Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

  1.  @AndreLuis-gw5ox  and are still essential, only with IFVs instead of horses.
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  2. The tank is the king of the battlefield. Ergo, everytime someone states: The king is dead! Armored corps goes: long live the King! The God of war (artillery) can strike one king down, but the next in the order of succession will take it's place.
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  3.  @TheDagraner4576  you lucky bastard only had a SAW... I had four quivers of ammo or tube for an 84mm Carl Gustaf m/48 plus a G3A3 rifle when I joined my countrys part time volounteer national defence militia. A couple of years later, I got shifted to platoon radio operator and swapped the CG with a 10kg field radio set. Now, at 36, 10 years after joining, I've gone full circle to the same station I had during conscript training, signals specialist in a motorized 12cm mortar unit, and only have to carry my rifle and personal issue kit as everything else is mounted in the battery control vehicle ^^
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  4. And the world is a tiny bit better off because of it 😁
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  5. And a 12cm mortar battery target zone is 100×100m...
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  6. And similiar infrastructure and terrain restrictions is the reason for the short guns, narrow hulls and low weight of the Swedish pre 1950's tanks: their dimensions were kept limited by the railroad flat carriage width, railroad bridge load capacity and railroad tunnel standards as well as the weight limit and width of the average renaissance or medieval stone bridges that were still common as part of the rural road network. That because trains were the only realistic logistics option for any redeployment of armored formations in a very stretched densely forested and sparsely populated country like Sweden in the 1940'ies where 19th century living standards were the norm as soon as you got more than a mile outside any of the larger cities (cities over 20'000 inhabitants)
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  7. roughly 1-2 minutes depending on everything from wind strength and direction in different layers to powder temperature and, of course, type of shell.
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  8. 6×6wheel drive on a hydraulically actuated chassi that is a modification on a very common civilian heavy duty vehicle and thus can source spare parts for the drive train very easily. On top of that, all the wheels have a core filler that can carry a load even if punctured and while intact can have the tyre preassure adjusted from within the armored crew cab. This combination of features allows it to wade through mud and snow as long as it's wheels can keep the chassi from getting stuck and to climb any blocky terrain with less than 1m³ sized boulders, which is more than any tracked vehicle can deal with.
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  9. And that can only happen when the last russian on Ukraine soil either leaves across the border, bleeds out on the ground left behind by his coward commanders or is captured as a PoW, and the Kremlin admits total defeat and unconditional surrender while Putin is overthrown by the Russian people.
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  10. ​​ @samoldfield5220  just quit arguing while you still retain some dignity. In military context, any projectile marked/labeled as inert never contains ANY chemical effect substance, explosive or otherwise, not even a tracer compound. And the APCR-T PzGr41 IS an INERT projectile with an added tracer element, the -T suffix. The PzGr 41 is a kinetic sub-caliber tungsten slug with a non-discarding sabot. The pedantic technical chemistry lab definitions you argue simply does not apply for safety reasons.
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  11.  @ssm445  unless the mud is thick and more than 50cm deep, an Archer would just keep going, and with deeper mud than that, a tracked SPG will get stuck too.
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  12. +vulpes vulgaris not really, the minié ball is no more dangerous than any blackpowder .44-.50 cal cartridge with a modern unjacketed round nosed bullet. It's only more lethal than the round balls of similiar caliber due to improved gas seal leading to higher muzzle velocity, longer range and better accuracy as well as the grease in the waist grooves of the bullet that caught a lot of dirt and bacteria during flight and impact which often led to fatal infections. Modern full and intermediate power rifle rounds such as the 7.62x51/7.62x54R or 5.45x39/5.56x45 used in modern combat rifles do a lot more damage than any personal infantry weapon used before 1890. The mechanism behind the worse injuries of modern rounds is the hydrostatic shock where the high velocity of the bullet cause a shockwave in soft tissue that tears muscle and sends internal organs crashing into eachother and tearing veins, arteries, sinews and membranes in the process creating a temporary wound cavity the size of an american football for the fraction of a second as the shockwave expands and then contracts i the wake of the bullet. A bullet that in addition to the damage already described often starts to tumble or shatter into fragments as it passes the body causing even more damage as each fragment cause it's own lesser shockwave and wound channel. All this compared to the musket balls and minié balls which are too slow to cause any significant shockwave and thus creates a wound channel that's no worse than the one that a dirty rapier or medieval longbow arrow would cause.
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  13. Tanks are generally used in an offensive way even when defending. Using tanks as fixed defensive gun emplacements is a waste of resources.
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  14. Mr. Nesbit, can you stand up please? BOOM!
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  15.  @speestechsupport1341  can't be too careful with those central european boars, those tusks are nasty!
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  16. Which is what Putin has done since summer...
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  17. but not availiable due to low production numbers
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  18. Sources for 'a lot' of T-90 use?
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  19. hear hear!
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  20.  @jacky9590  there hasn't been any free or democratic elections in Hungary for a couple of decades now...
