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2018/03/19 17:37:52
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
sebster wrote: Bren LMG. Because there's something really special about one guy lining up an enemy plane over iron sights, squeezing the trigger and hoping to get really, really lucky.
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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Sgt. Vanden - OOC Hey, that was your doing. I didn't choose to fly in the "Dongerprise'.
"May the odds be ever in your favour"
Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I have no clue how Dakka's moderation work. I expect it involves throwing a lot of d100 and looking at many random tables.
FudgeDumper - It could be that you are just so uncomfortable with the idea of your chapters primarch having his way with a docile tyranid spore cyst, that you must deny they have any feelings at all.
2018/03/19 17:41:51
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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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2018/03/19 22:22:54
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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).
Excellent good sir. You just hit peak.
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Sgt. Vanden - OOC Hey, that was your doing. I didn't choose to fly in the "Dongerprise'.
"May the odds be ever in your favour"
Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I have no clue how Dakka's moderation work. I expect it involves throwing a lot of d100 and looking at many random tables.
FudgeDumper - It could be that you are just so uncomfortable with the idea of your chapters primarch having his way with a docile tyranid spore cyst, that you must deny they have any feelings at all.
2018/03/21 04:44:59
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
2018/03/21 09:50:20
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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!
2018/03/21 10:14:25
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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!
Sgt. Vanden - OOC Hey, that was your doing. I didn't choose to fly in the "Dongerprise'.
"May the odds be ever in your favour"
Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I have no clue how Dakka's moderation work. I expect it involves throwing a lot of d100 and looking at many random tables.
FudgeDumper - It could be that you are just so uncomfortable with the idea of your chapters primarch having his way with a docile tyranid spore cyst, that you must deny they have any feelings at all.
2018/03/21 10:42:52
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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.
2018/03/23 11:43:26
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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
Sgt. Vanden - OOC Hey, that was your doing. I didn't choose to fly in the "Dongerprise'.
"May the odds be ever in your favour"
Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I have no clue how Dakka's moderation work. I expect it involves throwing a lot of d100 and looking at many random tables.
FudgeDumper - It could be that you are just so uncomfortable with the idea of your chapters primarch having his way with a docile tyranid spore cyst, that you must deny they have any feelings at all.
2018/03/29 00:46:02
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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?
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2018/03/29 19:48:33
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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 a really interesting piece of information. Would that be the world's first dedicated anti-air gun?
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2018/03/29 21:01:07
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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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2018/03/29 22:30:40
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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.
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.
2018/03/30 20:53:07
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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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2018/03/31 05:13:15
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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 truly fascinating, thanks for sharing!
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2018/03/31 11:12:05
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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.
Sgt. Vanden - OOC Hey, that was your doing. I didn't choose to fly in the "Dongerprise'.
"May the odds be ever in your favour"
Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I have no clue how Dakka's moderation work. I expect it involves throwing a lot of d100 and looking at many random tables.
FudgeDumper - It could be that you are just so uncomfortable with the idea of your chapters primarch having his way with a docile tyranid spore cyst, that you must deny they have any feelings at all.