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IronCat60 last won the day on April 2 2019

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    Coffee, History, coffee, reading real books with pages, coffee, Creating new content and enjoying Rail Simulator, coffee, enjoying my cats, hey did I mention coffee?

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    20 years Military, Armor & Infantry.
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  1. They qualify as Panzer Pajamas because you can go around un- buttoned "for better visibility" until you come "under fire". "My God! You can't walk around the house like that! Button that thing up!"
  2. It may have been mentioned and I may have missed it. A more deliberate way to ensure squad automatic and AT weapons are picked up and remanned instead of hoping that "Casualty Aid" gets to them. Something along the lines of a "Retrive Equipment" command where a much shorter pause is enacted where only key weapons and ammo is collected from the casualties. Buddy Aid is not performed. This command would help when moving from a location in a hasty manner but you need to ensure key weapons, ammo and equipment are picked up. Such a command would also allow units moving quickly through a casualty area of another unit the possibility of retrieving equipment they may need. A command where mortar teams may abandon their mortar when it is out of ammo or they are being overrun. Ammo Bearers the ability to drop their load at a MG or AT gun location so they may be able to perform as a security element without the loss of their ammo. Also the ability to share their load with another unit when theirs is destroyed. Ability to abandon their load when it becomes no longer relevant.
  3. Well can't figure out how to delete this damn thing. The picture will not filt............
  4. When they shoot the heil out of you. They built this one to standards.
  5. When they shoot the heil out of you. They built this one to standards.
  6. When they shoot the heil out of you... They built this one to standards. https://youtu.be/raAx57MHH7k
  7. This guy has some serious talents (and hopefully this post will not slide into insanity) https://www.autoevolution.com/news/world-of-tanks-russian-student-builds-realistic-full-size-tank-out-of-snow-93215.html And this article https://theblogidentity.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/russian-tanks-made-of-snow/
  8. Salute to BFCElvis! That was my only intention when I posted this. I thought wow, look at all the WW2 stuff, from weapons to uniforms! This is like looking back into history in HD and color! I feel like Pandora who mistakenly opened a terrible box when she thought it was from "Amazon's" and only had gifts she wanted to share with her friends.
  9. Oh and I didn't know tanks could be used as lawn darts. Who knew?
  10. Ah the old problem of the M1 tank outweighing the M88 tank retriever. If you get going too fast and try to slow down quickly or go down a hill, the weight of a M1 can shove a M88 off the road. So far as I can remember two M88's where attached to a M1. One towing and the other pushing and acting as a drag brake. There is two standard heavy tow bars. One is rated for M1 tanks and the other for armored vehicles of a lesser weight. If you look closely at the back of the M88 tank retriever you will notice a broken tow bar still attached to its tow pintel. It appears they used the wrong tow bar assembly which is not rated for that type of tow weight. The M1 rated tow bar has two pivot points where the tow bar arms attach to the Lunette (head assembly). These two pivot points where the arms attach to the Lunette provides the tow bar arms some limited side to side shift which relieves the lateral forces applied to their connection points at the Lunette . The tow bar for the other armored vehicles has one tow bar arm fixed/welded on to the Lunette (head assymbly) the other tow bar arm is attached with a solid pin and forms a pivot point to allow the legs to be brought together for stowage or spread when connecting to a vehicle. This one fixed arm attachment to the Lunette does not allow for the relief of lateral forces on the fixed arm side. This can cause the bar to break at that point. This failure of the fixed arm can lead the other bar to flex beyond its limits and break which can occur anywhere along its length. This catastrophic failure usually occurs when the tow bar assembly is used to tow weight greater than its design limitations.
  11. Here is a video on one persons suggested course of action to get pixeltruppen to use grenades.
  12. I think that I see the start of a behavioral patton developing from these posts "They are a scurvy race and simply savages. We could beat hell out of them.” (Hmmm, who does that sound like? I think he thought he was taking the heil road on this one)
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