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Xi is a fucking hillbilly that spent his days licking communist boots in a communist farm in the cultural revolution
would tanks even be useful in the pacific
Nothing is too stupid
yes?
i mean
you need gun to move from a to b safely
Depends where.
tank is the logical explanation
why do you think I want to go armor if I do end up going nat guard
drive abrams
Xi is trying to make a legacy for himself, “the one who unite China” does sound tempting
Do unspeakable things to military hardware.
NO DO NOT
Name your tank “Biggus Dickus”
Arrest me all you want. You can’t ever truly clean out that F-35’s “thrussy”.
You're getting death by firing squad
I will die a happy man
Marines?
damn wish they let us do it in the PLA
that's army
he's a Mainlander studying abroad so
Soon ™️
I'm mainly predicting he's gonna go home, end up hating it there and try his best to go back to the west
do my 2 years in the PLA and get tf out
hopefully i dont get yeeted by a ARAAM
or how ever tf you spell those
amraam
mb mb
Is that like a party requirement?
Nah its what my family wants
mandatory service 🥱
Ah
my parents both served
Not yet
Grandfather worked on Star Wars
Maybe I should join said party and shoot for big man
SDI that is.
like big man position
She got bricked up
The turksih diarrhea
Superior Korean Engineering

Give it to the Ukrainians and they will smother it in Kontact 1
Nah
smoother me in Kontakt 1, tie me to a Hrim-2 and fire me at Moscow
Is there any evidence they actually built any?
nah they dont build Tato missiles
HRIM-2? its in the prototype stages still
Watch the “new” Hrim-3 that looks suspiciously like an ATACMS.
I mean the obvious solution would just be
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what the problem this solution is for or who would be receiving such hardware, I will not say
Let them have the run of Davis-Monthan.
Anything they can get flying is theirs.
Relevant
Google drive
Iranians have done it.
the amount of integration work would make it difficult to do
Like launched from US planes
but yeah you can if you really wanted to
I think R-60s at least.

Easier to just supply them with NATO surplus.

But I mean hell if they got Sea-Sparrow to work on a Buk it’s definitely in the range of possibility.
pre-Mysterious Events ukraine was struggling to produce basic APCs that weren't obviously made out of pig iron and sadness
missiles are... going to be worse
owo
splendid

ow ow ow ow ow
You wouldn’t be able to use active radar homing systems across different platforms as those require datalinks that aren’t compatible.
Continuous Wave illumination and cuing IR sensors is easier.
their domestic GMLRS equivalent is seeing service alongside Neptune
in terms of HIRM we have no idea what's going on with it
I doubt they’re really pursuing it.
They have a limited budget as is and are worried about cost/benefit for long range weapons.
It’s why they’ve primarily used drones for strikes. They’re cheap so even if shot down it’s still a win.
A massive part of the Ukrainian strategy is tying up Russian AD.
plus yknow ballistic missiles require a level of quality control i would
not really bank on
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ballistic missiles sure i agree, non ballistic tho
But seriously, why were there never any missiles mounted on bombers as defensive armaments
there's plenty of Ukrainian missile systems of various types in service
what's better
more room for ordnance, fuel or EW equipment
i meant in the cw
or AIM-9s?
How many AIM-9s you tryna fit for the need of a Tu-4 or B-52
yeah you're not exactly going to be able to get a sidewinder shot off with a bomber
I was gonna say
Ukrainian produced missiles at least worked well enough to sink the Moskva
Pretty low standards for a 1980s Soviet junk
R-360 Neptune (Ukrainian: Р-360 «Нептун», romanized: R-360 "Neptun") is a Ukrainian subsonic anti-ship cruise missile with all-weather capabilities developed by the Luch Design Bureau.
Neptune's design is based on the Soviet Kh-35 subsonic anti-ship missile, with substantially improved range, targeting and electronics equipment. The system requi...
Slightly more advanced modernized Soviet junk vs modernized Soviet junk
slightly more advanced modernized soviet junk
remind me what a lot of Chinese military tech is based off again
Nah that’s chinese™️branded Soviet junk
What chassis does the Type 99 use again?
Soviet Junk with Chinese Characteristics
T-72?
i dunno how ukrainians arm industry is fucked enough to not be able to produce thin armor steel but can produce working AShMs
slavic magic i guess
Probably has issues that are industry-specific
or one zoomed in area is a poor example of a country sized topic
Aren’t a lot of their vehicles refits of soviet stocks?
Ukraine yes
control electronics, warheads, light weight propulsion, all that good missile stuff: 👍
a like 6mm sheet of hard metal: 👎
no this was a whole domestic fiasco
it turned out the export btrs they were selling were using finnish armor steel
the domestic ones were HUEGH
I’d also guess just like
corruption
would make sense if it’s localized to that type of hardware
probably just one fucked up plant then
but hey, least the missiles work, so good on 'em
Esp if it didn’t happen with export models

