Many tank barrels are smoothbore because rounds are often fin stabilized. The rate of twist is a detail that should be correct or certain people (weapons nerds) will notice.
Great stuff, this is one of those things where I have no idea how to accomplish until I see you click on the screw modifier at which point it seems super obvious lol
Isn't that often the way with these things? Sometimes it just comes to you in a sort of epiphany, other times you see something online. Its all part of the learning process 😁👍🏻
Excellent display of different modelling techniques, thank you! My only concern is whether after all these boolean operations on the mesh, it prints out correctly.
Abrams tank uses smooth bore because of the heat rounds losing the velocity needed for maximum penetration and all the rounds have fins that give the rounds the same stability as a rifled bore tank.
The Challenger 2 is the only modern MBT left with a rifled barrel because we wanted it for the HESH rounds. It's getting ditched for the challenger 3 and we're not going to be using HESH rounds anymore, because rifling lowers the performance of the APFSDS ammo.
Great tutorial! I don't really make use of the screw modifier, but I think I should start employing it more in my modelling! I am thinking of getting myself a high resolution 3d printer. Which one do you recommend?
Thanks so much. So I used an Anycubit Mono X and really like it. If you want REALLY high resolution I hear a lot of people recommending the Phrozen 8k mini and there's a new version of that out now. But I can't say I've used them.
