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madeintaipei posted:On the sentencing of Kurt Meyer for the killing of Allied POWs by soldiers under his command, an early example of the legal concept of command responsibility: Meyer was a gigantic POS and his crimes were greater than occasionally saying 'we don't want prisoners this time.' War his hell and bad stuff happens, but when as a commander your unit is responsible for consistently perpetuating major war crimes, surely that then meets a standard of direct culpability in those crimes. Perhaps it was because most of Meyer's more egregious actions were committed on the Eastern front and the war criming got toned down a bit on the Western front played a role in the decision Vokes took, as much of that information may not have been known or able to be proved at the time he made his decision. Anecdotally, there is an exceptionally nice CF range outside of Vancouver named after Vokes. Hello thread, another GBS Ukraine refugee here.
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Isn't Azov a totally different organisation now than it used to be? My understanding is that it was definitely ultra-nationalist when it was raised as a volunteer battalion after the Crimean annexation and the Donbas invasion/insurgency in 2014, but it was brought into the regular forces, reorganised, and purged of the far-right elements a few years later.
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shame on an IGA posted:Canada issued a bid request to replace their WWI-era Browning Hi-Powers like 2 years ago WW2. Some of the ones in service that are deemed acceptable are ROUGH.
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A compilation of Raus' memoirs called "Panzer Operations" goes into great detail about this engagement.
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in a well actually posted:Request ambiguous, result: loving Sam Hughes and the MacAdam shovel. That guy knew how to grift. golden bubble posted:Still entirely inferior to this baby. Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim, and they have not. Trying to find this in my signed copy of "The Devil's Paintbrush" but I can't. Can you give me a page reference? In a combination tangent of these posts, at my Museum we recently received access to a photo collection for scanning purposes. One of the photo groups was of some pre-FWW soldiers of the 72nd Battalion (Seaforths) training on Vancouver Island in kilts as field dress armed with Ross Mark IIIs and a limber mounted Maxim. I've never seen these guns being used in combination like that before, and it might be the only photo documentation of them being used like that. When we get permission to share I'll post them in TFR.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Would you not expect to see multiple/secondaries if it was a hit on an ammo dump? Looks like one big bomb to me too, not an ammo dump. If you look at USAAF bombing footage from WW2, those impacts from the 500-1000lb+ bombs they were dropping looked a lot the one in the video (except from 20,000' in the air.)
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Bronze Fonz posted:
Let's not drag those assholes into this mess, pretty soon it'll be nothing but shitposts
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I might be tinfoil hatting a bit, but Ukraine has been exceptional at using social media as a component in its overall operations. The whole "reinforcing Bakhmut, we will never give it up" narrative while watching the reported Russian territorial gains slowly start to encompass the city proper strikes me as a savvy part of their actual stated strategic goal of wearing down Russian forces in advance of the spring campaign season. They are probably not sending massive reinforcements into the city, just enough to continue to make the Russians pay an extremely high cost for acceptably lower casualties to gain an objective that only really matters to the Russians at this point, and even then only as a political objective as taking what is left of the city will not give the Russians any sort of logistical or tactical advantage over the Ukrainians. Attritional warfare is a brutal.
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Saukkis posted:Politico: ‘Hunting rifles’ — really? China ships assault weapons and body armor to Russia Before I worked there, the gun shop I used to work at here in Canada was involved in the design of the CQ-A, we even had a couple of prototypes still kicking around the shop. Later on my boss worked on getting the Type 95 turned into a civilian (semi-automatic) version called the Type 97 while I did work there. The CQ-A is semi-auto only - at least as designed. It's dirt simple to manufacture it as select fire and I don't doubt that it has been for non-civilian markets. The best part about the CQ-A is some of the copy in the manual: "CQ-A1 5.56mm automatic rifle is an automatic or semi-automatic weapon for infantry to kill individuals or group active objects. The rifle is characterized with light weight, high accuracy, high cyclic firing rate, easy operation, more cartridge-carrying and makes the operator enjoy a better annihilating firepower within 460m."
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Yuuup. de Wiart, Junger, Jack Churchill...
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Cugel the Clever posted:I'm pretty sure the guy in front just farted and the rest passed out. He fled into the brush in shame, met a meerkat, and one day will sing to an exile lion prince of his time as a young warthog. War is hell.
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Borscht posted:Not the s tank tho. It's perfect.  The S stands for "scoot" and it's capitalised because it's real good at it
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WHOOPSIES!!! https://twitter.com/MarkHertling/status/1648118059318534146?s=20
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Kraftwerk posted:Can that tank be fixed? *fires up the old buffing tool* I got this one boys
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The barrel being hosed up strikes me as probably catastrophic. Might be able to salvage it as a driver training vehicle. I am not a tank mechanic.
