Probus
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16 minutes ago, CHEqTRO said:
The same goes for Kharkiv, by the way:
The battle for Kharkiv will probably be one of the most important and biggest battles of this war. Hopefully the line holds long enough for the units fighting in the Donbass to stage a fighting withdrawal and avoid encirclement.
I watched this attack on a live feed. Or one just like it. It goes on and on and on. Terrifying.
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I would like to thank all of you for being so civil and keeping this thread on track. I’m really proud of you guys.
I really can’t believe this. It’s surreal. Putin has stayed one step ahead of the West up until today. I think that his actions today have overstepped his power to pull off. Although it looks like he is having many early successes, it’s going to turn into a quagmire for Russia. So many people are going to lose their lives for this megalomaniac. If NATO gets involved the loss of life will be shocking. A part of me, though, really wants NATO to come to the aide of Ukraine.
Hopefully we can continue to arm and train the Ukrainians and make it too costly a war for Russia.
Some of the fighting reminds me very much of CMBS. Instant death from out of nowhere.
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32 minutes ago, akd said:
Many videos of massive helicopter assault underway from today. This one includes two MANPADS launches, but without apparent success:
I’ve never seen anything like that before. I wonder if those missiles were fired after they passed over if they would have been effective.
That last helicopter looked like a KA attack helicopter.
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GRAD/MLRS firing along border.
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Which city is this? Live feed of city skyline being hit by some kind of munitions. I guess it’s a hot war now.
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Round 1 has to go to Putin I hate to say. I feel like we are in the calm before the storm. Russia is just doing pre-invasion SIGINT and OPINT. Slowly and methodically setting up Ukraine for an efficient dismembering invasion.
Round 2 will go to Putin also if all we have are sanctions. I think the West needs to figure out a way to put some teeth in a response or you are just appeasing a bully. Some way to disrupt Russia’s plans. I can’t think of anything short of a military response.
Can the west pull off a no fly zone using only stealth aircraft and drones? This would be a really good time for the USA to have an unmanned stealth fighter with long range Air-to-Air capability. I wonder if a black project already exists?
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Agree, agree, agree, agree…. Wow! Dare I say we are all on pretty much the same page.
If NATO was this united it would scare the heck out of Putin.
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What are your thoughts on a no fly zone? Everyone knows sanctions don’t affect tryrants.
Do we need a super quick Black Sea patch with new equipment updates? Or is Russian equipment up to date/close enough? Can mods make up the difference?
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Nice to know @Combatintman
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The forces amassing over there are getting ridiculous. Is this just sabre rattling by Russia or are they going to pull the trigger?
They kinda remind me of Robotech.
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Next rev of Black Sea we gotta have this:
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PRO: Enemy too afraid to shoot at the tank in case they hit the reactor.
CON: The crew too afraid to drive it since the enemy might hit the reactor.
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I was watching YouTube looking for Sherman engines and ran across this cool channel. The video above has a nice tank progression from the tiny early tanks to the mammoth King Tiger. I realized I've never heard these tanks before.
The video below is a size comparison based on weight. It includes theoretical tanks. Maybe a few of these might have bailed out Germany a little bit.
Maybe we should think in terms of what tanks may have allowed the Nazis to have called a truce at some point. Maybe bluff their way into it.
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3 hours ago, Andrew H. said:
While I don't think that changing one weapon system would have changed the war, Germany had the technology in 1937 to manufacture the Pz IV F/2, the Pz III 50 L/60, and the StuG III ... with the long 75; I've forgotten the model.
I think if they had started the war with the Pz IV as a main battle tank...or maybe with a combination of Pz III L/60's and long barrelled StuGs, they may have achieved just a bit more earlier that could have made *some* difference. At least in production...maybe they would be more efficient at producing the IV if they started with the base model they ended with and didn't need to keep reengineering it during the war.
There's no panic over the T-34s and the KV's, so there's no need to develop the TIger I at all.
