History (and related interesting facts)

Video Showcasing rare German WW2 infantry weapons, from the MKB-42(W) early war prototype assault rifle, the MP-3008 late war Sten clone for the Vokstrum, Grossfuss prototype AR(which competed against the STG-45) and lastly the STG-45, what was supposed to have replaced the STG-44/MP-44.



Next, we have footage from the Russian Kubinka tank museum that showcased German AFV hardware that the Soviets captured from WW2, from the Ferdinand tank destroyer, Tigers 1 and 2 and the one of a kind, Maus Super Heavy Tank prototype.

Germany still wants that tank back.

Mostly because the ruskies don't want to prioritize its restoration.

At 188 tons, that would involve a hefty shipping and handling fee.

Sadly it was a weak and useless dynasty. If camera existed a few centuries earlier, it would be very picturesque.

Taking folk's photos...
Like Precious building like this:







Shah Ismail I army fighting Sultan Selim I and Ottomans

Documentary about Mexico's 201st Fighter Squadron, which served in WW2 during the Liberation of the Philippines against Japan flying P-47D Thunderbolts.

Here the first picture that was ever posted on the web back in 1992, it's a group shot of a parody doo-wop group consisting of employees who worked at CERN at the time.

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Here's one of their songs, about a girlfriend enduring lonely nights while her man is off being a "high energy" physicist.



The song is actually pretty catchy ^

More info about them and their historic picture, Here

Really one of the most interesting figures during the whole of the late Crusader period.

A look into the legal battle between Atari (the owners of the Pac-Man copyright) and Phillips back in '81-82, over the latter's Pac-Man clone called "K.C. Munchkin!", which provided the groundwork for how copyright law would apply to video games.

Well, fortunately for you that whole classification "system" fell out of favor not long after WW2 with the development of MBTs(which combine the qualities of medium and heavy tanks). Super heavy tanks were so impractical though,i don't know what anyone was thinking in further developing them after the Char, which spent most of it's brief combat action either being transported by rail due to being so slow or breaking down.

This is true and I am pleased by that standardization I am not even going to lie. I think just generalizing it between armored vehicles and main battle tanks is a far simpler method of conveying whatever it is you want to say about it.


Well to be fair there is some practical approach on building a land battle platform. For example you can build mobile artillery and command platforms but it requires such a leap forward from where it stood in the aftermath of world war two it was just impractical to say the least. Though I do think that some designs such as the T29 provided a testbed for all sorts of self propelled locomotion technologies which would come in handy in the years that came after. That's about the only benefit of them post war, you could build off them for future artillery platforms and use what had been learned to improve drive systems and engines. For example the T29's trending system was used in the M107 a few decades later.

On the further end though, I think heavier tank platforms are not the way that the wind is blowing. Though I do admit that I have found various super heavy tanks in fiction to be interesting in the design spectrum if nothing else. Though I think in practicality they would be woefully out of place on modern battlefields but that doesn't mean I have found a design or two to strike my fancy.

For example to my eye probably the heaviest tank ever designed in fiction weighing in at around 220.0 tons outside of weird designs in say the Bolo tank or the Nazi's design on the Ratte super tank which had aburd weights like 1,000 tons and etc. The YMT Hildolfr. Sounds Norse enough to you? It sounds Norse enough to me.

Armed primary with well erm a big fucking gun obviously.

It's 30cm cannon is comparable to the shit large battleships were chucking at each other from their main guns. Well even bigger then that, I mean for example the Iowa class shot 16s I think. A handful of ships had 30s though.


o.o 

Its a neat design I think especially because most of its weight comes from what's hidden underneath the primary chassis and that's reflected in its movement speed and what have you.


That's unfortunately one of the things that has to be considered when designing anything. Method of it actually reaching the field, most roads aren't up to the snuff of handling the weight of a tank on them so you have to find alternative means and that just bogs down the logistics of them actually reaching the place where you can use them. Its why practicality wins out over exotic more oft then not in history.

And we lose out on would be interesting things that either never see the field or never get off the design boards so we can comment on them decades later.

Fairly impressive that Queen Eliz has lasted as long as she has. Queen Victoria was tough to beat.

As far as useless political mouthpieces go she is by far the most annoying and abusive to her own nation so I can understand the disbelief on how she continues to live.

I heard the UK is still paying off that party of hers back in 2012. Good thing they only pop up every once in a while otherwise I think the royalty would bankrupt England...again.

Much as I dislike old Harald he never quite blew that much tax payer money on something stupid like that.