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shrewd pecan
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thonk wonder if they'd throw me into the pacific if I do end up becoming a national guard tanker

shut wren
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im not tryna die

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i just wanna pull my 2 years

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and get out

frigid karma
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Xi is a fucking hillbilly that spent his days licking communist boots in a communist farm in the cultural revolution

thorn trail
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would tanks even be useful in the pacific

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Nothing is too stupid

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i mean

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you need gun to move from a to b safely

runic prairie
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tank is the logical explanation

shrewd pecan
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why do you think I want to go armor if I do end up going nat guard

autumn sorrel
runic prairie
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autumn sorrel
runic prairie
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runic prairie
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shrewd pecan
runic prairie
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Marines?

shut wren
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damn wish they let us do it in the PLA

shrewd pecan
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that's army

frigid karma
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sure

shrewd pecan
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he's a Mainlander studying abroad so

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shrewd pecan
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I'm mainly predicting he's gonna go home, end up hating it there and try his best to go back to the west

shut wren
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do my 2 years in the PLA and get tf out

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hopefully i dont get yeeted by a ARAAM

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or how ever tf you spell those

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amraam

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mb mb

runic prairie
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mandatory service 🥱

runic prairie
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Ah

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my parents both served

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shrewd pecan
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man

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Altay looking hot

runic prairie
shut wren
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Maybe I should join said party and shoot for big man

runic prairie
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SDI that is.

shut wren
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like big man position

shrewd pecan
runic prairie
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She got bricked up

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shrewd pecan
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its a K2 descendent so I must love it

runic prairie
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Superior Korean Engineering

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shrewd pecan
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I just want

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a K2 turret with DU armor on a abrams hull

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and I will be happy

runic prairie
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Give it to the Ukrainians and they will smother it in Kontact 1

shut wren
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Photoshit exists

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Do it yourself

runic prairie
shrewd pecan
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smoother me in Kontakt 1, tie me to a Hrim-2 and fire me at Moscow

runic prairie
shut wren
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nah they dont build Tato missiles

shrewd pecan
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HRIM-2? its in the prototype stages still

runic prairie
shrewd pecan
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I mean the obvious solution would just be

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The AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER (Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response) is an advanced stand off precision-guided, air-launched cruise missile produced by Boeing Defense, Space & Security for the United States Armed Forces and their allies. Developed from the AGM-84E SLAM (Standoff Land Attack Missile, itself developed by Boeing Integrated Defens...

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on

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what the problem this solution is for or who would be receiving such hardware, I will not say

runic prairie
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Let them have the run of Davis-Monthan.

Anything they can get flying is theirs.

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Relevant

shrewd pecan
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my F-4 manual is over 500 MBs

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this is unfortunate

shut wren
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Google drive

shrewd pecan
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This sound s really stupid but

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Can Russian AAM be used on US planes

runic prairie
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Iranians have done it.

shrewd pecan
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the amount of integration work would make it difficult to do

shut wren
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Like launched from US planes

shrewd pecan
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but yeah you can if you really wanted to

runic prairie
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I think R-60s at least.

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runic prairie
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Easier to just supply them with NATO surplus.

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runic prairie
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But I mean hell if they got Sea-Sparrow to work on a Buk it’s definitely in the range of possibility.

tough quail
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i would not really be very optimistic about uh

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domestic ukrainian missiles

spring briar
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Hronse

tough quail
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pre-Mysterious Events ukraine was struggling to produce basic APCs that weren't obviously made out of pig iron and sadness

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missiles are... going to be worse

tough quail
spring briar
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Chilled nose Parrott

tough quail
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splendid

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tough quail
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ow ow ow ow ow

runic prairie
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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.

shrewd pecan
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in terms of HIRM we have no idea what's going on with it

runic prairie
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I doubt they’re really pursuing it.

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They have a limited budget as is and are worried about cost/benefit for long range weapons.

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It’s why they’ve primarily used drones for strikes. They’re cheap so even if shot down it’s still a win.

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A massive part of the Ukrainian strategy is tying up Russian AD.

tough quail
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plus yknow ballistic missiles require a level of quality control i would

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not really bank on

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But seriously, why were there never any missiles mounted on bombers as defensive armaments

shrewd pecan
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there's plenty of Ukrainian missile systems of various types in service

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a Tu-4 surely has the room, no?

