Arbite posted:

Cyrano4747 posted:

Honestly I don't doubt it got pushed even lower. I suspect the whole thing was basically "get an officer to give it a quick OK"

The Lone Badger posted:

Does that escort destroyers or destroy escorts or is it a destroyer that escorts?

IJN Vice Admiral Kurita posted:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

piL posted:

I believe most powerful reason to classify a vessel (in a democracy) is to try and get the vessel funded.

Are your Cruisers getting older than planned and you canceled the alternatives with few in class for the last 20 years? We'll name this multi-mission vessel a cruiser! Got a ship with similar characteristics, a hair lighter but with the same engines so probably slightly faster and almost exactly the same mission capabilities? That's definitely a Destroyer, since nobody wants 2 cruisers and no destroyers.

Even though they failed to deliver, if you're planning to launch a vessel 1.5 times as heavy as a cruiser designed to combat other navy's advanced combatants like a heavy cruiser or battlecruiser? but also designed with a powerful gun armament for shore bombardment like a battleship?, given that the last destroyers did so well, that's clearly a destroyer too. What if suddenly the thinktanks are abuzz with the dangers of the littoral threat? Even if corvettes are often based in the littorals, that may not quite be enough on the nose.

A 400ft beachable amphibious vessel for landing and unloading marines under fire much like an LST might just get called a light amphibious warship if you're worried landing craft won't count towards Navy force structure goals.

PeterCat posted:

I think tree eating megafauna would have been a terrifying thing to be deployed in a war.

NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:

Positive air flow.

From an article about protection systems for armored vehicles.

"The crew compartment bulk dump receives approximately 128 cfm of filtered air to create a positive pressure in the crew compartment. The positive pressure keeps contaminated air out and forces the smoke produced from firing the main or coax guns out."

Ensign Expendable posted:

Not quite flat, but almost.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:

get this dude and simo hayha together in a buddy cop drama. throw in the dude who ate his whole squad's meth stash for good measure

Cessna posted:

Recoil in M-16s and their derivatives is dependent on a buffer/buffer spring directly behind the bolt carrier. When you pull the trigger it shoots - the bolt opens, the bolt carrier travels back through a tube onto the buffer/spring, the old round is ejected, a new one takes it's place, and then the spring pushes the bolt carrier and closes the bolt:



Where is the buffer tube/spring on that thing?

Flesnolk posted:

Makes sense, and I know that's a stupid question; I think I had it in the back of my mind, going "why was an airborne division sitting down and slugging it out as line infantry instead of jumping out of planes"

zoux posted:

Petrus Romanus and his reign will see the destruction of Rome, which is a lot less important now than it was when the prophecy was first published in the late 16th c.

Cessna posted:

Why is it that whenever nuclear weapons come up there is a rush to one-up others with how dead you'd be?

mllaneza posted:

How much of the difference between the Old and New Worlds levels of development can be attributed to the New World people having had to emigrate vast distances over millennia to get established ?

Tulip posted:

The Russians killed Germans with a pencil. With a loving pencil!

OpenlyEvilJello posted:

I would assume it's a play on Grey Hunter's legendary spelling.

ulmont posted:

…although the graphic novel collections from Manga Germania do give us some insight into the daily lives of the schoolchildren of the period…

PittTheElder posted:

Thinking about Kuznetsov, were American and Japanese carriers in WW2 as big of a smoke show? Seems like a liability on the whole "don't be spotted" front.

Nessus posted:

Do the brits have the right to the low-background steel in those ships or do the Germans get a cut? I imagine the intervening unpleasantness may play a factor.

Ensign Expendable posted:

Problem exists between reins and saddle

Chamale posted:

They had ice cream makers adapted from cement-mixing equipment, so I doubt they had the ingredients necessary for soft-serve. Soft-serve in the 1940s was much thicker and icier than modern aerated soft-serve, which was invented in the 1960s.

There's a myth that Margaret Thatcher invented soft-serve ice cream. She worked as a food chemist after World War II and helped develop a formula for a brand of soft-serve, but she didn't "invent" it.

Phanatic posted:

Note that even the German physicists doubted that the Allies had an atomic bomb after they received word on their use. Someone already pointed you to the Farm Hall transcripts but let me quote:

Ensign Expendable posted:

That's all of us here, let's face it.

Typo posted:

Patton was a pretty good American general but does not match up to his legend

his success also had to do with an annoying tendency to just outright steal supply meant for units other than his 3rd army. Which he got away with due to his reputation

The US just in general rarely produce army geniuses (but does have some great admirals).

The only American general that I would say ranks among the top tier of leaders is Winfield Scott.

Maybe it has to do with how America fights its land wars: which tend to emphasize achieving material superiority. I mean it's effective in winning conventional wars, but you don't have an American Suvorov nor an American Napoleon.

sullat posted:

Quackles posted:

Is there a way around the paywall there?

Cyrano4747 posted:

apropos of nothing I want to point out the loving utter perfection that is this avatar another mod has:



Also, it is a perfect summary of the German military situation in 1944.

HisMajestyBOB posted:

Another option for dinner parties / game nights.

Cyrano4747 posted: