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Rockopolis posted:Are they working towards drone tanks, like sticking the crew behind the fighty bit of the tank at the end of a really long cable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletank ?
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I didn't know there was something cuter than a tankette. Pretty much. I was just thinking of a downside to drones is that they can be hacked, but if it's not wireless?
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Rockopolis posted:Pretty much. I was just thinking of a downside to drones is that they can be hacked, but if it's not wireless? The wire could be cut super easily by any artillery fire.
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Rockopolis posted:I didn't know there was something cuter than a tankette. Goliaths just want to be hugged 
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Didn't know the US had captured anything from the Lilliputians.
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HEY GAL posted:have you ever fought one of those fuckers? a rodelero'll gently caress your poo poo up I thought of spehss marines at once, turns out I was thinking about this: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Deredeo_Pattern_Dreadnought
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Or Borgward IV? It's kind of funny how both the Germans and the Soviets developed remote-controlled tanks independently of each other. Did the other nations come up with something similar? The Borgward IV by the way, turned out to be too large and too heavy for its intended work. The smaller Goliaths were judged to be more dependable, even though they needed easily cut wires and the Borgward IV did not. There was also another problem with the Borgward IV: The Wehrmacht never quite got the idea of using two vehicles for the same thing, so instead of using a second tank to control the drone tank, operators had to drive the Borgward IV itself to the target area. Then they got out and remote-controlled the thing into the danger zone. Of course this meant every time something went wrong the operators found themselves suddenly on foot.
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I am the guy whose job it is to drive half a ton of explosives to juuust outside the danger zone.
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aphid_licker posted:I am the guy whose job it is to drive half a ton of explosives to juuust outside the danger zone. So uh, does ACDC play in your head when you detonate the payload?
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Presumably only if there's an MSR between him and the danger zone.
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I like to blast some sick riffs while I blast
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Has anybody got information on how to build a fallout shelter? I, uh, might need one soon.
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does anyone have any particularly good books on successful revolutions/uprisings/protest/resistance movements etc?
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"Civil Wars Are Actually a Really Bad Idea No Matter How Much You Don't Like the Guy" by every nation that's ever had one. On a more serious note, can't go wrong with "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau as a starter. Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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Are there any examples of Russian / U.S military co-operation? Just thinking about a potential super slamdown in Syria with Trump and Putin holding hands...
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Jeff Sichoe posted:Are there any examples of Russian / U.S military co-operation? 
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this is a good one
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Jeff Sichoe posted:Are there any examples of Russian / U.S military co-operation? Boxer Rebellion:  Troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900. Left to right: Britain, United States, Australia, India, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan. So the Austrians seem to be missing.   Top right is the Russian Naval Ensign. Hogge Wild fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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the guys in the top pic are arranged by height 
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The Japanese soldier looks almost disappointed in how he isn't nearly as blinged out as anyone else in that photo.
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Hogge Wild posted:
They all look like typical 1900 soldiers, and then the Australian guy is some loving guerrilla covered in ammo belts.
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HEY GAL posted:the guys in the top pic are arranged by height There's a new police recruitment poster in the subway and for all the militarization of the police force they couldn't learn to stand in a straight line arranged by height, so it looks like absolute poo poo.
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Don Gato posted:The Japanese soldier looks almost disappointed in how he isn't nearly as blinged out as anyone else in that photo. is he wearing his great coat across his chest? chitoryu12 posted:They all look like typical 1900 soldiers, and then the Australian guy is some loving guerrilla covered in ammo belts. 
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Hogge Wild posted:is he wearing his great coat across his chest? the german's got his over his backpack. ed: and also the french? HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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Hogge Wild posted:Boxer Rebellion: What the hell is going on with the Italian's hat?
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HEY GAL posted:have you never seen a bedroll before? you roll up your blanket and groundsheet into a sausage and sling it across your chest hah, i've never carried it on the chest
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Ainsley McTree posted:What the hell is going on with the Italian's hat? i've only seen them on the bersaglieri before this maybe he is one
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Hogge Wild posted:hah, i've never carried it on the chest
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Ainsley McTree posted:What the hell is going on with the Italian's hat? Italy.
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Ainsley McTree posted:What the hell is going on with the Italian's hat? Feathers. Which was already explained, but I just wanted to post this pic.  The raddest motorcycle gang.
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really it's just a shame we'll never get to see what plumes and poo poo would look like on modern uniforms. i look forward to camouflage becoming obsolete one day so we can finally move on from the 19th century dress ones.
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Koramei posted:really it's just a shame we'll never get to see what plumes and poo poo would look like on modern uniforms. i look forward to camouflage becoming obsolete one day so we can finally move on from the 19th century dress ones. 
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Nenonen posted:Feathers. Which was already explained, but I just wanted to post this pic.
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Ainsley McTree posted:What the hell is going on with the Italian's hat? I was thinking that, dude looks like a loving condottiero.
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It seems like the feather might get in your eyes a littleKoramei posted:i look forward to camouflage becoming obsolete one day so we can finally move on from the 19th century dress ones. This is an element of my sci fi series that will be huge some day I swear
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PittTheElder posted:
Isn't it the case with pike formations that they need to huddle close together like that if they're bracing against a cavalry charge, but keep a bit of room between themselves if they're going against infantry as to be able to draw their swords upon closing? So the men would have one hand holding their pikes while the other would be on their swords, ready to draw.
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Don Gato posted:The Japanese soldier looks almost disappointed in how he isn't nearly as blinged out as anyone else in that photo. Looking at 'em from my jaded 21st-century eyes (XXI century for you Europeans), it looks like only him, the Australian, and maybe the yank and the limey are the only ones actually ready for a 20th-century war. (the joke is that none of them were)
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Does anyone have any information on what WWI would have looked like (combat plans, technology, politics, etc.) had WWI continued into 1919? I don't need a full picture, just anything you have. Also, does anyone have info on British infantry tactics from 1944-1945 in the ETO? I need something on a platoon level. I might be participating in a RPG campaign based around a platoon transported to a generic fantasy world and, since I'll be playing the LT in charge of the platoon, I want to get things right.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:Does anyone have any information on what WWI would have looked like (combat plans, technology, politics, etc.) had WWI continued into 1919? I don't need a full picture, just anything you have. Also, does anyone have info on British infantry tactics from 1944-1945 in the ETO? I need something on a platoon level. I might be participating in a RPG campaign based around a platoon transported to a generic fantasy world and, since I'll be playing the LT in charge of the platoon, I want to get things right. Have you looked at the GURPS WWII series by SJG? They're RPG-focused and from my memory (don't have the PDFs handy on this computer), they talk about each nations' squad/platoon organization throughout the war. The general focus is on the ETO.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Have you looked at the GURPS WWII series by SJG? They're RPG-focused and from my memory (don't have the PDFs handy on this computer), they talk about each nations' squad/platoon organization throughout the war. The general focus is on the ETO. Thanks. One thing I'm looking at is there was a headquarters section and i don't know how that participated in combat. They also mention that infantry units often used Universal Carriers, but they don't mention how they were used to transport the troops. The average company was assigned 10 of them but it doesn't mention how they were parceled out or used in combat.
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