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    Stupendous ammo dump explosion at Krasnoyarsk

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    1 hour ago, DerKommissar said:

    Speaking from recent experience with NK and Iran, sanctions only seem to motivate increased aggression. Instead of winning hearts & minds, the West is doing the exact opposite.

    IIRC 2012/13 US was shipping NK foodies and imploring them to desist from their missiles & nuke testing when they promptly banged off a nuke 

    https://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/29/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-deal/

    https://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/23/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-test/

    https://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/12/world/north-korea-nuclear-reax/

     

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    The 'Never Say You've Seen It All' Thread

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Wicky

    http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3756/1

    Right after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, the Soviet Union landed a spacecraft carrying a chimpanzee named Boris 504. The Soviet plan was to have Boris leave his spacecraft and walk on the Moon right after the American astronauts did, simultaneously mocking and stealing some of the publicity from the American achievement. But despite a successful landing, a malfunctioning hatch prevented Boris from leaving his spacecraft. He died on the Moon when his oxygen ran out, angrily banging a wrench against a faulty hatch.

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    http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3751/1

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    Was lend-lease essential in securing a Soviet victory?

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    17 hours ago, John Kettler said:

    glancing at comments for a Russian video in which the narrator drives a Panther tank, I found this also authoritative quote.

    "Now they say that the allies never helped us, but it can't be denied that the Americans gave us so many goods without which we wouldn't have been able to form our reserves and continue the war. We didn’t have explosives, gunpowder. We didn’t have anything to charge our rifle cartridges with. The Americans really saved us with their gunpowder and explosives. And how much sheet steel they gave us! How could we have produced our tanks without American steel? But now they make it seem as if we had an abundance of all that. Without American trucks we wouldn’t have had anything to pull our artillery with." - Marshall of the Soviet Union (second in command to Stalin himself), Georgy Zhukov

     

    I can find the quote above first used in 2016 here: https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2016/03/11_a_8115965.shtml

    and something similar in gist:

    'In a confidential interview with the wartime correspondent Konstantin Simonov, the Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov is quoted as saying:

    "Today [1963] some say the Allies didn't really help us ... But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war."

    Albert L. Weeks The Other Side of Coexistence: An Analysis of Russian Foreign Policy, (New York, Pittman Publishing Corporation, 1974), p.94, quoted in Albert L. Weeks, Russia's Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II (New York: Lexington Books, 2010), 1'

    Do you know the provenance of your YouTube comments quote ?

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    How to mod skybox (skyline)

    in CM2 Scenario and Mod Tips

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    Skylne buidings look like originally taken from a relatively low res image simply expanded

    When searching Google Images say for 'city 360 skyline panorama'  make sure you go to 'Tools' > 'Size' > 'Large' 

    and you can find pcs like this of NY  -which even though it has a sunset / sunrise warm colour cast could be a starting point with some proceessing to make more neutral.

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    AA efficiency

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    8 minutes ago, Erwin said:

    Just curious... If it was accepted that shootdowns were rare, why did they change routes to avoid it if it made the drops/bombings significantly less effective?  

    Like minefields, AA units can't be everywhere and was used to protect what was considered worth it or on known routes (as applicable for heavy & med bombers)

    When reading about Paradrops like D-Day and prior at Bruneval Raid they avoided flying overs major towns to avoid unnecessary losses as they had more concentrated AA.

    Airborne daytime drop losses to AA could be heavy as happened later in Holland and Operation Varsity. And heck Invasion of crete 

     

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