setsneedtofeed

setsneedtofeed, 18 days ago

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setsneedtofeed, 18 days ago

Hey don’t…jerk me around, fella.

setsneedtofeed, 18 days ago

Somehow, the Wiesel survived.

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setsneedtofeed, 18 days ago

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setsneedtofeed, 19 days ago

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setsneedtofeed, 19 days ago

It’s a Rogue Trader era jetbike!

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setsneedtofeed, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

It was, which would indeed be a highly niche use. A tank being swarmed with infantry literally on top of, and there being no friendly infantry or tanks around to help to the point of wanting a curved barrel is a situation that is so bad it probably can’t be solved by just a curved barrel.

setsneedtofeed, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Honestly it’s something that should be solved by tactics not engineering. The Germans in WW2 seemed hyperfixated on engineering to chase some sort of ever shifting ideal instead of settling for a “good enough” in terms of a standard design or baseline and running with it in production. Excellent academic video on the subject.

Directional charges mounted on armor as an anti-infantry defense measure have never really been anything I’m aware of having been institutionally adopted. It’s the kind of equipment that armor crews shouldn’t be putting themselves in positions to use. (Yes, I’m aware of the M113 MCCM carrier- totally different application than defense of the vehicle in combat.)

setsneedtofeed, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

The impression I’ve gotten from both past reading, and the video is that they had not at that time shifted to a modern assembly line industrialized kind of mindset. America had things like it’s automotive industry, which had pushed that earlier than in Germany.

Everything Germans made had a larger amount of handcrafting in it as a necessity of the workflow, and because of that handcrafting there was pride by the individual workers to make really fine quality. The “IDGAF, it meets spec, send it.” mentality of an American lineworker who was running more automated systems or compartmentalized parts of the work was more suitable.

On top of that, in the Nazi government, individual military leaders were jockying and sending all their own requests for modifications right to the factories. The US had a centralized system for modification requests that prevented that. I don’t think that was an intended feature by the Germans, but a situation that rose organically out of their lack of experience with production at scale.

setsneedtofeed, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Watch the video, it goes in depth on their tank production methods, and specifically the inefficiencies within it.

They dominated the battlefield with their abundance of mechanization.

Germany strongly pushed that exact propaganda, especially at the beginning of the war. They wanted their military to be perceived as bleeding edge. That perception has stuck, but it simply wasn’t true. Germany was not nearly as mechanized as it wanted to be perceived as. Any early advantage it had from stockpiles of pre-war production (of early war designs which were often outdated by mid or late war) were absolutely crushed by allied numbers, and America alone vastly outproduced for almost every year of the war.

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setsneedtofeed, 19 days ago

Relevant article.

setsneedtofeed, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Quick update on genestealers for Space Hulk. Currently doing the dead marines on the bases with big chunky highlights.

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