its probably down to not having access to certain industries
due to the war in Donbas alongside being cut off from suppliers in Russsisa
they're also cute little things
Slavic Stryker
Isn't the majority of Ukraine's metal industry in the east?
one of the major ones was in Donetsk
In both periods the lobber was in much danger from fire from supporting tanks or tank protection squads. Some use was made of tear gas grenades although so foul was the atmosphere inside Mk Vs with their ill designed ventilation systems that one wonders to what extent the crews were affected.

these hulls are early 2020
"ah, refreshing tear gas"
The ww1 Mk V?
'cry about it'
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there was this whole thing too
Ukraines arms industry has been struggling for a long time so not surprising especially post 2014
its been struggling since the 30s
kharkov has been a den of mystery and madness for a long time
i kind of assume the staff is one third peasants, one third kgb agents that have forgotten they're agents at all, and one half slavic mythological creatures
cue soulsborne boss theme
the pure amount of just
bizarre yet interesting designs we wouldn't have without them
if only they had a budget and the ability to actually get orders reliably
get inside the party wagon
see thats the thing, once CURRENT EVENTS end
kharkov rises from the ashes, with an enormous variety of weird foreign shit to play with
its probably gonna end up being a licensed producer of foreign systems
and the world is not prepared for what they can do with a challenger 2
both fortunately and unfortunately

Nothing will beat the Algerian homemade BMPT-62
What tf is that


Japan’s Ministry of Defense signed four contracts worth a total of $2.83 billion last week with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for its standoff defense capability project, according to a Tuesday statement. The standoff defense capability project is expected to provide the Japan Self Defense Forces (SDF) with long-range strike capabilities aga...

001 and the rusted thing before the PLA brough it
Tato you'll have to remind me
my uni library has a bunch of older editions of Jane's
will have to see if I can grab some pics from there
there's one article I am looking for
and I have no fucking idea where to find it
beyond this one piece of it
block III abrams
one can only dream

You guys are missing the most cursed Abrams ad
It is the forbidden image
M1A2UK )))
block 3 looks wackier
Help step-Admiral I’m stuck.
what are those turrets
Everything is off, don't worry.
It's about as much as a "replica" as an "inspiration".
also...want a Pepsi?
very large, it's a vending machine
Sadly, there's nothing but drawings of block III.
The images are of CATTB.
I almost forgot that I have this videos
This is back when 2019 when I visit U-434
@tough quail List of most 90s Soviet MBT projects
T-14?
Object 148
It was a Soviet era project?
Likely a marriage of Object 187 and 195
490A my beloved
477 is still in Kharkov
Man 195 is still my favorite tho
Scary looking big girl 
Russian Arena APS combat record and testing?
Heard a lot about it but rarely seen it work
477 looks super goofy
Drozd has shitton of videos but Arena is very rare yeah
Yeah
i know there's one test video on youtube
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the forbidden square
Drozd is combat tested and it work, only with the limited angle but outside of Trophy and that German APS stuff, I don’t see no Russian stuff
Russia said they will put Arena-M system in future T-90s and 80s
Hope M removed that gigantic box on turret heads
I want to see how T-14's APS works tho ngl
It looks alot like Object-195's
Isn’t that the box attached to the turret one? I don’t see any radar like Trophy system
Those black boxes are the radar
Yosh
Oh
Got turret like Trophy
I want to see them in action but I doubt they will become universal with the current situation
Surprise that Chinese haven’t make any copy system yet
I think only T-14 can carry this system. Other T series get Arena-M
They use russian made electronic or have imported components?
We can't know that sadly
China have this
GL-5 APS
Does feel like modern Drozd
Well shit, it will be harder to ambush their tank with RPG29 then
Weirdly APS isn't standard on any army yet. They are being seen like export focus or just some units
The one place in the back kinda look like it will blast the mg gunner as well as the incoming missile
Isn’t they start to become standard in the IDF?
Yeah they are first
Tfw you don't know About Merk IV Barak
IDF really love to keep their soldier alive
Do all Merkavas have APS now 
Their Merkava hull troop carrier thingy is getting APS soon yeah
Their idea is wacky but goddamn, it works
Overpriced but seems they willing to afford
APC got pen and infantry killed, use tank hull and tank grade armor instead, slap ERA and APS on for good measure
They do have limited manpower pool to draw from. It is cheaper to throw around shell and money than lives in their case.
Yeah it's replacing M113 
M113, bloody coffin
My uncle said that it is cool to travel in one but once combat started, he stay away from the APC
That thing attracts RPG like no tomorrow
Russia wanted a similar thing with T-15 IFV.
Armata hull, APS system, 4 Kornet and 30mm manless turret, extreme frontal angle for more protection
But yeah it's just too expensive
Estimated between 6-7 Million $
No US aid money for them 
Yeah money is overpowered
IDF already have a trend with making IFV from tank hull
It's a good use of money, IFV and MBT should share chassis
Israel has 500 M113 tho. Ain't they gonna buy 500 Namer
Where Abrams IFV 
Oh 
When Congress thinking about funding anything else than jet
Basically every MICV study ever has said IFVs should share the same chassis as MBT
a IFV built off of the Abrams
would be likely a nightmare to actually move around
I mean, it sounds nice to just make 1 chassis but reality of transportation and logistics will hit you hard in the face
Still gonna need Namer for Urban environment though
Eitan is really, really enormous.
Eitan is likely gonna be survivable enough for urban terrain
I wonder, what are their armor packages
standard hull is STANAG 4 apparently
in terms of tank hulls as IFVs
its something I don't really think its practical outside of Israel and other nations with threats directly on their borders
having another 60+ ton platform to move around for a expeditionary army isn't gonna be the most ideal for something that doesn't have to be 60+ tons
it is a v-hull APC
Yes, but it is still crazy huge.
(Not that it is that much bigger than a Boxer/AMV/Terrex)
As the famous image goes
Left to right: Boxer, Patria AMV, Abrams, LAV-25
Thats huge
Modern 8x8s are huge.
Mako IFV/tank when
circa 1865
that right epitath part is metal af
spits on the grave
tfu tfu
nah this man is obviously just incredibly small
Truly

