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From: The Older Gentleman on 3 Aug 2010 12:19 S'mee <stevenkeith2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 3, 9:08 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > Gentleman) wrote: > > ah, here you go a VERY quick and not so accurate check....wiki is like > cliff notes(they miss improtant/pertinant facts) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon > > and a bit on gerald bull possibly one of the great innovators in large > bore artillery of the 20th century. Agreed. > > Though none of the great devlopments in artillery would have happened > without the french perfecting the hydroneumatic recoil mechanism of > the classic light field piece the "French 75". Now it might be small, > but WOW the rate of fire and accuracy thanks to that recoil mechanism > makes it hard to not like. 8^) > It was, indeed, an amazing gun. The British 25-pounder was another remarkable piece. But the German 88 trumps them all, IMHO (though I admit I haven't your expertise/knowledge here). -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Triumph Street Triple Honda CB400F Suzuki TS250 Suzuki GN250 chateaudotmurrayatidnetdotcom Nothing damages a machine more than an ignoramus with a manual, a can-do attitude and a set of cheap tools
From: sean_q on 3 Aug 2010 13:11 The Older Gentleman wrote: > Um, more like *very good* Soviet intel. Ok, so I wasn't at the Battle of Kursk (thank my lucky stars). There was a doco on it recently on the History Channel and naturally the high point of the film (apart from the German withdrawal) was the sight of sidecar rigs looking like mine, bouncing along across the Russian Steppes. Of course it was all part the the Nazi Drang Nak Osten to get more Leeben's rom to colonize and farm -- in a region with a climate a lot like the Canadian Prairies. I can tellya, I wouldn't have been very motivated to fight in a horrendous tank battle just so I could take up farming in Saskatchewan. SQ
From: S'mee on 3 Aug 2010 13:54 On Aug 3, 10:19 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > S'mee <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 3, 9:08 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > > Gentleman) wrote: > > > ah, here you go a VERY quick and not so accurate check....wiki is like > > cliff notes(they miss improtant/pertinant facts) > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon > > > and a bit on gerald bull possibly one of the great innovators in large > > bore artillery of the 20th century. > > Agreed. > > > Though none of the great devlopments in artillery would have happened > > without the french perfecting the hydroneumatic recoil mechanism of > > the classic light field piece the "French 75". Now it might be small, > > but WOW the rate of fire and accuracy thanks to that recoil mechanism > > makes it hard to not like. 8^) > > It was, indeed, an amazing gun. The British 25-pounder was another > remarkable piece. But the German 88 trumps them all, IMHO (though I > admit I haven't your expertise/knowledge here). The 88 was a top of the line AAA gun with no peer and damned few equals (the fusing and war head were damned fine also) It really didn't catch any eyes until truly smart and cunning sob got the idea to utilize it as a field piece instead of just shooting aircraft. But I've never really read up on the gun...it's expensive on ammo and I'm cheap so why shop eh?
From: S'mee on 3 Aug 2010 14:48 On Aug 3, 12:10 pm, Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 3, 5:29 am, "?" <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > If the Germans hadn't invaded Russia, the Russians would have invaded > > Germany. > > With *what army*, jackass? As Hitler's invasion demonstrated so > neatly, the Russian military at that time was a huge, useless, paper > tiger. They lost practically everything useful west of Moscow before > the Germans got so thin on the ground that the remaining Russian army > could stop 'em. See TOG's commentary. 8^) > Idiot. No argument there...but you might be disaparging idiots with the comparison.
From: S'mee on 4 Aug 2010 10:19
On Aug 4, 6:33 am, Henry <9-11tr...(a)experts.org> wrote: Like starving trout he rises best to honest to god true and alive bait....you stupid fucker I already did that. But you in you ifnite bigotry and braindead uneducated unthinking yellow dog marxist manner ignore everything that doesn't fit you world view. I pity you, your ignorance and stupidity...and your receding hairline. |