Tied

ya its fiction, but its not worth mocking 

Ive read it twice dude, its a great book, i dont know where you get off calling it fiction. It manages to accurately be a military tech thriller while conveying a human side that many military authors forget to outside of grizzled top secret CIA man 54535362. 

Inside of Mitsubishi G4M 'betty bomber'

 
20mm type 99 canon

 
cockpit

gas mask systems


 
Katana's and gas masks, good summary of 20th century warfare for ya

Luftwaffe Uniform Reference Material - Unknown Year of WWII

 
African French Soldiers (Tirailleurs Sénégalais) during WWI 

 
Nov 24 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald winces from a gun shot fired by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas police HQ. For the record, i dont think Oswald acted alone
 

 
Large Anti-Hitler demonstration at the Berlin Sportpalast on December 2, 1931, organised by the Republican Reichsbanner, an organization whose goal was to defend parliamentary democracy against internal subversion and extremism from the left and right

 
Women work on a bomber at Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California. The woman at the right wears her hair in “victory rolls.” 

man, American tank development has to be the most confusing on the planet to follow
 
why dont you guys just use a superior letter, like T 

Russian prisoners of war lifting up an American soldier after the US 9th Army liberated them from their camp at Eselheide, Germany, 9th April 1945.

 
IRA Volunteer Derry, Northern Ireland (1971)

 
Soviet soldiers relaxing and reading the paper during the Battles of Khalkin-Gol, summer of 1939

A German civilian looks at a large poster portrait of Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden in Berlin, 3rd June 1945. 

 
Clay vodka bottle, parents owned alot of these,  Azerbaijan SSR, 1980s. They like to keep atleast one of the empty one's for memories, they were big fans of Stalin. Oviously this isnt one of mine but they looked exactly like this. There were tons of these in that region 

 
 
Wounded infantrymen smoking after Battle for Hill 598, Korea, 1952

 
Hungarian war correspondents with girls in occupied Soviet village. circa 1942

 
Four heavily armed German soldiers wearing gas masks and an early type of steel helmet called the Gaede which was introduced on the Vosges Front in late 1915. 

 
Crimean War casualties with amputated legs who were seen by HM Queen Victoria when she visited Chatham Hospital. Left to right - William Young, Henry Burland and John Connery. John Connery is holding his artificial leg - c1856. 

 
Two running men with Type-59 in the background at the Tiananmen Square crackdown Beijing, China

Brigadier Tony Wilson, officer commanding 5 Infantry Brigade, on the Falkland islands before the final battle - June 1982.

 
A German recovery crew, desperately tries to repair a disabled Panzer IV tank. Monte Cassino, Italy. January 1944

Making Salads with Tied:

 

 

 
My personal favorite:

 
For your lady friends
 

"I'll take a Double Triple Bossy Deluxe on a raft, 4x4 animal style, extra shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease; make it cry, burn it, and let it swim."   Double Triple Bossy Deluxe: Double Triple = 6 patties, Bossy = all-beef, Deluxe = everything on it.   On a raft: Toast in place of burger buns.   4x4: Previous 6 patties x 4 = 24 total patties, with another 24 slices of cheese.   Animal style: Patties cooked in mustard, 24 layers of everything.   Extra shingles:  Extra toast, 2 per layer, 14 total.   With a shimmy: Jelly spread on toast.   And a squeeze: Orange juice to drink.   Light axle grease: Light butter on the toast.   Make it cry: Extra onions.   Burn it: Patties are well-done.   Let it swim: Extra special sauce.   The result-           Heres the damage  

My mind is numb from years of deployment. A single year seems to last seven. They say the world is full of beautiful colors. It all looks black and white to me. A question swirls around my brain - somebody stateside asked me, years ago. "Who's a good boy?" I've learned that there are none. We don't all go to heaven

alright heres my official write-up, im drunk on cheeseburgers and liquor so excuse the spelling
 
1. "Mp-44 was fielded in large enough numbers to change combat doctrine"
 
- in what way other than having sub-machine gun armed troops having more accurate fire did it change jack. Now ian and fuckface are coming at this from a tatical standpoint, and i would agree that a German infantry squad quibbled with stg-44s does have a noticably large increase in volume of fire.
 
But the problem is that infantry on the modern battlefield are so fucking unimaginably fragile that unless millions of said infantrymen have this amount of volume of fire increased, its not going to change shit
Unlike the Americans who could issue the M1-garand in the millions, and the Russians who could issue far larger numbers of sub-machine guns than the Germans
 
You just have to think of this in strategic terms, not tactical
 
Lets say your assaulting a town, you infantry have to attack from outside of a forest about say 600 meters away from the first lines of defense for the town. How many of those infantrymen are going to be dieing from machine-gun fire alone
How many from rifle fire?
 
How many from any support assets (tanks, mortars, planes) 
 
How many infantrymen will fall before they even get a chance open fire at their enemies at any range where it matters
 
Infantry are useful when it comes to creating and occupying territory
 
A joke among me and my friends is that "Infantry create the lines, everything else is made to break them"
 
So when you get into ranges that it matters, if you exclude all other factors, the side with the greater volume of fire usually wins out
 
Think of it like this
 
Its a AH civil war battle, where one side, is predominately fielding muskets, with some level action repeating rifles spread in-between them here and there
 
And the other side is fielding bolt action rifles
Fact is, the side that is stacked full of soldiers with more rifles that can fire faster is usually going to beat the side with a few rifles that can fire extremely fast mixed in with a bunch of sluggers
 
But non of this matters if one side has such an advantage in artillery, positioning, tanks, machine guns or any other factors that chew infrantry up much, much faster than rifle rounds
 
