The germans had a total of 30 Sboot in the channel region that sank a grand total of 6 ships on D Day???Thats at most 0.2 per sortie that day. But...
Then read Ellis's "Brute Force". Its clear that Ironside had all but given up any hope of surviving if the Germans got ashore in force...which is...
When tank with heavy armor is 'blown to bits' like this it signifies the use of HE either as a Bomb or a rigged charge. KOed tanks don't blow up...
There is evidence that this is a doctored test with the target being rigged with explosive for effect.
Well the thinking is the effectiveness of airborn/airmobile forces. THey have airsupport but lack any kind of organic mobility to say nothing of...
The biggest problem with the german army in WW-II was the lack of effective AT weapons in the infantry divisions. Tank Destroyers were much better...
THe frontal turret armor on the M-1 is about 750mm thick while hull is 540mm. THe glacis is only 50mm @ 82° [~ 350mm LOS]. Front side hull is only...
Problem is these are scientific papers not Academic papers, so you won't find much in the way of books [too new] . You might try Jonas Zukas as an...
http://www.ciar.org/ttk/mbt/ You can try the following source since I've uploaded a ton of ballistics papers there and just sent another 20-30...
RMO work is always important especially the modern stuff, but the 'Armor ' books were written in the late 1980s [as I recall] so they are quite...
Bradely A3 version has a 30mm Hard steel plate bolted to the aluminum armor with Super Blazer ERA mounted over top. Is that what you mean?
Most ICV have frontal resistance to 20-30mm AP/APDS but not APFSDS, while the all round protection level is 7.62mm AP/SLAP. Most ICV however also...
This might be true but at 2-3 tons its the lightest armored weapons carriers you can get ...which is ideal for a light infantry troops deployment....
Isn't the Wiesel 2 bigger for troop transport?
Exactly, I like the german idea of "airmechanized" with the Wiesel weapons carrier as this atleast gives the leg mobile troops some organic...
There is a problem here. HElos need airsuperiorty to function effectively and are really vulnerable to even small arms fire. OIF demostrated this,...