"What if I take every claim and put it on a graphic"
"We'll even have carriers that didn't take part in the attack"
Thanks, internet
yes
inb4 it's the combined Mushy and Sushi
How else to prove Musashi was useful?
question:who hitted the most hits?
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Cold war relic
Looks at F planes except 22/35:
Super Hornet don't real?
Still from F-18
id delete this before mods see it
In name, sure.
A-10 is a relic of coldwar doctrine that is entirely irrelevant in modern peer combat scenarios
currently in service 4.5gen fighters meanwhile remain relevant and potent against peer opponents
But overall it was almost an entirely new design, even if a lot of what went into the F/A-18 was brought into the Super Hornet.
i will stand by that money not spent on stealth is a waste of money but these older airframes maintain capabilities while 5th gen airframes come online
super hornets are considerably larger than classic hornets
Spon
Would you rather have
100 F-22
Or
300 F-15
Oh, you asked Spoon, my EN moment
Do gunship like AC-130 perform better in ground support role than A-10?
whats the mission theyre intended to perform?
only if the enemy doesnt have SAMs/MANPADS
Hmm, just hypothetically but can Russian counter A-10 effectively?
You just need Igla
Literally
lets put it this way
in a Cold War Fulda rush scenario, American intelligence believed the entire A-10 fleet would last little more than a month or two
The 9K38 Igla (Russian: Игла́, "needle", NATO reporting name SA-18 Grouse) is a Russian/Soviet man-portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. A simplified, earlier version is known as the 9K310 Igla-1 (NATO: SA-16 Gimlet), and the latest variant is the 9K338 Igla-S (SA-24 Grinch).
The Igla-1 entered service in 1981, the Igla i...
Not to mention A-10 will also be in Tunguska/Strela/Pantsir etc range
i'd also note that A-10s have taken and survived Igla hits
You CAN survive yes. But is it %100 chance?
Or else Su-25 also survived stinger hits
depends on the location, distance and number of hits
Yup
Hmm, isn't the missile on Pantsir are proximity explosion, like a shotgun, should that be dangerous to the A-10?
Every anti air missile is proximity
Oh, that something new I learn today
Ww2 rememba
127mm proximity fuses are better than HE for a reason
No need of direct hits
Oh, I remember reading about SA-2 and how they down B-52, 17 years old me back then doesn't quite understand how, I just imagine the missile slam into the plane
Here is F-4 getting hit by S-75
See it's not a direct hit but
Fragments does all the damage
So in short, Pantsir is very capable of downing A-10?
Any air defense that can lock can
any AA system with a radar and a competent operator can
That's why A-10 and B-52 has largest losses in US air force for last decades irrc
Being slow kills you
And doesn't help when A-10 is also flying low
afaik there hasnt been a B-52 loss since Vietnam
Yeah only crashes
Well, A-10 really start to show it age then
This one 
It never aged because
It's niche
If enemy has no air defense then she works fine
But that's her niche
Yeah, maybe in counter-insurgency or against B.O.W.s
the A-10 was intended as an aircraft to be thrown at Russian armoured columns until there was either no more armour or no more A-10s
they were designed with considerable redundancy but this was only to reduce permanent losses and keep the fleet going as long as possible, as it was not intended to last long with its mission profile
Hmm, real cool calculation there
Also the weird assumption that 30mm of her will penetrate roofs of T-64s easily
The tungsten ammo can't?
realistically the gun was going to be most effective against BMPs and the like
A-10 carried plenty of guided munitions to deal with the tanks
They tested it again M47 patrons but
Those are pattons
According to Wiki AP of her pens 55mm from 1.220m
76mm at 300 m
Tho 300m is way damn close
So Hellfire for A-10 then, still seem scary enough for me
I am not, I am trying to understand why it still in service
Congress
Ah, congress
yeah it serves no purpose on the modern battlefield its just that maintaining it keeps a few congressmen elected
USN really get the concept done right in 1st try
it's being retired though
After repeatedly blocking the US Air Force's attempts to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II, Congress late last year approved a plan to decommission 21 of the venerable ground-attack aircraft, which is the only US military aircraft purpose-built for close air support.
tbf akagi was pretty solid
she had design flaws
but after her refit was a pretty reasonable aircraft
Why
What about Russian still using SU-25? Last I heard, that air frame suffer a lot of combat losses
Same reason of A-10 yes
Budget?
Hmm, Russian CAS doctrine still using that firing rocket in arc?
Cute ducks
dicks
I saw what you typed there Krem
Why does it auto to "dicks" Krem?
Who ever put U near I will be punished
It's best way to use dumb rockets
More range
the dumb rocket high arc tactics
Any specialized aiming sight for that?
aren't really all that effective beyond preserving airframes
Not sure if missile balistic computer does the calculations
I think they do
Known as CCIP
A Constantly Computed Impact Point (CCIP) is a calculation provided by a weapon's sighting system. It is a predicted point of impact found from the launch platform's movement, the target's movement, gravity, projectile launch velocity, projectile drag, and other factors that can be entered. It is usually displayed on the Head Up Display (HUD).
T...
I see
Wait, Iran can make their own Igla right?
I imagine they have to reverse engineer it quite sometime ago
Iran makes Chinese I think
Yeah
Misagh
Copy of Chinese QW-1M
...
Which is a copy of Igla
Wow
So they copied a copy
Remind me of a joke about Saddam "Lion of Babylon" tank, he copy a copy of a copy of Soviet T-72, replace all the armor, NBC system, electronic and even the spall liner inside the tank, he believe his copy is so good that the his elite republican guard armor unit were to use them.
friendly fires troops
British*
Since 2001, the A-10 has been involved in four friendly fire incidents that killed 10 U.S. troops. The next highest is the B-1B bomber, which killed five soldiers last year in one incident. Friendly fire deaths are exceptionally rare. There have been 45 total friendly fire incidents out of about 140,000 missions flown by the Air Force, Navy and Marines
The A-10 is the aircraft responsible for the most civilian deaths in Afghanistan since 2010, when data started to be collected. Thirty-five people have been killed compared with 19 killed by the Harrier jet, data show.
I've literally run the budget simulations
divesting the A-10 would free up dummy funds for the pentagon
Aw man I wanted more leaks
P class
Heinrich pat
castilla has 1300mm pen
btw
point blank napoli ap = 650, 650*2 with gimmick is 1.3k
i have no idea what that is im just here for p class goodness
Smh
"Handelszerstörer"
Current events ain't allowed to be spoken about and that touches on it alot
Also is this the reason you changed your pfp to default Turc? 
No.
kid named spaced armor:
1993
The Pentagon has an innovation adoption problem that’s part of a system that does not encourage new techniques, processes or technologies, former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said at a Wednesday rollout of a new report on defense innovation. James used the example of the fast fielding of the B-21 Raider bomber in December …
and then you just ask yourself, compared to whom, I know things like this drive clicks but
the military has always been very self critical, evident in a lot of ww2 papers where they are critical of themselves and demanding bettering despite there being no peer for the system being criticized
Montana?
...........
It's in the top right......
Also why are most of the 40mms undirected
hm, not bad
I need to draw the Dutch NY/Texas proposals
Welcome to Shipbucket
heh.
poor nurnberg
That's not Nurnberg, and also not right if you are referring to the collision
you mean that isn't tirpitz and a barge in a fjord
wasn't that eugen after the crash

