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Cessna posted:There's a documentary on a Chrome Dome crash called Buzz One Four on Amazon video; it's pretty good. quote:McGill, based on his SAC experience, blames the aircrew failures on the use of dexedrine to combat fatigue on the 24-hour flight preceding the accident.
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Nenonen posted:That is no assault gun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou0lU8WMgo
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Are the any good books on the cooperation in US industry during that time? I work in a technical field and the idea of that much good faith sharing and not trying to undercut each other is fascinating. I scanned the book list but didn't see anything.
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WW2 Data On to the Bureau of Aeronautics Missiles! Which of the four missiles on deck could be mounted by carrier aircraft? Which missile looks suspiciously like a Fi-103? What's the range of a Gorgon IIC Ship-to-Surface missile? All that and more at the blog!
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Nebakenezzer posted:I've been working on a new Amerika bombers post, and while mobile V-2 launchers were impossible to interdict, those ULTRA MISSILE FORTRESSES the Nazis tried building are hilarious. The Army (partial funders of the V-2) was for them, the actual missile dudes were against them, predicting correctly mobile launchers were key, and so the decision went to literally Hitler, who decided for the Army, saying even if they didn't work, every bomb dropped on them was a bomb that would never fall on Germany itself. The Allies, having learned their lesson with the St. Nazire U-boat pen, and with their very good late war intel, could actually attack the bunkers at the most advantageous time, when the concrete had been poured but was still soft. Nope, I know very little of the logistics behind V-1 and V-2 bombs.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Nope, I know very little of the logistics behind V-1 and V-2 bombs. I don't know much about the V-1, but the V-2 was built at the nightmare factory, minus consumables, then these missiles were shipped elsewhere, where they were loaded with explosive and Potassium permanganate, the fuel for the fuel pumps, before being shipped to the few operational units. There were a few V-2 launching trains, but most were launched with the road crew: about 30 trucks including the dewer full of liquid oxygen, which had to be shipped from the generating plant and loaded and used by the rocket in a pretty precise time-frame, as liquid oxygen evaporates above -110 C regardless of pressure. I got sidetracked researching how the V-2's guidance system worked, and making a, by modern standards, an inaccurate ballistic missile using 1940s electrotech is just astonishing. I guess you are getting into that stuff in the new post! TL;DR You start by saying "huh, how did they get that to work if they had none of the stuff in electronics we take for granted today" and you end with " 'e's a witch! BURN HER"
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Tias posted:Reading about Cpt. Bobbie Browns medal of Honour citation, fighting Germans in Aachen 1944, and it says he took out several pillboxes using "pole charges". Were pole mines standard issue in the US Army, and if so what were their names? Can't say I've come across that improvisation so far, and I'm now quite curious considering the Japanese pole charges were suicide weapons. Either he used a longer pole or the method of employment is different.
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first post is up! https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/fallout-britain.51618/page-3#post-11657597
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Hesco bastions have seen a lot of use overseas (and I guess over here for flood control) in Operation BUD but wasn't there a type of one that was plastic and could be filled with water or am I thinking of something else. I'm only asking because I know i've seen them (on tv shows...) and they're big cube shaped containers but they might just be used for holding water. I'm only asking because once upon a time I was reading Wikipedia on something (probably the bastion) and they included stats on how resistant it was to certain things, including RPGs. They might have removed it after an editing dispute or something.
