When those early cold war tanks were introduced, hollow charges/HEAT started to be more prevalent so my guess is just that. Tanks at the time were all steel and HEAT cut through that like a hot knife through butter.
Oh was this early Cold War design? Somehow my head thought this was some 1980 concept during the whole discussions of improving the T-54/55 to keep up with the times.
I thought part of the low flight might have been due to the defending American forces seemingly having Centurion CIWS (you can see air defense guns firing in the background when they pan over the White House).
I guess it was moreso how close the Apache is hovering near enemy positions to deliver air support than just flying low because it just opens up lots of opportunities for the enemy faction to hose firepower onto the Apache.
I was surprised the Western Forces were so well armed and equipped. While I know California and Texas are large states, they had a pretty powerful military and a lot of heavy equipment.
Given how Sophie mentioned how Robert tends to light up during some of the passages in the True Allegience reading, maybe a good book discussion week would be good moment.
For the USN LHA, carrying fixed-wing assets like AV-8B or F-35B would allow the amphibious assault ships to help support any local amphibious assault operations with fixed-wing assets by itself compared to tasking a CVN to provide the necessary aircraft (although I'm sure the US Marines on the beaches wouldn't mind the extra assistance). Ideally, this would mean the air wing attached to the LHA, from fixed-wing to rotary-wing, are focus-tasked on supporting amphibious assault operations by ensuring local air superiority and close air support closer to land to ensure quick response and turnaround time. The USN CVN's aircraft could be dedicated to ensuring air and fleet defense in the deeper seas, far away from any land-based anti-ship missiles or other weapons.
An important note here is that the F-35 we use in the US is not the same as the ones we sell to other countries. Also, as seen with the SU-57, just because you reverse engineer it, does not mean you can duplicate it.
For both the K-21 infantry fighting vehicle (AS21 Redback IFV in Australian service) and the K-9 Thunder artillery piece (AS9 Huntsman in Australia), the proximity of the South Korea and their shared defense commitments with Australia in the Pacific, as well generous licensing/production agreements, played a role in the decision to acquire South Korean equipment for Australia.
My understanding was on paper the YF-23 was more of less "better" than the F-22. It was faster, stealthier, and had a longer range than the F-22. However, it had 2 major drawbacks that were deal-breakers at the time:
I wasn't aware of the magazine system in the YF-23. Definitely novel, but can see the concern if the first missile cannot break free that the rest inside would be worthless.
I don't think the F-14 would have brought anything ground-breaking to the aerial battlefield that a better F-4J would have brought given that most of the F-14's advantage as a fleet air defense and interceptor are not able to be utilized over Vietnam. F-14 would definitely have much greater fuel range than the F-4, which would allow for extended air coverage to protect strike packages and engage aerial targets without worrying about fuel.
I find it amusing that “White Coke” was invented in 1946, yet “Crystal Pepsi” took until the 1990’s to crash and burn. “Coke Clear” was made available in Asia in 2018 and is still made.
Also we just had Congress approve the new XM250 and XM7, there are signs that Congress is somewhat for new procurement. Especially if it is mostly American-made.
Did Congress need to approve the weapons? I figured it was the military that approved if the weapon was serviceable enough and all Congress needs to do is hear out from the military how many $ million is expected in the budget for those new rifles and machine guns.
Nicholas Moran has done a lot of digging in the US FMs and acquisition meeting minutes, and his conclusion is that the US Army never had a policy to trade armor defeat capacity for explosive effectiveness. The 75mm was the best tank killer at the time for the M4, and the rumor about HE capability was mostly a post-war litigation to try to explain why there were periods where US tanks were overmatched by German big cats.
The post-war bit is my personal speculation, sorry. As for the assertion about not trading HE capability with armor defeat, in his Youtube video 'Myths of American Armor' he calls out the 75mm was selected for HE capability specifically, highlighting how already in 1942, before any of the big cats started showing up, the Army was working out how to fit the 76mm gun to the M4, and he says 'The Army always wanted a hole puncher.'
Yeah there were two noticeable jabs so far with the allusion of B-29 carpet bombing when the BP-3 were first brought up as well as GVE aircraft strafing citizens which the JASDF pilot reflected to how American escort fighters in WWII strafing civilian areas. The second one I think is very ironic considering that GVE is supposedly based on Imperial Japan equipment.