It's Eugen after her butt ate a British torpedo on her way to Trondheim.
ah
i thought it was from the collision, although I should've probably noticed that was the stern
The bow collision with Shitzig was less severe.
buffed out, I guess
Shitzig got smacked aside, was written off before the crash, and tried to drag Eugen down to her level
It’s something the pentagon’s genuinely concerned about
There’s a decent lag time between a technology being developed and it being acquired and fielded
its clickbait doe
it is and regal didn't disprove that, the military is critical of getting better, and always has been, even when it's a system that's a +1 to a former one already without peer, it's a click me headline with nothing particular behind it
I looked at this, looked at the image, went "oh my"
then asked "wheres Nürnberg" 
The Porter Class rebuilds always looked a little weird to me.
interesting looking for me, quad bofor over the forward twin 5'' is pretty cool looking
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Ah yes
Now they have to choose between a light carrier and a arsenal ship for budget
yeah the article title is clickbait
but accelerating the adoption of new tech and reforming the process by which it's acquired is something they've been looking into
particularly through reforms to the ppbe process
that's something a group of my classmates have been studying as a project for the PPBE commission
Toyota F-35 production methods
Depends on the arsenal ship they go with
Tho it should be far cheaper than the carrier
Weird F-35
I said that in response to the just in time manufacturing F-35 article, pictures are unrelated
question: during the molotov-ribbon pact,did The ussr supply Nazi germany with oil?
Romania and USSR was the main oil source of Germany
Not sure if USSR one was related to Pact however
Main reason Allies pulled this
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Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania on 1 August 1943, during World War II. It was a strategic bombing mission and part of the "oil campaign" to deny petroleum-based fuel to the Axis powers. The mission resulted in "no curtail...
oh i remember that operation
I've forgotten about it since noone really brings it up
yep, it was a well know disaster
Soviets invading Romania what stopped this oil reaching to Germany later
this fascist country alone can fight any global power if they had oil
heck they even had the guts to challenge Churchill to a Atlantic battle and a war over the skies
No they can't
Nazi germany brought its own destruction upon itself through its own delusions, incompetence and failure to manage conflict escalation
Magically giving it oil isn’t gonna change the fact it decided to pick a fight against the entire globe
Dis
There wasn’t even a tenth that number over the target.
Targeting oil
Even if they have oil, they don't have the manpower
Ok seems i made a mistake there yeah
This also includes Norway and Germany

