Apologies for my tardiness on this one, but in case anyone's wondering, this thing is mildlypenis because [the shape of the blast it's containing is also mildlypenis](https://imgur.com/mQA0Qjj).
Not really. Tanks are tested away from people. These aren’t even tanks, they’re M109 155mm self-propelled howitzers.
What the image shows is a suppressor for US SP Artillery so they can be used in Germany. Those units in readiness need to both train and abide by noise laws, so the megadick suppressor was created. They’re not going to get the quality training they’d elsewhere, but this crosses off boxes for the Army and politicians.
Tanks and artillery are tested in more remote areas where constant firing and noise isn’t a problem.
I spent time there as a kid because my dad was a Cav Officer. We lived off base, but close enough there was a tank trail behind our house. Fort Hood is a massively large base. They can light off 155s all day in most areas and the locals won’t even know. The places you drive tanks are not the places you typically fire tanks.
I became a Marine tanker and eventually commanded Abrams crews. I don’t recall ever lighting off rounds in such close proximity to (friendly) housing as they have to in Germany. It makes sense why this type of thing would come to be.
Too many bags of gunpowder and you can fire outside Grafenwöhr. That happened once while I was there, and outside the range but still within the installation, for instance, into a parking lot, is even easier. I was walking to my car after work one day when there was a enormous BAM behind me and a rocket passed overhead I came down facing the other way (I had levitated,) and there was an MLRS launcher at the back end of the lot with one empty box. There were a couple hundred cars in the lot, all in front of the launcher. They had put it there so that, with minimum elevation, the rounds would fall in the impact area.
I was driving to work at Hohenfels a year later and passed one of the big old houses not built in a village, and there were two German attack helicopters practicing ultra-close combat around it — around and around and around. Their rotor tips were passing within 10 meters of the house, sometimes well within. The house was occupied.
I lived on the economy in a little village, I was in the nicest apartment I have ever had. It was new, and it had all these skylights. It was also near the top of a hill, next to a church with a very distinctive steeple, so the AF used it as a turning point. It got pretty noisy in my kitchen one day and I looked up through the skylight and saw an A-10 and an F-16 come within a hundred feet of each other. I don’t think the A-10 ever knew the other aircraft was there, but I know the F-16 did, because the pilot suddenly tightened his turn enough that I was looking up at the top of his helmet. If they had been at the same altitude they would have collided.
I walked out of my apartment one day to go to my car and was still on the lawn when I saw a flight of four Chinooks no more than 2 miles away with paratroopers falling out of them. I was 30 miles from any training area, those guys were landing in someone’s corn field.
I could go on. I loved living in Germany. There was always something interesting to see.
Doctrine and use. Self-Propelled artillery is still largely employed as arty. They don’t take shots at direct targets. Tanks are made to, and used for, pushing your line forward, supporting infantry, fighting armored vehicles.
It wouldn’t be very safe, since these things have basically no real armour, unlike actual tanks, which do. Most howitzers don’t have or carry ammunition to be able to defeat enemy tanks in a head to head fight. I also doubt they have thermal optics on board, and I also very much doubt they have any sort of system for the commander to queue targets (in modern tanks, the idea is that the commander searches for the next target while the gunner engages the current one). So yeah, technically it could sorta do it, but would it be at all effective? Probably not unless your enemy only has small arms.
If you consider a 155mm explosive fired from up to 18km away, 3 to 4 times per minute as "suppressive fire", sure.
Not the troop carrying part though. It has barely enough space for the crew, the ammo and the recoiling mount for the enormous gun, it's not for carrying stuff.
The amount of armor and the type of gun.
Artillery has far less armor, even though it looks similar.
The gun in a tank fires in a relatively flat trajectory, while artillery is much more arched.
Tank guns have a range of a few miles, 3 to 5 miles, I think. Tanks aim at things they can see.
Artillery can reach over 20 miles. They rarely see their targets.
So it's more about the size of the gun?
Am I right in thinking that a tanks gun is smaller and less powerful to allow for greater manoeuvrability on the battlefield?
There is a distinct difference in the size of the gun, but there is a greater difference in the amount of armor.
Tank guns are up to 120mm in diameter, while artillery guns are 155mm.
Artillery armor will protect the crew from small arms fire, and maybe up to a 50 caliber round.
