npub1vypq6jrs2melhg7y3ug2jn6dguqs6kzxhmtcd3a3qezelautzyvquxaghx (npub1vyp…aghx) Well, you can make anything safely float on water... it's just a question of how much you have to sacrifice to do so, and whether that sacrifice is worth it.
Like, BMP-2 is nominally able to act like a boat. But they didn't want to sacrifice any more armour mass than the bare minimum, and as a result, it floats so poorly that almost nobody ever risks it. But they always *could* have sacrificed more armour mass.
It's just about tradeoffs.
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2023-12-20 20:31:10
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