Oil isn’t gonna make up for lacking nature of German manufacturing, manpower and the fact it decided to go to war with the entire rest of the globe
Manpower or sheer industrial capacity
Also
Uh
Not starving
Which is not easy for continental Europe when isolated from the rest of the world
Ye nobody speaks of how reliant Germany was for food
Brit gonna throw Anthrax bomb had the war gone for few more yrs just to kill German meat source
Their substitute food is stuff of nightmare, for someone who enjoy eating that is
A little known fact is that despite Germany's material aid to Italy in terms of raw material, they were always in a significant trade imbalance with Italy during WWII just due to the sheer amount of foodstuff they were importing from the Italians
Kein Problem
Damn, Northern Italy is their bread basket?
so
-food
-manpower
-raw mats
were lacking than oil?
It was a significant source of food for them, at the very least. IDK how much it could be called a breadbasket, since the Germans were also grabbing food from all over Europe (France was a major source of food for the third reich, for example).
Test on some island, too effective so they have to quarantine the surrounding islands as well
Lebensraum's main focus was getting land to make food
good fucking thing im in this group
Not so much 'more', but, all of them were major factors
Better not even come close to those island, you can be sure with Anthrax
The Axis declared war on three of the largest industrial powers on the planet
im getting a fuckin 100 on mah test bruvs
They were kind of screwed from the beginning
such as maybe other miscellaneous mats?
Still a no for me, Anthrax is one of few thing that scare the shit out of me
In 1938 the three Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) accounted for 20% of the world's manufacturing production. The US, UK, and USSR combined were 55.5% of the world's manufacturing production (60% if you include France).
760k German starved to death in 1918 since the Allied blocade of Germany. And Germany lost %13 of its land after ww1
So they wanted to become self sufficient more
They lost the Rhineland and all of those war rep hit Germany economy hard
hehehe the treaty
ima save up 1mil reichmarks for som chocolate
Annexing Czech help the German production somewhat but only after Speer taking control that you saw German industry became more efficient enough, that and million of slave labour
German government when you intentionally cause hyperinflation but everyone blames the Entente for it 60 years in the future: 
LOL wat
The Weimar Republic was responsible for the hyperinflation in Germany after WWI, not the British or French
Some fucking genius think printing more money will help them pay war rep faster, fucking dumbwitt
whos the idiot who invented that idea?
Tbh, Speer wasn't really that special, he was just really good at making himself look better. German production in 1943 and on benefitted heavily from decisions made in 1941 to expand production capacity and invest in procuring more machine tools.
I mean a dollar can probably pay up your taxes in circa 1928
That and looting the rest of Europe gave Germany its second wind in the mid-late war
he falsified a lot of his reports for wartime productions too so that Hitler only saw imaginary extreme growth
dont forget the fat jones goring and prinz henrich himmler
that and what progresses he made were mostly made by pressganging a shitton of slave labor
Yerp
is history for u guys fun to learn or just boring for nerds?
i hate those fucks for saying its for nerds
This history you speak of isn't only for ww2 right
I used to want to be an archivist, work in my country national archive
The whole 'print money to buy foreign currency' thing definitely did a lot of damage, but the real boost was the large campaign of passive resistance the German government sponsered in the Ruhr. The Allies occupied it to obtain reparations payments via hard industrial goods, and the German government told the workers to effectively go on strike and paid them to do it... by printing tons of paper marks, and this is why the situation gets so horrifically bad in 1923.
Helpful graph;
It was entirely self-inflicted.
Yeah, they fuck themselves, hard to feel sorry for that
and they got a very generous renegotiation out of it
Yep
I guess, the Entete really don't want Communist take over or revolution to break out again so they will be lenient toward Weimar
Even the part of war rep by product is very generous imo
That you can blame American for
excuse me?
So Amax uhh. What's your opinion on Axis Germany
That's an awfully specific number 
88? What with it?
its...a bit of an infamous number, especially among Nazis and Neo-Nazis
mrw thought it was 88mm flak
I am not really into Neo-nazis lore
H is the eighth word in alphabet, so 88 is sometimes replacement for HH, Heil Hitler
8th letter of the alphabet. Put twice it's representitive of a catchphrase used by a certain political party in Germany.
Nah it's from 14/88 usually
German have 15cm Flak? I see it on some wiki about experimental weapon not so sure about the authenticity of it
yeah they had a few, exceedingly rare specimens
the 128mm kanone 44 is already pretty rare
yeah i was about to ask if anyone was gonna point that out
that message +
all the ones before
dont give me a great opinion of this guy
France paid back 5 billion francs of war reps in a single year and lost Alsace Lorraine
Yet came out of it better, starting the belle époque
Belgium didn’t get any sort of war rep after ww1 and was practically bombed to the ground from liège to the coast
In the end they came out of it being a world class industrialised nation
Germany came out of WW1 intact, didn’t pay shit of its war rep
Cried and malded
So just German being crybaby, noted
Their people being misinformed mostly
The politicians are to blame as well as some major economists of the day
cough fucking keynes cough
My point is
The war rep wouldn’t have put a dent in Germany’s ability to care for its citizens if handled properly
But people decided to be stupid instead
Would like to point out
Romania made a fuck ton of oil, and willingly swapped sides because Germany was just in over their head
Iirc the estimate was that with Romania switching to the allies they shortened the war by ~6 months
Romania also only really got invaded in September Ish of 44, treaty got done in august, and then Soviets were Soviets so of course there was some delay in Romania actually changing sides and merging with the 2nd Ukrainian Front
From 43-44 they were just being pushed out of current Ukrainian and the caucuses