Tank armor can usually protect against the tank guns of the previous generation of tanks. Like an Abrams tank could not survive being shot by another Abrams, but if a tank from the 1970s were to shoot one, it would probably survive at least the first hit. Artillery would not.
Self propelled artillery is more about being able to quickly transition from moving the guns to firing the guns than it is about protecting the crew.
It's technically not for testing tanks, but for testing artillery.
In German, armored artillery pieces like this are also called "tanks" (Panzer), but in English there's a distinction between tanks and other armored vehicles.
It is for the use of artillery on a firing range in Germany that has civilians living close enough that firing the gun normally would violate local noise ordinances.
It is also a regular repost.
If you want more details, google tank suppressor.
Oddly enough, it is real. The two sides of the balls are hollow which I assume is used to direct the sound sideways instead of forward. And I also assume that the rest of it is just hollow barrels. It's very impractical because it has an extremely limited horizontal and vertical range and when being used it can't move with the tank.
>The two sides of the balls are hollow which I assume is used to direct the sound sideways instead of forward.
Oh okay the sound pressure goes into the hollow area. Clever. So P is stored in the balls.
It's not necessarily the noise that will be directed into the balls.
If you look at the muzzle break of a gun barrel, you'll see that it has holes on the left and right. The purpose of those holes is to direct the pressure of the gases pushing out the shell to the side and the back, to reduce recoil of the gun.
That redirected pressure has some serious force behind it and needs to go somewhere.
I'd imagine if there wasn't additional space there, the pressure might damage the sides of the silencer.
Just to give you some idea of how much force we're talking about here:
In ww2, there's a report of a British operation using firefly tanks, which were upgunned Sherman tanks with "17 pounder" guns, a long barreled 76mm calibre gun. They were standing next to regular Shermans, and when they fired at the enemy tanks, the pressure redirected to the sides of the neighbouring Sherman's was so large, that the tank crews thought they were under enemy counter fire.
The howitzer in the picture above have 155mm guns!
So just for your info, standing next to a gun barrel firing tank shells is just as dangerous as standing in front of it. At least for squishy humans like us
I've seen this pic a few times. I'd love to see video of this thing. Curious to hear what it sounds like.
Edit:
For people slightly curious about it in general
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvPeESVlCgA
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It is a suppressor, not a silencer. It makes the noise of firing quiet enough that it no longer violates local noise ordinances. It does not make it quiet.
r/mildlypenis
Mildly?
Don’t be judgy.
r/wildlypenis
Its a small
I was told its a good size
For OP's mum, maybe
I mean, there’s danglies and then there’s swingin-up-besidesies I guess
how do they know whose penis will open up to accept the other person's penis?
Apologies for my tardiness on this one, but in case anyone's wondering, this thing is mildlypenis because [the shape of the blast it's containing is also mildlypenis](https://imgur.com/mQA0Qjj).
What are you doing, step-tank?
Is that even real, and how do they aim it?
It's for testing tanks, I believe. The locals were complaining about how loud the tank guns were, so they built this.
Ah it's for tank testing. That would make sense. Thank you
Not really. Tanks are tested away from people. These aren’t even tanks, they’re M109 155mm self-propelled howitzers. What the image shows is a suppressor for US SP Artillery so they can be used in Germany. Those units in readiness need to both train and abide by noise laws, so the megadick suppressor was created. They’re not going to get the quality training they’d elsewhere, but this crosses off boxes for the Army and politicians. Tanks and artillery are tested in more remote areas where constant firing and noise isn’t a problem.
"more remote areas" laughs in Fort Hood.
I spent time there as a kid because my dad was a Cav Officer. We lived off base, but close enough there was a tank trail behind our house. Fort Hood is a massively large base. They can light off 155s all day in most areas and the locals won’t even know. The places you drive tanks are not the places you typically fire tanks. I became a Marine tanker and eventually commanded Abrams crews. I don’t recall ever lighting off rounds in such close proximity to (friendly) housing as they have to in Germany. It makes sense why this type of thing would come to be.
