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Tanks of the Commonwealth in WWII thread
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
When was the 2" bomb thrower eliminated? I thought the British were super into those things and wanted them in everything. -
That de Marre calculator looks awfully familiar
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@Jeeps_Guns_Tanks any idea how the D200A differed from the RD1820? Was any change made at all when the engine was standardized?
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Tanks of the Commonwealth in WWII thread
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
@whelm I'm finally getting around to publishing the Sexton article (it turned out to be quite huge even for a two-parter, so it took a while). Do you want an acknowledgement, and if so by what name? -
Tanks of the Commonwealth in WWII thread
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
Oh wow, that's a pretty big change. I think I spent too much time looking at the girl. -
Tanks of the Commonwealth in WWII thread
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
What's so special about the unedited version? Are you sure it wasn't just cropped to look better for the newspapers? -
Movie tanks and terrible Vismods
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
Egyptian Archer playing Germans in an Italian movie. -
Tanks of the Commonwealth in WWII thread
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
Haha, "chatty notes". Commonwealth English is so delightfully different from American English. -
Tanks of the Commonwealth in WWII thread
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
It's interesting how the Australians have so many Ram docs, I guess they consulted Canada on their modernization of the Medium Tank M3 modernization, but decided to go their separate way with the Sentinel. -
Tanks of the Commonwealth in WWII thread
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
Here are some Ram diagrams that aren't shit. Click for big. -
Here's an even harder angle. Any way to tell from here?
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Exactly what I was thinking of, thanks! Another question, is this an M4 or an M4A2? Is it possible to tell from this angle?
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I recall reading a blurb about how the US Army disliked the name "Sherman" and preferred the soldiers to call it by its proper name, but begrudgingly agreed to let press releases targets at civilians to call it "Sherman" instead of Medium Tank M4. Does anyone know the source, by any chance?
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Documents for the Documents God
EnsignExpendable replied to EnsignExpendable's topic in Mechanized Warfare
Potentially the best CIA document declassified to date. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89G00720R000800040003-6.pdf -
Red/dark blue: prospective Brown/gray blue: modernization Yellow/light blue: production The orange bit isn't in the legend, I'm guessing it's a modernization that has already been applied?
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Huh, I've never heard of that one before. Yeah, that seems to be a downer.
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This photo shows one weakness of the Firefly really well. The gun had to be turned back during travel, so the radio bustle was right above the driver's hatch. If the tank went over a bump while he was driving with his seat up, he was liable to smash his head into the turret.
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Apparently a lot of the tanks stuck out in former Arab-Israeli war battlefields can't be recovered since there are still quite a few mines lying around.
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Movie tanks and terrible Vismods
EnsignExpendable replied to Walter_Sobchak's topic in Mechanized Warfare
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Apparently the real reason was that Yud is the smallest letter in the alphabet, according to the creator.
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More Sherman questions. By American measure, the Sherman turret ring is 69 inches across, but by Soviet measure, it's 1730 mm, which is slightly less. Was the American figure rounded, or were they measuring from the outside of the turret race? The Soviets only measured the diameter of the clear space.
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