I don't see how this is relevant. I have trouble believing it also, a bolt factory in Russia didn't make just big bolts unless it was specifically...
Funny how it seems tanks always have problems with the airfilters, Panthers did too under the same conditions. We even had them in Desert Storm on...
I'd take the Panther of course.
This would be my second choice.
I think the 85 looks more formidable than the 76 but the 76 looks more like a exploitation type of design, a better vehicle for tearing the...
I only saw dribs and drabs of the video Von P, its quite amazing. Thanx for the link.
JC Falk. I will check and see just when and where it was produced. I think it was Hungary.
I'd still take the T-34, it's not going to end up stuck in the mud or wallowing around the countryside like a big fat cow. My second point is I...
I goots ta go with the old standby. [IMG]
Russia already holds the shorthairs of the Baltic states when it comes to energy, I don't know that gas is one of the main ones but there are...
So much for human rights eh VR? If that's the solution then the act of Mig-29s knocking bricks off of chimneys in Tallinin some sunny morning is...
Very good points in all of this. I just read a book about the Chechen war called "The Dirty War" by Anna (?) Politikovskaya. I recommend you all...
I read about the Estonian volunteers in Veliki Luki that gives a much different perspective than this. They fought on both sides there and seemed...
Got a link or your source ref? This subject is of great interest to me.
Russia builds beautiful ships and aircraft IMO. They seem to incorporate their concepts of art in a lot of what they do.
Tripe. They were exiled to Yakutsk and Khazakistan, a few did die on the way and most of the leaders were shot or hung but the bulk of the people...
Have at it. The battles around Smolensk in the fall of 1941 are kind of hard to find information on. I guess the Russians dug in there and held...
Weird. I was told by my friend in Gomel that Stalins son died outside the city fighting the Germans. They even have a monument there. I never...
Did you know they didn't stop production of the T34-85 until the early 90s? They even thought of upgrading its engine, gun ect and armor and...
They busted the locks from the hatches and put some oil and diesel in it and off they went. I heard they drug an old T-34 out of a lake in...
