Jeeps_Guns_Tanks

5 hours ago, RobotMinisterofTrueKorea said:

 

Which began execution in 1945?

 

Dude, That does nothing to refute the fact that the F6F, F4U, and even the plucky little FM-2 were superior aircraft. A quick check shows the A6M8 is going to have a top airspeed of 356mph. Sorry to tell you, this is slow by 1945 standards. The F6F-5 has a higher top speed at 391 mph, and the F4U-4 had a blistering top speed of 446 mph. There's also other US Aircraft to consider, namely the F7F Tigercat and F8F Bearcat, which both broke 400 mph. There's also USAAF aircraft to consider, the P-51D/K and P-47N also break 400 mph. That's not counting FAA aircraft with latter variants of Seafire.

 

Also, one of the major issues with the A6M was loss of maneuverability at higher air speeds. The entire reason the plane was so maneuverable was that it had these ECKSBAWKS HUEG control surfaces. If you put on any sort of significant airspeed, the airflow over the control surfaces makes maneuvering the aircraft difficult. How on earth would putting a larger engine on the aircraft correct that problem? The Bf-109K4 had similar issues. If you put too large of an engine on an air frame, you turn the damn thing into a death trap.

Yeah, Peasant doesn't seem to really know about fighter maneuverability and assumes since the Zero has a very good sustained turn rate, but the Zero has pathetic high-speed turning ability.  above 250 MPH, all the American fighters you listed can out turn and roll the Zero, and as long as they turn just long enough to get the shot, then extend to gain speed, they can and did outmaneuver zeros. 

The Zero was a very good aircraft for a very short period of the war, then the Allies learned fighter tactics, and the Japanese never improved, the equipment had little bearing on things. Had they had actually good aircraft, like the Hellcat or Corsair, their training and tactics would still have doomed them to failure. By 1945 the US was training combat pilots so well, they rivaled the Japanese at their BEST. 

And speed is the number one factor in WWII fighter performance, because it lets you chose to fight or not, or escape if things go wrong. Everything else is nice to have, good climb, range etc, but most of that stuff can be trained around. 

I think all Japanese stuff is overrated, but they did pretty well considering how shitty their gear, tactics, and leadership was. 

43 minutes ago, Peasant said:

F6F has lower p/w performance because of the airframes weight. It's less maneuverable and while it does roll faster, the Zero losing dogfights comes down more to tactics and the engines altitude performance.

 

Had the Zero an improved engine, which the A6M8 proves it can handle, the F6F would also be outclimbed.

Except every mark of hellcat was faster than any production zero. Speed is the most important fighter factor.

The zero crap is almost as bad as his bb fantasy lol. 

Leave some scraps I can't do a real responce from my phone.

Ok so some thoughts.   First, everyone put in a lot of effort, and it was a hard call to have to eliminate the ones that didn't meet the requirements.  My pics would have been different, had there not been the problem with dimensions and or armor that if feasible seems like the kind of thing that would cause production delays and cost overruns. 

On the Mediums

I was disappointed theSturgeons got eliminated, it was a cool design, and would have been competitive.  Very cool looking too!

For Toxn, what I really liked was the idea that the design was the same for the light and Medium, with minor changes and a switch in armor material. It seems like that would give you a lot of options to improve the vehicles, with parts from the other version.  

NLMs design seemed like the best balance of tech/armor/gun and just edged Toxn out in my mind.  I liked his design approach, of just fixing and improving all wrong with a solid design. 

Now the lights I have to say my considerations were a little different because I think Sturges light was a little better than Toxn's but Toxns has the advantage of the factory being able to produce a solid medium if the need arises, or a highbred light/medium.  

NLM and light proposal was not brought over by enough three breasted hoo- Assistants for serious consideration!

I was disappointed no one came up with a multibank motor!

7 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

Already charged it. Pressure dropped over time, hence I believe it has a leak in the system. 

 

I would have to find that leak before I could address anything else. 

Back in the day, you used to be able to convert the AC Compressor into a pretty damn good Air Compressor, hide 10-gallon tank somewhere and you can run air tools... I don't know if the more modern AC compressors can do this though.  

10 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

Some spicy shit from Owen Brojamin:

 

 

 

The evolution shit is pretty fucking dumb though.

We all believe in kooky stuff, I mean take Don, he still likes lever actions and revolvers...

It seems kind of funny, on a drawing that is meh on dimensional accuracy, has so many little details, the rotor sight, and counterweight, but not the return rollers? 

Still, cool find. 

2 hours ago, EnsignExpendable said:

The tank I am referring to was sent to Tel-El-Kebir in August of 1942. It still had the old M2 gun and you can see the distinctive counterweight in the camouflage diagrams they distributed. The ones distributed only a few months later depict the standard M3 gun.

Interesting, as Walt indicated, Zaloga says a handful were made,  I never actually noticed the counterweight in that pic before. The Sherman Militia site says 40 were made with the early rotor sight, I wonder if all those got the M2?   

