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Traffic laws are admiralty law
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I wonder why the hull lifting loops are highlighted, but the turret ones are not.
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Movie tanks and terrible Vismods
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
Your photos are broken. -
Movie tanks and terrible Vismods
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
Is that supposed to be a captured Priest? -
Documents for the Documents God
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Machine translation in 1967, goddamn. I wonder how readable the initial output was. -
"You always keep one in case you have to go wee" Wisdom.
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http://tankarchives.blogspot.ca/2017/04/porsche-suspension.html The Soviets made a pretty comprehensive report for the British, who were also quite puzzled.
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One of the early IS-7s had an external volute spring suspension because the hull had no room for any suspension elements.
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Foam core or air filled? Air filled tires offer a smoother ride, but are obviously easy to shoot out. Foam core tires are bulletproof, but have the downside of settling if you're parked for too long, so the first few minutes of your ride will be very bumpy.
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That setup looks extremely vulnerable to mines. Did the Japanese write anything about suffering damage from Chinese IEDs?
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Not surprising, I don't come cheap
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Wow, that guy is really mad about a business doing businessy things.
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Documents for the Documents God
EnsignExpendable replied to EnsignExpendable's topic in Mechanized Warfare
Ah, the good old DTIC special. Scan at maximum contrast, and damn the consequences. -
About Waffentrager’s “Type 5 gun tank” post
EnsignExpendable replied to Jagdika's topic in Mechanized Warfare
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About Waffentrager’s “Type 5 gun tank” post
EnsignExpendable replied to Jagdika's topic in Mechanized Warfare
Back when I was posting on the WT forums I had a guy tell me that "not penetrated" actually meant "penetrated" in one of my Russian documents because his East German friend said so. -
About Waffentrager’s “Type 5 gun tank” post
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That's pretty thorough, well done. -
We discussed it here and there. I think @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks had his blog comments infested by DeJohn for a while. I briefly considered trying to con a review copy out of the guy, but couldn't be bothered.
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The Enema Thread (Moderator: Tied)
EnsignExpendable replied to Sturgeon's topic in Fiction & Entertainment
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Random Nuclear Stuff
EnsignExpendable replied to LostCosmonaut's topic in Dr. Strangelove's Nuclear Palace
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English101.pdf German scientists secretly recorded talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Another stick in the wheels of the German A-bomb. -
But lol @ Zhirik and Yavlinskiy, good on them for not giving up I guess.
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They put the 20 cwt gun into the TOG too? I thought it only had 17-pounder and 3.7" gun variants. Maybe I'll have to buy the book too