Of course they would have been a lot better off if they had focused on making the manufacturing easier and the tanks more reliable. There were 5 different sherman tank engines, but each one was based on an existing and already proven engine. Two engines were based on aircraft engines or aircraft engine prototypes. The diesel was based on two bus engines joined to a common crankcase (the tank could still move if one of the engines was knocked out). And the sherman used mostly in British service consisted of *5* V6 automobile engines all mounted around a common crankcase. (There was a toothed gear attached to where the driveshaft on each of these engines would have been, and these five gears all interlocked with the toothed gear connected to the tank's driveshaft.
Wow. If you hadn't posted the pic I wouldn't have believed it. Those Brits...
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Pro: Generate your own depleted uranium rounds.
Con: Risk of starting a zombie apocalypse.
So do you put the reactor in the front or rear?
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For your viewing pleasure, the Chrysler TV-8:
A 25-ton tank with a 90-mm gun. I'm sure if Cold War started just a few years earlier, we would have had a model for one of these bad boys.
Chrysler’s nuclear-powered tank was the height of Atomic Age optimism (msn.com)
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10 hours ago, Aragorn2002 said:
Thank you, Probus. I've ordered the MP44 book. Hefty price, but a must have for me.
You will not be disappointed. Currently I'm waiting on their new Stuka book. It's doubled in size since I ordered it:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stuka-the-doctrine-of-the-german-dive-bomber/x/24950292#/
They also have the best t-shirts (no affiliation):
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Just now, Aragorn2002 said:
Very interesting, Probus. Any idea where the book on the assault platoon can be ordered or dl-ed?
I ordered the tank book from Lulu. They have the MP44 book also:
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1 hour ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
I have an I9-9990.....Apparently that's not supported either.
i9-9900? Geeze, that is a really nice processor. It holds up well like the much older i7-4790 did/does. I wonder what it lacks? I gotta side with @Redwolf on this. I bet it's a BIOS setting.
EDIT: I thought you just put an extra 9 in there. So you have an i9-9990 then?
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I think ole' Wartsy uses something my mum called Cockney rhyming slang. I was Cockney until I was 4 1/2, then we moved to Texas. So the extent of my Cockney now-a-days is I sometimes say "free" when I mean to say "three".
If I remember correctly it goes something like this. "I'm going to go puddles and pears" would translate to "I'm going to go up the stairs". Or maybe he just has a brain tumor
, or maybe I have the brain tumor 
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Are you guys telling me that The Battle of the Bulge is not completely historically accurate? Lol. I did look up what a fuel depot might look like that the Germans were going after. Since some variants of the Sherman used diesel and some gasoline, I think a fuel depot would have contained both. Why that's important, I think I've forgotten now. Oh yeah, T-34s use diesel so one way to get diesel would be to raid enemy supply depots.
Another way to get diesel would be just to not refine oil into gasoline. Refine it into diesel instead. That would be easier and safer anyways.
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2 hours ago, Glubokii Boy said:
If you can't fuel them what good would they do ?
Well, you could capture fuel depots. Like they tried to do in the Battle of the Bulge movie. Was that gasoline or diesel?
Talk about fuel depots and fighting to not lose:
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If Germany somehow overran an intact T-34 factory and with espionage knew exactly how to produce them, how would that have affected the war effort. Would that have been the tank to produce, picking up parts from the battlefield to help with logistics?
Does RT have German captured T-34s?
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27 minutes ago, slysniper said:
getting off topic, beg Suprise.
Yeah. That topic would be a good one for its own thread @Glubokii Boy! I have a lot of ideas in that regard. Let's keep this one tanks.
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19 hours ago, Glubokii Boy said:
I wounder how the Ferdinand would have performed as a defensive tool if it had not been wasted in some ill suited offensive actions.
True, but you can't win a war by defending all the time. I think Hitler's crew knew that if the war dragged out, they were doomed.
They probably needed two main tank designs. An offensive (nasty) turreted tank to win the war, and a fast SPG 'tank' on the same chassis to run around and stop the hemorrhaging.
Playing CM, I really don't like the Pz-IVs. They don't hold up well. But honestly, with the way I play, the Panthers don't do much better.
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Fighter shot down?