John Kettler Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Not sure whether this just started is or is the second half of a 2-hour program. Either way, they just had a dazzling segment on the Sanger Antipodal Bomber, complete with 5000 pound dirty bomb and are getting ready to to the around the corner assault rifle (Krummerlauf?). Am viewing this on time Warner Cable. Regards, John Kettler [ September 16, 2006, 05:21 PM: Message edited by: John Kettler ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted September 16, 2006 Author Share Posted September 16, 2006 The show was actually on weird Axis weapons, of which the parts most likely to be of direct interest here were the genesis of the Krummerlauf (crash defensive armament for the Ferdinand to keep infantry off), which broke up the bullet, creating a nasty machine shotgun effect and the Tauchpanzer III, shown in period imagery and in computer animation. Naturally, the stock footage people managed to splice in Von Rosen's reviewing his King Tigers when they had perfectly good footage available! The top item featured an interview in which Atwater, APG's curator, showed the two models of the weapon, one with a roughly 45 degree bend, the more familiar one with a a right angle in it, described the mirror sight (depicted via graphic) and talked about the impromptu shotgun effect. The image of the fired projectiles revealed ragged-edged man macerators of the first order. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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