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Tanks Encyclopedia ha a magazine now. It's still mind-bogglingly terrible.

Not explicitly a Sherman question, but is there a good writeup on the wartime operations of Chrysler or Ford?

There is no issue at all with fitting shock absorbers on Christie suspensions, the British put them in place of the guide rod in the center of the spring.

Japan has a very good idea of what Russia is like

I don't know why you think it was a nightmare to repair, replacement of springs was something that could be done at company repair workshops without much difficulty. As for taking up room inside the vehicle, the British actually praised this solution because it did not increase the height of the tank or require skirts like their own tanks had. Although the British always had a pretty complicated relationship with suspensions.

Actually I wonder, there is nothing stopping one from making a tank with both interleaved road wheels and a Christie suspension...

My book has been submitted! Now to sit back and become a New York Times bestselling author.

Preorder it if you haven't already, and if you have then preorder a second one.

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-T-34-2019-Genesis-Revolutionary/dp/1911658301

Speaking of M4A3s, I just learned that Dragon makes a 1:6 scale M4A3. One sixth! I don't think that will even fit on a bookshelf...

Didn't they learn from Russia that nothing good can come from electing a dude named Boris?

Found something mysterious:

What is HECF? High Explosive Contact Fuse? Surely a 95 mm HE round doesn't go through 120 mm of armour.

On 4/29/2019 at 4:55 PM, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

Is that 1/35th?

That one was 1/16th, this one is in 1/35th:

Full album

There have been some very good neural networks for colourizing developed recently. 

11 hours ago, Alex C. said:

 

The CIA knew about it in 1953 according their archives:

 

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A001000900006-5.pdf

 

 

The new Soviet gun was described as fitted with a 30-round magazine, a “wooden” or “wire” folding stock, and a “handle grip.” The agent also describes the AK-47’s gas piston operating system, describing a “gas returning metal tube” that caused the bolt to recoil and eject a spent cartridge. Overall, the new weapon was described as “very similar to the German World War II submachine gun,” probably meaning the German StG-44 assault rifle. The new submachine gun round is described as “somewhat longer than for the PPSh (submachine gun) and the top of the projectile is more pointed.”

 

Obviously this is limited information but between then and ‘56 they almost certainly found out more about the gun.

They talk a lot about the collapsible wire stock on the "German submachinegun", so it's probably the MP-40.

Although maybe one could argue that the CIA started the rumour that the AK is a clone of the Stg.44

On 7/5/2019 at 4:45 AM, LoooSeR said:

   So... getting beaten up in medieval Bohemia simulator? That is very niche product, kek.

I got drunk and stole everything from a dude's house, so far a quick reskin can make this into a passable 90s Russia simulator.

The T-34 book seems to have been negatively received, a lot of people were making fun of the made up MS-2 and MS-3 tanks (I think they thought the MS-1 was the T-16?). How's the actual T-34 part of it?

There are lots of videos of Allied soldiers driving Goliaths around for fun like RC cars or even riding them.

Haynes says:

However, that is not entirely correct. The "M4A5" column refers to Canadian built "Grizzly" tanks, which never received their own special index, and were called M4A1s when a numerical index was used. M4A5 refers only to the Ram tank, with over 2000 built.

I'm 5 hours into Kingdom Come Deliverance, and I think I have yet to win a fight. Highlights of the game so far include getting beaten up by the village idiot, running away from law enforcement, getting beaten up by law enforcement, and getting beaten up by looters.

Is that the "Ron Paul will make anime real", but for Brazil?

I like books about tanks so much that I even wrote one myself.

https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15014

Another identification question: is this an M4A2 or an M4? There seems to be some kind of extra guard on the back that's obscuring all the identifying features.

Steel Division 2 isn't on sale, maybe it's still too new. It seems worth picking up though entirely through the amount of butthurt werhaboos in user reviews.

On 6/24/2019 at 11:52 PM, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

The turret marking seems like something the Brits would do, its an M4A3 105 tank or maybe an M4 105. 

I don't think the British had any M4A3(105)s, only M4s.

I'm not looking to play multiplayer, so the fact that it has more single player content is great.

I bought Witcher 3 with all the DLC when it was $30 and didn't regret it for a second, so you should absolutely buy it.

Anyone played Battle Academy 2? It's on sale and seems pretty good, but I've played Slitherine's earlier offerings and they were WAY too dense for me. 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/306640/Battle_Academy_2_Eastern_Front/

Also Steel Division 2 is steeply discounted, can anyone recommend that?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/572410/Steel_Division_Normandy_44/