Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "SandRhoman History"
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Lol!
As a Swede born in 1984, I just recived a written order in the mail to show up at a specified date and time at a local regiment for service evaluation tests.
After a day of physical, medical and cognitive tests, there was two interviews, one with a psychologist and one with an evaluation and duty assignment officer who issued me the written orders of where and when to report to start my 300days long conscript training to become a fire control comms specialist in a heavy mortar platoon.
In February, the following year, my unit had done it's last training day on our nearest training field before the final exercise in a different part of the country, our CO decided we deserved to celebrate the occation...
By having us unload our day packs from the trucks, have the trucks drive ahead to the base and an NCO return the drivers and have us all march the 20km back to base on foot through up to a foot of old snow at -2°C, and of course, we comms specialists has to carry the two 12kg field radios in addition to our day packs and full combat gear...
When we all made it back, the two mortar platoons were given two magnum bottles ~2×1.2L of champaigne-style soda to share... between roughly 45 soldiers to a platoon... X/
Edit: the order papers also informed me that disobeying those orders is a felony and carries jail time...
At the time, the conscription was compulsory for men, but open for women to volounteer.
The year after I served, a girl who had volounteered interest changed her mind and failed to grasp that once you are listed, the only legal way out is to get rejected at the evaluation.
She was sentenced to one week in prison.
After a hiatus and reactivation in 2014 as a reaction to Russian agression in Europe, it's nowdays compulsory for all genders.
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@LuisAldamiz there is definitely Russian agression in Europe, both the occupation of the Crimean peninsula with it's mock election, the puppet occupation of Eastern Ukraine to create a lawless buffer zone outside Russian borders and smaller things like air attack practice runs against Swedish cities by Russian aircraft capable of carrying cruise missiles with a stand off range far longer than the domestic and commercial water zones around Sweden. Active information warfare against Swedish infrastructure and key ministers and politicians as well as active support for domestic terrorists inside Sweden like the nazi organisations NMR and Sverigedemokraterna, though the latter are of course feigning ignorance and act as if the accusations are false in contradiction to the tons of circumstantial evidence leaking like a siv from their own organization.
And yes, conscription is reactivated since 2014 and from the growing number of fresh conscripts and professional soldiers I've encountered in my ten years of service in the home guard militia, they are more motivated, more concious about their actions and just as skilled as any american private.
The defence budget doesn't allow for training all of the high school graduates each year, so only the best and least averse are selected and the 8years when conscription was abolished meant that all the old officers with Preussan ideas of dicipline and hazing had retired or been laid off when it got restarted, making for a much better training system focused on positive reinforcement that promotes active thinking soldiers on all levels and more unit synergy and initiative taking than before.
And even before, from the Congo crisis to the Balkan peace forcing missions and the aborted mission in Afghanistan, the tendency of Swedish units and individual soldiers to act first on the information at hand towards the purpose of their presence and let the brass sort out any political mess later is what built our reputation as honest, reliable and fair peace keepers and enforcers that, unlike a sad number of others, won't participate in or tolerate extortion, corruption or trafficking and will do whatever we need to protect local civilians and ourselves even to the point of ignoring unreasonable politically motivated restrictions to the RoE when those restrictions are incompatible with the local situation on the ground under both UN and EU flags.
As for Russia, it's the government that's the problem, not the people.
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@pokekick4185 no, siege engines aside from rams, siege ramps, countervallations and other earthworks, siege engines such as catapults, trebuchets etc. was not built on site as they require seasoned wood, precisely cut joins, precision forged metal details and carefully constructed leather and rope rigging or the precision would be worthless and the forces of launching their payload would sooner or later pull the machines apart with disastrous casualties among the rare, highly educated and skilled operators.
They were, however, commonly transported dissasembled, like sinister giant IKEA predecessors.
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@attilakatona-bugner1140 Swedish armies would likely be able to do something similiar but to a somewhat lesser quality due to engineering experience with canals and locks to connect our waterways across the entire Scandinavian part of the country, the construction of Stockholm and all the canals, locks and bridgeworks necsessary to get any kind of industry at all going in the eastern half that is now a free, happier, Finland.
A huge part of central Stockholm is still resting on 16th to 18th century tree trunks pole hammered down through water, mud and silt to bedrock. This became an ever more acute problem when the city started building tunnels and culverts for sewage, gas pipes, electricity, subways, roads and a veritable warren of maintenance, evacuation tunnels and various defense related underground facilities as all these works required temporary or permanently lowering of the water table around them. That in turn, exposed the tops of those centuries old trunks to air, fungi and insects that had been kept away by the practically oxygen free groundwater, and the wood started rotting under the equally old foundations of the three to six floor high, sometimes culturally invaluable stone houses above which started to crack.
Sollution: go down into the basement or lowest floor, open up the foundations and weld a lifting beam grid underneath the house one at a time, lift it up on hydraulic jacks and level it off, then, through the floor, sink new reinforced concrete poles in tiny sections into the mud using mini pole hammers down to the bedrock and then weld them to the lifting grid, remove the jacks fill up the void and cast a new reinforced concrete foundation below the old one around the lifting grid...
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Then let a modern artilleryman explain: F=m×V (Force equals mass multiplied by velocity)
The power of a bow is measured in draw weight, which is the equivalent of the force the bowman would use to lift a dead weight to the same height as the distance between the bow staff and the bowstring at full draw ie: a 150lb draw weight bow equals lifting a ~65kg from the ground to a height of roughly 2ft/60cm.
A part of that tension is then transfered into the arrow as it is loosed for as long as it is riding the bowstring, commonly around 50m/s with an arrow weight around 0.15<0.2kg giving the equation of F=0.2kg×50=10Joule of kinetic energy
The cannon of the late middle ages/early modern era on the other hand, is defined by it's projectile weight in pounds (1pound≈0.45g)
A common early field gun caliber beeing 12pd≈5.4kg
Blackpowder, beeing far weaker than modern smokeless powder, could omly accelerate that ball to a V⁰(velocity at the muzzle) of around 300m/s<500m/s.
That still gives an equation of
F=5.4kg×300m=1620Joule of kinetic energy, and due to it's high mass relative to it's surface, the cannon ball isn't going to be slowed down much by anything less solid than itself, punching holes straight through things instead of stopping. Things like shields, timber, armor, horses, legs, arms and ribcages. Flying through the air and then bouncing and rolling along the ground tearing through every obstacle like wet paper until it hits a vertical earth or stone obstacle stronger than itself and, if the cannon ball is stone, shattering into countless razor sharp stone shards, or, if a metal ball, buring itself, flattening out or bouncing off in a new direction to keep snapping off limbs until all it's energy is spent as friction...
Modern artillery on the other hand is much more deliberate, accurate and vicious as it, just like the early mortars, arcs in from above with a fragmenting shell, with the purpose of negating the use of walls as cover. Nowdays often with a proximity fuse that detonates the shell above the unfortunate targets, showering them with a cone thousands of glowing hot shell fragments and tungsten ball shrapnel.
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