Epaminondas

Hello ! Look this: Hadtörténeti Intézet és Múzeum [ May 07, 2003, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

Hello! Look at ( Inaccuracies and peculiarities in the Armament of the Hungarian Royal Army ) topic, in the place, we wrote about camo pattern of the Hungarian vehicles. You find there, some pattern. The Királyi Honvédség kept generally, original camouflage of the German AFVs, only they delineated, the Hungarian war-sign.

No. Hungarian o letter - pronunciation, short o (so simly) Hungarian ó letter - long ó Other example: Csaba armored car - Cs letter - pronunciation - like the English ch letter

Apologize for late reply. The highest ranking NCO was the "alhadnagy" (approx: sub-lieutenant).In the Royal Honvédség (that came to an end 08. May 1945) don't use the company sergeant major (törzszászlós) rank, this established in the Hungarian Folk Army, in the communism. The Royal Hungarian Army's rank classification: Honvéd - men without rank ---- honvéd Tisztes - approx. junior NCO's ---- őrvezető (private 1st class, lance corporal), tizedes (corporal), szakaszvezető (sergeant) Altiszt - senior NCO's ---- őrmester (staff sergeant), törzsőrmester (approx: sergeant major), főtörzsőrmester (approx: commandant sergeant major), alhadnagy (approx: sub-lieutenant) Tiszt - officer ---- zászlós (warrant officer), hadnagy (2nd lieutenant), főhadnagy (1st lieutenant), százados (captain), őrnagy (major), alezredes (lieutenant-colonel), ezredes (colonel) Tábornok - general ---- etc. The raj (squad) was commanded by szakaszvezető (!!! so accurate)(sergeant), or őrmester (staff sergeant). Szakasz (platoon) - hadnagy (2nd lieutenant) or főhadnagy (1st lieutenent) Század (company) - százados (captain) or őrnagy (major) Zászlóalj (battalion) - őrnagy (major) or alezredes (lieutenant-colonel) Ezred (regiment) - ezredes (colonel) Dandár (brigade) - ezredes (colonel) or vezérőrnagy (brigadier general)...etc. [ January 04, 2003, 05:39 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

Apologize for late reply. In the Royal Honvédség (Army) was established two type pattern. The game include either (the yellow-brown-green mixture), another is simple dark green camouflage. For example: Csaba commander armored car with framework antenna. Tibold Antal's work There, some different camouflage: 40M Nimród 40/43M Zrínyi assault howitzer (Zrínyi II) Bíró Ádám's works Toldi I light tank [ February 28, 2003, 07:22 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

In the Hungarian Army organized parachute troops. True, only few battalion fought, but the "Szent László" division's soldiers struggled with best performance. For example, in the battle of Budapest, they defend the southern area, in autumn (1944). Will be appear the 29/38M 8cm air-defense gun (originally Bofors) in the game, by chance ? This cannon was one typical weapon of the Hungarian Army.

I would like to ask, why the Mosin-Nagant rifle has only 250 meters effective range? The rest rifles are 500m range. Mosin-Nagant M1891/30 barrel-length: 730mm. The Red Army used this type in general. Mosin-Nagant M1944 barrel-length: 520mm Besides rifle bullet. Why, for what reason? PPD 34/38 SMG barrel-length: 272mm PPS 41 SMG barrel-length: 269mm To submachine-guns have 250 meters range also, but in this place is correct. The munition has good efficiency (7,62x25).

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I begin with Rumanians. The Rumanian infantry rifle (zb24), was version of the Czech vz24 rifle. At present, in the game appear a Mauser Kar98 weapon. The rifle is Mauser bolt-action though, but the bolt-handle is straight. There: The Rumanian helmet is little inaccurate, unfortunately. There.

Anti-tank gun issue: The 40M 40mm AT gun was developed from originally German Pak36 37mm. The new cannon-barrel was far length. The 2nd army equiped with 36M 47mm AT gun, that turned out to Don river. The gun was German plunder from Belgian campaign. After the Don disaster Hungarian soldiers could save few equipment. The 36M 47mm AT gun is too powerfull in the game, actually the cannon's shell penetrated on much less armour. 100m - 60mm - 90degree 300m - 47mm - ???? 500m - 45mm - ??? 700m - 41mm - 90degree Weapon originally: 47mm SA FRC (Belgian) Caliber-length: L32 (no L41) The gun is on the way. The gun fire about firing platform. PzIII issue: The Hungarian troops didn't use PzIIIj(short) tanks, on the other hand, they used PzIII M medium tanks. Hungarian designation of the vehicle: Pz. III. M közepes harckocsi. Approx. that's all. [ January 04, 2003, 07:09 AM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

