this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
107 points (97.3% liked)

Ukraine

10384 readers
496 users here now

News and discussion related to Ukraine

Matrix Space

Community Rules

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Sympathy for enemy combatants is prohibited.

🌻🀒No content depicting extreme violence or gore.

πŸ’₯Posts containing combat footage should include [Combat] in title

🚷Combat videos containing any footage of a visible human involved must be flagged NSFW

❗ Server Rules

  1. Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.)
  2. No racism or other discrimination
  3. No Nazis, QAnon or similar
  4. No porn
  5. No ads or spam (includes charities)
  6. No content against Finnish law

πŸ’³ Defense Aid πŸ’₯

πŸ’³ Humanitarian Aid βš•οΈβ›‘οΈ

πŸͺ– Volunteer with the International Legionnaires

See also:

!nafo@lemm.ee

!combatvideos@SJW

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
lisko@sopuli.xyz
doo@sh.itjust.works
Burstar@sopuli.xyz
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz
107
Leopard 2 hauling ass (streamable.com)
submitted 2 years ago by anteaters@feddit.de to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Via https://t.me/combat_ftg

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t know what the braking distance is

At 70km/h, 20.6 metres. For ordinary cars it's ~50m.

In a nutshell, a tracked vehicle has quite a bit more contact area with the ground, it's also kind of hard to lift the rear wheels up so you can apply a lot of break force before you start to skid etc. And Leos have the hardware to actually do that, there's a retarder in the drive train and additional disc brakes.

Have side views on dirt and on tarmac.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wow, that's almost a full G of acceleration in a heavily armoured vehicle. Tracks are crazy. I wonder how hot the brake pads get in the process.