Why I remember Third
So like treaty with Soviets was an armistice
But the Soviet take over Division wasn’t done
So soviet commanders were just taking surrendering Romanians as PoWs even tho they weren’t at war anymore
And well there’s probably only a handful of things worse then being a Soviet PoW

Some Soviet commanders did know how to read and understood Romanias position and let a few of their divisions join them right of the bat
Which let them pushed into umm Slovakia as fast as they did
And then Hungry
But yeah Germans main eastern front allies weren’t really industrialized which certainly didn’t help them at all, and they didn’t really like each other either
New SD2 DLC explained that for me quite clearly
Like Hungry only was able to make tanks because they kept the automotive industry that the Austrian-Hungarian empire had, but Romania for the most part was incredibly rural “backwater”
Why I remember a US president that loved soup
Shout out the Tacams, literally just stolen T-70s with a bigger gun on them being Romanias Main tank/anti tank thing
Romania did have manpower tho
Ah Millard Fillmore
Hit 1 million troops twice, once in 39 when they lost Bessarabia, and then in 44 when they just drafted every mother fucker
But yeah @quick shard hope you learn stuff here, but keep in mind if people are weird with Germany in here you kinda get put on a watch list. Don’t be afraid to ask questions or for suggestive reading materials, good portion of the guys here are really helpful and well read while not being terminally online
suggestive reading materials 😳