Zrinyi II issue: Accurate designation of the assault gun was 40/43M Zrinyi assault howitzer or Zrinyi II (no Zrinyi, so simply). Our engineers designed the vehicle, with long barrel (caliber 75mm), this was namely the Zrinyi I or 43M Zrinyi assault cannon, from of this they maded only prototype. Side and rear armour of the Zrinyi II assault gun had only 25mm thick (no 40mm). Front-armour 75mm (no 50mm). gun: 10,5cm howitzer, caliber-length: L20 52 shells: 30 high-explosiv, 16 hollow-charge(cumulative), 6 smoke Zrínyi II combat-technological chart: Armour- pancelzat (below) Front- mellsö Side and rear- oldal es far Munition- Löszerjavadalom 30 HE- 30 repesz 16 hollow-charge- 16 pc. robb. 6 smoke- 6 ködgr. The assault gun's howitzer is slightly thin in the game. There in the original. To be continued... [ December 13, 2002, 01:12 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

Mike, the best site about hussars are a Polish site, in English. www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/PolishHorseArtillery.htm True that, the site is engaged in winged hussars, a with special kind. The Hungarian matters are, only in Hungarian, unfortunately. Toldi I issue: gun: self-loading (20mm), 208 shells, machine-gun: 2400 bullets (8mm) Toldi IIA: gun:55 shells (40mm), machine-gun: 3200 bullets (8mm) Toldi III: gun:87 shells (40mm), munition: 3200 bullets (8mm) Toldi III light tank combat-technological chart: munition-lőszer javadalmazás (below) gun-a löveghez machine-gun-a géppuskához Turan issue: Side armour of the Turan I and Turan II tanks had only 25mm thick. (no 40mm). 40M Turan medium tank chart: Armour-Pancelzat (below) Front-mellso függőleges Side and rear-oldal és far Top-alsó es felső Munition-lőszerkiszabat Csaba issue: Armour of the Csaba armoured car is not accurate. Front armour: 13mm (this is good) Rear and side armour: 9mm (no 7mm) Gun: self-loading (20mm), 200 shells, machine-gun: 3000 bullets (8mm) 36M 40mm air-defense gun issue: (originally Bofors), caliber-length L60 There: To be continued... [ December 18, 2002, 05:23 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

Hello! Ferenc Szalasi’s party (arrowcross) got control over the country, after 15. October 1944. So-called Armed Nation Service and Armed Party Service’ members served, as auxiliary military force, or they fought, as ad hoc combat group. Regiment of Karoly Ney hussar-first lieutenant and SS-Sturmbannführer equiped with armament the Waffen-SS. Two Waffen-SS division organized in Hungary, namely 25. Hunyadi and 26. Hungaria, but the troops have not trained. These troops used german uniform. I send some pictures. To the war's beginning manufactured, approx. 565000 31M and 35M infantry rifles. (cartridge: 8x56R mm) During the war manufactured, approx. 91500 43M Mannlicher rifles. (cartridge: 7,92x57 mm) Nimrod issue. We see, that 5 crew in the turret and 1 crew is the driver. Nimrod combat-technological chart Crew-Személyzet (top) Munition-Lőszerkiszabat (below) To be continue.... [ December 18, 2002, 05:20 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

The vehicles already seen, namely Turans, Toldis and Csaba etc… are superb pieces, they match to the last rivet. Except for the Zrinyi II assault gun’s howitzer, that is too thin. To vehicle had 52 munitions: 30 HE, 16 hollow charge and 6 smoke. (in practice, half and half anti-tank rounds). So, the assault guns were used anti-tank rounds. Zrinyi II had 75mm front armour-plate (no 50mm). To Toldi I tank and Csaba armored car had not automatic cannon, on the other hand equip with self-loading gun (Hungarian: nehez puska = heavy rifle). The sound is heard yet automatic. To 40M 40mm AT gun had this mistake also. To Nimrod had 160 shells, and 6 crew (no 5 crew). In the game: - Nimrod, caliber 40mm: 26 HE, 9 AP - Ostwind,caliber 37mm: 195 HE, 55 AP. Something is defective here, with ratio. I haven’t seen any 36M 40mm/ L60 Bofors air-defense cannon in the patch list. Now there is some kind of Flak instead, that besides is caliber-length L56. In the hand of the army officers one can see a Walther P38 pistol, they used this undoubtedly, however 29M or 37M Frommer self-loading pistols were established. The Hungarian infantry used 31M and 35M Mannlicher infantry rifle in general. One can find rifles with Mauser type bolt-action in the hand of the soldiers. At the beginning of the ’40s our engineers transformed the 35M according to a german request for the Wehrmacht. This was also established in the Hungarian army as well, under the name of 43M, this is the one that slightly resembles a Mauser Kar 98. However it is not that. With friendly greetings from Hungary [ December 07, 2002, 06:38 AM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]