I learned in situations like that to skip to the end, and then read the instructions backwards... Saves lots of time usually...
That matting is almost certainly asbestos. That thing is one giant hazardous material site on the inside. That stuff is probably incredibly...
The Jadgpanzer developed in basically three stages: The first stage was a series of improvised, lightly armored, vehicles--tracked and...
Some of the French tank industry went into repairing what the Germans captured, while some went into doing all those Beckker conversions. The...
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Let's assume for a moment that Japan does successfully invade and take Midway at a high price. Let's say that they lose one carrier and have...
One thing they got wrong in that video is how various tank crews were trained to fight. It is mentioned several times that US optics had a...
The US wasn't "behind" in design practices, but rather simply had different ideas and needs in designing aircraft. For example, US fighters were...
Here's an interesting bit. In the MTO, two USAAF fighter groups flew Mk V and IX Spitfires. The Mustang wasn't in use there, and there was only...
How would 560 kg of uranium oxide make a difference to the US nuclear bomb program when the US was producing well over 1000 kg of uranium oxide A...
Let me toss this in as an additional nail in the coffin of the P 13. The US captured a prototype and actually did extensive wind tunnel testing...
That was in the US 10+ years later, not during WW 2. The Germans didn't even have correct geometry for the one reactor they started to build....
In terms of nuclear weapons Germany: Had ZERO means to produce plutonium in usable quantities for a nuclear weapon. That would require graphite...
While I think this is in the realm of conspiracy theories and little more, it's more likely that he means weapons like Winterballon, Sommerballon,...
For the Allied bomber offensive to fail, the Germans need to produce somewhere around 6 to 8% losses with say, 12 to 18% damaged aircraft, per...
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Outside of some so-called wonder weapon, I'd say if the Germans could have done civil engineering on some level approaching what the US was doing,...
Yes, they were. As Buxton points out in this book, [IMG] The British built monitors because they were a cheap way to get shore bombardment...
Not really. By 1943 the Allies were already ahead of that game. They had sonobuoys, MAD, scanning sonar, homing torpedoes, fast sink depth...
