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General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) Desert PIRANHA 8x8 will be exhibited at this year’s International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi. The Desert PIRANHA is a variant of the latest PIRANHA 5 specifically designed and built for the demanding climate and challenging terrain of the Middle East. It has been extensively tested under extreme conditions in the desert and rocky mountain ranges and participated successfully in summer trials in the Middle East.Read it here.
Sidenote: I remember this vehicle being pushed hard just a few years ago. As a matter of fact General Dynamics has moved onto a Piranha 6 and a High Tech Demonstrator. Why? Because of the below vid. This vehicle has been snake bit from inception...Kuwait was set to buy several dozen and lets just say that the demonstration was unsuccessful. Which brings me to the ACV. The vehicles that we're looking at will be outdated before we even buy them due to the delays brought on by the F-35 induced procurement train wreck. USMC procurement is broken....
How the fuck... someone try to drift or what?
ReplyDeletehigh center of gravity vehicles. the taller you make these vehicles to cheat a bit on mine resistance, the more weapons you add to the top of them, the higher center of gravity you're going to get. the higher the center of gravity the greater the chance for a rollover.
ReplyDeleteanyone with a 4x4 knows the dangers and the benefits of a high clearance vehicle.
True but do the driver did not know that you don't hard turn with high speed this vehicle? Because it's look like he did and roll over at least once... damage on left front show that he try to do turn hard right.
ReplyDeleteIn additon to high grund clearance that has gotten rediculus with use of ever larger tires ,there are conceptual diferences Patria AMV has a chasis underneath the armored body providing great survivability but also very high CG (same goes for Super AV) ,AMV for the USMC is even worse as they aded huge tyres and higgher volume to make it float better , GDLS Pandur II 8x8 uses a stressed armored body (as do Piranha V and VBCI) so has lower CG and can use smaller tires on the other hand there have ben intances of cracks int he armor hull due to drivetrain stresses and mine protection is more difficoult to acheieve in the same degeree. When looking at this pict of the overturned APC you have to consider that Piranha V ,VBCI,Boxer are less prone to rolling than AMV or Super AV
ReplyDeletenegative ghostrider. the biggest factor in preventing vehicle rollover is driver training. overconfidence and inexperience are the major concerns, but adding mass to the top of the vehicle also contributes...which might explain why HQMC is so stuck on a 50 cal RWS instead of a larger cannon.
ReplyDeleteStill basic concepts and physics can not be ignored .
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Romania was about to get 700 of these trash cans...the contract stopped at 30...pfew...
ReplyDeleteLooks like the designers set a range of motion that exceeded the vehicle's capabilities, so when the driver maxed out the turn, it went over. Easy fix. Just install range stops on the steering wheel.
ReplyDeletewon't work. you need max turn for low speed maneuvers like parking, getting into fighting positions etc. you limit wheel turn and you're making a tank. besides i think this vehicle can "skid steer" so idiocy at speed can still have tragic consequences.
ReplyDelete... you might have a point there. Guess the best case then would be to take a spanner to the driver's helmet to drive the point into his head. (Which actually happens. Kind of amusing to watch when it does. *Klonk, klonk, klonk* "HELLO!!! ANYBODY HOME??!!" lol.
ReplyDeleteWonderful malware bytes just detected this thing today on my lenovo laptop I got for Christmas. Thanks for this post, as I was wondering what in the world I did to catch this thing on my laptop.
ReplyDeletegreed bro! if they can't swindle us face to face they try and sneak it into the gear we need. i love my country, like our economic system but i really believe its been twisted into something obscene. exhibit number one. this Lenovo bs!
ReplyDeletehahaha......the Kuwaiti flag is upside down....and no Saddam in sight.
ReplyDeleteNo disrespect to GD, but the inherent design just seems too insufficient and/or flawed - e.g., potentially top-heavy as well.
ReplyDeleteIs there not an existing base model available on the market which could be procured/delivered quicker for far cheaper per unit and procured at greater numbers even (some possibly even remotely driven w/ a later follow-on upgrade?)? Simply upgrade the vehicle's turret, weapons, sensors and fire-control and self-protection, etc, over the course of the service-life as certain upgrades become required??
Sol,
ReplyDeleteIf you know your way around computers, the first thing to do when you receive a computer from big named manufacturers like Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, etc is to re-install the operating system and mandatory drivers. This ensures your new computer is 100% free of any bloatwares.
How do I do that out of curiosity? I am not a computer expert.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I have no idea what country you are in (each country has different regulations).
ReplyDeleteWhere I am, each laptop or computer sold must have a physical copy of the operating system (OS). The drivers are in a different media (like CD/DVD) and the bloatwares are in another. So what I would always do is after I unbox my computer, the OS DVD goes back in and perform a full-blown complete overwrite of whatever is there. Next goes the drivers and that's it.
If you know what you're doing, you don't even need the OS from the manufacturer and load your own personal OS and then go to the manufacturer's website and download the necessary drivers.