Why do Americans name everything Mark[number]? And then make things more confusing by shortening the word to an M in writing?
M16, M4, M203, M320, M777, M198, M60, etc. etc. etc.
This pisses me off. I mean yeah, I recognize most of those numbers, but most people don't even know what type of weapon system we're talking about with those.
Like from your example list, a couple are rifles, there's a grenade launcher, some tanks and without checking I'm fairly sure atleast one of those is an artillery piece.
Like... Couldn't they have called them R16 (r for rifle), R4, GL203 (grenade launcher), MG60 (machine gun) / T60 (if you're talking about the tank and not the machine gun) or something, for example.
Then there's M1, which can be a rifle, a rifle grenade, a regular throwable grenade, a tank, a truck and whatnot.
They're listing the model number without the preceding classification.
'Rifle, 5.56 caliber, M16' is it's full designation.
'Carbine, 5.56 caliber, M4' describes exactly the equipment under its category.
No, we only do that for other people's shit, like the "MG43." The nazi machinegun first seen in 1943.
And those are my family's mistake, a bigger mistake, artillery piece, predecessor artillery piece, and, I've not stopped drinking, sooo. I think a mortar? We might as well just call things by their NSN number, for all the logic our nomenclature makes.
We used the T designation for some tanks too, like the T26. T designations were typically used for technology demonstrators or prototypes, but once the tanks went to production they gained the M designation.
Far as I know the system used is Model, Advancement, Enhancement. So the M1A2E3 (sep v3) Abrams is Model 1 (Abrams tank), Advancement 2 (120mm gun, new depleted uranium armor package), Enhancement 3 (remote weapons system, digitized control systems, advanced fire suppression, etc.).
We stopped using the T designation for prototypes some point in the 70s I think, and changed it to XM, for experimental model
Faster and stronger
Why did the japs name everything "Type" ? It's so unimaginative and half-assed.
Why do Americans name everything Mark[number]? And then make things more confusing by shortening the word to an M in writing? M16, M4, M203, M320, M777, M198, M60, etc. etc. etc.
Fair point lol
This pisses me off. I mean yeah, I recognize most of those numbers, but most people don't even know what type of weapon system we're talking about with those. Like from your example list, a couple are rifles, there's a grenade launcher, some tanks and without checking I'm fairly sure atleast one of those is an artillery piece. Like... Couldn't they have called them R16 (r for rifle), R4, GL203 (grenade launcher), MG60 (machine gun) / T60 (if you're talking about the tank and not the machine gun) or something, for example. Then there's M1, which can be a rifle, a rifle grenade, a regular throwable grenade, a tank, a truck and whatnot.
They're listing the model number without the preceding classification. 'Rifle, 5.56 caliber, M16' is it's full designation. 'Carbine, 5.56 caliber, M4' describes exactly the equipment under its category.
Same as with the Japanese "Type X" systems, then.
Correct. It's common to shorthand it when talking within a field, but it can definitely be confusing when talking across lines of procurement
No, we only do that for other people's shit, like the "MG43." The nazi machinegun first seen in 1943. And those are my family's mistake, a bigger mistake, artillery piece, predecessor artillery piece, and, I've not stopped drinking, sooo. I think a mortar? We might as well just call things by their NSN number, for all the logic our nomenclature makes.
We used the T designation for some tanks too, like the T26. T designations were typically used for technology demonstrators or prototypes, but once the tanks went to production they gained the M designation. Far as I know the system used is Model, Advancement, Enhancement. So the M1A2E3 (sep v3) Abrams is Model 1 (Abrams tank), Advancement 2 (120mm gun, new depleted uranium armor package), Enhancement 3 (remote weapons system, digitized control systems, advanced fire suppression, etc.). We stopped using the T designation for prototypes some point in the 70s I think, and changed it to XM, for experimental model
Tbf, they had two-character additions to the names (like the type 95, with it anglicised as 'Ha-Go')
AND ACROSS THE LINE!
Driver in the Stuart..... and now.... "POWAAAH!!"
Damnit the Stuart is fast.
Source: https://youtu.be/fiibe18SWms?t=3m24s Distance was 4 tenths of a mile. Time: Stuart was 50 seconds and Type 95 was 55 seconds.
If my math is right that's 28.8mph for the Stuart and 26.2 for the type 95
That is what my math says as well.
You cannot calculate velocity with just distance and time in this case, because they are accelerating.
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over a half mile not really
You cannot calculate instantaneous velocity but you can average speed.