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  21. Here we have mr. Nesbit: Stand up please! BOOM
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  22. +xXEndLessKaosXx and then yoj have the medium-light end with an m249 saw compared to an 84mm recoilless gunner with the 14kg Carl Gustaf mk1 or 12cm "portable" mortar crew each with around 50kg of mortar components or ammo in addition to their rifles and small arms ammo XD
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  23. I've trained with using the handguard hand on the shoulder of the guy in front with the rifle held to the shoulder with the firing hand so that the following guys get pulled on into the room and fan out as one releases the guy in front and is ready to engage any discovered threats (this is in take and search proc.) In breech and clear procedures, a frag goes first, then the FN MAG and riflemen preemptively spray any potential cover and concealment in the room with 7.62x51 while scanning for potential threat vectors along walls, floor and cieling. Then one looks around to see if there are any killed/neutralised hostiles.
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  24.  @useodyseeorbitchute9450  but plenty of significant emotional events ;)
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  25.  @akebouz  you still didn't answer my question... groupie..
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  26. Says a lot more about the Russians that the NATO vehicles designed to counter what the Russians use in Ukraine are coming out of NATO museums...
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  27. ​ @nerminerminerminermi  which was practically useless and the materials wasted on developing and producing it would have been better used building StuGs and panzer schreks...😂
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  28. At the end of the day, the data link of an artillery sysrem is just a tool of convenience that speeds up the process from spotting to shells in the air. Every byte of data can be relayed by voice radio or even morse code telegraphy and either manually fed into the ballistics calculator of the firing unit, or even calculated by hand using ballistics charts and physical plotting discs/tables and then used to manually traverse and elevate the guns to the correct position. It'll take 10-20times longer to process, so any advanced firemissions will need a longer lead time, and some of the more advanced munitions that require electronic shell programming from the ballistics computer will be unavaliable, but otherwise, it'd be buisness as usual.
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  29. A biplane is, of course, always twice as good as a noplane ;)
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  30. it's a lot better on a Leopard. Turbine engines can fun on almost any fuel, but they guzzle it down like there's no tomorrow compared to piston engines.
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  31. nope, they were cast, not forged. Some impurities, very rarely bubbles but most of the damage was from the ball deforming as it was soft lead or even tin. And most deaths were the result of sepsis and blood infection from all the dirty uniform scraps the ball dragged into the wound.
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  32. +SniperInTheTower not to mention the napoleonic "grand batterie" that would open up at 1200 yards with shell and shot and then switch to canister at bow ranges... the mongols that reached the musket infantry without breaking would be nothing but disorganised tatters.
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  33. +Ivan Chen indeed, the only light about light infantry is the vehicles or complete absense of vehicles. The soldiers are just a modernisation of Marius' mules XS
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  34. eedd sdsd Swedish militia is likely to use 84mm Carl Gustaf recoilless for breaching duties, firing HE or HEAT or even Smoke to either breach and/or flush any hostiles out. And the smoke is likely to set fire to a room if it penetrates through a window.
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  35.  @TheLexstrong  says Putins rim job groupie...
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  36. yes
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  37.  @repeat7023  well, it makes sense because AFD, as a movement just like NMR and SD in Scandinavia, are a terrorist group of fascists and neonazis that has recived funding and paramilitary training from Russian and Belarusian FSB/KGB sources for decades, and they won't volountarily bite the hand that feeds them and support their efforts at destabilizing their own countries and force a collapse of the EU...
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  38. ​ @naamadossantossilva4736  something the germans could have solved by just lengthening the barrel and increasing the case/breech volume of the 75mm to a necked down KwK 88 or FLAK 10.5 casing for a significant boost in projectile velocity.
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  39. ​ @SoloRenegade  umm... your analysis is lacking. Unlike the Russian conscripts with their two years of service and Russian enlisted, Scandinavian conscripts and enlisted seem to do just fine when they volounteered and were deployed under UN or EU mandate after only 7.5-18months of training from the Congo in the 1960ies to Kosovo and Afghanistan in the 2000s.
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  40.  @MatthewChenault  why western Europe are uniting behind Ukraine is pretty simple: We all know your employer don't settle for half measures and he's already demanded to make half of us his puppet states. So quit your pathetic sealioning and lying.
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  41. an orc rabble perhaps?
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  42. Or even strap an NLAW to it in a pinch
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  43. I wonder why they didn't keep the 75mm projectile calibre while necking down the case for the long 88mm round in a barrel of the same mm length as the 88/L71 to save weight and materials in both gun and ammo production lines.
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  44. Also, a larger breech and longer barrel for using a necked down 88/L71 casing for the same 75mm projectiles would likely have provided more penetration than the 88/L71 with less weight, less material investment in both gun and ammo production, faster rate of fire, lighter ammo and more accuracy, especially against moving targets due to significantly higher projectile velocity.
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  45. Iirc, the 88/L71 guns used much larger casings than the old 88mm Flak 38 guns.
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  46. That and development in shaped charge and understanding of venturi nossle recoil compensating principles, resulting in portable infantry assault guns like the 84mm Carl Gustaf m/48 recoilless grenade rifle.
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  47. the former would be a war crime to be investigated and dealt with later according to applicable laws. As for the latter, if that wasn't a risk Putin cared to take seriously, he and all of the cowards who blindly follows his orders has only themselves to blame.
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  48.  @forexed8948  only if forced into a war of agression with insufficient training, insufficient equipment and lazy corrupt authoritarian officers... In defense, well trained, well fed and well equipped, that conscript can match any professional soldier.
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  49.  @Archangelm127  yes.
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  50. And some of them still in active use....🤦🏼‍♂️
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