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There's quite a lot of info in Steve Zaloga's 'Armored Thunderbolt, The U.S. Army Sherman in World War II', but not sure if it will satisfy your needs. Made a picture of one of the appendixes, but that's mainly covering 75/76mm ratio's among divisions. There are appendices about production numbers of the different variants, strength and losses of various formations, but not really about deployments of specific variants (apart from the M4A3E8 deliveries to 12th Army Group). In the book itself there is a lot of attention on the replacements progress/process chronologically thr ough the war, but not sure if that provides more info compared to what you already have. I can recommend the book if your into Shermans

Bought it, started it up, works fine. No time to play it atm unfortunately.

@exsonic01 nice ambushes!

Afaik the building style of churches has a lot to do with the period they were build. The Churches in CMBN/MG/FB look appropriate for Dutch, imo. Although I'm not expert on it, I think many churches are built in the 'gothic' style.

@exsonic01 And the second AT-15 in that salvo was taken out by your APS

I'm hoping your not talking about what I think your talking about. Anyway I've spent plenty of time in London, particularly around bow/mile end. Not sure why you'd want to lay waste to parts of that nice city using a thermobaric MLRS. Makes me wonder what you'd want to do with the neighborhood I live in: Overvecht.

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Well there is a difference barrel bombing with the intent to hit civilians vs barrel bombing with the intent to hit combatants. The bombs themselves don't discriminate, unfortunately. Even if I do think that the Syrian regime is a necessary (evil) tool to transition the country towards a future, it's quite obvious Bashar has been mass murdering civilians with just that intent. Are the current Iraqi Shiite clique in power any better? I don't know. To put things in some perspective: the Brits did consciously firebomb Dresden in WWII in order to break the will of the german populace. I think Bashar's motives for barrel bombing certain civilians are similar in nature.

Indeed it is. Basically it's a thermobaric MLRS, I found a decent video showing the characteristics: I suppose it's a very effective platform when assaulting urban positions. It is unfortunate that such systems are used on densely populated area's, but what are the alternatives?

Well, I for one never said the USA is holy nor that Iraqi Freedom was a good thing. It wasn't. But we were talking about Ukraine in this forum and on this thread. Basically you agreed it was an ordinary land-grab by Russia. So there we have it

They have been firing TOS-1A and whatever is available during city assaults of Tikrit, Fallujah, Mosul. This humvee missile seems like a large crude missile, but abstractly not so different from 155mm incoming for any civilian to be unfortunate enough to be in it's blast radius. Mosul was always going to take a heavy toll on the civilian population. It is winter there now, with temperatures similar or colder than west europe.

You can't denounce a poll (whatever it's worth) by stating that it is old and the spectrum has changed, without quoting a similar poll showing the results your claiming. PS you misquoted the city where the decisions are being made regarding the war in Ukraine. While Washington has held the strings on most wars since WWII, and probably will do for another 100 years, it is Moscow that is controlling the war in Donbass as it was Moscow that annexed the Krim, without any support from Washington. Or do you claim Washington annexed Crimea?

Guilty as charged

@Sgt.Squarehead Why is Higgins a bad source just because he 'self thought' on the subject. He doesn't claim he got his knowledge from x-box and Rambo, but rather that a couple of years ago he didn't know more than that (which is nothing, just to be clear). I appreciate honesty, plus it's not that military technology is a well kept secret. There is plenty of information about the subject. available. Armed with experience in scientific research methodologies and a good 'filter' for information, I'd say one can learn everything he is proclaiming to know in a couple of dedicated months. On what basis do you challenge his information? Just because he said a couple of years ago he knew nothing? I personally have bellingcat quite high on the 'good information' scale. Everything Ive read from them is very well argumented with plenty of verifiable facts provided. As for the Syrian Observatory for human rights: it is run by a Syrian activist that fled Syria a while ago, iirc before the war. He claims to have a large network of people inside Syria which provide the information. In general I believe the information provided by them aren't challenged by other trustworthy sources. If you rule out the worthiness of his information because he is based in UK, you are basically saying that a company like BBC can only report on UK things simply because it's based in the UK. However, good media use journalists to go to area's to report directly from the 'warzone'. If he does have a lot of Syrian contacts (and I have no reason to challenge that), using them as a source is a very regular thing in information gathering. With modern technologies anyone with a cell phone can be a great source of information. Anyway I don't mean to offend you but this is an important subject, imho. BTW people on this forum might on average have a lot of knowledge about military hardware and tactics. It doesn't mean they are also that qualified when it comes to information analysis and or critical thinking. One doesn't need to know the precise mm RHA protection an armor plate provides to be able to judge the difference between an APC and a tank. Most media mess up things like that, bellingcat doesn't (afaik).

Great illustrations! I thought that 'bleeding to death heroically' was a particularly nice find. Do you work in PR? ;-)

You should indeed as they offer a ofter far richter experience vs a QB against AI. It might be a good idea to start with some smaller scenario's, to train. There's quite some quality guides available too. Armchair general has some video's, think there is even a thread with guides on the forum.

Thanks! I think I added that as well tbh Now I need to not forget to watch those in the future.

Thanks, I programmed my canal device to record the season on bbc2.

How do you watch the episodes? While I do have BBC here on cable, I can't watch the online stream due to not being in the UK. Anyways, thanks for the links looks interesting! I'm going to try to record these.

Apart from the established facts that was the first event mainstream media in NL reported of Georgian affairs at the time. It was also the moment I thought that it would escalate further. It did.

Just politics. Projects being directed at foreign governments while our own has plenty to write about. Suggestions from inside in that direction getting thrown out of the window, so to speak. For example the subject of weapons trading. Anyway actually I don't want to put AI in a bad perspective because basically they do good work. Just saying politics is a thing, even in AI.

I respect your determination and as far as I'm concerned every human being on this earth 'keeping it real' will salute it.

While I do think that Amnesty International does great work, I do know that for example the Dutch branch of it doesn't like to address Dutch problems. Fair and square ;-)

Since my work is in the conceptual information analysis part of reality, I'll suggest we make the lie coefficient: state control level of media on a 1-10 scale, squared. For Russia it comes close to 100, while Western governments could only hope for such a coefficient. Ukraine is somewhere in the middle, but they're not as competent as the Russian regime when it comes to controlling ones media. Perhaps Berlusconi could lend them a hand? :-) Anyway my work doesn't make my argument stronger and to be clear: there is still a lot of lies in western media. However, Russian media is almost pure state propaganda inbred with fantasia and to the critical observer that's quite clear. Ukrainian media does also often reside in fantasia land but significantly less so than Russian media, not even mentioning the separatist amateurish propaganda outlets.

Real danger and the results onto ones mind. Guess that the concern for ones (subordinates) health is the biggest factor in how military operations are commanded in RL versus in CM.