None of the "complete histories" fo into the level of detail I now like so I haven't picked them up recently, but the ones I recall: Schirer is a...
Not sure this proves anything, some of the modern weapons systems make the even the more complex German weapons look like underengineered low cost...
Goliath is not a robot, that term assumes some sort of autonomous decision making capability by the system and it has none. The German failures...
Was reading an account of the combats North of Rome by Sw. Pz. Abt.504 and it's 3rd company of Tigers was equipped with radio control equipment...
At Wake Nagumo detached Hiryu and Soryu to support the second (successful) effort after the initial failure, before then the IJN force had no air...
Look at the mission statements if some of the current "cyber" military initiatives, very instructive. Manipulation of facts (spin) is a powerful...
I would say the same for Italy, I still remember my aunts taking out a scarf entering church but never wearing one anywhere else, the custom...
IMO the bomber offensive was a lot less effective than anticipated and morally questionable. As far as the RAF was concerned strategic bombing...
I would pick AP performance even if there are not that many enemy tanks around, Against dug in AT guns a better HE may make a difference but...
There is little evidence the Gulags were designed to "leave few if any survivors", death rates in POW camps from all sides were sometimes pretty...
Assuming Italy stays neutral in 1940 what it does in 1941 depends on what Germany does in the Balkans and probably Germany cannot afford not to...
p British tanks (save for HE) were equal or superior to German tanks until the Tiger arrived in late 42. Even then Tigers were rare. However the...
Napoleon could not invade the Soviet Union, no Soviets in his time just Russians. There were reports of the planned German attack, some pretty...
Not sure those "camps" were comparable to Gulags, the sort of conditions the axis POWs and the majority of the victims of Stalin's paranoia had to...
Except that the BREN was not a new design, it was an adaptation of the ZG vz. 26 to the British 7.7 cartridge and a lot of people believe the...
Nitpicking a bit.... but I said "derivative" not "adaptation", IMO having the same ammo justifies that term, just as I would call most WW2 81...
"Ersatz" is more or less what the Marders are, what they really wanted were the JadgPanzers but those would no be available for a while, using...
I was referring to the base 47/32 anti tank gun not the 1942 SP version that was just a way for Ansaldo/Fiat to sell some of the L40 chassis that...
I interpret the OP as a "free for all" where the fun element outweights a more rigorous approach, and especially on this subject, a category based...
I would remove the M10, Nashorn and Elephant, - M 10 once you got to guns weighting a ton or more self propelled mounts were a the way to go, the...
