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Acebuckeye13 posted:I still have to catch up on the last ten pages of the last thread I thought the first was a generalized GBS history thread that started in '08 or so. If I remember right Admiral Snackbar's thread links to it in his OP.
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See if you can dig up any tours of the Zone Rouge or Zone Jaune, the former frontline areas of the First World War.
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xthetenth posted:If I want to do effort posts about carriers, none of you lot care if I do it in order, right? Next time on the History Channel: Aircraft Carriers of the Renaissance! Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci proposed not just heavier-than-air flight and submarines, but submarines capable of carrying aircraft, as early as 1482, more than 500 years before the Imperial Japanese Navy? Were Japanese planners reading Da Vinci's secret notebooks in 1935? More next Tuesday at 1:30pm/2:30PST!
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Cyrano4747 posted:Actually GPW lets just get this done now. Your fired, clear out your desk and give your materials to Archangel to unfuck. Wait no no no! Come on man, I'll find a way to work truckers into it!
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Aug 4, 2016 20:19
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Pellisworth posted:I PM'd you on this, to end the derail I agree. I've taken classes from Albert White Hat and he didn't know the etymologies of some words, particularly relating to cosmology, mythology, and religion. He would say "the elders told me its name was X, which I think is a contraction of Y." Please don't. I know this isn't really directly related to milhist but it's really interesting and I kinda doubt a Lakota linguistics a/t would survive for long. Unless you were able to make it a general culture/ethnography thing... Pellisworth posted:America is a couple centuries behind Europe on realizing the magical properties of human fat. We're catching up, though! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9oUhZvCC18 Grand Prize Winner fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Aug 5, 2016 |
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Polyakov posted:That gentleman is talking crap, it's really really hard to create enough overpressure to do real damage outside of an enclosed space without using a large bomb. People don't die from grenade overpressure in open spaces but from fragmentation, and the explosive force of those is much more than the effect of a cannon round passing by, otherwise you'd see more ground effect along their flight path. Hell you don't see honest to God tank rounds doing much other than kicking up dust on a miss. Could the overpressure be enough to throw off someone's balance? Cause him to fall down instead of a planned "hit the dirt" dive response? That could result in a lot of false kills.
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lenoon posted:
It's probably a good idea. I'm just one goon but I missed a lot from the last couple pages and it wouldn't hurt to have it repeated. 
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I Heard Somewhere* that mail, although more labor-intensive than segmentata or similar armor composed of large pieces of steel, is actually less skill-intensive. So if you have a large enough labor pool it might be easier to produce mail. Also was squamata also a thing in the later Empire? *possibly from a homeless man on the bus
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Aug 7, 2016 05:22
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SeanBeansShako posted:I am too down for this idea, simply so in the future we can have droneodromes. I think it'd work better if you used a latin/greek root. Robodromes!
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Aug 14, 2016 03:20
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Trin Tragula posted:Let's play a game, this one is called "1715 or 1915?" So which one is it? I legit can't tell.
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Aug 14, 2016 19:34
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HEY GAL posted:rare, yes. a telescope that's portable by a single person would itself be the Hot New poo poo as of 1715, which is why 30yw battlefield ruses look so hilarious to us ruses such as....?
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Aug 14, 2016 20:59
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FAUXTON posted:Max Plowman sounds like a cheap porn name. English name question: I know there used to be a lot of towns with streets like Gropecunte Alley and so forth, but did any people end up with names related to their not-socially-acceptable trades? Like, is there today one James Whoremonger living a quiet life in Hamfast or something?
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Aug 16, 2016 08:06
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Is it okay if you're an American of vaguely-Irish descent among other Americans of vaguely-Irish descent? "My grandmother was from Logh Alan so that's why I'm a drunk," kinda thing.
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Aug 17, 2016 05:46
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thatbastardken posted:no my grandma gave somewhere around 20 grand over the course of her life (no joke), thanks Monsignor Barry. We could have used that money for more good booze at her wake! No joke, the monsignor had connections and regularly collected support money for the cause from old Irish folks in our diocese.