50 shades of warship grey, you wanna read it?
Suggestive you say
Then I should ask
How often did ships of Roman/Chinese Emperors had harem room inside

Shame what happened to Nemi ships tho
Art is likely bigger than what it was but still
They continued to explore the concept later with the “Sea Apache” concept
Take an Apache, take off its gun, put in an F/A-18 radar, and add more fuel.
Bruh just use Cobra
If only people would talk about the hanseatic league or the period of the hre’s german states
But noooo
1918-1945
Cobra can’t mount AIM-120.
It was meant to be used on Destroyers/Cruisers/Helicopter Carriers.
Yes, but this was meant for over-the horizon strike/air defense.
Ah
prussia/kaiserboos are annoying too
the kaisers strongest general vs some random civil engineer from a rural backwater
back in the day they did
"umm actually ww1 both sides bad"
not these days
"rape of belgium? bro thats just british propaganda"
the classic wehrb is a dead concept
yeah it's more extreme now
Wehrabooism is a gateway to neo-Nazi sympathies.
they dont exist anymore outside little nooks and crannies of the internet
theyve all been bullied into shutting up, changed their opinions, or became fascists
Facts
but in any case yeah kaiserboos are annoying as fuck
though at least they have actual aces to stan for
“B-but muh Stuka killed 10 billion soviet tanks.”
the kaisers strongest fighter ace vs some random australian infantryman
The entire imperial German army vs some belgians with their king behind a small river
kaiserboos on their way to say jutland was a german victory (their entire family is starving)
When you fail to obtain sea control.
Jutland was kind of embarassing tho
Jutland for all intents and purposes in isolation was a german victory
bongs are also very annoying when discussing ww1
in a larger context it just couldn't achieve the shift in power germany needed
bongs are also very annoying when discussing ww1
true
but i can find common cause with the bongs everywhere but 1914-18 and 1941-45
and a few other spots
bong?
cough cough 1976 cough cough
Britbongs
Which means it was a defeat. The Germans couldn’t capitalize on their tactical victory, forcing the British blockade to withdraw.
They didn’t deny British Sea Control, much less obtain it for themselves.
I just learn that Fischer advocate against war on land and opted to cut off German Iron ore trade by tricking German into invade Denmark which in turn allow RN free reign in Denmark strait. Apparently he was too autistic to share that plan with anyone else in the cabinet so they more in favor of war on land
was quite sad when QE died
not because i liked her god no but because its a shame she didn't die sooner
Yeah Kaiserboos act morally superior
not sure how the RN having access to the denmark strait would have helped anyone
given the straits are too shallow for any capital ships to sail through
while the germans have free access to move capital ships around using the kiel canal
Teaboos are some of the worst because they will advocate that some sort of British Empire continuation should’ve happened even though many of their colonies wanted out from under their boot.
pretty sure she only lived that long to outlive her husband
You forget his Baltic project "light large cuiser"
yes the large light cruisers that couldnt fight against another capital ship
I’m here just 
was a silly idea no matter how you look at it
but why would you even go there
they also completed really late in the war
Not saying that it was a good design but imo, Fischer have a better idea on how to blockade and prevent Germany from obtain strategic resource than fighting a meat grinder on the Western front
but the blockade itself was already working
Did it stop the Iron ore trade?
Sweden will never be forgiven
and by the time the British have the ships that can get through the denmark strait, not only will they immediately be forced to retreat the moment the high seas fleets battlecruisers sail out (making them very ineffective blockade enforcers) the war is basically lost for the Germans anyway
Yes, hate the Swede
if you want to enforce a blockade you need a force capable of overwhelming the enemy naval force
the courageous class, all 2 of them that completed as designed, could not achieve this
yes they can certainly outrun the german battlecruisers but that hardly helps them to enforce the blockade
Eh, you're right about the ship but does Fischer plan have merit?
no, because you need the ships to enforce the plan
Fisher agreed with France in that Gallipoli should’ve been a land campaign 
the plan doesnt work without the ships, dragging denmark into the war does nothing but drag a few thousand men away from the eastern front
and look how well that turned out
No
The Dardanelles was ruined because the scouts were sent way too early
Turks had time to bolster defence of the strait
Isn't that one on Churchill? Fischer have to agree with him and provide only technical assistance
No.
the dardanelles was ruined because they attempted to force the straits without any prior planning
Churchill wanted naval campaign followed by amphibious landing
Corbett, Fisher and France wanted a land campaign
And somehow thinking parking Dreadnought under Istanbul will make the Turk go to their side
Which would have started on the Western bank
the 1914 bombardment of the dardanelles was not intended to precede an amphibious landing
the idea behind it, which was supported by the French was that the battle fleet would sail up the dardanelles, park in the Bosporus and tell the turks where to shove it
an actual landing was never considered until after that plan failed
richie i know you're french, but you really must do this in private spaces
put your pants back on
Well you're not because the French lost 2 battleships on the 18th of March and there was absolutely no preparations made for the landing
Qwerty dirty mind, ew
It was Churchill’s idea to send a fleet of obsolescent ships into a narrow mine filled channel instead of using it to fire support in the Belgian coast and Baltic
France always was for the idea of going for a land war against the Ottomans
and there also was only a single line of mines
Also wdym 2 french battleships were lost on march 18