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or a b52

shrewd pecan
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what's better

shut wren
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We don’t use those old shits

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The Tu-4

shrewd pecan
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more room for ordnance, fuel or EW equipment

frigid karma
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i meant in the cw

shrewd pecan
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or AIM-9s?

shut wren
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How many AIM-9s you tryna fit for the need of a Tu-4 or B-52

tough quail
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yeah you're not exactly going to be able to get a sidewinder shot off with a bomber

shut wren
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I still like how y’all nicknamed it the BUFF

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Big ugly fat fucker

shrewd pecan
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you'd need a AIM-9X or a AIM-132

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to really manage the rear facing shots

strong plank
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Ukrainian produced missiles at least worked well enough to sink the Moskva

shut wren
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Pretty low standards for a 1980s Soviet junk

strong plank
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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...

shut wren
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Slightly more advanced modernized Soviet junk vs modernized Soviet junk

strong plank
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slightly more advanced modernized soviet junk

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remind me what a lot of Chinese military tech is based off again

shut wren
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Nah that’s chinese™️branded Soviet junk

strong plank
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What chassis does the Type 99 use again?

runic prairie
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Soviet Junk with Chinese Characteristics

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T-72?

tough quail
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i dunno how ukrainians arm industry is fucked enough to not be able to produce thin armor steel but can produce working AShMs

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slavic magic i guess

strong plank
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Probably has issues that are industry-specific

maiden citrus
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or one zoomed in area is a poor example of a country sized topic

strong plank
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Aren’t a lot of their vehicles refits of soviet stocks?

shut wren
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Ukraine yes

tough quail
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control electronics, warheads, light weight propulsion, all that good missile stuff: 👍

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a like 6mm sheet of hard metal: 👎

tough quail
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it turned out the export btrs they were selling were using finnish armor steel

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the domestic ones were HUEGH

strong plank
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I’d also guess just like

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corruption

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would make sense if it’s localized to that type of hardware

tough quail
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probably just one fucked up plant then

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but hey, least the missiles work, so good on 'em

strong plank
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shrewd pecan
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its probably down to not having access to certain industries

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due to the war in Donbas alongside being cut off from suppliers in Russsisa

tough quail
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they're also cute little things

strong plank
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Slavic Stryker

maiden citrus
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even has minecraft paint

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on the tires

tough quail
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well, other way around

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american btrs

thorn trail
shrewd pecan
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one of the major ones was in Donetsk

strong plank
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Wasn’t this pre-2014?

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The scandal I mean

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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.

tough quail
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these hulls are early 2020

frigid karma
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"ah, refreshing tear gas"

shut wren
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The ww1 Mk V?

maiden citrus
tough quail
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   At the same time, in order to fulfill the aforementioned contract, the officials of SE" KB "AO", realizing the lack of technical feasibility of manufacturing barrels, entered into an agreement with SE "KBTZ" dated 22.09.2015 No. 057/247 for the purchase of barrels and artillery systems that were made during the Soviet era."```
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there was this whole thing too

shrewd pecan
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Ukraines arms industry has been struggling for a long time so not surprising especially post 2014

tough quail
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its been struggling since the 30s

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kharkov has been a den of mystery and madness for a long time

shrewd pecan
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I wouldn't have it any other way

tough quail
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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

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cue soulsborne boss theme

shrewd pecan
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the pure amount of just

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bizarre yet interesting designs we wouldn't have without them

tough quail
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kharkov is the full glorious might of state funded technicals

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its incredible

shrewd pecan
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if only they had a budget and the ability to actually get orders reliably

tough quail
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get inside the party wagon

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see thats the thing, once CURRENT EVENTS end

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kharkov rises from the ashes, with an enormous variety of weird foreign shit to play with

shrewd pecan
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its probably gonna end up being a licensed producer of foreign systems

tough quail
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and the world is not prepared for what they can do with a challenger 2

shrewd pecan
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both fortunately and unfortunately

shut wren
cinder escarp
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What tf is that

tough quail
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oh my fucking lord

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i forgot

shut wren
frigid karma
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run

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subtle prawn
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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...

shrewd pecan
shut wren
shrewd pecan
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planes n stuff

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last one is a F-16?

subtle prawn
shrewd pecan
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Oddly the AMX-30 ad is in German

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strong plank
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Tato you'll have to remind me

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my uni library has a bunch of older editions of Jane's

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will have to see if I can grab some pics from there

shrewd pecan
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there's one article I am looking for

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and I have no fucking idea where to find it

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beyond this one piece of it

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block III abrams

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one can only dream

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strong plank
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do you know the year?

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can give it a look tomorrow

cinder escarp
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You guys are missing the most cursed Abrams ad

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It is the forbidden image

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M1A2UK )))

frigid karma
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block 3 looks wackier

subtle prawn
runic prairie
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Help step-Admiral I’m stuck.

strong plank
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what are those turrets

eternal veldt
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Everything is off, don't worry.

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It's about as much as a "replica" as an "inspiration".

