History, Politics And Current Affairs

Tanks crews need handguns, so do boarding parties and who'd argue with the design that set all standards of a locked automatic pistol?

Feb 14th is ofc better know for the celebration of British armor. But why not celebrate both?

Yes, it's this day of the year again.

I'll say, though, the reality of the SM-62 Snark was significantly better than that one test, with a test CEP larger than a continent. ...Ya miss a continent ONCE, and they never let you hear the end of it. Mike Small continent? And who wants to nuke Australia anyway. To get radioactive mutations o...

How much did the British know about German submarine tactics by the end of 1941? I'm asking because the US submarine force was still drilled to use extreme caution. No raising of the periscope during the day, use (passive) sonar for targeting. At night the use of the periscope was ok but ofc stay su...

You should have said: "Ours worked under some combination of circumstances."

Provided 2/3 of the problems had been identified. Or circumstances forced you to use it in a nominally suboptimal manner.

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 8:16 pm
Hey! Ours (occasionally) worked…

Yes, but fortunately they didn't work so well during the Hunt for the Bismarck. Neither did FAA ship recognition and that could have ended with two RN CA own goals and Bismarck safe in Brest.

A really lucky case of reality hitting you in the face.

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Tue Feb 10, 2026 11:53 pm ...Today I Learned:

* In testing, the Wehrmacht said the V-1 had a CEP of 850 meters.

*In postwar testing, the V-1 was found to have a CEP of 12 kilometers.

Mike

British, German and particularly American torpedoes say: Hold my tea/beer/whiskey.

I always keep my mod posts separate from comment posts and colour the former red, so that they stand out. A separate mod account may not be practical, as it would probably mean giving login details to more than one person for the same account. Yes, Mods do that when modding but with separate accoun...

Nik_SpeakerToCats wrote: ↑Sun Jan 18, 2026 9:15 am A thought: Given periscope constraints, wouldn't U-Boot range-finders be 'coincident' ??

Subs used rangefinders when submerged? I thought they used lines like in a hunting scope.

The target is ID-ed as X, making it Y long, meaning Z length/height in lines translates to range A.

Could we get a second account for Mods? One that they use that for official Mod work and Mod work only, while interacting as users with their ordinary user account. That way, one could easily distinguish between user opinion that can be ignored or even blocked and "official" Mod decisions,...

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. A Hungarian and a German MEP are talking in Brussels. "Hungary is by far the most democratic and free Member State, bar none!" says the Hungarian. "Don't make me laugh!" says the German. "Think about it! You can walk up to the stair...

Games like ... War Thunder.

A recently separated veteran gets a civilian job. He does a wonderful job, but there's only one problem: he always shows up late. So his boss takes him aside and asks him, "Weren't you in the military? What would your leadership say if you were late?" The veteran replies, "They'd say...

By April, I'm convinced I have either consumed too much beer or need to drink a lot more.

Hoping everyone here had a sufficiently Merry Christmas.

The well-known painting of Washington crossing the Delaware to bayonet a few Hessians in their sleep has James Monroe in the boat behind Washington, but Monroe and a small team were already inland. Leutze’s painting is glorious—and wrong in almost every detail. The river resembles the Rhine more th...

Also, like Ian notes in the video, CBJ is more of a small design firm than an ammunition/firearms manufacturer, so they want to partner with an ammunition manufacturer to bring their ammunition designs to the market. If anyone knows someone that fits that bill this has the potential to generate som...

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 21, 2025 8:43 pm Very intriguing. Makes the US Army shift to 6.8 seem somewhat questionable

Ian mentioned that too in his latest video on that round and rifle.

Aha, thanks.

I prefer what C&Rsenal said: Good enough and we can make them.