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Originally Posted by Von Poop
Stupid weapon?
I nominate the Puppchen.
All the advantages of a man-portable recoilless weapon apparently utterly negated by mounting onto a carriage...   
Cheers,
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hey what about that machine gun mounted on the bike....remember or was that just a prototype
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Originally Posted by Skipper67
-The Maginot line; it was hardly used, cost a fortune and the spared money could have build hundreds of aircrafts, tanks and change a lot of things
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Here is some interesting info about the Maginot Line concerning Fort de Fremont. The Germans used 305mm guns and 210mm Howitzers to assault but the French kept the 75 mm embrasures closed and were then spared the devastation. When the soldaten attacked the 75mm embrasures opened and fired effectively crushing the assault. The Germans basically laid siege to the fort to starve out the garrison due to its impregnability from attack. It didn't fall until days after France's capitulation. So the fort's did work, It was just that they didn't cover the whole front and the mobile reserves deployed behind them as well as aircover were poorly deployed. In case you were to present the Fallschirjaeger argument. Given that the leadership in France lead to her downfall the extra tanks and aircraft wouldn't have changed a thing.