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also...want a Pepsi?

shut wren
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I though that was a pepsi canskullcrying

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how big is this

maiden citrus
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very large, it's a vending machine

shut wren
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yea ik

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very big ok

cinder escarp
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The images are of CATTB.

autumn sorrel
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This is back when 2019 when I visit U-434

manic latch
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@tough quail List of most 90s Soviet MBT projects

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Object 148

autumn sorrel
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It was a Soviet era project?

manic latch
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Likely a marriage of Object 187 and 195

tough quail
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490A my beloved

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Scary looking big girl Prayge

autumn sorrel
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Russian Arena APS combat record and testing?

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Heard a lot about it but rarely seen it work

tough quail
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477 looks super goofy

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tough quail
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i know there's one test video on youtube

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the forbidden square

autumn sorrel
manic latch
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I want to see how T-14's APS works tho ngl

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It looks alot like Object-195's

autumn sorrel
tough quail
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arena m doesn't have the goofy box, no

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autumn sorrel
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Oh

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autumn sorrel
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I want to see them in action but I doubt they will become universal with the current situation

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Surprise that Chinese haven’t make any copy system yet

manic latch
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I think only T-14 can carry this system. Other T series get Arena-M

autumn sorrel
manic latch
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We can't know that sadly

manic latch
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GL-5 APS

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Does feel like modern Drozd

autumn sorrel
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Well shit, it will be harder to ambush their tank with RPG29 then

manic latch
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Weirdly APS isn't standard on any army yet. They are being seen like export focus or just some units

autumn sorrel
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The one place in the back kinda look like it will blast the mg gunner as well as the incoming missile

autumn sorrel
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Yeah they are first

cinder escarp
autumn sorrel
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IDF really love to keep their soldier alive

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autumn sorrel
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Apparently all MKIV

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And majority of their APC fleet

manic latch
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Their Merkava hull troop carrier thingy is getting APS soon yeah

autumn sorrel
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Their idea is wacky but goddamn, it works

manic latch
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Overpriced but seems they willing to afford

autumn sorrel
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APC got pen and infantry killed, use tank hull and tank grade armor instead, slap ERA and APS on for good measure

autumn sorrel
manic latch
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Yeah it's replacing M113 kek

autumn sorrel
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M113, bloody coffin

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My uncle said that it is cool to travel in one but once combat started, he stay away from the APC

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That thing attracts RPG like no tomorrow

manic latch
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But yeah it's just too expensive

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Estimated between 6-7 Million $

autumn sorrel
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Yeah money is overpowered

cinder escarp
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Nah, the Namer is far too expensive to replace M113

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Eitan is to do that

autumn sorrel
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IDF already have a trend with making IFV from tank hull

cinder escarp
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It's a good use of money, IFV and MBT should share chassis

manic latch
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Israel has 500 M113 tho. Ain't they gonna buy 500 Namer

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autumn sorrel
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American terminator

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Ish

cinder escarp
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Basically every MICV study ever has said IFVs should share the same chassis as MBT

shrewd pecan
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a IFV built off of the Abrams

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would be likely a nightmare to actually move around

cinder escarp
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And this is why every army rejects their own studies

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Anyhow, this is Eitan

autumn sorrel
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I mean, it sounds nice to just make 1 chassis but reality of transportation and logistics will hit you hard in the face

autumn sorrel
cinder escarp
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Eitan is really, really enormous.

shrewd pecan
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Eitan is likely gonna be survivable enough for urban terrain

autumn sorrel
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I wonder, what are their armor packages

shrewd pecan
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standard hull is STANAG 4 apparently

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in terms of tank hulls as IFVs

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its something I don't really think its practical outside of Israel and other nations with threats directly on their borders

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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

cinder escarp
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It's hard to understate how big it is

shrewd pecan
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it is a v-hull APC

cinder escarp
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Yes, but it is still crazy huge.

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(Not that it is that much bigger than a Boxer/AMV/Terrex)

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As the famous image goes

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Left to right: Boxer, Patria AMV, Abrams, LAV-25

silent spruce
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Thats huge

cinder escarp
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Modern 8x8s are huge.

autumn sorrel
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Mako IFV/tank when

frigid karma
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circa 1865

maiden citrus
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that right epitath part is metal af

quick shard
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ivory ridge
dusty kraken
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nah this man is obviously just incredibly small

ivory ridge
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Truly

somber knoll
chilly osprey
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"What if I take every claim and put it on a graphic"

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"We'll even have carriers that didn't take part in the attack"

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Thanks, internet

somber knoll
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yes

somber knoll
ivory ridge
solid mango
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Interpid

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The fact that its not a simple typo YorkBruh

eternal veldt
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How else to prove Musashi was useful?

quick shard
subtle prawn
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strong plank
manic latch
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Cold war relic

Looks at F planes except 22/35:

shrewd pecan
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you ever just

chilly osprey
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desert agate
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id delete this before mods see it

chilly osprey
desert agate
chilly osprey
# chilly osprey In name, sure.

