History, Politics And Current Affairs

Regarding 5./Raketenartilleriebataillon 122, this is something from @'s post-Cold War era, the unit was a replacement after Luftlandeartieriebatterie 9 (AMF) - formed from 5./Feldartilleriebataillon 545 which was a tube artillery unit - was dissolved in 1996. My solution would be for the HIMARS unit...

Yeah. Demand should far outstrip supply at this point…

In October, somebody bought an iPhone, an IPad and one set of those ridiculous Apple in-ear headphones along with a mobile phone contract with my bank data. Under my name, but at an address where I never lived. Due to numerous issues, I only realized four weeks ago that 140 Euros were deducted from ...

Flattening Jüterbog could be achieved with a battalion or two of MLRS loaded with ATACMS and fired from, say, behind the Leine river. Hildesheim-Jüterbog is roughly 240 km as the crow flies… M48/M57 missiles should be available. I had NATO fire them at Rügen from Schleswig-Holstein way back when. Th...

Very good update. When the Kh-26 were launched by the Backfires, the wording made me think the crew was firing nuclear-tipped missiles until I remembered the crews of Long Range Aviation would be very, very leery of firing any kind of missile after the Raduga sabotage debacle, and the Kingfish will ...

James1978 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 am
I'm pretty sure the Dutch 11th Luchtmobiele Brigade didn't happen in TLWverse.
Looking at the NORTHAG ORBAT, it's still 11e Pantserinfanteriebrigade.

Yeah. Thanks for the correction.

Question what was the in Hamburg Garrison? Current scholarship says that 1. Luftlandedivision was to defend Eastern Bavaria. 1. Luftlandedivision would have Luftlandebrigade 25 and Luftlandebrigade 26 reinforced by Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23, two Jägerbataillone of the 10. Panzerdivision, a Panzergrena...

It's funny as hell even for non-Nordics who are only half aware of all the idiosyncracies between those countries

I am posting them with permission over at my forum, already at chapter 60, think with the rate that Bernard updates i catch up to him before the end of 2025. So now up to Chapter 105, everything is okay to chapter 178, then from Chapter 301 onward also, so that leaves Chapter 179 to Chapter 300 sti...

Uh, was German translation correct ? Seemed to be Polish / in-fix rather than Reverse-Polish / post-fix, so verbs / adjectives weren't all piled up at end... ( Half a century along, I still get goose-bumps at sight of 'Formal German'... ) Yes, it is correct. I read it before I saw the German transl...

Is the November 18 event a nod to "The gods must be crazy"?

One of the Alcatrazh eshcapeesh musht be John Patrick Mashon, I guesh...who are zhe ozher two?

One question. Is there anything known about the F-47? I mean, to me it looks a bit like creating designation first and then putting a plane underneath it at some point… Jotun, It appears - and I will happily confess to error on this - that a demonstrator/prototype has been flying for about five yea...

One question. Is there anything known about the F-47?

I mean, to me it looks a bit like creating designation first and then putting a plane underneath it at some point…

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I am aware that there might be a pair or six of rolling eyes at this piece of news. Let me just say that 0) I was approached for this job, I did NOT seek it out a) I did take several days to think about it, especially since my view of things and that of other, more conservative members of this board...

Funny, but they already paid for that booze. Now they have to pay to store it, and they also have to pay for secure storage to support additional booze purchases from non-American suppliers. Performative idiocy for the masses. And that alleged idiocy becomes serious when no more orders are placed b...

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 3:07 pm “Third Shot”, c.19th August and likely would have used one of the weather ships the 529th had available. Bock’s Car had been a scientific survey ship for the Hiroshima strike.

NB, the other ships were Big Stink and Up & Atom…

Big Stink sounds like a Nurglite bio-agent bomber

Enola Gay delivered the Uranium gun-type bomb. Boxcar, the Plutonium 'imploder'. At which point, cities fire-bombed, Russians weighing in etc etc, Japanese surrendered on terms. Do we know which Silverplate B-29 would have dropped a third Device, yet to be shipped ?? Kokura, Niigata and Yokohama ar...

Like Jan's TLW, when I joined up 14 years or so ago, I think that your universe could use a bit more non-Anglo flavor. This does not mean this is a turn-off, as it is only natural to write about what you know. Another thing that could be amusing would be Friedrich Barbarossa one day rising from his ...

The whole 666 designation and witchcraft angle might not work in a world where witches are real life horrors and dangerous to life and soul to boot, rather than simply illustrative imagery; I would imagine that in this case, getting such a designation past the German cabinet when the Chancellor is ...