Only Bouvet
The other two were HMS Irresistable and HMS Ocean
wait i thought ocean was french my b
more high middle ages bitte
And yes these ships predate QE by 20 odd years
like that time the Teutonic order turned crusades into an outdoor experience tour for nobles because they needed money but religious crusades aren't popular anymore
all you need is to pay the fee, then you can travel to the baltics, join up with the Order, and even burn a Pagan village or two
you'll get to be called a Crusader AND maybe an honor from the Order depending on how many you christianized/burn to death
realistically any landing at the dardanelles strait was foolish
this particular activity is pretty popular among French and English nobles throughout the Hundred Year War
The French Minister of Justice, Aristide Briand, proposed in November to attack the Ottoman Empire but this was rejected and an attempt by the British to bribe the Ottomans to join the Allied side also failed.

even if it had been properly organised and planned, it would have met the same stubborn resistance and would not have proceeded much further up the peninsular
thats gay but thats okay
they werent majorly unprepared though
Constantinople had a considerable garrison that could easily be deployed to the peninsular
Kemal had taken command of the 19th division which was in the area in January 1915
realistically no well planned landing is taking place before June
speaking of ottomans
BF1 somehow thinks a british defeat in the sinai would've seen the ottomans turn away from the central powers?
even if we can assume that planning for a landing starts as soon as the Ottomans enter the war in November 1914, its going to take minimum 6-9 months to prepare and train a proper landing
It was a risky operation even without the accidental reveal by sending in a fleet prematurely
i seriously doubt there was any scenario in which the Gallipoli campaign can be brought to a successful conclusion even if you give the entente every benefit of the doubt
the terrain is simply not conducive to any successful operations
A land campaign in the period where the ottomans weren’t too sure who to join would’ve been a pretty safe option compared to what it turned into

Send me to the Western front
I want to bomb them from the Belgian coast
strap me to a shell and fire me at the germans, I am ready
the Turks have the high ground on the beaches, they have the high ground once the troops scale those heights they have the high ground, once you get through that high ground, guess what, theres more high ground
through the snow
Richie the area you lived was flat.
that would have been difficult to convince the political leadership of
Mathematically that counts
other than churchill but churchill would do anything to shoot some brown people
Well yes that was my initial point
Smarties in lower positions got ignored
and that's why they sent australians, because the high ground to the australians is the low ground
By picklebrains

and even so a landing before november gives you what, 2-3 months from the opening of hostilities with the germans and the ottomans historically declaring war
yes
Where 2 of you were sent to Gallipoli?
oh boy i love dying on a pointless front of a more pointless war for a foreign king and a foreign flag
Cope
68'000 Australians died in WW1, the AIF suffered more casualties as a total percentage of its force than any other country
and for what?
cool uniforms
what about the serbs?
iirc, a pretty large % of them also died
Like I get it
Thank you for your sacrifice
But man
It was ultimately worth
was it?

I’d rather go back to my family than be remembered by them tbh
i sincerely do not believe that Australias sacrifice in WW1 was in any way shape or form worth it
half a generation wiped out
and for what
what did we gain but a few holes in the ground?
Churchills fragile ego
rise of japanese nationalism ig
ww1 radicalized many colony into Independent
Doomposting moment
"Marching those colonial troops off to kill ze germans" is always worth it
yes, we know richie
you dont like germany
Richie will be fine with nuking Germany, right Richie?
ww1 was an inevitable, but fucking pointless war
Agreed
all the accolades and battle honours wont bring back the dead
Oh yeah, French too close to Germany, Radiation and stuff
it's the natural culmination of a bunch of old imperial colonial powers with chronic diarrhea trying to wrestle each other and shitting all over the rest of the world
what right did the British have to send the sons of Australia to die
the only good thing that came out of it is a fucking amazing battlefield game
so that a king on the other side of the world can sit on a slightly bigger throne?
Apparently making colony out of the barren continent is enough in their mind
Hit, if you could make one DLC to bf1, which would it be?
He’s doomposting
wonder if they'd throw me into the pacific if I do end up becoming a national guard tanker

















