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2018/03/16 10:20:38
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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Keeper of the Holy Orb of Antioch
avoiding the lorax on Crion
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Lol..
Aye, but the Bofors 40mm quad mount..
Certainly a workhorse of the RN fleet later in the war.
My Grampa was on thr battleships and they had dozens the lengh of the ship in various forms from singles to quad mounts.
They could lay down hundreds of rounds a minute.
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2018/03/16 17:44:57
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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Keeper of the Holy Orb of Antioch
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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:Sublimely specific topic!
My favorite is a sort of chain round used by the ISS Yamato. Basically two shells joined by a chain they'd fire out of the main guns to cover a wider area. No idea how useful it was but I love the idea of using a medieval technique to try and keep battleships relevant in the age of air war.
They also have had massive AA shells fired from main battery that blanketed huge areas in flak. Not every effective.. The gunnery and gun targeting tech like radar was a whilw behind US.
There optical sights where excellent however.
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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...
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Keeper of the Holy Orb of Antioch
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 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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2018/03/19 22:26:56
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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Keeper of the Holy Orb of Antioch
avoiding the lorax on Crion
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Oh yes... The 70 ton, armoured and armed kettle...
Priorities. We build a battle tank to defend the tea making facility! Automatically Appended Next Post: 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).
Excellent good sir. You just hit peak.
*Doffs hat*
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2018/03/21 10:14:25
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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Keeper of the Holy Orb of Antioch
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 AndrewGPaul wrote: jhe90 wrote:
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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2018/03/23 11:43:26
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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Keeper of the Holy Orb of Antioch
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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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2018/03/31 11:12:05
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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Keeper of the Holy Orb of Antioch
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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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