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.

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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

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super hornets are considerably larger than classic hornets

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autumn sorrel
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Oh, you asked Spoon, my EN moment

autumn sorrel
desert agate
desert agate
autumn sorrel
manic latch
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Literally

desert agate
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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

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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...

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Not to mention A-10 will also be in Tunguska/Strela/Pantsir etc range

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i'd also note that A-10s have taken and survived Igla hits

manic latch
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Or else Su-25 also survived stinger hits

desert agate
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depends on the location, distance and number of hits

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Yup

autumn sorrel
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Hmm, isn't the missile on Pantsir are proximity explosion, like a shotgun, should that be dangerous to the A-10?

manic latch
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Every anti air missile is proximity

autumn sorrel
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Oh, that something new I learn today

manic latch
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Ww2 rememba

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127mm proximity fuses are better than HE for a reason

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No need of direct hits

autumn sorrel
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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

manic latch
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See it's not a direct hit but

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Fragments does all the damage

autumn sorrel
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So in short, Pantsir is very capable of downing A-10?

manic latch
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Any air defense that can lock can

desert agate
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any AA system with a radar and a competent operator can

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That's why A-10 and B-52 has largest losses in US air force for last decades irrc

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Being slow kills you

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And doesn't help when A-10 is also flying low

desert agate
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afaik there hasnt been a B-52 loss since Vietnam

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Yeah only crashes

autumn sorrel
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Well, A-10 really start to show it age then

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This one trolldespair

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It's niche

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If enemy has no air defense then she works fine

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But that's her niche

autumn sorrel
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Yeah, maybe in counter-insurgency or against B.O.W.s

desert agate
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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

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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

autumn sorrel
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Hmm, real cool calculation there

manic latch
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Also the weird assumption that 30mm of her will penetrate roofs of T-64s easily

autumn sorrel
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The tungsten ammo can't?

desert agate
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realistically the gun was going to be most effective against BMPs and the like

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A-10 carried plenty of guided munitions to deal with the tanks

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Those are pattons

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According to Wiki AP of her pens 55mm from 1.220m

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76mm at 300 m

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Tho 300m is way damn close

autumn sorrel
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So Hellfire for A-10 then, still seem scary enough for me

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Lad why you defending A-10 floppaletsgoo

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Just use F-16 with mavericks

autumn sorrel
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Congress

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autumn sorrel
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Ah, congress

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yeah it serves no purpose on the modern battlefield its just that maintaining it keeps a few congressmen elected

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it's being retired though

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# autumn sorrel Ah, congress

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.

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tbf akagi was pretty solid

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she had design flaws

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but after her refit was a pretty reasonable aircraft

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Why

autumn sorrel
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What about Russian still using SU-25? Last I heard, that air frame suffer a lot of combat losses

manic latch
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Same reason of A-10 yes

autumn sorrel
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Budget?

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Kinda

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Since Su-34 should have replaced her and Su-24 completely

autumn sorrel
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Hmm, Russian CAS doctrine still using that firing rocket in arc?

shrewd pecan
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dicks

autumn sorrel
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I regret everything

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And auto keyboard

autumn sorrel
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Who ever put U near I will be punished

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More range

shrewd pecan
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the dumb rocket high arc tactics

autumn sorrel
shrewd pecan
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aren't really all that effective beyond preserving airframes

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I think they do

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Known as CCIP

autumn sorrel
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I see

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Wait, Iran can make their own Igla right?

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I imagine they have to reverse engineer it quite sometime ago

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Iran makes Chinese I think

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Yeah

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Misagh

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Copy of Chinese QW-1M

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...

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Which is a copy of Igla

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Wow

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So they copied a copy

autumn sorrel
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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.

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British*

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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

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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.

strong plank
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divesting the A-10 would free up dummy funds for the pentagon

subtle prawn
shrewd pecan
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pentagon leaker got found out because he linked his steam to his discord

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Aw man I wanted more leaks

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P class

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shill

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anyways

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Heinrich pat

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who's that guy who compiles pr candidate lists?

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i forgor

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btw

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point blank napoli ap = 650, 650*2 with gimmick is 1.3k

tough quail
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i have no idea what that is im just here for p class goodness

ivory ridge
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pre P class

manic latch
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Smh

ivory ridge
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"Handelszerstörer"

tight notch
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I deleted.

manic latch
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Current events ain't allowed to be spoken about and that touches on it alot

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Also is this the reason you changed your pfp to default Turc? hmm

ivory ridge
strong plank
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anyone know when the CATTB was first shown off?