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Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:Western tanks can't even launch turrets good. NATO so weak. Beautiful
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Just Another Lurker posted:NZ should have changed to the black & white fern leaf. Just straight up changed the name too to the "All Blacks"
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pantslesswithwolves posted:While you nerds were watching the skies, the Ukrainians reportedly opened up a foothold in on the Dnipro. Def Mon is saying all this excitement is a misinterpretation of ISW's reports. https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1649152253742182419
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Jarmak posted:Contractors don't do a job cheaper than it can be done by organic capacity, that's never been the case nor has anyone who had any idea what they were talking about suggested that. 100% This is definitely how contract labour should be viewed. The contract labour system should allow you to augment your core team in periods of high demand And/or Access specialist expertise for short durations. If you are using contractors constantly, you need to review your core teams capabilities and consider adding to it.
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Vengarr posted:I read a fairly convincing book chapter that pointed out while German production numbers went up during the bombing campaign, quality fell off a cliff. Partially as a result of having to use makeshift solutions when needed parts couldn’t be sourced, partially due to reduced standards—factories made quotas by allowing substandard products that would otherwise have been rejected. Yeah the quality of German armour plummeted, and at the end of the war was way less effective than early war production. Ball bearing production was also disrupted several times. Overall quality of just about everything went downhill. This can be observed visually if you take an example of K98s produced throughout the war. Early examples had high quality of fit and finish, where by the end of the war they were a tragic jumble of parts that the only consideration was "does it work most of the time?" The civilian terror bombings like Dresden and Tokyo were ineffective and war crimes for sure, but there was an element of effectiveness to the targeting of Germany's industrial capabilities.
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Yes there's chemicals required in the hardening process that the Germans began to lack as the war progressed, so the armour became more brittle and less ductile. It resulted in more spalling and cracking.
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A contrast is one brought up earlier in the Imperial German Navy. Krupp's armour being produced at the time was excellent. At Jutland the British battlecruisers were literally blowing up while the German ones were absorbing insane amounts of damage and surviving. Part of this is due to different design philosophies and conceptions of the battlecruiser, but the German armour was definitely doing its job.
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meatbag posted:Any fair assessment of the battle of Jutland has the British sinking four battlecruisers and the Germans none. 
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CommieGIR posted:The British lost 3 battlecruisers and 3 armored cruisers though? And yeah one was self inflicted if I recall, but that's not zero. The British crossed the German's T TWICE. They had some technical and doctrinal issues with their fleet which resulted in more losses than they should have suffered, but they outmaneuvered the Germans despite clinging to antiquated communications techniques.
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Wait there's people who claim that the Germans didn't sink any British warships? Am I reading that right?
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Fearless posted:I'm wondering too if it also had to do with a loss of corporate knowledge and capability cause by the disarmament at the end of the Great War, and the subsequent suspension of capital ship construction fifteen years or so. German government and industry kept working in the interwar period, still building ships and creating clandestine departments specifically designed to retain institutional knowledge (The Truppenamt for example, the collaboration with the Soviets on tank experiments for another). It was definitely a lack of internal ability to support industry without imported materials that resulted in the decline in quality of produced materials once the war began, and the need for the imported materials ramped up in tandem with expanded production goals. quote:That, and Beatty's handling of the battlecruisers before and during the battle was frankly terrible and the main thing that prevented him from taking his well-earned portion of poo poo for what happened was the fact that he became the First Sea Lord as the report on Jutland was being completed and he suppressed the original version. For his part, Jellicoe handled the Grand Fleet with skill and his battleships acquitted themselves well-- they dished out a tremendous amount of punishment and were let down primarily by defective caps on their armour piercing rounds. But he got to take the blame for Jutland being what it was because the man most responsible literally ordered history to be rewritten. 100% For Ukraine content - I saw a vid today of a soldier being saved by a tourniquet after some close fighting with Russians. Any tips on legit frontline medical charities I can donate to?
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orange juche posted:https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/1662352338894323713 Almost entirely Western weapons and weapon systems shown in that video.
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Antigravitas posted:
I just did Berlin > Wroclaw > Krakow last week and 4 hours gets you to Wroclaw. Ukraine is a day's drive at least. Berlin to Lviv is almost 1000km.
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Subjunctive posted:I’m honestly a little impressed that it didn’t go off behind Russian lines. ... this time.
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Flikken posted:Normally a Toyota If we're getting into semantics, a Hilux
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BRB buying popcorn and beer
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Nessus posted:Don’t see Willo567s balls on that there map. I was at the beach all day, and I came back scrolling through 100 posts of Nuke chat with a target map and no one mentioning Willo's balls. Hell yeah, I think as I crack my posting knuckles. Then this post.
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The Russians have made sure to keep only the missile with Willo567's balls as its target operational, because in the fog of war, one operational missile is as good as a thousand.
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It's mostly agreed on that it was an Aussie with a Lewis Gun that killed the Red Baron, but he wouldn't have been able to take the shot if Roy Brown a Canadian pilot hadn't been pursuing him.
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My earliest memories are of Edmonton in the early 80s
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Kaal posted:The USA ranks 8/196 for cars per capita (0.908), and Russia ranks 67/196 with 0.395 (which is right around Mexico and much of Latin America). And those cars are not distributed evenly throughout the population. One of the frequent complaints by people who wanted to flee Russia but couldn't was that they didn't have access to a personal car. It's a big country - trains, buses, and planes do a lot of the interregional transportation. North Korea lol
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