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Jestery posted:I read about some super high altitude dogfighting (50,000 ft) where because bomber and fighter had both been super optimised for high altitude, that the dogfight way less loop-de-loops and dakka dakka and more slow dance of death with and It’s because the air is so thin at those altitudes propeller driven aircraft don’t generate much lift, so it’s difficult to even keep the airplane in the air. Basically since propellers are very similar to airfoils there’s less “grip” for them to generate thrust, which impedes the wing’s ability to generate lift in an environment where they’re not really generating much anyway. But 50k is stretching it. The Ta-152 could technically do that, but the service ceiling of a B-17G is only a little more than 35,000 so there wouldn’t be much of a reason to be up that high in the first place. The best high altitude fighter was unequivocally the P-51D and that goes for both the European and Pacific theaters. And in this case the term “best” means a whole more than “the airplane that could go the highest” or “its specifications say it could x on paper.”
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twistedmentat posted:When talking about WW2 it must always be in your mind that the Nazis started it because they intended to genocide basically everyone but a very small racial group. The Holocaust is not a byproduct or something they decided to do when they were winning, but what they aimed to do. I can’t quote this post enough. Also re: Wunderwaffe (and a lot of combat vehicles built post 1943) the ones that did get completed were built by slave labor in caves because forcing people to work to their death furthers genocide but it also backfired big time because those same workers would sabotage the poo poo out things.
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Jestery posted:This is where I heard about it That dude loving sucks btw Anyone curious about the reasoning for choosing the bombs over an invasion re: Japan should check out the book “Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-47” by DM Giangreco. He went into the archives of both countries and did research with documents that neither side had released before and it’s pretty stomach churning. Interestingly the internal logistics reports from Japan regarding their military ability to defend japan show that the amount of material they had held back from other fights specifically for home island defense show that the American intelligence estimates, usually considered overblown, were actually far far under the mark. The numbers in the preface alone will put the chill on you real fast. Julius CSAR fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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beer gas canister posted:shooting 4 bullets out of an m1 garand at the dirt in order to reload This is as much of a myth as like, Shermans being tinder boxes or “ronsons”. It is in fact perfectly fine to reload your M1 in the middle of a clip. And you’ll be able to collect the clip and put the unused ammo back to good use. Good use being killing nazis by the fu king bushel
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This video is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNjp_4jY8pY Interesting thing in this vid... what has the thicker frontal armor, an M4 Sherman or a Tiger 1? The Sherman because the armor is angled edit: I misrembered, the Sherman has almost as much frontal armor than the tiger because of the slope. My bad. Julius CSAR fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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Blistex posted:Don't know where you scrubs are getting your Operation Downfall stats/predictions, but they're weak. Lol this is really awesome
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Jestery posted:I can understand that, I find his matter of fact delivery without needless editorialisation to be the main draw, would you be able to reccomend anything superior that accomplishes that? Or is the next step to actually start reading text books? He plagiarizes so thoroughly he will quote other’s obvious historical inaccuracies word for word. Also he takes nazi propaganda at face value and considers it a worthwhile source, and just general jerking off of the technological and strategic superiority of the German military (which was anything but) in general. Up to and including things like cool action stories about SS units. I’m not saying you have to read books per se, but these topics are usually so in depth a 20 minute YouTube video is never going to be able cover with the kind of depth these subjects require. Speaking of depth Comstar posted:They must have chilled you very fast, as you have neglected to post them. I’m not gonna quote entire chapters of a book to you.
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therattle posted:There was a thread about WW2 I think here on SA where someone was discussing the terrible industrial planning of the Germans. The example was the Luftwaffe, where there were something like 27 different machine guns used across the fleet, and even guns of the same calibre sometimes required different ammo. This was compared to the US, where across the Army and Air Force (and probably Navy and Marines) there were two calibres with standard ammo: .30 and .50 - allowing for much greater efficiency in production, maintenance, supply etc. The German industrial war machine was splintered and competitive, leading to a lot of inefficiency. Yep, and that type of standardization often went across the allies as well. If there is one martial art perfected by America above all others it’s logistics. People complaining about America “showing up late” like that one guy earlier miss the point that the US was involved in the war almost from the beginning and without lend/lease the British and the Soviets would have much more difficult time. For a good period after Dunkirk, Britain was an army with almost no heavy weapons and equipment.
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mulligan posted:Just chimed in to say Ghosts of The Osfront by Dan Carlin was very good and you should all listen to it. Ghosts of the Ostfront and Supernova In The East sound really dumb, like embarrassing. Isnt that guy basically Joe Rogan but for tanks and roman legions
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mulligan posted:Oh is that salty Csar guy who scoffs at everything like an rear end in a top hat.  toggle posted:Were the tank battles in Fury accurate? How do you gently caress up a movie about tanks in late war germany?? Surely they'd be enough real stories of tank crews to fill out 2 1/2 hours? Eh. I mean compared to most movies yeah. It does use an actual Tiger which is pretty unique. But they were in Easy Eights so they probably would have had an even chance of standing their ground and using the late war AP rounds. A Tiger had good armor but wasn't quite the invincible impenetrable beast it's made out to be. As a movie about a tank crew a the horrific stuff they saw and did, it's pretty good. Forcing that kid to execute that guy seems pretty hokey though I'm sure it probably happened occasionally. Either way I enjoy it a lot. Julius CSAR fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Jul 22, 2020 |
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lol yup
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