 Image linked from Sherman Minutia 

Is your Sherman pic in one of the books you just got EE, can you see if has the rotor sight?

4 hours ago, egorogr said:

Thanks

Is there any description of how it works?
It seems A - handle controled brake, which changes, how easily cupola could be rotaded. And E - knob (D on the second picture) locked cupola in certain positions.

I can dig up the section on it in the manual later this evening. 

So update, certain key officials have gone missing. We are not sure if they have been kidnapped, and or if it was the California Crazies, or desert cultists, or corporate shenanigans.  No body has been found at this time. We will keep you posted. 

FAX# 555-LUV-3TIT with any info on officials. 

16 hours ago, egorogr said:

Hello

Is there any detailed photos or schemes of early split hatch cupola's race lock assembly?

It seems to be similar to later type in general, but looks different in details.

I have this, it's from the ORD 9 SNL G-205 parts catalog for the M4A3 

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And this slightly different one from the ORD 9 on the M4A2

7 hours ago, EnsignExpendable said:

 

75 mm gun M2. Their Sherman didn't have an AA .50 cal.

The only Sherman I know of that, shipped with an M2 was the first production model delivered the to the Brits, they still have it too, it was named Michael, but at some point during the war it had an M3 installed. It was not used in combat. 

That's a nice haul! Gotta love old books like that!

47 minutes ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

All of this is true.

 

But I want to think that the above was written as a form of virtue signalling on social media.

Isn't it both, some must actually believe their bullshit right?

Let me say, this has been a scandal-ridden procurement program!  There have been safety problems, gross violations of the required stats,  and rumors of bribery! Also, the "marketing proposals" were disappointing, and the synthetic refreshments at the conference were very low energy and the three-breasted "hosts", were possibly disease-ridden and confirmed radioactive!  AND someone may have leaked this info to the crazies in California, and they may be coming up with some insane super tank!

The world has gone MAD!

We should have results soonish.  Just an FYI.

5 minutes ago, ShamefurDispray said:

What I love more is how Warren thought it was a 'gotcha' moment and decided to roast herself.

Yeah, how is she this dumb?

1 hour ago, Belesarius said:

 

Still one of my favorite 'Cats'

It's the BEST cat!

SO MUCH WINNING!!!!

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"A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!" the president tweeted.

https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/cherokee-nation-issues-statement-on-sen-elizabeth-warren-s-dna-test-results

Warrens DNA test shows maybe some south American in her so far back it doesn't matter, but she still claims she an Indian! 

"A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person's ancestors were indigenous to North or South America. Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is prove. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."

- Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr.

38 minutes ago, T___A said:

Paul Allen is dead.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15/tech/paul-allen-dead/index.html

Was he the one going around and finding all the sunken planes and ships?

EE did you mean M2 machine gun or the Short M2 75mm gun that some Lee and Grants got?

Well, the left will stop bitching about that now. 

20 minutes ago, N-L-M said:

Journalists are worse scum than politicians, more news at 11.

Yeah, almost like bad "journalists" are the enemy of the people.

41 minutes ago, Meplat said:

"Doorknob Five -Two".

From there I can't help much. But I have loads of tech on the P-38. (And I can really bore you on the J47.)

One of my grandfathers really knew that plane.  Went in the USAAC in 1938, and retired in 1968 as a CWO4.  He'd held an "A&E" since the early 30's.

He won a bronze star as a mechanic, for keeping P38's in the air under terrible conditions in Italy.

He also had some association with the RAF "Eagle Squadrons", but was still in the USAAC and working on the Mosquito and Spitfire. (Never got a solid answer).

I remember some Brit guys visiting when I was VERY young in the early 70's.  I was just happy (at the time) that they talked to me about Spitfires (I'd seen the BoB movie ).

Yeah, doorknob Five-Two, was the first adult book I ever read, I read the version know as Kohn's War.  I loved the book, and was really disappointed to find out the Author had made up a bunch of stuff up about himself.   

The mechanics who kept aircraft like the P-38 flying, often in terrible conditions, and through the night, were the unsung heroes of the Air War.  When you read about the 5th Air Force in the dark early days of 1942, into 43, was so low on airframes and spares, they were putting aircraft together from 3 or 4 wrecks! Every P-38 the 5th Fighter command lost in 42 into 43 was a HUGE loss, and when they wanted to do an all P-38 Air Group, (the 475th), they had to take away all the 49th Fighter groups and others P-38s to do it, and the Air Force couldn't send new pilots or maintainers so he had stripped the pilots, and take people from his non combat staff! He was able to do this because they found a large number of Chinese refugees(if I recall right) being held by the Australian Government, and was able to use the suitable ones in some staff and housekeepings roles, freeing up GIs.  In my opinion, George Kenney was the most brilliant Air Force Officer of the war. 

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