Very true. But what is the one rifle they best know how to operate? The one that they nearly all have handled since they were kids? The one that...
Oh, is it time for playground insults already? Well, anyone with three functioning braincells would understand that the 'minimal damage' to the...
No and no. Pretty much every RN vessel in the Atlantic was turned out to locate and bag the Bismark, with plenty of planes assisting. That dragnet...
But was it any more ridiculous than the Holman Projector, an unguided anti-air HAND GRENADE launcher? Which allegedly (I'm taking this with a very...
You state (correctly) that the Garand has only one good feature nowadays - it's range. Then you propose using it in a situation where its range is...
This answer makes no sense at all. If people are trading machine-gun fire, that's more firepower than a rifle anyway. Get mortars/snipers/air or...
Are you actually working on transcribing the PDFs to HTML? If so you are a true hero! I have the PDF scans and that is a great reference, but a...
I've also read that they were noisy due to the rounds sliding back and forth. Apparently one of the first things the Brits learned was that their...
That pic looks to be a 76mm APCR-T, which is indeed an armor-piercing round with tracer but obviously much bigger. Perhaps it's from a British 2lb...
I agree entirely. IMHO, any plane in operational service in the 1939-1940 timeframe were first-generation semi-experimental models desperately...
In the run-up to WW1 the focus was on full-size high-power rifles for use by expert riflemen, driven partly by the experiences of the Boer War....
If I recall correctly the initial response to the Meuse crossings was to order a counterattack to be carried out in five days time, which was...
I don't believe the forces sent up to Norway were big enough to make a significant difference in France. However given that the Allied commanders...
From what I have read I have formed a similar impression. In particular it seems that allied forces often were rather inflexible when it came to...
If the stars were to align in such a way as to have Japan voluntarily stop bullying China, then we are in the realms of remote possibilities...
Having a quick shufty about, it seems that the Choctaw and the Flying Banana were powered by the R-1830, but giving a bit more power than the...
I think there was also an element of cutting supplies from Hanoi and other ports to China. But you're certainly right that without the war in...
My understanding was that Japanese forces going into Indochina either came amphibiously from Hainan island, or overland from Guanxi, and that...
So that would have been the First Lord of the Admiralty, none other than W Churchill, who also proceeded to poke his fingers into operational...