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Aug 17, 2016 07:42
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spectralent posted:Also one of his parents was greek. So he's also qualified to speak about hoplites and triremes. Neat!
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Aug 18, 2016 22:57
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SeanBeansShako posted:Somebody was covering the history of trucks and general motorised logistics in the younger days of the old thread, he started but then got distracted and didn't get very far If this is what you're thinking of, Jobbo Fett did a series of posts about WWI trucks starting on this page: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3585027&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=912 I'd try to track 'em down further but my internet is poo poo right now so I can't load any more, but look for jobbo fett's posts on that page and pages afterwards.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:Not all the outfits have crosses and the cross on "M" is very obviously Burgundian. You seem to know a lot about the history of European fashion. Know any good books (preferably with lots of pictures) that provide sort of an overview from... I dunno, some arbitrary point in the distant past until 1840 or so?
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:Fashion is one of those weird "soft" subjects that few people are interested enough in to pay for serious research, so it often goes by the wayside. I know a couple costume designers who are deeply into the history of fashion. If I remember later this week I'll see if I can dig anything up. One of my former professors really knows a lot about this kinda thing but we had a falling out so I'm a little hesitant. vvv: I'll see what I can do. Grand Prize Winner fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Aug 21, 2016 05:42
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Pellisworth posted:Catherine the Great was pretty cool too until the pulley broke
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Aug 22, 2016 06:00
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lenoon posted:edit: and nobody will convince me otherwise yessssssss
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Crazycryodude posted:I need these. Are they hiding in the old thread somewhere? Just click on the little question mark on the lower right section of one of her posts in the old thread. You can't really go wrong. Also pro-click are P-Mack on China, Bewbies on planes and tanks, lenoon on conscientious objectors, and trim triangle on WWI. JaucheCharly has good posts about recurve bows, but they're kinda divided between the old mil-hist thread and the medieval one.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:an m60 It sure worked for the West Virginians in famous historical document 1632~ edit: gently caress, don't want to start the next page with a shitpost. Give me a bit to think of something worthy. e: okay, I was at a conference on drones recently. a few of the speakers made disparaging comments about early drones, including some 1960s drone ASW helicopter that apparently almost never made it back onto the ships that launched it, leading to several more years of manned ASW helicopters. How bad did the early ones suck, and when did they start being a good ROI? Grand Prize Winner fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Aug 31, 2016 |
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Aug 31, 2016 04:01
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xthetenth posted:It's kind of unfair to pick on the QH-50 too much because it was designed to be very small, very cheap, and consequently had the accident rate you'd expect from a drone helicopter from 1960 that didn't have much in the way of redundant systems. Much as the joke goes that interceptors are the first stage of a two stage SAM, those were expendable like the first stage of a two stage long range depth charge, and it's a bit hard to judge the ROI on a system that provides a capability that otherwise wouldn't be there. They did do some interesting stuff with them with television cameras to spot artillery and do recon for their ships, as well. Sorry to dredge this up from two pages ago, but I worded the second question poorly, I think. At what point did drones/RPAs stop being a neat little tool useful for one or two tasks and start turning into the worldbeaters they're growing into? Sometime in the late 90s, maybe? Do cruise missiles count as advanced traditional munitions or single-use drones?
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P-Mack posted:What I like about the Taiping proto-communism is that British observers get really obviously mad at it, but don't yet have the language and ideological framework of capitalist/communist conflict to describe why beyond complaining about "injury to trade." Wait, why don't they? Didn't Marx publish before the Taiping war started?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Firearms in 1492 had their issues, but it's a moot point, since native American arrows ain't got poo poo on the suits of armor that the spaniards had access to. * I heard this somewhere, possibly in a documentary, conversation with a homeless man, or a dream.
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Delivery McGee posted:Edit again: Google results for longest bombing raid are all Black Buck (was a hell of a thing, but they stopped halfway) and B-2s bombing Libya (25-hour round trip from KC), but apparently the seven BUFFs that kicked in the proverbial door in Desert Storm flew 35-hour missions, from Barksdale to Baghdad and back, nonstop. Jesus gently caress, did they have bunks or did the pilots just get hepped up on go-pills?
