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Thomamelas posted:Age of Sail frigates are built for speed and flexibility. The British liked theirs heavily armed as well with one or two gun decks. Over time they keep adding more and more sails and guns to theirs. So a British frigate is going to be heavily armed and fast. They aren't mean to go toe to toe with bigger ships but they can ruin the day of pretty much anything smaller. And they tend to be built as kind of jack of all trades for the frigate role. The Dutch liked theirs lean and light. They weren't ever going to outgun a British built ship, but they could often outrun them. The French designed for endurance. Almost as fast as the Dutch but they tended to be less seaworthy, but with much greater endurance. They were built to deploy out to French colonies with less support expected. Spanish Frigates tended to be the slowest and most heavily armed, and their role tended to be a bit more specialized than other countries. Focusing on convoy escort much more than other roles. All frigates would be used in that role but the Spanish focused on it. I've always read that the American frigates, the USS Constitution and her sister ships, were built to be bigger and more heavily armed than anyone else's frigates.
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White Coke posted:Can someone explain the British 77mm HV gun to me? I've read the wikipedia article about it several times but I can't wrap my head around it. A quick glance at the relevant bit of the wiki leads me to think that this is how it went: There's a Vickers HV 75mm gun, with a cartridge based on a naval AA gun. It was intended to fire the same projectiles as the US 75mm guns, but faster. It ended up being too big for the Cromwell, which used a 75mm gun that was made by converting a 6-pounder (57mm) to have a 75mm bore. The British then adapted the Vickers HV 75 to use the same projectiles as the 17 pounder, which had a 77mm bore, and put that in the Comet, which replaced the Cromwell. It's more powerful, or at least does better in the anti-tank role, than the Cromwell's regular 75mm, but it takes up less space in the turret than the 17-pounder.
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Dec 10, 2020 06:24
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wdarkk posted:Battle off Samar, no question for me. It's not quite an "air battle" but it could be recast that way by adding some TIE fighters. Planes played a big role in the battle. There were Wildcats making dry strafing runs on Japanese ships after running out of ammo, that's some poo poo that could be in a Star Wars movie.
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Dec 11, 2020 07:42
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wdarkk posted:Yeah but there were zilch enemy planes. Yeah that's true, you would need to throw in some TIEs in that case.
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SerthVarnee posted:Oh I forgot to ask this: It's an alternate spelling of POG, which stands for Person Other [than] Grunt, ie any non-combat personnel. Fake edit: that's actually not true, the word predates the acronym. "Pogue" was apparently a pejorative slang term for a gay man in the early 1900s that was used to refer to support personnel. The acronym apparently wasn't invented until the 2000's.
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Fearless posted:Late to the party (I spent a lot of time re-reading Cessna's fantastic Nazi equipment posts), but is anyone else getting strong Nobby Nobbs vibes off of this photo? Now that you point it out, absolutely. I think it's the dog-end combined with the multiple (looted?) rings.
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Feb 18, 2021 23:43
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Can anyone recommend a book about female soldiers in the American Civil War?
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May 2, 2021 05:23
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brugroffil posted:Something that looked to my ignorant eye a lot like a B-17 buzzed my house at a few hundred feet today. That was LOUD. It could very well have been a B-17, there are still a few flying that travel around to various air shows.
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Jul 18, 2021 03:37
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Ugly In The Morning posted:There was an accident with one I think last spring? Time is a blur now but the Collings Foundation definitely has/had one. The Commemorative Air Force has two, and one at least, the Texas Raiders, is actively touring. Edit: The crash you might be thinking of happened in 2019, to a B-17 owned by the Collings Foundation.
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Jul 18, 2021 03:48
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Mycroft Holmes posted:what would a hypothetical special forces group be using? I found something about the FAL being limited issue in '55 Assuming this hypothetical unit is going to be going through a portal to alternate universes, Stargate style, there's not an issue of the team needing plausible deniability. That being the case, then standard US small arms of the day would be expected. Special forces types would probably tend towards more automatic weapons, so M3 Grease Guns and M2 Carbines might be more common than M1 Garands. there is a neat silenced Grease Gun variant out there, that might fit the bill.
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Dec 8, 2021 00:52
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wasn't there some silence sten that had leather as some part of it? I think it was prone to breaking because it was leather lol but it was to be fair pretty silent. It got mentioned in a previous thread I think Some silenced guns of the era did have leather or rubber as part of the suppressor, yes. And you're remembering correctly, leather or rubber wipers (they're kind of like a washer) do make for a quieter, but less long-lived, suppressor than one with baffles.
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Dec 8, 2021 16:45
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Cessna posted:Why do those videos never talk about the important stuff, like the suspension? He usually does, and he especially likes to discuss track tensioning.
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Kermit The Grog posted:I was talking to a mustachioed gentleman at a saber fencing class and after explaining to me the difference between the Olympic sword types, we got in to chatting military history. He described , I don't recall the time period, about some French military research project about what swords types were best for disabling an opponent in war, and that they found that piercing was better than cutting for this and swapped over to a more pokey sword. Can someone confirm the validity of this and paint in more of the picture if it is true? Thanks I believe that France did favor the use of thrusting over cutting, and their sword designs reflected this during the Napoleonic era, but I'm not sure of the specific reasoning behind it.
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I've read that the US Army used captured German artillery starting in late 1944 in order to get around a shortage of 105mm shells, is there any truth to that? That could potentially lead to a situation where a US battery with German guns exchanged fire with a German battery equipped with Russian guns.
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