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JThe problem with making comparisons between each country's machines is that we have access to information today that the designers or...
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread Did the British Air Ministry consider 0.55 in (14 mm) guns?.Swedish ammunition data for their m/39 & m/39A: AP (1939): 50.75 grams, 800 m/sec HE-T (1939): 42 grams, 900 m/sec, filler of 3.2g of...
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread Did the British Air Ministry consider 0.55 in (14 mm) guns?.Now those were some interesting guns. Somewhat lighter than the US version and faster firing too, with HE and incendiary rounds ready...
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread Did the British Air Ministry consider 0.55 in (14 mm) guns?.I might be mistaken, but the Boys Gun originally used a 13.2x99 Hotchkiss round and then after trials in March 1936 they decided to neck...
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread "All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again.".Indians can't be particularly happy with Russia as a defense supplier. Reports are that T-90S tanks that were supposed to be exported to...
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread "All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again.".Mix of claims by Ukraine Black Sea Fleet command/communications centre hit by at least three (large) weapons. Likely Stormshadow or...
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread "All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again.".The Czech-led artillery ammunition purchasing programme announced it has now bought 300,000 shells for Ukraine. There are non-binding...
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JJabberwocky reacted to don4331's post in the thread Can we make a faster better performing Wildcat in 1942? with.About 20mph? As soon as you released the tiedowns holding the tail down, the Wildcat would nose over and plow on the prop until the...
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JJabberwocky reacted to MIflyer's post in the thread Worst liquid-cooled, V12-powered, single-engine, single-seat, monoplane, retractable undercarriage fighters of WW2? with.I have an early issue of Air Enthusiast that has an article on that and I'll try to scan and post it.
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread Worst liquid-cooled, V12-powered, single-engine, single-seat, monoplane, retractable undercarriage fighters of WW2?.I know all about the WayBack machine. I've even contributed financially in the past (great way of getting around certain paywalls). I...
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread Worst liquid-cooled, V12-powered, single-engine, single-seat, monoplane, retractable undercarriage fighters of WW2?.MiG-1 gets my vote. Dangerously unstable in flight both laterally and longitudinally, with controls that were both unbalanced and very...
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread "All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again.".Right now. Funding is in place and a couple of countries (Romania and possibly Moldova) are already shipping small amounts of 155mm and...
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread "All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again.".Reports about the Sergey Kotov are that it's either so heavily heavily damaged its going to be out of service for years, or that it's...
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JJabberwocky reacted to SaparotRob's post in the thread "All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." with.What a brilliant idea!
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JJabberwocky replied to the thread How good was the soviet air force?.Not to mention that the vast majority of vehicles in a German armoured formation (or any armoured formation for that matter) weren't...
