Recent content by Kurfürst

Something on the Japanese recoilless(? something along these line) 40 mm cannon would be lovely indeed! :idea:

Hi Civettone, I am not sure what kind of space issues you are interested in, but yes, the large AS/D type superchargers did require to enlarge the cowling. On the 109K prototype these were symmetrical, but if you look at drawing of a G-/AS, G-10 or K-4, you can see that the port cowling bulge...

Yup - the supercharger was mounted in the back of the engine block, and I believe it was in the way. The Germans got around this by mounting the supercharger on the side, though possibly this was easier to do if the engine was inverted. I am not sure how it was done on the Hispano-Suiza...

You make it sound like it was mere coincidence. Almost as if they were struck by a random lightning or something. I am not. You are.

Run out of civilized arguments so soon, and only the insults remain, eh?

Oh, what a foresight they had in 1907...! :lol:

Oddly referred to between historians as the second Reich. I wonder why that is. ;) Noope and yes. It became a bunch of independent states some time after the Treaty of Westphalia, or one can argue after Charles V. Legally it was still one state though, until a small Corsican artillery...

Why the distinction 'Third Reich'... now how about the Second Reich? Or the First Reich? I am not saying that the integration into the Reich was justifiable - every nation has the right to self-govern, at least in theory which interpreted with great flexibility in practice. Now as for posters...

O RLY? Show me Czechoslovakia or Poland on the map please in say, 1850. Or in 1798. Or in 1914. That's flattering. Then the British Empire declared war on them, and they all the sudden ceased to be such a fine developed and cultured nation, and become the barbaric Huns, right?

Care to post some detailed examples of such raids, with backing evidence about what were the issued targets? Like I did when I was asked to do so by Adler? Otherwise it counts as an opinion, rather than a fact. Opinions are fine. Everyone has them.

Nope.

The short answer is that Hitler wanted to (re-)integrate these territories into the Reich. On the side note I guess he had as much justification for that - meaning: right of the stronger one - as there was for a British Governor in India, or you can start thinking about how did the 13 colonies...

Because I believe in the power of a convincing arguement backed by verifiable evidence overtrolling backed by emotions... and probably I have too much spare time on my hand today! :lol: If a few people learn something about bombing in WW2, highly propagandized air raids and their factual and...