The book "Israeli F-15 Eagle Units in Combat" by Shlomo Aloni has a few paragraphs dedicated to the Israeli evaluation of both F-14 and F-15 that led to the choosing of F-15 as their new aircraft.
Thanks for the Reply man! Israeli F-15 Eagle units in combat is definitely an awesome book and a great resource! Unfortunately that’s not new information for me but I’m sure others will find it super interesting!
No problem. Sorry that the information I have from my library wasn't anything new for you, but wish you best of luck. Although I'm not sure you can find anything more concrete than the testimony of the evaluation team involved than the actual evaluation report stored in an Israeli archive somewhere.
Spearhead by Adam Makos as others mentioned is a good choice, being written based on the story of Clarence Smoyer that was a tank crew member during the fighting in France before he became the gunner of a T26E3/M26 Pershing, notably which he was part of the infamous tank fight in Cologne against a Panther tank that was caught on film.
Hello there! is there a version of these art of plane girls without the greentext in the first coat images? Thought it would look cleaner without that text.
Summoning America has eleven aircraft carriers at its disposal and a reactivated Iowa Class Battleship soon to be outfitted with tomahawks enhanced with magic warheads. It is my favorite fan fiction derived from Summoning Japan.
If I had a nickel for every Japanese isekai military propaganda media that gets loads of fan-work replacing Japan with America, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it is weird that it happened twice.
There are these phrases that keep reappearing...
What was the Soviet ideal purpose of these meshes back then? Anti-RPGs? given that drones of our current nature weren't around back then.
When those early cold war tanks were introduced, hollow charges/HEAT started to be more prevalent so my guess is just that. Tanks at the time were all steel and HEAT cut through that like a hot knife through butter.
Oh was this early Cold War design? Somehow my head thought this was some 1980 concept during the whole discussions of improving the T-54/55 to keep up with the times.
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I thought part of the low flight might have been due to the defending American forces seemingly having Centurion CIWS (you can see air defense guns firing in the background when they pan over the White House).
I guess it was moreso how close the Apache is hovering near enemy positions to deliver air support than just flying low because it just opens up lots of opportunities for the enemy faction to hose firepower onto the Apache.
I was surprised the Western Forces were so well armed and equipped. While I know California and Texas are large states, they had a pretty powerful military and a lot of heavy equipment.
The movie made it seem like only Texas and California, but
As part of Rule 1, please keep any discussion and data to events older than one year.
Battle of Marawi is 962 militants, 47 civilians. about 20:1 combatants to civilians - 20 militants killed per civilian
As part of Rule 1, please remove mention of any events that happened less than one year ago.
Or even a "light work" episode. I'm sure there's plenty of terrible right-wing books for an episode or two.
Given how Sophie mentioned how Robert tends to light up during some of the passages in the True Allegience reading, maybe a good book discussion week would be good moment.
Good ol' T-54 still chugging along.
For the USN LHA, carrying fixed-wing assets like AV-8B or F-35B would allow the amphibious assault ships to help support any local amphibious assault operations with fixed-wing assets by itself compared to tasking a CVN to provide the necessary aircraft (although I'm sure the US Marines on the beaches wouldn't mind the extra assistance). Ideally, this would mean the air wing attached to the LHA, from fixed-wing to rotary-wing, are focus-tasked on supporting amphibious assault operations by ensuring local air superiority and close air support closer to land to ensure quick response and turnaround time. The USN CVN's aircraft could be dedicated to ensuring air and fleet defense in the deeper seas, far away from any land-based anti-ship missiles or other weapons.
An important note here is that the F-35 we use in the US is not the same as the ones we sell to other countries. Also, as seen with the SU-57, just because you reverse engineer it, does not mean you can duplicate it.
I have seen nothing to indicate that the F-35 the US sells to its allies is any way dramatically different than the F-35 kept at home.
For both the K-21 infantry fighting vehicle (AS21 Redback IFV in Australian service) and the K-9 Thunder artillery piece (AS9 Huntsman in Australia), the proximity of the South Korea and their shared defense commitments with Australia in the Pacific, as well generous licensing/production agreements, played a role in the decision to acquire South Korean equipment for Australia.
