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Fink Angel
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The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.10.07 01:23:00 -
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Has to be the King Tiger for me. That thing was so far in front of allied tanks it took about 6 Shermans to take one out. 5 to act as decoys and 1 to get into position to hit it in the weak rear at point blank range. If they ever got the drive train to be reliable and had enough fuel to keep them on the move, they'd have been far more dangerous!
"One day a Tiger Royal tank got within 150 yards of my tank and knocked me out. Five of our tanks opened up on him from ranges of 200 to 600 yards and got five or six hits on the front of the Tiger. They all just glanced off and the Tiger backed off and got away. If we had a tank like Tiger, we would all be home today."
- Report by tank commander Sergeant Clyde D. Brunson from 2nd Armored Division, 1945.
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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.10.07 09:33:00 -
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 Originally by: Grimpak
any tank that had an 88 on 'em was pretty much pwn.
the 88mm was pretty much THE weapon in the WWII's european theater.
Yes, with the Germans even going so far as to turn their AA guns, the Flak-88, groundward and finding it was also made an incredibly good anti tank weapon, so they made a version specifically for that purpose, the Pak-88.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_mm_gun
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Fink Angel
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The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.10.07 09:40:00 -
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Originally by: Death Kill
Ahhh yes. Whenever I encounter one of those in Red Orchestra I know I have to make each shell count. They also look damn cool.
I pay a visit to the Bovington Tank Museum every couple of years, down in Dorset. It's attached to the British Army's main Armoured Fighting Vehicle training centre and is highly recommended if you're into this sort of thing.
They have a Tiger I, and Tiger II (King Tiger) ... but the one that always amazes me the most is their Jagdtiger. It's a tank destroyer with a 128mm gun on a King Tiger chassis. There's no turret, this huge gun is fixed to the hull, and the armour is so think that the front was impenetrable to any frotal fire. If you saw one of these on the battlefield you turned and went around it!
Luckily they only made 88, and they were plagued with mechanical breakdowns like the Tiger II they were based on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdtiger
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Fink Angel
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The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.10.07 14:14:00 -
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Originally by: Lord MuffloN
Originally by: Mudkest
Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
Could but this reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Josef Stalin: "Quantity has a quality all its own."
At that point in the war having a 1000 T-34s after you even one shotting them didn't help much. 
and seeing we're talking about Russia here, loss of "human recourses" was not considered a problem 
...? What? Are you telling me, Jospeh Stalin, the guy who killed over 9 million people on my decisions alone, that I'm wrong and that other people lifes are valueable...?
...Come on...
I read it that he's agreeing with you, but the was because the lack of caring about human life is disagreeable.
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Fink Angel
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The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.10.07 16:38:00 -
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Originally by: Lord MuffloN
And I'm being sarcastic and plus, that was my first post, so he didn't agree with me on any point :P
Ah, it was the double sarcasm that threw me!
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Fink Angel
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The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.10.07 22:54:00 -
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Metal Storm is a bit mental if that's your sort of thing.
36 barrel prototype firing at 600 then 30,000 then 60,000 ... then a million rounds per minute. 
You have to download then unzip, but it's worth it!
http://www.metalstorm.com/clientuploads/directory/videos/ms_36barrel_mpg.zip
The million RPM version looks like a shotgun blast but they are actually individual rounds fired!
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Fink Angel
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The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.10.09 16:29:00 -
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Comedy military thing ... Swedish tank crew "drifting"
Not comedy military thing: Beehive Round (5,000 flechettes in an artillery shell)
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Fink Angel
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Posted - 2007.10.11 14:56:00 -
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Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
I am betting that such armor was rare and expensive and 99% of the troops on the field would not be wearing that. Great for the Prince strutting around in it but not likely to affect the outcome of the battle at all.
Yep, that sort of armour was only affordable by a king or pretty senior gentry.
It was only really to stop him getting killed by stray arrows or over zealous footsoldiers. Primarily it was made to make him easily identifiable.
Why would he want that? The rules of chivalry back in those days meant that high ranking enemy would have been taken prisoner and ransomed by the enemy. Being worth far more dead than alive, it's unlikely they'd have gone out of their way to kill him, and him being "lost" on the battlefield would still have had a highly negative effect on his side.
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