I posted my proposals on several boards, and they prompted a wide range of responses and alternative suggestions. So I have picked out some of the...
British capital design arguably reached its peak with the 'Queen Elizabeth' class 15" gunned ships of the early part of the Great War. The...
The only thing they can do is to do what they are doing already - try to keep up with each new doping method and test all the competitors...
I think it came from Saumur, but it was parked by the entrance to Eurosatory 2006 to the north of Paris. Tony Williams: Military gun and...
A couple of pics from my website: Tony Williams: Military gun and ammunition website and discussion forum [img] [img]
The concept of laying out a cockpit in a logical fashion to meet the needs of the pilots doesn't seem to have occurred to British designers at...
As in any army, the quality of Italian units varied significantly. The best - the elite professionals - were probably as good as anyone else's...
Essentially the MGs are converted to sem-automatic fire (one shot at a time). The timing of each shot is controlled by the synch system, which...
I think that Mussolini's most sensible approach would have been "to do a Franco" - stay just friendly enough with Hitler to avoid annoying him,...
They would have had real problems in achieving that, because Italian industry was mostly still on a "craft" basis rather than in major...
Synchronising the motors was a simple job, done in flight by fiddling with the throttles. The Luftwaffe pilots deliberately left their bomber...
Re: huh? All my centrefire rifle shooting was with bolt-action .303s and 7.62mms. I also did a lot of shooting with .22 RF target rifles...
Re: overlooking a problem with pistol caliber weapons Which is why the British came up with the EM-2 - a selective-fire gun as compact as an...
I was focusing on the difference between semi-auto and full-auto with the same weapon, which is why I didn't give the Lee Enfield results....
I didn't say hit ratio - that's different. The measure of hit probability I'm referring to is the practical one in combat - the probability of...
How about - every army in the world that's bought machine guns, SMGs or assault rifles, instead of relying on semi-automatic weapons (hint: that's...
It is indeed interesting, Jason, thanks for posting it. Tony Williams Homepage: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk
No air-cooled MG is capable of sustained continuous fire in the way that a water-cooled one is. For example, the sustained RoF of the .50 M2HB...
There doesn't seem to be any agreement over this. Just flipping through Jane's Infantry Weapons to pick out the faster ones reveals that Germany...
According to Hogg, the most likely would have been the "Cartridge, QF, 18 pdr AP shot Mk 3T", which consisted of a solid steel shot with a tracer....