My understanding was on paper the YF-23 was more of less "better" than the F-22. It was faster, stealthier, and had a longer range than the F-22. However, it had 2 major drawbacks that were deal-breakers at the time:
I wasn't aware of the magazine system in the YF-23. Definitely novel, but can see the concern if the first missile cannot break free that the rest inside would be worthless.
I don't think the F-14 would have brought anything ground-breaking to the aerial battlefield that a better F-4J would have brought given that most of the F-14's advantage as a fleet air defense and interceptor are not able to be utilized over Vietnam. F-14 would definitely have much greater fuel range than the F-4, which would allow for extended air coverage to protect strike packages and engage aerial targets without worrying about fuel.
but can f16 really defeat s300/400? its not stealthy. also how should ukraine deal with russian gps jammers?
with the right tactics and equipment, things like attacking anti-aircraft missile batteries is possible.
I find it amusing that “White Coke” was invented in 1946, yet “Crystal Pepsi” took until the 1990’s to crash and burn. “Coke Clear” was made available in Asia in 2018 and is still made.
Oh god look up the Pepsi Navy.
Also we just had Congress approve the new XM250 and XM7, there are signs that Congress is somewhat for new procurement. Especially if it is mostly American-made.
Did Congress need to approve the weapons? I figured it was the military that approved if the weapon was serviceable enough and all Congress needs to do is hear out from the military how many $ million is expected in the budget for those new rifles and machine guns.
Nicholas Moran has done a lot of digging in the US FMs and acquisition meeting minutes, and his conclusion is that the US Army never had a policy to trade armor defeat capacity for explosive effectiveness. The 75mm was the best tank killer at the time for the M4, and the rumor about HE capability was mostly a post-war litigation to try to explain why there were periods where US tanks were overmatched by German big cats.
Do you recall specifically when The_Chieftain said that?
The post-war bit is my personal speculation, sorry. As for the assertion about not trading HE capability with armor defeat, in his Youtube video 'Myths of American Armor' he calls out the 75mm was selected for HE capability specifically, highlighting how already in 1942, before any of the big cats started showing up, the Army was working out how to fit the 76mm gun to the M4, and he says 'The Army always wanted a hole puncher.'
Ah okay, yes I recall he did say the Army was always looking for a better hole-puncher with the 76 mm.
Yeah there were two noticeable jabs so far with the allusion of B-29 carpet bombing when the BP-3 were first brought up as well as GVE aircraft strafing citizens which the JASDF pilot reflected to how American escort fighters in WWII strafing civilian areas. The second one I think is very ironic considering that GVE is supposedly based on Imperial Japan equipment.
Yes, tankers are vulnerable. They are large lumbering aircraft filled to the brim of flammable material.
Against high-Pk missiles like the Javelin, the best way to defend against anti-tank guided missile is to not be acquired to begin with.
The book "Israeli F-15 Eagle Units in Combat" by Shlomo Aloni has a few paragraphs dedicated to the Israeli evaluation of both F-14 and F-15 that led to the choosing of F-15 as their new aircraft.
Thanks for the Reply man! Israeli F-15 Eagle units in combat is definitely an awesome book and a great resource! Unfortunately that’s not new information for me but I’m sure others will find it super interesting!
No problem. Sorry that the information I have from my library wasn't anything new for you, but wish you best of luck. Although I'm not sure you can find anything more concrete than the testimony of the evaluation team involved than the actual evaluation report stored in an Israeli archive somewhere.
Spearhead by Adam Makos as others mentioned is a good choice, being written based on the story of Clarence Smoyer that was a tank crew member during the fighting in France before he became the gunner of a T26E3/M26 Pershing, notably which he was part of the infamous tank fight in Cologne against a Panther tank that was caught on film.
Not a fighter jet, that's for sure.
OG Artist here, that was fast lmao
Hello there! is there a version of these art of plane girls without the greentext in the first coat images? Thought it would look cleaner without that text.
Nope
Aw.
First jet to be maneuver-killed by a biplane.
Summoning America has eleven aircraft carriers at its disposal and a reactivated Iowa Class Battleship soon to be outfitted with tomahawks enhanced with magic warheads. It is my favorite fan fiction derived from Summoning Japan.
If I had a nickel for every Japanese isekai military propaganda media that gets loads of fan-work replacing Japan with America, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it is weird that it happened twice.