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FrangibleCover posted:Before this discussion about the Merkava ambulance goes any further, has anyone ever seen one with protected ICRC markings on it? Otherwise it's a hypothetical war crime in the same way that you could hypothetically paint a protected symbol on any other AFV and not really worth discussing. I can't even find any photos of a regular one equipped with the loadout, while I can find ones of M113 and M4 Sherman ambulances used by the IDF, so I doubt it's a common thing or even exists beyond something that had testing/standardization done because some Merkava crews dropped their ammo loads to extract wounded soldiers during it's initial usage in 1982 and they figured it'd be a good idea just to standardize a setup for it, or it was possibly used as a stopgap due to the slow introduction of the Namer APC, which has it's own dedicated medical version. This "Jewish war crime ambulances  " poo poo is ludicrous anyways because even if the kits were in use, it would clearly be the same situation as using a regular Bradley or BMP or whatever to evac wounded.Jobbo_Fett posted:Can't say I've come across that improvisation so far, and I'm now quite curious considering the Japanese pole charges were suicide weapons. Either he used a longer pole or the method of employment is different. US pole charges were basically a bundle of TNT on a stick so they could be jammed right up into a gun port or door by infantry assaulting bunkers. The main complex feature appears to be that the piece of wood the TNT was on was attached with a bolt to the pole so it'd be able to swivel and could be pressed flat against a surface. I gather there wasn't a standardized design and they were fabricated as-needed by engineer units. The final two images are from before D-Day according to the French site I found them on, and the charges thus have sections of flotation material attached to them.     Milo and POTUS posted:Hesco bastions have seen a lot of use overseas (and I guess over here for flood control) in Operation BUD but wasn't there a type of one that was plastic and could be filled with water or am I thinking of something else. I'm only asking because I know i've seen them (on tv shows...) and they're big cube shaped containers but they might just be used for holding water. I'm only asking because once upon a time I was reading Wikipedia on something (probably the bastion) and they included stats on how resistant it was to certain things, including RPGs. They might have removed it after an editing dispute or something. These things maybe? About the only similar thing I could think of would be temporary jersey barriers that are filled with water but those aren't anywhere near the size of a HESCO wall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m4rKRZ9kxc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJvjqQwMT4U
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I'm probably just conflating a water storage in a cube shape for easy stacking with a hesco.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I'm probably just conflating a water storage in a cube shape for easy stacking with a hesco. https://www.uline.com/Product/Detai...cB&gclsrc=aw.ds IBC Tank? LightRailTycoon fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:I'm probably just conflating a water storage in a cube shape for easy stacking with a hesco. A cubic water container seems like it would be far less stable than a barrel, for a given thickness of container wall, but I am not a scientist so perhaps that is nonsense.
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The main problem with cubic water containers is that when they get hit by even the slightest fragment, they will leak empty and be useless. To counter that, they should be lined with 1 cm steel plate. You'd also want to be able to move them around easily because a water tank is so heavy, so let's put it on tracks and give it an engine. Whoops, there's no room for engine and fuel unless we take out the water, so let's do that and call it just plain 'tank'. There is still extra space inside the tank so we might as well put some guys in it rather than behind it and add weaponry to the tank so it could actively defend itself.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Atten: Mr. Bewbies bad rear end gonna spend 2 years creating a museum quality piece that will then get accidentally smashed by idiot kid's soccer ball
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Mr Enderby posted:A cubic water container seems like it would be far less stable than a barrel, for a given thickness of container wall, but I am not a scientist so perhaps that is nonsense. While this is true, cubic containers are fairly volumetrically efficient when placed in rectangular spaces (eg TEUs, box trailers, etc)
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Mr Enderby posted:A cubic water container seems like it would be far less stable than a barrel, for a given thickness of container wall, but I am not a scientist so perhaps that is nonsense. Steel frame. No pallet needed for forklifting, available in 640-1250 litre sizes (170-330 gallons), much more space-efficient than 50-gallon drums. 
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I have successfully derailed the thread again, this time concerning the stackability of glorified water bottles. e: I'm not proud. I really was just curious. I could have swore there was a wikipedia reference about how good *something* was against all sorts of stuff including rpgs. It was probably the bastions though
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Nenonen posted:The main problem with cubic water containers is that when they get hit by even the slightest fragment, they will leak empty and be useless. To counter that, they should be lined with 1 cm steel plate. You'd also want to be able to move them around easily because a water tank is so heavy, so let's put it on tracks and give it an engine. Whoops, there's no room for engine and fuel unless we take out the water, so let's do that and call it just plain 'tank'. There is still extra space inside the tank so we might as well put some guys in it rather than behind it and add weaponry to the tank so it could actively defend itself.