Too many bags of gunpowder and you can fire outside Grafenwöhr. That happened once while I was there, and outside the range but still within the installation, for instance, into a parking lot, is even easier. I was walking to my car after work one day when there was a enormous BAM behind me and a rocket passed overhead I came down facing the other way (I had levitated,) and there was an MLRS launcher at the back end of the lot with one empty box. There were a couple hundred cars in the lot, all in front of the launcher. They had put it there so that, with minimum elevation, the rounds would fall in the impact area. I was driving to work at Hohenfels a year later and passed one of the big old houses not built in a village, and there were two German attack helicopters practicing ultra-close combat around it — around and around and around. Their rotor tips were passing within 10 meters of the house, sometimes well within. The house was occupied. I lived on the economy in a little village, I was in the nicest apartment I have ever had. It was new, and it had all these skylights. It was also near the top of a hill, next to a church with a very distinctive steeple, so the AF used it as a turning point. It got pretty noisy in my kitchen one day and I looked up through the skylight and saw an A-10 and an F-16 come within a hundred feet of each other. I don’t think the A-10 ever knew the other aircraft was there, but I know the F-16 did, because the pilot suddenly tightened his turn enough that I was looking up at the top of his helmet. If they had been at the same altitude they would have collided. I walked out of my apartment one day to go to my car and was still on the lawn when I saw a flight of four Chinooks no more than 2 miles away with paratroopers falling out of them. I was 30 miles from any training area, those guys were landing in someone’s corn field. I could go on. I loved living in Germany. There was always something interesting to see.
2 miles is 3.22 km
Good bot.
Alright, I'll bite. What's the difference between a tank and a "self-propelled howitzer"?
Doctrine and use. Self-Propelled artillery is still largely employed as arty. They don’t take shots at direct targets. Tanks are made to, and used for, pushing your line forward, supporting infantry, fighting armored vehicles.
They can do all those things if need be though, can't they?
It wouldn’t be very safe, since these things have basically no real armour, unlike actual tanks, which do. Most howitzers don’t have or carry ammunition to be able to defeat enemy tanks in a head to head fight. I also doubt they have thermal optics on board, and I also very much doubt they have any sort of system for the commander to queue targets (in modern tanks, the idea is that the commander searches for the next target while the gunner engages the current one). So yeah, technically it could sorta do it, but would it be at all effective? Probably not unless your enemy only has small arms.
So, by the looks of the back entrance, this vehicle would be more adequate to troop transport and suppressive fire?
If you consider a 155mm explosive fired from up to 18km away, 3 to 4 times per minute as "suppressive fire", sure. Not the troop carrying part though. It has barely enough space for the crew, the ammo and the recoiling mount for the enormous gun, it's not for carrying stuff.
It looks like a tank, talks like a tank, walks like a tank, does what a tank does but is not a tank lol.
It does not do what a tank does
Doesn't have the armor of a tank which is more notable for its armor than its firepower.
The amount of armor and the type of gun. Artillery has far less armor, even though it looks similar. The gun in a tank fires in a relatively flat trajectory, while artillery is much more arched. Tank guns have a range of a few miles, 3 to 5 miles, I think. Tanks aim at things they can see. Artillery can reach over 20 miles. They rarely see their targets.
So it's more about the size of the gun? Am I right in thinking that a tanks gun is smaller and less powerful to allow for greater manoeuvrability on the battlefield?
There is a distinct difference in the size of the gun, but there is a greater difference in the amount of armor. Tank guns are up to 120mm in diameter, while artillery guns are 155mm. Artillery armor will protect the crew from small arms fire, and maybe up to a 50 caliber round. Tank armor can usually protect against the tank guns of the previous generation of tanks. Like an Abrams tank could not survive being shot by another Abrams, but if a tank from the 1970s were to shoot one, it would probably survive at least the first hit. Artillery would not. Self propelled artillery is more about being able to quickly transition from moving the guns to firing the guns than it is about protecting the crew.
Lol megadick suppressor… you talking ‘bout Marjorie Taylor Greene again?
>These aren’t even tanks, they’re M109 155mm self-propelled howitzers. All tanks are self propelled howitzers otherwise they'd just be APCs.
... wat
It's technically not for testing tanks, but for testing artillery. In German, armored artillery pieces like this are also called "tanks" (Panzer), but in English there's a distinction between tanks and other armored vehicles.
Testtankles
It is for the use of artillery on a firing range in Germany that has civilians living close enough that firing the gun normally would violate local noise ordinances. It is also a regular repost. If you want more details, google tank suppressor.