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like what year

shrewd pecan
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1993

manic latch
subtle prawn
#

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 …

maiden citrus
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and then you just ask yourself, compared to whom, I know things like this drive clicks but

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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

subtle prawn
wintry moat
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Montana?

delicate beacon
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...........

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It's in the top right......

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Also why are most of the 40mms undirected

wintry moat
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Oh

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So Texas’s sister?

delicate beacon
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Yep

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Except a ficticious refit

maiden citrus
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hm, not bad

subtle prawn
delicate beacon
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I need to draw the Dutch NY/Texas proposals

frigid karma
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Red Dawn

runic prairie
subtle prawn
eternal veldt
frigid karma
eternal veldt
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That's not Nurnberg, and also not right if you are referring to the collision

ivory ridge
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How can you get something twice as wrong so effortlessly

maiden citrus
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you mean that isn't tirpitz and a barge in a fjord

frigid karma
eternal veldt
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It's Eugen after her butt ate a British torpedo on her way to Trondheim.

frigid karma
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ah

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i thought it was from the collision, although I should've probably noticed that was the stern

eternal veldt
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The bow collision with Shitzig was less severe.

frigid karma
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Oh FUCK it was leipzig

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i may be stupid

eternal veldt
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buffed out, I guess

maiden citrus
alpine onyx
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Shitzig got smacked aside, was written off before the crash, and tried to drag Eugen down to her level

strong plank
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There’s a decent lag time between a technology being developed and it being acquired and fielded

tough quail
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its clickbait doe

maiden citrus
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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

solid mango
runic prairie
maiden citrus
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interesting looking for me, quad bofor over the forward twin 5'' is pretty cool looking

shrewd pecan
runic prairie
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Here’s some concepts for mounting sparrows on ASW helicopters.

subtle prawn
#

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shrewd pecan
# runic prairie

I don’t want to imagine maintaining a lock or securing a kill with that set up

subtle prawn
subtle prawn
manic latch
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Ah yes

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Now they have to choose between a light carrier and a arsenal ship for budget

strong plank
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but accelerating the adoption of new tech and reforming the process by which it's acquired is something they've been looking into

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particularly through reforms to the ppbe process

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that's something a group of my classmates have been studying as a project for the PPBE commission

shrewd pecan
shrewd pecan
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Tho it should be far cheaper than the carrier

manic latch
shrewd pecan
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I said that in response to the just in time manufacturing F-35 article, pictures are unrelated

quick shard
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question: during the molotov-ribbon pact,did The ussr supply Nazi germany with oil?

manic latch
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Not sure if USSR one was related to Pact however

quick shard
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Oh

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so they just took it in the cacasus

manic latch
# quick shard Oh

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...

quick shard
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oh i remember that operation

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I've forgotten about it since noone really brings it up

manic latch
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Lost 5400 planes for it

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Not really went well

quick shard
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yep, it was a well know disaster

manic latch
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Soviets invading Romania what stopped this oil reaching to Germany later

quick shard
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Oh yes the 1943-1944 campaign at Romania

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or maybe earlier?idk

ivory ridge
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Where the fuck did you get that number

quick shard
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heck they even had the guts to challenge Churchill to a Atlantic battle and a war over the skies

ivory ridge
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No they can't

shrewd pecan
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Nazi germany brought its own destruction upon itself through its own delusions, incompetence and failure to manage conflict escalation

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Magically giving it oil isn’t gonna change the fact it decided to pick a fight against the entire globe

manic latch
ivory ridge
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My brother in christ

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That's

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Literally for the whole war

runic prairie
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There wasn’t even a tenth that number over the target.

ivory ridge
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Targeting oil

autumn sorrel
ivory ridge
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Why do you link a specific event then mention the overall losses for

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The whole war

manic latch
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This also includes Norway and Germany

shrewd pecan
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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

chilly osprey
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Also

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Uh

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Not starving

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Which is not easy for continental Europe when isolated from the rest of the world

manic latch
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Ye nobody speaks of how reliant Germany was for food

autumn sorrel
autumn sorrel
quick shard
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noted

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this is useful for my 88 word history essay, danke!

chilly osprey
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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

autumn sorrel
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Kein Problem

autumn sorrel
quick shard
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so
-food
-manpower
-raw mats
were lacking than oil?

chilly osprey
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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).

autumn sorrel
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Test on some island, too effective so they have to quarantine the surrounding islands as well

manic latch
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Lebensraum's main focus was getting land to make food

quick shard
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good fucking thing im in this group

chilly osprey
autumn sorrel
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Better not even come close to those island, you can be sure with Anthrax

chilly osprey
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The Axis declared war on three of the largest industrial powers on the planet

quick shard
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im getting a fuckin 100 on mah test bruvs

chilly osprey
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They were kind of screwed from the beginning

quick shard
autumn sorrel
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Still a no for me, Anthrax is one of few thing that scare the shit out of me

chilly osprey
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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).

