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The Red Army in song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6V2g9H-yIE and in dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WpYWpN0VXU
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Comstar posted:Stand off weapons with laser or GPS guiding make large scale static fortifications pretty useless, if you know where they are. Plus coastal infantry with long-range AT missiles gives you pretty much the same capabilities with less vulnerability and maintenance.
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a travelling HEGEL posted:Why are they less vulnerable? Because they're more mobile and they can actively defend themselves? Mobility and ease of camouflage. Static coastal artillery positions can be pinpointed before the start of hostilities, whereas a bunch of guys with a missile launcher, a boat and some camo netting can easily get into all the wrong places from the perspective of someone planning an amphibious landing. There are ways to increase the survivability of fixed positions but it's a lot of effort for something with not much payoff. Heavy coastal artillery is pretty cool though in its sheer fuckrightoffedness. Here's a conserved battery near Helsinki, in its time a critical part of preventing hostile maritime operations in the Gulf of Finland.  Installed in the beginning of the 1930's and based on the fortifications built during the 1910's to safeguard St. Petersburg after the loss of the Baltic fleet at Tsushima, the two 12" Russian Obuhov cannons didn't see much action during WW2, their direct involvement being limited to taking potshots at Russian troopships evacuating the Hanko peninsula. After the peace of 1944 the guns were removed at the insistence of the Allied Control Commission. After the USSR returned the Porkkala peninsula to Finnish control in 1956, the guns were re-installed and integrated into the capital region's maritime defense. The weapon was included in war time planning up to the early 80's, but allegedly its final mission wasn't going to be shooting at ships, but providing indirect fire for repulsing airborne landings in the Helsinki airport region. In 1991 the battery was restored by volunteers and has been firing occasional salutes since then.  A 1 000 000 kg turret and 470 kg munitions. Back when warfare was still metal.
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Great war chat: A nice writeup of Austria-Hungary's first foray into Serbia. Shocker: It goes poorly.
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JaucheCharly posted:I watched the whole movie and had no idea what was going, other that the guys with the funny language were falling back and that there's constantly ambushes. The tank stuff seems pretty well made too, comparably. Sounds like a good grunt pov from the Russian side.
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Experience from infantry training against things with thermals (Leo 2A4, CV90): they will murder you without remorse unless you're behind a big rock or something else that completely blocks your heat signature. Thermals will see through things that block normal line of sight completely, like thick undergrowth. They also pick out muzzle flashes really well. From a recon perspective, man-portable modern thermals are basically cheating. Take this kind of shirt.  With the right settings, the thermals we used could see those individual "stripes" when it was being worn.
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shallowj posted:1. I know this will sound really naive, and it's probably a boring question having been so well studied, but - why exactly is Cannae so celebrated? Was the pincer movement really that innovative at the time? It seems like enveloping the enemy would be intuitive. Is there more detail to Hannibal's victory that isn't readily apparent? Hannibal was outnumbered IIRC, and still pulled off a perfect encirclement. That's extraordinary.
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Endman posted:Pfft, boats. What you really want are planes Funnily enough, Finland also bought Bristol Blenheim bombers before the war, which also were pretty useless.
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Sit on it and spin.
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How long was a typical mercenary contract? One year/campaign season?
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HEY GAL posted:my native language is english so yes, and...amazon i guess? Does fighting ever go on during winter, or does a regiment just make themselves at large in some poor city, or do they disband for the winter?
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HEY GAL posted:Every soldier needs three peasants. One to provide his food, one to provide his wife, and one to take his place in Hell. lol Thanks for the answers, you study some pretty interesting stuff.
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If someone wants to see how stupid it gets themselves, here you go.
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