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bewbies posted:The anti-aircraft capability is really a tack-on....shooting a tank gun at an angry Gator isn't anyone's first choice, although it is surprisingly capable against a slow or hovering target. Still, sometimes the tank is what you have on hand and this will help in a pinch alongside the rest of its utility.
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bewbies posted:The anti-aircraft capability is really a tack-on....shooting a tank gun at an angry Gator isn't anyone's first choice, although it is surprisingly capable against a slow or hovering target. From my understanding of the M1's targeting system, the computer and laser rangefinding are basically video game-esque in how well they let you shoot a moving target with no effort at all.
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Nenonen posted:And if you have say, SABOT loaded in the breech and suddenly need to fire a HE/HEAT shell at some RPG party, the procedure is to fire the wrong round and then load the correct shell, which wastes both time and ammunition. Taking the wrong shell out of the breech and back to the rack after which you load the right one is, I have been told, too time consuming to do in combat. Sometimes the players can get a bit annoying, but a TPK isn't a good answer imo.
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Nenonen posted:And if you have say, SABOT loaded in the breech and suddenly need to fire a HE/HEAT shell at some RPG party, the procedure is to fire the wrong round and then load the correct shell, which wastes both time and ammunition. Taking the wrong shell out of the breech and back to the rack after which you load the right one is, I have been told, too time consuming to do in combat. You'd probably need sabot to take on the wizard or the fighter e: beaten goddamnit
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# ? Aug 30, 2018 21:54 |
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Just to be pedantic, sabot isn't an acronym.
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13th KRRC War Diary, 30th August 1918 posted:Training in the vicinity of the camp.
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zoux posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyAsfo6rEz0 It looks kinda like the rise of the Qin dynasty.
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Shameless stolen from elsewhere, no certain attribution.quote:A Really, Really Honest History of the Battleship
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my dad posted:China big. It's not just because of the nature of Chinese language either, names were very intentionally reused because they were vaunted in prestige and tradition. There's a reason Korea has a Three Kingdoms period and Japan has a Warring States period, or that basically every Chinese dynasty has a name akin to a Zhou-era equivalent despite often having no other connection whatsoever. And it's not just westerners that it's confusing for. Dongyi is an ancient Chinese term that was mostly used to refer to groups way off past the East China Sea, usually conflated with Korea, but in earlier times it was originally used for groups around Shandong, right on the Chinese mainland. Premodern East Asian historians took this to mean that the groups that were around Korea later on must have been the same groups that were in Shandong in earlier times; they must have just migrated or something right? As we now know, nope. Aside from being "those barbarians to the East," the two groups had no relation whatsoever. Some fucker 500 years later just reused the old name and sowed confusion for the next 2000 years. Another example: Hui and Mo were ancient terms used for peoples living not far from Beijing, but later on were also terms used for some of the peoples that made up the core part of the Korean ethnicity. The distinction for these two hasn't even totally shaken off yet. Which is incidentally + Dongyi thing one of a couple of reasons you'll sometimes see Korean maps of the "ancient Korean race" that include large chunks of China too. There's probably tons of examples that don't relate to Korea too; I know it's made placing a bunch of ancient Chinese cities a lot harder for instance.
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"69th Something Awful Milhist Thread Diary, April 20th 2042" posted:Posting parties as usual.
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mllaneza posted:Shameless stolen from elsewhere, no certain attribution. I hate you.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I hate you. If I track it down, I'll post it.
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mllaneza posted:If I track it down, I'll post it. Please don't.
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mllaneza posted:If I track it down, I'll post it. He's far and away the saltiest person in the thread
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That's amazing. There are a few comical stories like that in Russian, I will try to track them down.