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ulmont posted:Steel frame. No pallet needed for forklifting, available in 640-1250 litre sizes (170-330 gallons), much more space-efficient than 50-gallon drums. Is this not in fact called a gaylord?
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Nebakenezzer posted:Is this not in fact called a gaylord? No, this is an "Intermediate Bulk Container", "IBC", or "tote". A gaylord is similar, but a gaylord is usually made of cardboard or plastic without the steel frame.  
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Speaking of cool books have any of you seen this? https://books.google.com/books?id=NeYDDQAAQBAJ The American Arsenal: The World War II Official Standard Ordnance Catalogue It was written to fill in the gaps of the various service manuals and have a listing of the majority of equipment available to American forces.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Speaking of cool books have any of you seen this? I will in 3 weeks. Thanks. Jerk.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:I will in 3 weeks. My work here is done... 
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oXDemosthenesXo posted:Are the any good books on the cooperation in US industry during that time? I work in a technical field and the idea of that much good faith sharing and not trying to undercut each other is fascinating. One book I've read is Arsenal of Democracy, which tells the story of Ford's construction of the Willow Run Bomber Plant. It's probably a bit more narrowly focused then you're looking for, but it's a neat look at how one company in particular turned what was basically an empty field into one of the most productive factories of the war in less than a year, and serves as something of a microcosm of how American industry operated and cooperated with the federal government. Looking around on Amazon, I also found Arsenal of Democracy (popular title) :The American Automobile Industry in World War II which looks to be a somewhat higher-level analysis of how the auto industry in general shifted from cars to tanks. There's also Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, which looks to be pretty much what you're looking for—with the caveat that the author works for a neoconservative think tank, and going by the preview the book is heavily skewed towards an ideologically-driven "Capitalism is awesome, unions and regulations are for poopheads" narrative, though having not read the book I can't say that for sure. Hope that helps! I'll probably check out that second Arsenal of Democracy book myself, since it looks neat, and I'll give a hearty recommendation for the first book—I own it myself, and having volunteered at the air museum currently based out of Willow Run it's a really good look at local (for me) history.
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Extremely good post from politoonsQuoProQuid posted:Some fun illustrations from pre-Meiji Japan, taken from a Twitter thread here. Copying below for readability instead of posting a dozen Twitter links. This is basically the pre-meiji version of that one Washington youtube
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zoux posted:Extremely good post from politoons This was posted earlier and seeing it again just makes me more frustrated there's no translation
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zoux posted:Extremely good post from politoons Washington, Washington: six feet twenty fuckin killing for fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc
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13th KRRC War Diary, 19th November 1918 posted:The Brigade formed up for inspection and after marching past twice the Divisional Commander addressed the Officers of the Brigade and complimented the Brigade and the 60th Rifles in particular on the excellent way they marched past. 13th KRRC War Diary, 20th November 1918 posted:The day was spent in completing the classification of men for educational purposes. Considerable difficulty is being experienced in this as a large number of men seem to have no definite plans for their future.
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aphid_licker posted:It's PYE WACKET Encylopedia Astronautica has a good article on the Pye Wacket; http://www.astronautix.com/p/pyewacket.html Fun Fact: It's possible the missile might have been given it's name by Jimmy Stewart. Fun Fact 2: There is speculation the design might have eventually evolved into this black project; 
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I don't know if this is true about V-2 development:quote:Walter Riedel was a talented engineer but his lack of academic qualifications led to conflicts with the graduate engineers on the rocket team. Confusingly, he was replaced by Walther Riedel.
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Nebakenezzer posted:I don't know if this is true about V-2 development: Did the second Riedel have glasses and a mustache?
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Crossposting because some of y'all don't read the TFR Cold War thread, in which it was relevant so I had to find and post it again: Photo by my father in Vietnam ~1970-71, I scanned and adjusted it from the negative because his print was underexposed as gently caress.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Did the second Riedel have glasses and a mustache? He was the evil one ^^^^ what's that, a chinook and a huey? As bad as I am at differentiating tanks, I'm somehow even worse at aircraft
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