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October 25th, 2003, 01:39 PM
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Under the proposed new rules ( which seem as simple as an EU recycling directive ) I have to prove that Juha's guess was wrong, so : -
I've counted 28 along from the right, 3rd row down and that looks to me much larger than a 7.92 round.. And it has a brass case whereas the cartridge in question was steel.
So, I've provided two further clues - it was 7.92mm calibre, with a steel propellant case.
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October 25th, 2003, 03:41 PM
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Thx, this hint helped...
I guess it's the "Kurzpatrone 43 m.E."
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October 25th, 2003, 03:50 PM
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No. The proof is that the correct answer is the Bernstein bullet.
Over to you.
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October 25th, 2003, 06:12 PM
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My suggestion didn't mean that you have to give the answer after the first wrong try. Anyway, there is found extremely little info about Bernstein bullets on the web, none at all in German...
"You will sometimes come across a round that has a serrated steel bullet with a green Teflon coating - usually in cases marked F A 5 5. These are occasionally referred to as "Bernstein" bullets after a German engineer who developed similar bullets in WWII though he was not employed at Frankford. These serrated bullets were also loaded without the Teflon coating but they are quite rare. "
http://cartridgecollectors.org/30-06intro/
"Solid iron bullets were often used by Germans in the submachine gun cartridges during the 2nd World War and for the assault rifles there were designed also a Bernstein bullet, lathe-turned from the free-cut steel, but the production of them was never started. (Addition: The first prototype Bernstein bullets had a paper jacket or rotation band)."
http://guns.connect.fi/gow/QA5.html
That's all... please can you tell us more?
However, the next question:
Name the type & army of this tank.

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October 25th, 2003, 06:28 PM
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It is an Hungarian Turan tank.
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October 26th, 2003, 02:34 AM
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Correct. Your turn.
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October 26th, 2003, 07:00 PM
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In 1944 the Germans were suffering severe problems with jamming by the RAF. One solution attempted was an early type of backscatter "radar" set up on the island of Romos off Denmark. It worked off of British CH radar transmissions. What was it called?
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October 26th, 2003, 11:19 PM
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does that count as weaponery?
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October 27th, 2003, 03:11 AM
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Certainly. A radar like this one formed part of a weapons system. It found the enemy and allowed the ground controllers to alert and send interceptors to attack them. It is a weapon in the same sense that one might think of the scope on a sniper rifle. It improves the performance as part of a system.
Electronics and electronic warfare in WW II was a completely new frontier in warfare. It increased the effectiveness of many other weapons both offensively and defensively. No one could argue that the system of radar controlled fighter interception played a pivotal role in saving Britain in 1940 against the Luftwaffe's bomber campaign.
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October 28th, 2003, 03:06 PM
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you dont seem to be getting many responses...got a hint you could give us?
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October 29th, 2003, 01:17 AM
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Fair enough, as most people are not well versed in electronic warfare. It was named after a city in Germany.
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wurzburg?
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October 29th, 2003, 06:26 AM
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Heidelberg?
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If these 2 are wrong, could it possibly a German region or a village, not a city?
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Sorry, other things to get to. Anyway, Heidelburg I'll take as close enought. The actual radar was coded Kliene Heidelburg. In operation it was syncronized to a CH station for transmission timing. It then measured the direct path transmission time and the reflected target return time (which was slightly longer). From that range could be determined. The target position was given as an arc that over time could be refined to a track of actual target position.
So, Knightmove gets it.
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Thx T.A.
This tank was the first one with a hull cast in one single piece. It was...?
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Well, it had to be either French or US. But, all the French pre-war through 1940 vehicles had multi-piece hulls where they were cast. The Ram and Sherman, likewise, had multi-piece hulls. That leaves the T-28 Super Heavy Assault tank and the M-26 Pershing. I would suspect it to be the M-26. All of the follow-on Patton series had one piece cast hulls through the M-60.
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October 31st, 2003, 02:14 AM
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No, the title goes to another tank.
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Not one of the main countries did develop this tank. If there would have been a bet, at the start of the war, where the first single-piece tank hull would be produced, probably nobody would have bet on this country, not even her own inhabitants. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Quote:
Originally posted by KnightMove:
Not one of the main countries did develop this tank. If there would have been a bet, at the start of the war, where the first single-piece tank hull would be produced, probably nobody would have bet on this country, not even her own inhabitants. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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The Australian Sentinel?
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Your turn, Za. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Quote:
Originally posted by KnightMove:
Your turn, Za. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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