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Original by Ivan Koshkin, 2002: Lost victories, part 2. Conclusions. Based on the memoirs of Guderian, Middeldorf, Mellentin, Manstein, and Tippelskirch 1) Hitler got in the way. Hitler was a fool. German soldiers ruled. The German commander was like Friedrich the Great, but without any of the downsides. 2) The Russians buried us in bodies. The Russians had a lot of bodies. The Russian soldier is a child of nature, he eats anything that doesn't run away, sleeps upright like a horse, and can sneak. The author witnessed several times how entire Russian tank armies snuck through the front lines, with no evidence of their presence. One day there was the usual artillery barrage, bombing, offensive, and then bam! a whole Russian tank army in your rear. 3) The SS sometimes went overboard. I mean, if everything was limited to regular robbery, executions, rape, and destruction, which the German soldier imparted due to an overabundance of youthful vigour, maybe more people would accept the new world order. 4) The Russians had the T-34 tank. This was unfair, we didn't have this tank. 5) The Russians had anti-tank guns. Every soldier had an anti-tank gun. They hid with them in holes, in tree hollows, behind blades of grass, and under tree roots. 6) The Russians had Mongols and Turkmen. Mongols and Turkmen backed by commissars are a powerful force. 7) The Russians had commissars. The commissars are a powerful force. By definition. Most commissars were Jews. We killed our Jews like idiots. Hitler was an idiot. 8) The Russians used an unfair strategy, they pretended like they were surrendering, and then bam! shot the German soldiers in the back. Once a Russian tank corps pretended like it was surrendering and then shot up a whole heavy tank battalion. 9) The Russians killed German soldiers. This was entirely unfair, since the idea was that German soldiers would kill the Russians. All Russians are assholes. 10) The Allies betrayed us, by which I mean the Americans and the British.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Original by Ivan Koshkin, 2002: See, the difference is that this is actually funny.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:See, the difference is that this is actually funny. Actually, they're both funny. Maybe reread both.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Original by Ivan Koshkin, 2002: Frantically googling for more of this guy so I can post something this . Why is this not in the OP?
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JcDent posted:Ever so slowly, we're inching back towards separating tanks into infantry tanks and cruiser tanks Decades of engine development mean you can have both now! Seriously, it's rather impressive how much engine design has improved in pretty much every regard.
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chitoryu12 posted:From my understanding of the M1's targeting system, the computer and laser rangefinding are basically video game-esque in how well they let you shoot a moving target with no effort at all. Having gunned Leo 2a4 and currently gunning an m1a2sepv2 you arent that far off. The difference is speed of the target- a moving ground target in combat will be going anywhere from 10 to 30 km/h, and the training targets we use are about maybe 8kmh? At 1.5 km missing a slow mover like that even with heat requires the gunner to gently caress up. Tracking comes MUCH harder when the target is a chopper doing even slight manouvering past 50km/h- or moving on all three dimensions. The tank turret is heavy and hydraulic stabilizer has weight-induced lag so sudden change on target speed and vector at high speeds isnt a breeze to track.
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feedmegin posted:Just to be pedantic, sabot isn't an acronym. You're correct, but it doesn't look much less of a letter soup than APFSDS so I forget. Chobham is another one, either it's an acronym or an English meal.
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Remulak posted:Frantically googling for more of this guy so I can post something this . These are all the ones he wrote that I know of. They're in Russian though, and as far as I know they have never been translated before now.
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Ensign Expendable posted:These are all the ones he wrote that I know of. They're in Russian though, and as far as I know they have never been translated before now. You know what you must do. Unrelated,
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Hi, if this is a good place to ask, what are some good works on the military history of the Arab-Israeli conflict? I have read some general histories but I'm interested to learn more about the militaries involved, details about the wars, etc.
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Nenonen posted:You're correct, but it doesn't look much less of a letter soup than APFSDS so I forget. Chobham is another one, either it's an acronym or an English meal. Chobham is also a small town.
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ilmucche posted:Chobham is also a small town. for which the armour is nicknamed. Other nicknames are Burlington and Dorchester.
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Tias posted:for which the armour is nicknamed. Other nicknames are Burlington and Dorchester. I think you'll find that in fact a "dorchester" is a watertight blast door on a large ship, the name first arising after they were installed in the Royal Navy's dreadnoughts but then kept permanently propped open to improve rate of fire, because (as Rear-Admiral Arbuthnot famously said in A Battleship Commander's Order Book) one should always pass straight through Dorchester without stopping Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Aug 31, 2018 |
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Hi, if this is a good place to ask, what are some good works on the military history of the Arab-Israeli conflict? I have read some general histories but I'm interested to learn more about the militaries involved, details about the wars, etc. I've been looking for books on the military aspects of 1967 and 1973 myself. From what I see (a) the Israelis like to keep actual military details secret and (b) the Arab side doesn't like talking about their defeats, which makes books on the subject hard to find...
