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C.M. Kruger posted:The Germans coated their tanks with a special barium-sawdust-wood glue paste to protect against magnetic anti-tank grenades, because they were worried the Russians would use magnetic anti-tank grenades against their tanks. It clearly worked then: not a single tank was destroyed by a magnetic anti-tank grenade.
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A Bad Poster posted:It clearly worked then: not a single tank was destroyed by a magnetic anti-tank grenade. 'Zimmerit', about the time that they stopped applying it was about the time the Russians started using captured German magnetic 'safe-crackers' to pop unsupported Panzers open when using captured Panzerfausts wasn't appropriate.
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Vasiliy, you gave me the spicey magnet!
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Bernard McFacknutah posted:'Zimmerit', about the time that they stopped applying it was about the time the Russians started using captured German magnetic 'safe-crackers' to pop unsupported Panzers open when using captured Panzerfausts wasn't appropriate. Brilliant.
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The Nazis were so incompetent it was hilarious. Virtually all of their intelligence agents in Britain got captured, turned double, or never existed and were created by double-agents to fool the Abwehr. Some attempted British infiltrators were caught because they drove on the wrong side of the road and were found to have German sausages and toiletry products when searched. Werner von Janowski probably holds the record for "worst spy." He was dropped on a Canadian beach by a submarine with vague orders to meet up with the Canadian Fascist Party (though they had outdated information on how to actually contact them). Walked into a hotel in Montreal smelling like he had been cooped up in a U-boat for days, wearing a suit with a German cut, lighting his cigarettes with matches made in occupied Belgium, and having a faint German accent. When the police asked him for ID, he just gave up and admitted to being a German spy. His infiltration lasted 12 hours and he spent the rest of the war in a prison camp. There's also Alfred Langbein. He didn't give a poo poo about being a spy and promptly threw away his radio and began living off the thousands of dollars he was given, then quietly turned himself in when he ran out of cash.
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The British supplied the Russians with something like a million limpet anti-tank mines during WW2
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa Worked as a double agent against the Germans before being accepted by the British. Created fictional spies, convinced the Germans to pay a pension to the widow of one of his dead, entirely fake, spies, and was awarded the iron cross AND a OBE.
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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) crew members interdict a self-propelled semi-submersible suspected drug smuggling vessel (SPSS) June 18, 2019, while operating in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. They then proceed to tactically board the semi-submersible vessel.
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golden bubble posted:U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) crew members interdict a self-propelled semi-submersible suspected drug smuggling vessel (SPSS) June 18, 2019, while operating in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. They then proceed to tactically board the semi-submersible vessel.  Is that boarding party wearing tac gear and plate carriers and no flotation?
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MrYenko posted:
If you're gonna go down....go down like a champ I guess.
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Plating or no plating their balls of steel would drag them down to the deep.
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golden bubble posted:U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) crew members interdict a self-propelled semi-submersible suspected drug smuggling vessel (SPSS) June 18, 2019, while operating in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. They then proceed to tactically board the semi-submersible vessel. I’m tired and mistook “self-propelled” as “driverless/autonomous”, and spent most of the video giggling at what I though were dudes yelling angry Spanish at a robot submarine.
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MrYenko posted:
P sure the carrier itself is also a floatation device per my coastie friends
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:P sure the carrier itself is also a floatation device per my coastie friends This is correct. I don't know exactly what those guys use, but there are inserts and devices you can wear under the carrier that inflate to give you enough buoyancy to not sink, though I don't think I'd want to hang out at sea in that situation for long.
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Kind of amazing we don’t have bullet-proof scuba gear for just this very purpose.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:P sure the carrier itself is also a floatation device per my coastie friends Okay, because I was wondering what would happen if the sub just submerged.
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chitoryu12 posted:Okay, because I was wondering what would happen if the sub just submerged. Usually the sub would sink. They're (generally) semi-submersibles, but they need to snorkel.
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Elendil004 posted:Usually the sub would sink. They're (generally) semi-submersibles, but they need to snorkel. They also have little to no actual pressure vessel or trim tanks. They are semi-submersibles, more akin to a monitor than Submarines, they are a boat with a very, very shallow waterline
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The Plate Carriers have bladders that can be inflated manually, or as some civilian flotation devices, have an auto inflate once submerged.
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evil_bunnY posted:Those things can’t dive. Well, they can once.
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Elendil004 posted:Well, they can once. Everything that sinks is a submarine if you think about it.
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CommieGIR posted:Everything that sinks is a submarine if you think about it. My feelings are a submarine?
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CommieGIR posted:Everything that sinks is a submarine if you think about it. At least once for certain, twice if lucky.
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glynnenstein posted:This is correct. I don't know exactly what those guys use, but there are inserts and devices you can wear under the carrier that inflate to give you enough buoyancy to not sink, though I don't think I'd want to hang out at sea in that situation for long. VBSS dudes can also wear a thinn wet suit under tactical uniform. Or that uniform itself might have wet component.
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Elendil004 posted:My feelings are a submarine? Only if it blossoms on the battlefield.
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CommieGIR posted:They also have little to no actual pressure vessel or trim tanks. They are semi-submersibles, more akin to a monitor than Submarines, they are a boat with a very, very shallow waterline Yep! If they could actually submerge, even just a few feet, they'd be much harder to find. Instead they're usually fiberglass topped with a giant concave hull making them a good radar reflector at certain angles. On top of that you can see what I'm assuming is a hot exhaust tube based on the length, very easy to find on IR as well if it is. What I'm saying is I'm pivoting my company to build halfway decent narco subs.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:https://twitter.com/afpfr/status/1150378408783896577?s=19 They're anti-drone radio transmitters.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:https://twitter.com/afpfr/status/1150378408783896577?s=19 Someone needs to take those guns out of their sprues and paint them properly!
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lmao okay so now let's watch him engage a target while riding that thing
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:lmao okay so now let's watch him engage a target while riding that thing uhhh computers do the shooting from mobile platforms don't they? edit: useful ones that is
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Kawasaki Nun posted:uhhh computers do the shooting from mobile platforms don't they? I'm sorry, what in the history of French arms procurement makes you thing their tech demonstrator is capable of doing what they're promoting it for?
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Now for something more low tech. In Libya, they're using SAMs as Surface-to-Surface missiles. https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/...genumber%3D1843
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