That's good information, too. Shrapnel, of course, is randomly shaped for the most part. So it will tumble on the way down, and this will limit...
This helps a great deal, Nigel! I have learned more in one reply than over years of reading. Thank you very much.
I've often wondered about the literal fallout from dogfights and bomber interceptions. All that metal falling from the sky - just how dangerous...
Actually it originally meant "burnt offering", as in the animals sacrificed to dieties in ancient days. I believe that Jews themselves refer to...
Number four in the top 40! LONDON - Wartime leader Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister ever to enter the pop charts when...
Being Jewish is a bit more than just a religious belief - it also involves ancestry. People who are born from a Jewish mother are regarded as Jews...
I think we have concurrence here, Brndrt1. It's a shame the space race seemed to end with the moon, because there's a lot more out there ... but...
Of course the work would have been done eventually - but the significance of the V2/A4 project was more than von Braun's expertise. It...
I sometimes wonder if all that effort would have been more wisely spent in some other way. Still, the V-2 eventually gave us space exploration,...
That story is annoyingly vague. Exactly who is trying to shift the moral high ground, and what are they saying? Is he referring to neo-Nazis?
This talk of "mums" and grinding confused me. So I googled and came up with the following link, which explains everything for noobs like me....
I didn't claim the T-34 was the best tank of the war, only that it was the most influential. You are right that it had many faults, but its best...
I'd consider the T-34 the most influential tank overall, as it influenced the design of almost every tank that came after it. The single dual-use...
That looks like it could be quite dangerous to fire. Would the operator/gunner be exposed to blast from the mortar barrel?
Harking back to an earlier discussion - note the bayonet attachment point. :D
From the shots of the M3 Medium "Grant" tank in the movie Sahara, it seemed to be generously endowed with side hatches, and not very cramped. I...
From the article: "It is known that the Boys ATR was used against German midget submarines near the Belgian coast during WWII, where one,...
Let's see one of those great Tiger tanks do that! :D
Thanks, bongopete! I googled and came up with this illustrated full history of the tank in question.
Yes. And it's also the lowest form of artistic self-promotion - creating an image designed simply to offend as many people as possible, thus...