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There was that "Armies of Sand and Snow" essay analyzing why the various Arab armies can't seem to make Deep Battle work.
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Ensign Expendable posted:These are all the ones he wrote that I know of. They're in Russian though, and as far as I know they have never been translated before now. You know what's going to happen next time you poop out your Tank Archives counter/number/letter/acronym pile of pending projects and ask for requests...
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Raenir Salazar posted:There was that "Armies of Sand and Snow" essay analyzing why the various Arab armies can't seem to make Deep Battle work. i was under the impression that was due to the internal politics of dictatorships. i have an uncle who used to work for general dynamics selling arms to foreign countries for and he described handing out manuals to egyptian tank crews only to have their officer come and take the manuals away in order to be the only one who knows how things work so he could leverage that to power.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:i was under the impression that was due to the internal politics of dictatorships. i have an uncle who used to work for general dynamics selling arms to foreign countries for and he described handing out manuals to egyptian tank crews only to have their officer come and take the manuals away in order to be the only one who knows how things work so he could leverage that to power. Link to the paper, albeit paygated. I cannot figure out how I was able to read it originally for free, I suspect a helpful goon had a link handy. Basically leadership issues are one major problem, especially one that turns up in training; subordinates will generally allegedly refuse to shoot down their superiors in training and there seems to be a lot of issues in the ability to take initiative, the Egyptians apparently relied a lot on a lot of preplanned offencives that petered out after initial success once they were past the stages they planned for and couldn't react well to the unknown circumstances. But it also notes that many arab militiaries did not really try very hard to adapt Soviet equipment and doctrine to their own circumstances if at all and in some cases they relied on hybrid or completely different doctrines for use with their equipment, i.e Iraq apparently mostly borrowed British doctrine. While Syria was the closest in attempting to copy Soviet military doctrine and force structure/OOB. It was a really good article and very informative but I can't really remember much of the broad strokes other than that the USSR military observers and advisors were constantly frustrated with their Arab counterparts.
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Why arabs lose wars. Good read, makes generalisations but is self aware and cautionary when it does so, and from what I've heard from people closer to the issue pretty close to being on point. e: you can't just say it's down to the internal politics of dictatorships, especially as we're talking about a failure to implement Soviet armed forces doctrine. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Aug 31, 2018 |
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Cessna posted:I've been looking for books on the military aspects of 1967 and 1973 myself. From what I see (a) the Israelis like to keep actual military details secret and (b) the Arab side doesn't like talking about their defeats, which makes books on the subject hard to find... https://www.amazon.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict-David-W-Lesch/dp/0195172302 I read this book in college. My professor wrote it, Dr. David Lesch. He was also Assad's personal biographer up until he started killing his own citizens. He knew a lot of people high up in the Syrian and Israeli governments. I remember it being a good primer, at the very least.
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an auction company in my area held a gun auction this month andquote:This auction contains one man's collection of high quality military rifles including M-1 Garands and Carbines, 03 A3s, An early Colt AR-17, Lugers, Mausers, Cancanos, Arisakas plus many contemporary weapons and a very rare Marbles 44/22 folding stock rifle. they're holding another one in November but I wish I cared enough about owning a gun to have gotten in on one of those (springfield 19)'03 A3s FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Aug 31, 2018 |
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13th KRRC War Diary, 31st August 1918 posted:A & B Coys on range (improvised) all forenoon, and C & D Coys in the afternoon. Coys not on range carried on training in the vicinity of camp. (Physical training, musketry and arms drill).
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Raenir Salazar posted:There was that "Armies of Sand and Snow" essay analyzing why the various Arab armies can't seem to make Deep Battle work. I have this one if anyone's interested
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Nuclear War posted:I have this one if anyone's interested
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FAUXTON posted:an auction company in my area held a gun auction this month and I mean, if that's a thing you want to do 03A3s are pretty easy to get and not all that expensive.
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