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HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:42 am They hate a contest eh !!

HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:15 am Im calling the dazzler almost done. Still to add a cover plate for it.
Compromising extreme accuracy for a degree of RC practicality and robustness, I wound solder wire around the body using gel super glue all the way.
While not a perfect replica of the small welds around the shell in pictures, its going to be close enough and should withstand any handling or in this case, postage brutality.
I used brass channel to carry the shell, again using gel super glue to keep it in place, and brass square & channel to represent the vibration dampers on the mount.
There is a lot of gel glue in this to try to secure this feature to the turret, & I will be devastated if it doesn't even make the delivery trip
The assembly will receive welds around it using Tamiya 2 part putty , but the ultimate key is to make the thing stay on the turret.
Last thing I want is a cross Pacific journey to find when the box is opened its in need of a rebuild

Next mission is the smoke candles.

Herr Dr. Professor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 6:51 pm I thought maybe "dazzler" referred to Bix's wife, either because of her gorgeousity or her ability to lambaste him one. But hesitant to draw hasty conclusions, like any normal American in suspenders, I says to myself, "What's a dazzler?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzler_(weapon)

tankme wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:49 pm The problem with dazzlers is that they A: have to be turned on to work and B: have to be facing the oncoming threat. Now, here is the rub. They have the same problem the Moskva had...the Moskva had all kinds of anti-ship missile defenses, but they have to be turned on to work. Apparently they don't operate the way American missile defense systems work which is automatically. Problem with non-automated systems is that they have to first detect the launch and then a person has to realize there is a threat to switch the system on. If you kept the dazzler on all the time transmitting, its like a "shoot here" sign. Additionally, what kind of threat is coming your way? Is it even going to be affected by your dazzler or is it a TOW missile being flown by wire? But you say we know what kind of missile it is because we are being lit up by laser designator...well that designator could be a Cav scout from a different angle painting you.

So to wrap this up, decent idea - hard to implement.

The Trophy defense system is great in the fact it doesn't care what the projectile is, it just kills it.