG's that DGAF. Jerky, candy, soda, you name it. Indian Boy made mad money one field problem.....they had Mississippi Mud...AND IT WAS DELICIOUS!

Jerky, M&M's and the famous Camelbak "Elixr" is the shit. When we got to the shopette, I'd get jerky, "french peanuts" (that's what they were called, peanuts in a red candy coating), combos snacks and peanut M&M's. Mostly things that won't melt.

Trail mix is a good civie substitute. Otis Spunkmyer cookies (coco chip and macadamae nut rock) came in the UGRA rations along with Reece's pieces. Both I would recommend for your camping even if you are not made to wear a helmet and carry a weapon.

Now those that were in combat units did the whole "strip the MRE" thing. Another benefit of hot metal in the sun? A warm shower when deployed.

No matter the vehicle, someone would always place some 5 gallon cans of water out in the sun. At night or at twilight, a soldier could get a free hot shower: a pallet for a floor, ponchos and poles for a screen. Given bustle racks, it would be easy to squeeze or bunge cord an extra can of water.

Meanwhile, in the Air Force, it's been my experience outside of Basic that if you don't bring your own food to eat instead of/in addition to the MR Es, folks consider you to be a leech on resources and poorly prepared to deal with shit.

Something most of us likely missed.

Rafael's Spike SR disposable fire and forget missile. Interesting bit of kit. It does for the disposable AT weapons what the Javelin did for the MANPAT ATGM's. It is a one shot platoon level weapon by design.

It is about 21lbs/9.8kg uses a thermal based Electro Optical tracker and seeker that operates in a fashion similar to Javelins though is comparatively less sophisticated. It has a Tandem Warhead that seems to be shared with all the AT capable Spike family of missiles with a blast frag effect effectively making it a guided HEDP weapon. It has a range of 1.5km. It is heavier and more expensive then its unguided cousins but has a more effective AT-HEDP warhead, is guided, and has longer range, and better accuracy then any of those platforms. They even made a version that effectively replaced the now canceled Mini-Spike program that has a Penetration Blast Frag warhead for bunkers and urban combat.

Here is Rafael's product vid.

edited 14th Oct '16 4:16:52 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Now to mount one on a Vespa.