So unless every other grunt who would be stuck with a Mauser gets his hands on a STG, its not going to matter. Because chances are the bloke with the STG is going to die to shrapnel or machine gun fire or the fact that the rest of his squad is still armed with mausers that just cant put out a large enough volume of fire
 
And even if every nazi under the sun had an stg, its still not going to guarantee them jack 
 
Look at Korea, where the US army learned the hard way that having lots of submachine guns is really useful, and having every rifleman trying to be some type sharpshooter isnt
 
The chinese still toke many, many more casualties. They had less artillery, less tanks, less aircraft and they never could compensate
 
It dosent matter if your high volume of fire ambush whips out a whole platoon, if the other guy can call artillery down to wipe out 5 platoons of your own, and you cant do jack
 
2. he said it was situational, which its is 
 
Though im a proud member of the full auto master race, thats with shooting groups of soda cans with 5.45, the round the STG-44 fires kicks up a hell of a lot more recoil. 
So the idea that your going to be doing anything but suppressible fire and door kicking with this is crazy
 
3. the 5 guys with garands vs 1 guy with an STG
 
Thats just not how wars are fought son, i dont know who told you otherwise
 
they are fought by the 3,000 guys with garands versus the 60 odd guys with STGs, and the rest with Kar-98s (this is excluding machine guns and submachine guns)
 
 
and since both sides are going to be losing alot of those guys before they infrantry even get in small arms range, i rather be on the side of the freedom 
 
And sure, i would choose the Stg over the Garand in a heartbeat
 
I would also choose the Panther over the Sherman
 
But this is for a 1v1 fantast fight
 
in real wars, you have other people behind you
 
and the side that wins is the side with the 10 or so garands for every STG and the side of 20 or so Shermans for every panther
 
and since i dont like the idea of surrending, sign me up for the m1 
 
4. "if you look at any other assualt rifle afterwords"
 
ah yes
 
The old "the Germans invented everything because post war arms look like them" line
 
Well there fuckface, i assume you would agree with the fact the germans invented the main battle tank
Because like the panther, future MBTs have slopped armor and torision bar suspension
 
But the fact is, much, much more goes into design than that
 
Just like though an AK looks like an STG, its the parts inside of it that count
 
5. "Russians cant stamp anything"
 
 
go fuck yourself
 
 
6. "Russians only use human wave attacks"
 
Its at this point i was embarrassed to learn i had missed the ten gallon hick hat fuckface was wearing, and i was still attempting to be objective with this video 
 
7. Would be useful today   Expect you would have the recoil of the commie with the AKM but you lack the realibality, you have the fragility of the guy with the m16 but lack the accuracy, and you lack the accuracy, recoil control, and satan approved wound profile of the commie with the AK-74   oh ya, totally close 

Lets just say ian and fuckface mcweridbeard are damn lucky they live in a different country than i do, or else i would be making some very drunk, very angry call ins during their show 

You would be suprised how many American actors got their big break in Warsaw Pact reserve infrantry

 
Matt damon and the Soviet border guard from flags
 

 
No introduction needed 

Someone said cold war!

 

 

 

its almost like, and bear with me hear for a second, a good stock of voters that support any candidate are good natured folks that are voting for what they believe will make America a better place and arent goosestepping nazi's or pink haired feminists despite what the internet will have you believe
 
shocking 

it gets better every god damn time 

Yes, didnt work, i still wonder why

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RO-1 is about as close to the real thing as your gonna get while still being allowed modicums of fun
 
my point is that the both the Sherman driver's and commander's optics can be retoated, while the Tiger's cant. Hell the Tiger only has slits on his cupola, that cant be rotated and leave alot of blind spots

Every time collimatrix touches a keyboard the queen sheds a tear
RUSSIA STRONK

Thank him for his service for me. There is a good chance he could of been covering my fat ass while I struggled out of a BMP if things hit the fan

Polish BMP-1 mods

 

 
BWP-40 (or BMP-40 if you wish), modernization was purely focused on improving firepower by installing CV9040 turret armed with Bofors 40mm L70. However such configuration was too heavy and too big, also amount of ammunition taken for the gun was low. Dismounts quantity was reduced and vehicle if I am not mistaken, could not swim anymore.

 
A very rare photo (and the only one I could find in the internet) of the so called BMP-95, modernization was focused on improving survivability and firepower.   The old turret was replaced with a new one, armed with 23mm auto cannon, a 7,62mm machine gun and SPG-9. These modules we can see on hull and turret, are explosive reactive armor with ceramic backing CERAWA-1 providing protection against 14,5mm armor piercing ammunition and shaped charge warheads capable to penetrate 300mm of armor.   The obvious question is why CERAWA-1 modules are not better covering hull, my theory is that this was weight compromise.   Sources I have say that during tests, it was discovered by some proposed armor improvements decreased amphibious capabilities by 4% (this means armor from 1 to 2 tons heavy), this ended with hull top completely underwater and was unacceptable. CERAWA-1 in this configuration increased weight only by approx 900kg's.   There were also considered (or perhaps even performed tests) with installation of ERAWA-1 explosive reactive armor designed for T-72 tanks modernization. However such protection was considered as too heavy, and additional concern was that ERAWA-1 detonation might end up with cracks in BMP-1 hull.

Still used to defend against Fascism 70 years on

Yes
 
i personally support it, by finding the KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky greatly improved state scurrility both inside the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and abroad (their jurisdiction was only domestic, but they kept the internationally influential people safe at night)   a dedicated defender of both the Revolution and all the Soviet peoples     what do you think of this news?

Which is why T-XX is the best system
Sounds like the terminator