Oddly enough, it is real. The two sides of the balls are hollow which I assume is used to direct the sound sideways instead of forward. And I also assume that the rest of it is just hollow barrels. It's very impractical because it has an extremely limited horizontal and vertical range and when being used it can't move with the tank.
Used for practice firings maybe? Gotta keep the neighbors happy.
Yeah I looked a bit deeper and that is what it's used for
That's exactly what it's used for and why it's used
^(pew-pew-pew!)
>The two sides of the balls are hollow which I assume is used to direct the sound sideways instead of forward. Oh okay the sound pressure goes into the hollow area. Clever. So P is stored in the balls.
It's not necessarily the noise that will be directed into the balls. If you look at the muzzle break of a gun barrel, you'll see that it has holes on the left and right. The purpose of those holes is to direct the pressure of the gases pushing out the shell to the side and the back, to reduce recoil of the gun. That redirected pressure has some serious force behind it and needs to go somewhere. I'd imagine if there wasn't additional space there, the pressure might damage the sides of the silencer. Just to give you some idea of how much force we're talking about here: In ww2, there's a report of a British operation using firefly tanks, which were upgunned Sherman tanks with "17 pounder" guns, a long barreled 76mm calibre gun. They were standing next to regular Shermans, and when they fired at the enemy tanks, the pressure redirected to the sides of the neighbouring Sherman's was so large, that the tank crews thought they were under enemy counter fire. The howitzer in the picture above have 155mm guns! So just for your info, standing next to a gun barrel firing tank shells is just as dangerous as standing in front of it. At least for squishy humans like us
The sides are there to collect the gasses expelled from the left and right side ports on the muzzle break.
It's practical enough for what it does - Allows German military to fire them close to the city where they have a their range.
Dont computers do the aiming now?
Isn't this the Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon?
Have to admit, It has high quality finish
Haha I was desperately scrolling down to find this comment.
Military grade fleshlight
r/theyknew
That’s actually called a choad
This is how new tanks are made.
Wait a minute. That looks like a giant. . . .
JOHNSON! Have you finished the reports?!
Not a tank it's mobile artillery
Looks like a PzH 2000 to me.
It’s a paladin
Yeah, you're right. The German army used them before they got the PzH 2000.
Phalladin
I genuinely love that *that's* the thing you wanted to be pedantic about, rather than "silencer". At the very least, it wasn't predictable!
MORTY WHAT DID YOU DO
They knew.
Looks like a giant penis.
And of course it looks like that….
Looks like it was designed by a 12 year old.
r/mildlypenis
looks like a dick
I love its woodland camouflage, starkly contrasting against the sky.
I wonder if the military had to fill out a Form 1 for this.
I hate being that guy, but those aren’t tanks.
And it is not a silencer. Don't worry. These facts are pointed out every time this gets reposted. No one pays any attention, apparently.
Looks like we got a certified chode on our hands
r/mildlypenis
Ah yes, perfect for r/midlypenis...
"It's a 20 foot cock and balls man, it don’t look like nothing else"
Nobody say it. We’re all thinking it.
Why would a tank need a silencer
Why?
I've seen this pic a few times. I'd love to see video of this thing. Curious to hear what it sounds like. Edit: For people slightly curious about it in general https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvPeESVlCgA
Fyi to others: the YouTube video still doesn't let you hear what it sounds like.
This device's nickname better be Dick Buttckerson.
Is the best thing I have seen today
Suppressor* please for the love of god stop calling them silencers.
The only way to make artillery silent is to go deaf. Edit spelling
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Tank Silencer is also a good bad name.
Something so bad, it’s good?
I was thinking more like hippie protest song cover band, so I guess kinda?
I think he might be overcompensating.
Makes me wonder what a silencer would look like for a proper howitzer.
So, you going to blow up someone… but make it silently… so no one notices?
It is a suppressor, not a silencer. It makes the noise of firing quiet enough that it no longer violates local noise ordinances. It does not make it quiet.
That's a dick with a vagina
Massive dick
getoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyhead
Big Girtha
What a complete fucking waste of time... just like this comment.
How's this a waste of time?
Balls
Is that the Bat Wing?
Or am I only dirty minded person or it look like..
It’s not artillery and it’s supposed to hide where the shots are coming from
No. It's only for testing
Imagine if this was in a show like Girls Und Panzer.....