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avoiding the lorax on Crion

 sebster wrote:
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 Peregrine wrote:
Well, the whole "favorite {military thing}" trend has certainly reached its inevitable and absurd conclusion...


I'm sure we can think of some more. We haven't touched on auxiliary transport.


Mess tins? Maybe shovels or ration containers?

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Actually the history of the WW2 Jerry Can has some fascinating quirks in it.

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Mess tins?


The German one was crap. We still had a version of it when I served in the Luftwaffe in the late 90s and man, did trying to eat out of it suck. It's okay for soup, but you don't get soup all the time. Try eating potatoes and pork chops out of that thing. The American mess kit was much better, some of us bought that instead (and Swedish folding cups).

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Nothing can beat the UK's "Boiling vessel".

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 Kilkrazy wrote:
Nothing can beat the UK's "Boiling vessel".


Oh yes... The 70 ton, armoured and armed kettle...

Priorities. We build a battle tank to defend the tea making facility!


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XuQishi wrote:
Mess tins?


The German one was crap. We still had a version of it when I served in the Luftwaffe in the late 90s and man, did trying to eat out of it suck. It's okay for soup, but you don't get soup all the time. Try eating potatoes and pork chops out of that thing. The American mess kit was much better, some of us bought that instead (and Swedish folding cups).



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It would make me so happy if my smart ass comment turned this in to a thread on the miscellaneous kit like mess tins and petrol cans.

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 jhe90 wrote:
 Kilkrazy wrote:
Nothing can beat the UK's "Boiling vessel".


Oh yes... The 70 ton, armoured and armed kettle...

Priorities. We build a battle tank to defend the tea making facility!


Churchill's government had plans to protect the tea supply during WW2, and Hitler had plans to bomb the warehouses in London. More tea was shipped by the British army, by weight, than anything else except rifle bullets. It's important stuff!
   
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avoiding the lorax on Crion

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
 jhe90 wrote:
 Kilkrazy wrote:
Nothing can beat the UK's "Boiling vessel".


Oh yes... The 70 ton, armoured and armed kettle...

Priorities. We build a battle tank to defend the tea making facility!


Churchill's government had plans to protect the tea supply during WW2, and Hitler had plans to bomb the warehouses in London. More tea was shipped by the British army, by weight, than anything else except rifle bullets. It's important stuff!


Tea was a near statagic resource.

https://blog.teabox.com/year-britain-bought-tea-world

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Tea provides moral fibre.

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Well yeah, caffeine wins wars.
   
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I actually like tea more than I like anti-aircraft equipment.

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Looks like a kid drew it.


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 Easy E wrote:

Edit: I look forward to the "Your Favorite Military Grade Entrenching Tool" thread.....

That would be no contest:


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 Iron_Captain wrote:
 Easy E wrote:

Edit: I look forward to the "Your Favorite Military Grade Entrenching Tool" thread.....

That would be no contest:




I watched that for far longer than I care to admit.


Now I want one.

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They forgot the most important use of a military spade in the field: once you've dug with it enough to get the paint off it's great to fry eggs on. Or to eat meat off if you happen to have to use a German mess kit. Just saying.
   
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XuQishi wrote:
They forgot the most important use of a military spade in the field: once you've dug with it enough to get the paint off it's great to fry eggs on. Or to eat meat off if you happen to have to use a German mess kit. Just saying.


Swiss army knife met its new challenger lol

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Not from 1930 onwards, but I ran into the Ballonabwehrkanone whilst investigating old copies of Arms and Explosives today at the British Library.



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 welshhoppo wrote:

I watched that for far longer than I care to admit.


Now I want one.


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 Ketara wrote:
Not from 1930 onwards, but I ran into the Ballonabwehrkanone whilst investigating old copies of Arms and Explosives today at the British Library.

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Interesting. The Franco-Prussian war is not my area of expertise/interest so I have no idea if any of what you posted is true.

Can someone shed some light on if this was real, or just some yellow journalism?

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 Ketara wrote:
Not from 1930 onwards, but I ran into the Ballonabwehrkanone whilst investigating old copies of Arms and Explosives today at the British Library.
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That is a really interesting piece of information. Would that be the world's first dedicated anti-air gun?

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 Easy E wrote:
 Ketara wrote:
Not from 1930 onwards, but I ran into the Ballonabwehrkanone whilst investigating old copies of Arms and Explosives today at the British Library.

Spoiler:




Interesting. The Franco-Prussian war is not my area of expertise/interest so I have no idea if any of what you posted is true.

Can someone shed some light on if this was real, or just some yellow journalism?


It was very much real. It's a modified 1-pounder gun, and still in a museum somewhere.

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Balloons were used in the American Civil War and during the SIege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian war.

It isn't a massive leap of imagination to put a light artillery gun on a mount capable of high-angle aiming, so I find this equipment entirely credible.

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I can't remember where I saw it, but the Japanese (maybe Chinese?) In WWII had a bolt action infantry rifle with anti aircraft sights. You'd use the rifle as a normal rifle until a plane came near. Then you'd swing out three long arm things on the barrel, one up, one left, one right as a type of super sight. Then a squad would all volley fire at the plane.
   
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 cuda1179 wrote:
I can't remember where I saw it, but the Japanese (maybe Chinese?) In WWII had a bolt action infantry rifle with anti aircraft sights. You'd use the rifle as a normal rifle until a plane came near. Then you'd swing out three long arm things on the barrel, one up, one left, one right as a type of super sight. Then a squad would all volley fire at the plane.

Yeah, that was the Type-99 "Arisaka" rifle.

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 Ketara wrote:
Not from 1930 onwards, but I ran into the Ballonabwehrkanone whilst investigating old copies of Arms and Explosives today at the British Library.

Spoiler:



That is truly fascinating, thanks for sharing!

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 Iron_Captain wrote:
 cuda1179 wrote:
I can't remember where I saw it, but the Japanese (maybe Chinese?) In WWII had a bolt action infantry rifle with anti aircraft sights. You'd use the rifle as a normal rifle until a plane came near. Then you'd swing out three long arm things on the barrel, one up, one left, one right as a type of super sight. Then a squad would all volley fire at the plane.

Yeah, that was the Type-99 "Arisaka" rifle.


If a rifle has the range to hit a aircraft and do ernough damage to disable one bar at extreme low heights?

That's a bit oh luck and faith.

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