manic latch
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760k German starved to death in 1918 since the Allied blocade of Germany. And Germany lost %13 of its land after ww1

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So they wanted to become self sufficient more

autumn sorrel
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They lost the Rhineland and all of those war rep hit Germany economy hard

quick shard
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hehehe the treaty

quick shard
autumn sorrel
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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

chilly osprey
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German government when you intentionally cause hyperinflation but everyone blames the Entente for it 60 years in the future: Trollface

chilly osprey
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The Weimar Republic was responsible for the hyperinflation in Germany after WWI, not the British or French

autumn sorrel
# quick shard LOL wat

Some fucking genius think printing more money will help them pay war rep faster, fucking dumbwitt

quick shard
chilly osprey
quick shard
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I mean a dollar can probably pay up your taxes in circa 1928

chilly osprey
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That and looting the rest of Europe gave Germany its second wind in the mid-late war

remote monolith
quick shard
remote monolith
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that and what progresses he made were mostly made by pressganging a shitton of slave labor

chilly osprey
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Yerp

quick shard
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is history for u guys fun to learn or just boring for nerds?

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i hate those fucks for saying its for nerds

manic latch
quick shard
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ye others

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like the whole history of mankind

autumn sorrel
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I used to want to be an archivist, work in my country national archive

chilly osprey
# autumn sorrel Some fucking genius think printing more money will help them pay war rep faster,...

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.

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Helpful graph;

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It was entirely self-inflicted.

autumn sorrel
remote monolith
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and they got a very generous renegotiation out of it

chilly osprey
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Yep

autumn sorrel
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I guess, the Entete really don't want Communist take over or revolution to break out again so they will be lenient toward Weimar

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Even the part of war rep by product is very generous imo

manic latch
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Great Depression

autumn sorrel
#

That you can blame American for

desert agate
manic latch
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Susge So Amax uhh. What's your opinion on Axis Germany

delicate beacon
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That's an awfully specific number Thinkpitz

autumn sorrel
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88? What with it?

remote monolith
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its...a bit of an infamous number, especially among Nazis and Neo-Nazis

maiden citrus
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mrw thought it was 88mm flak

autumn sorrel
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I am not really into Neo-nazis lore

remote monolith
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H is the eighth word in alphabet, so 88 is sometimes replacement for HH, Heil Hitler

delicate beacon
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8th letter of the alphabet. Put twice it's representitive of a catchphrase used by a certain political party in Germany.

manic latch
autumn sorrel
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German have 15cm Flak? I see it on some wiki about experimental weapon not so sure about the authenticity of it

manic latch
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Yes

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Two in fact

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40 and uhh

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Gerat 50

remote monolith
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yeah they had a few, exceedingly rare specimens

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the 128mm kanone 44 is already pretty rare

manic latch
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40 was 128mm

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Gerat 50 is 150mm

remote monolith
#

there's also the Kanone 39

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149mm, iirc its for Turkish export at first

manic latch
ivory ridge
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that message +

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all the ones before

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dont give me a great opinion of this guy

spring briar
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Belgium didn’t get any sort of war rep after ww1 and was practically bombed to the ground from liège to the coast

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In the end they came out of it being a world class industrialised nation

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Germany came out of WW1 intact, didn’t pay shit of its war rep

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Cried and malded

autumn sorrel
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So just German being crybaby, noted

spring briar
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Their people being misinformed mostly

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The politicians are to blame as well as some major economists of the day

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cough fucking keynes cough

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My point is

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The war rep wouldn’t have put a dent in Germany’s ability to care for its citizens if handled properly

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But people decided to be stupid instead

humble mulch
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Romania made a fuck ton of oil, and willingly swapped sides because Germany was just in over their head

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Iirc the estimate was that with Romania switching to the allies they shortened the war by ~6 months

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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

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From 43-44 they were just being pushed out of current Ukrainian and the caucuses

humble mulch
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So like treaty with Soviets was an armistice

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But the Soviet take over Division wasn’t done

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So soviet commanders were just taking surrendering Romanians as PoWs even tho they weren’t at war anymore

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And well there’s probably only a handful of things worse then being a Soviet PoW

manic latch
humble mulch
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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

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Which let them pushed into umm Slovakia as fast as they did

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And then Hungry

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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

autumn sorrel
humble mulch
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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”

manic latch
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Why I remember a US president that loved soup

humble mulch
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Shout out the Tacams, literally just stolen T-70s with a bigger gun on them being Romanias Main tank/anti tank thing

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Romania did have manpower tho

manic latch
humble mulch
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Hit 1 million troops twice, once in 39 when they lost Bessarabia, and then in 44 when they just drafted every mother fucker

