Yeah I sort of started thinking myself into circles there, but Caldwell certainly knew what he was on about :)
I never likened the FlaK 18 to the German naval 88s. I said the design was an up-chambered Krupp 7.5 FlaK/rifle, which was Krupp's L/60 version of...
yeah true, I just remembered in passing that it was "readily adaptable for captured ammunition" I read, and didn't think that it was probably...
Conceded that I was being opinionated, I lack the ballistics and weapons system familiarity of true gun experts like Tony Williams and some folks...
Theoretically the 2pdr could penetrate 35-50mm at 500yds (there are other, very questionable claims which royal artillery has a great tendency...
I did study this once with an RAAF pilot cadetship but that was more than twenty years ago now, my memory isn't perfect. I've been looking up bits...
not that I'd have any idea but a suggestion could be...perhaps the thompson was preferred by people like squad leaders who got personal choice...
You guys realise that when the Davey Crocket, nuclear artillery shells and other tactical warheads were being put into service the effects of...
Isn't there a G-restriction on the Oldsmobile gun in the Airacobras (the 37mm)? I'm pretty sure I read it jammed unless you had next to no G when...
I heard this a lot many years ago but these kind of assertions were challenged with extreme prejudice by my elderly German relatives as Allied...
I'm not trying to waltz in sounding like any particular great authority, but just going by my own library and research here, The thread title is...
Challenging your claims isn't a personal challenge, and it is extremely suspicious that you took to it as if it were but it was my intention to...
Yes of course! Getting to interception altitude must've been what that range issue was about, if you didn't have early warning about long ranging...
Have to admit, myself I really know so very little about the technology of firearms and there is much more to know than I can imagine I'm certain...
I've got the RAAF 1943 comparative flight testing report on the first Ki-43 restored to flying condition and actually tested by the Allies in WW2,...
Caldwell gave an assessment to a local newspaper (Sydney Herald I think) about the Spit V versus Zero. He rates the Spit quite well, essentially...
Telling me, I'm just waiting for a McCleans advertisement any minute now, before we're returned to our former broadcasting. I think the issue can...
Guadalcanal always gains a special place in the hearts of researchers because it is one of relatively few battlefields for which the records are...
I don't know Mr Gomez, I respect what you wrote but only speaking as to the premise aside content, important to note that the term "Hitler" has...
Got a nice photo of a Hurricane with the biplane ferry wing they carried for that routé. It looks just like a Hawker Fury with a closed cockpit....
