The standard Luftwaffe MG for flexible mounting in the early part of WW2 was the Rheinmetall-Borsig MG 15. This used a 75-round saddle drum....
This extract from my book Rapid Fire: the Development of Automatic Cannon, Heavy Machine Guns and their Ammunition for Armies, Navies and Air...
That's always struck me as being one of the "myths of WW2". An attacking torpedo plane is, by definition, heading straight towards its target. So...
"Worm holes" are a theoretical construct of physics: no-one has even found one yet, yet alone has the slightest idea of how one might be made....
The Golden Rule to remember when reading about such "German secret weapons" is this: if nobody has discovered them in the sixty years since then,...
About 275 USD. Only one needed per household, regardless of the number of TVs. Historically, this started as a way of funding the development...
I take it that your permission for .357/.38 covers carbines and not handguns? Tony Williams: Military gun and ammunition website and discussion...
I believe that few, if any, WW2 battleships were sunk by bombs alone, with the exception of the Roma which was hit by the huge radio-controlled...
I don't whether they were cold-hearted or just more angry with the enemy. Men tended to accept war, and usually didn't personally hate the enemy....
I think that the V1 was an effective use of resources (it was simple and cheap), but only as a wide-area terror weapon. Most of the other secret...
Yep, the torps were more effective when they hit, but the planes were more vulnerable to being shot down in their attack runs. The best method of...
THIS was my review of my old 9mm Husqvarna pistol. [edit to add a pic] [img] Tony Williams: Military gun and ammunition website and...
I agree. The Sten was a barely acceptable short-term expedient, but the Bren was one of the all-time great small arms, loved by its users. It...
The problem was that that people didn't necessarily do as they were told, and it was the natural place to put your left hand :rolleyes: The...
The basic problem with the Sten was the single-feed magazine design. This was a double-stack mag in which the two stacks were forced together into...
There's reportedly one still in force in London which makes it legal to urinate against the rear offside wheel of a cab. It doesn't guarantee you...
I read recently that some German soldiers on the Eastern Front preferred captured Stens to the MP40, just because they could fire them while lying...
The pic below, from the article on Tankbusters on my website, shows the relative sizes of the ammo fired by German ground-attack planes. The 75mm...
Possibly some organisations suffering from misplaced over-sensitivity have decided not to fly national flags, but there's no legal basis for it...
Re: because Actually, I've read some reports from WW2 of US soldiers' view of the M1 Garand which make it clear that it didn't always work....
