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It turns out I've had signatures turned off this whole time.

offtop lol

@Andrei_bt, make you a deal. I'll remove @T___A as moderator if you renounce the Kharkovite failure-tractor and swear eternal fealty to the T-72.

No. THIS makes a burlesque from this Forum.
 

 
 

@Andrei_bt just for this shitfit you decided to throw, I am making @LoooSeR moderator as well.

When Purges are starting? I need to hide all those capitalist-made goods somewhere.

Hey all! T___A  here,

 
You may, or may not be acquainted with me. In case you don't I mostly post in the Soviet Tank thread here in MW. I do read most of the content on the rest forum however. To be frank with you all: I have been disappointed with the quality of this forum. So has @Sturgeon. So our glorious leader in a fit of drunken anger has appointed me the Reich Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Four Plan of the Final Solution of the shitpoasting question.
 
Seriously:
Dumbass slap fighting in the wrong thread will no longer be tolerated Neither will anime avatars. This is a rule that not even OG Alter Kämpfers are exempt from. You know who you are and I will be sending a PM to you. As always SH's most important rule applies: referte avt morimini  
In video form:
 

This is actually a big deal in Russian historical circles. For the uninitiated, here's a quick summary:
 
In the fall of 1941, Panfilov's 316th Rifle Division fought against German tank armies in the defense of Moscow. They fought at Volokolamsk and did a pretty damn decent job considering that they had no proper anti-tank weapons aside from anti-tank rifles. The result of the division's fighting earned it an Order of the Red Banner and the title of Guards (8th Guards Rifle Division). 
 
Soon after, a story appeared in Soviet newspapers about a company of 28 men who destroyed 14 tanks at Dubosekovo at the cost of their lives. Conveniently, the journalist who wrote the story did not witness the battle. A lot of details he writes in the story don't add up, plus some of the men who allegedly died turned up later in the war, embarrassingly enough one of them was a German collaborator.
 
Documents-wise (since we all love our documents), there is no record of this feat in the journal of the division (the division claims 4 tanks in that sector) and no German record was found. However, aerial photographs show trenches in the area and archaeologists discovered about 700 bodies in the vicinity. 
 
Most positions on the issue seem to be that while the myth of 28 Panfilov's Men is just a myth, the entire division fought heroically and there's nothing wrong with a movie about that. Calling the movie "28" lets them hook onto a nice story for marketing purposes. However, there are always outliers, like the usual suspects calling everything Soviet a lie and the opposite, those who state that wartime tales of heroism are beyond reproach and attempting to investigate them is an insult to those who fought and died.
 
As for the movie, I haven't seen it yet, but I intend to.

hurrrrrrrr
 

Red Army M4s

Ground tests of the second prototype tank T-44.
 
In accordance with the order of the People’s Commissar of the Tank Industry of the USSR and Commander of the Armored troops and Mechanized troops of the Red Army No. 366/098 from 31.5.44, from June 15 to July 17, 1944, field tests of the second prototype of the T-44 tank,  produced by Plant No. 183 People commissariat of tank industry. 
The prototype of the T-44 tank presented for testing was made taking into account the observations of the ground test commission of the first prototype, conducted in February-March 1944.  The tests were carried out according to a program approved by the Deputy People's Commissar of the Tank Industry …
 

 

Diagram of the results of the accuracy of the battle of the ZIS-S-53 cannon after tests with mileage and 230 shots.
The shooting distance is 1000 meters.
 
 
http://btvt.info/1inservice/t-44-1944-tests.htm

RE: Mosins. Mosins are a whole group of rifles, and any specific one is going to be different. If you're shooting a 1942 production gun, it's not going to be as nice as a 1944 production gun, for instance, and a 1944 one won't measure up to an actual sniper Mosin (not the drilled and tapped standard ones that are sold as "snipers" for three times the cost). 
 
RE: shitty Mausers. Soviet trials of a sniper Mauser showed a dispersion of 10 cm at 100 meters. In your imperialist measurements that's 4 MOA, give or take, which isn't what I would call amazing for a sniper rifle. I don't have comparable trials for a Mosin, unfortunatelyю

Check out this "M4A1"
 

Two of my pics of Fury from Tankfest last summer...
 

 

 
 
 

The local university had a book sale, so I basically swept up everything with as much as the word "tank" in it off the military history table.
 

 
But wait, there's more. Zoom, enhance!
 

 
These books bound in red cloth are each worth as much as the rest of that stack combined. 
 

 
They're official histories of the Canadian army, published only a few years after the war with the backing of the Department of National Defense. As a result they have amazing photographs and maps actually drawn by military cartographers.
 

 
And the best part is that since they've been printed 70 years ago, so they're all out of copyright

Rummaged through some bins at the local hobby shop and picked up a pair of books. Well, booklets really, but the photos were nice. Lots of colour plates of Sherman tanks in North Africa.
 

 

 
 

Lol we should spam the steel beasts forums with docs with "SECRET " added just to fuck with this idiot. 
 
Imagine being the guy up the chain of command the moron reports too.

So if I posted a diagram of the turret traverse mechanism of a PzKfwVI,  carrying the large stamp "Geheim!", this guy would rush to his time machine to inform the Gestapo?
 
I'll load up the Vickers in anticipation..

I thought they got their first A7Vs in 1917

That's no problem for a Russian army "restoration" team.

Did you know that not only was the AK copied from the Stg, but the Mosin is actually just a Mauser?