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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

ivory ridge
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suggestive reading materials 😳

autumn sorrel
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I promise, I won't leak any sekrit dokument

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Wait, there's a watch list?

humble mulch
eternal veldt
manic latch
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Suggestive you say

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Then I should ask

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How often did ships of Roman/Chinese Emperors had harem room inside

manic latch
manic latch
runic prairie
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Take an Apache, take off its gun, put in an F/A-18 radar, and add more fuel.

manic latch
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Bruh just use Cobra

spring briar
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But noooo

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1918-1945

runic prairie
manic latch
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Use planes for dat

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Didn't Apache used stingers while Cobra had Aim-9s

runic prairie
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It was meant to be used on Destroyers/Cruisers/Helicopter Carriers.

runic prairie
manic latch
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Ah

runic prairie
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Also to escort landings

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It was to have Harpoon integration as well.

desert agate
spring briar
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Prussia is not Germany

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It’s Lithuania

desert agate
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the kaisers strongest general vs some random civil engineer from a rural backwater

frigid karma
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kaiserboos are the worst

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most wehraboos at least acknowledge nazis bad

desert agate
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back in the day they did

frigid karma
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"umm actually ww1 both sides bad"

desert agate
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not these days

frigid karma
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"rape of belgium? bro thats just british propaganda"

desert agate
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the classic wehrb is a dead concept

frigid karma
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yeah it's more extreme now

runic prairie
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Wehrabooism is a gateway to neo-Nazi sympathies.

desert agate
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they dont exist anymore outside little nooks and crannies of the internet

frigid karma
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either reasonable person or neonazi

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and they got bullied to one of those corners

desert agate
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theyve all been bullied into shutting up, changed their opinions, or became fascists

frigid karma
#

but in any case yeah kaiserboos are annoying as fuck

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though at least they have actual aces to stan for

runic prairie
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“B-but muh Stuka killed 10 billion soviet tanks.”

desert agate
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the kaisers strongest fighter ace vs some random australian infantryman

frigid karma
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ew, not richtofen

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voss was cooler

spring briar
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The entire imperial German army vs some belgians with their king behind a small river

frigid karma
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kaiserboos on their way to say jutland was a german victory (their entire family is starving)

runic prairie
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When you fail to obtain sea control.

spring briar
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Jutland was kind of embarassing tho

frigid karma
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Jutland for all intents and purposes in isolation was a german victory

desert agate
#

bongs are also very annoying when discussing ww1

frigid karma
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in a larger context it just couldn't achieve the shift in power germany needed

frigid karma
desert agate
#

true

frigid karma
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hurricane chan gets bullied

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spitfire attention whore

desert agate
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but i can find common cause with the bongs everywhere but 1914-18 and 1941-45

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and a few other spots

autumn sorrel
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bong?

desert agate
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cough cough 1976 cough cough

spring briar
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Britbongs

frigid karma
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bong=british person

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because big ben goes bong

runic prairie
autumn sorrel
# desert agate bongs are also very annoying when discussing ww1

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

desert agate
manic latch
#

Yeah Kaiserboos act morally superior

desert agate
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given the straits are too shallow for any capital ships to sail through

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while the germans have free access to move capital ships around using the kiel canal

runic prairie
frigid karma
autumn sorrel
desert agate
#

yes the large light cruisers that couldnt fight against another capital ship

spring briar
#

I’m here just AkagiBaguette

desert agate
#

was a silly idea no matter how you look at it

frigid karma
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but why would you even go there

desert agate
#

they also completed really late in the war

autumn sorrel
desert agate
#

but the blockade itself was already working

autumn sorrel
spring briar
#

Sweden will never be forgiven

desert agate
#

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

autumn sorrel
desert agate
#

if you want to enforce a blockade you need a force capable of overwhelming the enemy naval force

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the courageous class, all 2 of them that completed as designed, could not achieve this

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yes they can certainly outrun the german battlecruisers but that hardly helps them to enforce the blockade

autumn sorrel
#

Eh, you're right about the ship but does Fischer plan have merit?

desert agate
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no, because you need the ships to enforce the plan

spring briar
#

Fisher agreed with France in that Gallipoli should’ve been a land campaign Blessex

desert agate
#

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

desert agate
spring briar
#

No

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The Dardanelles was ruined because the scouts were sent way too early