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HEY GAL posted:it is an extremely good Empire That article lead me down the Wikipedia rabbit hole and eventually I found this, about Napoleon II (Boney's son, who amounted to nothing and died childless at 21 of pneumonia): "The Hapsburgs got up to some weird poo poo posted:On 15 December 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the remains of Napoleon II to be transferred from Vienna to the dome of Les Invalides in Paris.[9][10] The remains of Napoleon I had been returned to France in December 1840, at the time of the July Monarchy.[11] For some time, the remains of the young prince who had briefly been an emperor rested beside those of his father. Later, the prince's remains were moved to the lower church. 
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OwlFancier posted:That would have made an amazing film though. "The tank with the gun fires the gun! When the tank with the gun is destroyed, the crew from the tank without the gun gets the gun!" "How do we attach it?" "Arrest that man for defeatism!"
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Sep 20, 2016 02:03
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Fangz posted:The ability of the US to mobilise quickly in the event of such a war is also untested, though. We've got rednecks with pickup trucks in pretty much every state.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:I wonder what a general mobilization looks like when 2/3rds of your population is overweight/obese 
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Cyrano4747 posted:drat near every WW2 vet I've known who saw combat had serious hearing issues. This applies to my grandpa. He wasn't even a combat vet but he was bunked right under a deck gun in an old Victory ship ib the pacific. Every now and then they'd test the gun or do firing practice or whatever and it a) left him hard of hearing and b) got him a few concussions from when he'd jerk upright and bash his skull on the bulkhead.
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Trin Tragula posted:Yeah, I've tried to fix this a few times, and each time it breaks and doesn't do what it's supposed to and you end up missing three or four days at a time using the bottom buttons. The book doesn't have this problem, and you get a lot of added material too! Hey, the links page for your 1915 book is broken. They all link to the UK store and I would rather pay in bux than squids.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Swords or pistols at dawn gentlemen? first blood? Slings, clearly. I don't actually know how to treat this. Could the verses about David and Goliath be considered a valid source on the efficacy of slings? Regardless of their accuracy, do they say anything about popular perceptions of the time? I mean, unless you want to claim that the bible was written by God, then the authorship consists of people who were alive and kicking while sings were a common battlefield weapon. What I'm getting (without any context, wasn't raised religious) is that the sling was seen as a decent weapon, but not one guaranteed (or even particularly likely) to defeat an armored opponent one-on-one.
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Fangz posted:In the same way that it was right and proper for the Indian mutineers to shoot as many of the occupying British as they could, but if they went on the rampage in a British city it would not be the same. Why would it not? They're no less British in York or Leeds or something.
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Animal posted:Please post lyrics to good historical cadence songs from different countries and eras. Hey Gal I'm looking at you. I don't have the text as I do not speak russian. Maybe EE can translate?
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lenoon posted:Wele goelcerth wen yn fflamio Is it true that the English stole most of your people's vowels?
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xiansi posted:I'm as English as your avatar, but happened to go to school with a girl called Siobhan, so I worked that one out early enough. Even though I've never met a Sinéad in real life, there was a famous one in the '80s, so that helped. I went to high school with a Sinead, but her parents didn't know the right pronunciation. Called herself "Sin-ee-add" or Sinny for short. Plastic paddies, heh.
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HEY GAL posted:lol 
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Ensign Expendable posted:Also while your rifle might be able to hit something at 800 meters I highly doubt that the vast majority of infantrymen could aim well enough to do so. Sir, do you impugn the expert marksmanship of the american rahfleman?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:People have a hosed up view of what long arms are supposed to achieve in the majority of cases. Usually you're shooting at things or known positions, not people. You have a fire element to pin the enemy and a maneuver element to flank. The fire element is trying to disrupt the enemy and pin them in place. Most shooting is sort of aimed. Mah granpappy fought in the war and he said he got three Germans right a'tween the eyes at Normandie and Guadalcanal. You callin' mah granpappy a liar? (this is what some Americans actually believe)
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