Pontius Pilate posted:

A perfect illustration of why the tiger is overrated. A good tank is a tank that is there where you need it and the basement of a residence is not ideal for strategic mobility.

Monocled Falcon posted:

I want to troll some wehraboos: buy one of those fancy model kits for some obscure nazi tank and paint it up as captured by the Soviets.

Panther or tiger?

my dad posted:

military-historical complex

Hogge Wild posted:

what are you shortening to 'op'?

Taerkar posted:

No, 93 tons is approaching "No bridge can handle this, and neither can many roads" territory

MrMojok posted:

Sorry, was tanks trying to maneuver around to shoot each other in the rear end not a real thing?

I'm not being a wiseass here. My WWII knowledge is concentrated mainly in fighter planes, and USMC campaigns in the Pacific.

The extent of my tank knowledge comes from a 1970s Marvel comics series about a Sherman that was accompanied by the ghost of General Jeb Stuart, for some odd reason.

Wikipedia posted:

As the Haunted Tank fights from Africa to the European Theater of Operations, the crew goes through several M3 tanks. When their latest M3 is destroyed, the crew scavenge spare parts and wreckage from a "tank graveyard" to build themselves a new tank, known as the "Jigsaw Tank",[2] which serves them from that point. This tank has a modified Russian T-34 Hull, a Christie Suspension System and a Russian Y2 12-Cylinder diesel engine of 500 H.P. the nearly 15 foot track gives this rolling jigsaw puzzle excellent traction and it is capable of speeds up to 21 m.p.h.

FAUXTON posted:

Legwear ain't poo poo but britches and hose

OwlFancier posted:

As a side note I think I found my favorite word, Russian for "infantry who ride on tanks" is "tankodesantniki"

loving trilingual word salad, amazing.

I really wish English did compound words sometimes.

SlothfulCobra posted:

What are the odds that the snipers aimed at the loophole were just being nice at the moment and took the coin as an opportunity to remind the enemy what they could do if they chose?

SeanBeansShako posted:

Now I want a TV show or something where the main character is a 17th century musician who's lute is also his musket.

Polyakov posted:

With the talk about mechanical fire control i thought id try to outline a basic part of how one works by using a targetting problem to illustrate. (Maths ahead, i apologise if it feels patronising, i tried to keep it as accessible as possible)

Using a MFC required first an observer making an estimate of:

1: Range
2: Bearing
3: Speed

2 and 3 together make up a ships course.

{AND THEN A MIRACLE OCCURS}

Hence you now have a direction and a range to shoot that you can derive from data from your observers.

A mechanical firing computer automates all those calculations and generates a constant solution from the data you put in and means that at any point you can get those solutions, the actual way it combines them is explained the US navy training video i linked earlier, each operation is a seperate mechanical component chained together to get you from Input to Output.

Boiled Water posted:

Even if you could drop all the food how would it lead to surrender? I'm imagining "drop food -> ??? -> surrender".

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Speaking of, here's Admiral Benson.


I dare you not to think of him sounding like Sean Connery.

HEY GAL posted:

yes he does-- it's under all his posts, same as the rest of the plat-havers

A quote so understated you'll cry posted:

While USS Midway was still moored at Norfolk, the carrier’s damage control teams practiced all eventualities of what might possibly go wrong. Based on interviews with German personnel secured during the “Paperclip” operation, it was felt that the worst case scenario was what was termed “IFTC” (Ignition with Failure-To-Clear) when the V-2’s engines would successfully start but, for whatever reason, the missile would not generate sufficient thrust to take off, thumping back down onto the launcher and exploding. The Germans said that this happened numerous times during WWII, usually with negative results to nearby structures or personnel.

Alchenar posted:

To a degree, but the Korean war is where NATO encounters the AK47 as a standard infantry rifle while our guys are all equipped with semi-automatics and realises 'oh gently caress we need to up our game fast'.

OwlFancier posted:

I'm familiar with the propensity of anti-aircraft designers to just glue four of an already good gun together, I just... didn't really think anyone would try it with a 40mm bofors gun.

Next you're going to tell me someone built an over-under 88mm.

Tias posted:

Since I know we have some military hardware spergs( God bless every one of you!):

I'm wargaming a battle of the Korean war as a Chinese tank commander, and American GIs are having a lot of luck taking out my T34s. The thing is, they camouflage and then destroy the tank with a side or rear hit from M9A1 rifle grenades at ranges up to 150m! I'm not going to pitch a fit over it, but it seems reaching. OTOH, the T-34 is world war 2 tech, perhaps the rifle grenades are just that bit more advanced for the job at hand.

I mean, one tank, sure, but it's three and counting - Does this seem in line with US. Army training and equipment anno the Korean war?

SlothfulCobra posted:

Yeah, but what do the Iraqis/Afghans do with them? Surely they can't keep them all locked up indefinitely, but there's no enemy nation (that they acknowledge) to send them back to, and the conflict's still going, so what do they do with them?

JcDent posted:

It was apparently from a Hezbollah column that also included T-54s and Kornet missiles on quadbikes.

OwlFancier posted:

M113s are cool though, it's a literal crate full of infantry spam in a can.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

When you think about it, theres not a lot the Nazis didn't ruin.


Bagpipes, I guess? Hard to tell if those are already considered ruined or not

Baron Porkface posted:

How does a city with half a million or more people like Leningrad or Aleppo stay besieged for years without everyone running out of food and dying within 3 months or so?

GreyjoyBastard posted:

Jews practicing taqiyya pretending to be Christian so they wouldn't get pogromed by [local citizenry].

Mycroft Holmes posted:

ISIS vs the Afrika Corps

OwlFancier posted:

Aside from drum magazines of the time being agonizingly difficult to reload if I remember right, why on earth didn't they issue them for normal use?

The bren has a quick swap barrel and everything, it seems designed for a much higher capacity than it used.

Mantis42 posted:

Bond 'dies' and is reincarnated as a Japanese person, just like every goons' dream.

P-Mack posted:

Israel's first fighter planes were surplus Messerschmitts bought from Czechoslovakia.

Siivola posted:

So, uh, spears?

Scrree posted:

At some point a while ago a 1944-era soviet assault troop manual was posted here, and the main takeaway I got from it was 'grenade every building, grenade every floor of every building, grenade every room of every floor of every building - a grenade is far cheaper than your life!' which I think shows a lot about how terrifying and cumbersome city clearing must have been.

darthbob88 posted:

We've got better gunpowder and stronger guns than they did. I expect Cyrano or somebody can provide actual numbers for a cap-and-ball revolver vs a new 1911, but modern guns can reach higher chamber pressures than the old timers could, which translates to higher velocities and powers.

The Lone Badger posted:

Looks chunky enough that it could load an actual handgun cartridge. Do a hand load with a super high-weight-bullet/low propellant load, market it as a functioning replica.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

FAUXTON posted:

Skoal
Kodiak
Cope

You know, dip

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I've had some pretty powerful flashlights shone in my face because youth and stupidity, and we're probably talking 2000~ and less lumens and they leave spots in your eyes for a few minutes at least. Obviously, depends on exposure and proximity to the light source so it depends.



I'd imagine that if it went off next to you and you were looking right at it, you'd be temporarily blinded at the very least.

HEY GAIL posted:

everyone who lives does, the unlucky ones are dead

aphid_licker posted:

Re: reconchat, for a while towards the end of the cold war the Bundeswehr went gently caress it and decided that it would be conducting its recon with Leopard 2s. Not sure what that was about.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzeraufkl%C3%A4rungstruppe_(Bundeswehr)