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Turks had time to bolster defence of the strait

autumn sorrel
desert agate
#

the dardanelles was ruined because they attempted to force the straits without any prior planning

spring briar
#

Churchill wanted naval campaign followed by amphibious landing

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Corbett, Fisher and France wanted a land campaign

autumn sorrel
spring briar
#

Which would have started on the Western bank

desert agate
#

the 1914 bombardment of the dardanelles was not intended to precede an amphibious landing

spring briar
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And since we all know how land battles end up for the ottomans

desert agate
#

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

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an actual landing was never considered until after that plan failed

spring briar
#

Aight

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Hang on

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I’m about to destroy you

frigid karma
#

put your pants back on

desert agate
#

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

spring briar
#

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

desert agate
#

it was

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also wasnt all obsolescent since QE participated

spring briar
#

France always was for the idea of going for a land war against the Ottomans

desert agate
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and there also was only a single line of mines

spring briar
#

Also wdym 2 french battleships were lost on march 18

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Only Bouvet

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The other two were HMS Irresistable and HMS Ocean

desert agate
#

wait i thought ocean was french my b

spring briar
#

And yes these ships predate QE by 20 odd years

remote monolith
#

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

spring briar
#

And were seen as obsolete for fighting the HSF

remote monolith
#

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

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you'll get to be called a Crusader AND maybe an honor from the Order depending on how many you christianized/burn to death

desert agate
#

realistically any landing at the dardanelles strait was foolish

remote monolith
#

this particular activity is pretty popular among French and English nobles throughout the Hundred Year War

spring briar
#

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.

desert agate
#

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

spring briar
#

Spon

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I just want to hold you

desert agate
#

thats gay but thats okay

spring briar
#

Imagine a land campaign vs unprepared Ottomans

desert agate
#

they werent majorly unprepared though

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Constantinople had a considerable garrison that could easily be deployed to the peninsular

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Kemal had taken command of the 19th division which was in the area in January 1915

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realistically no well planned landing is taking place before June

frigid karma
#

speaking of ottomans

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BF1 somehow thinks a british defeat in the sinai would've seen the ottomans turn away from the central powers?

spring briar
#

Spoooon

desert agate
#

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

spring briar
#

It was a risky operation even without the accidental reveal by sending in a fleet prematurely

desert agate
#

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

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the terrain is simply not conducive to any successful operations

spring briar
#

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

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Send me to the Western front

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I want to bomb them from the Belgian coast

strong plank
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strap me to a shell and fire me at the germans, I am ready

spring briar
#

With a shotgun right

desert agate
#

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

spring briar
#

Back in my day

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When we went to school

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We walked uphill

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Both ways

strong plank
#

through the snow

delicate beacon
#

Richie the area you lived was flat.

desert agate
spring briar
desert agate
#

other than churchill but churchill would do anything to shoot some brown people

spring briar
#

Smarties in lower positions got ignored

frigid karma
spring briar
#

By picklebrains

frigid karma
desert agate
#

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

spring briar
#

Spon

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Imagine a world

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Where you and I

desert agate
#

yes

autumn sorrel
#

Where 2 of you were sent to Gallipoli?

desert agate
#

oh boy i love dying on a pointless front of a more pointless war for a foreign king and a foreign flag

spring briar
#

Cope

desert agate
#

68'000 Australians died in WW1, the AIF suffered more casualties as a total percentage of its force than any other country

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and for what?

spring briar
frigid karma
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cool uniforms

spring briar
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Me on Bouvet

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(I did not become pirate king)

frigid karma
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iirc, a pretty large % of them also died

spring briar
#

It was ultimately worth

desert agate
#

was it?

frigid karma
spring briar
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We live in a world where they are remembered

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So yes

frigid karma
#

remembered for what

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dying?

spring briar
#

K

prime radish
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I’d rather go back to my family than be remembered by them tbh

desert agate
#

i sincerely do not believe that Australias sacrifice in WW1 was in any way shape or form worth it

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half a generation wiped out

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and for what

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what did we gain but a few holes in the ground?

delicate beacon
#

Churchills fragile ego

frigid karma
#

rise of japanese nationalism ig

autumn sorrel
#

ww1 radicalized many colony into Independent

spring briar
#

Doomposting moment

frigid karma
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"Marching those colonial troops off to kill ze germans" is always worth it

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yes, we know richie

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you dont like germany

spring briar
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What does that have to do with it

autumn sorrel
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Richie will be fine with nuking Germany, right Richie?

spring briar
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No

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That would be rarted

frigid karma
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ww1 was an inevitable, but fucking pointless war

prime radish
desert agate
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all the accolades and battle honours wont bring back the dead

autumn sorrel
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Oh yeah, French too close to Germany, Radiation and stuff

spring briar
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No

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Why would I want to kill people

frigid karma
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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

desert agate
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what right did the British have to send the sons of Australia to die

frigid karma
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the only good thing that came out of it is a fucking amazing battlefield game

desert agate
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so that a king on the other side of the world can sit on a slightly bigger throne?

autumn sorrel
frigid karma
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Hit, if you could make one DLC to bf1, which would it be?

spring briar
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He’s doomposting