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

  1.  @CZ350tuner  they did learn that... in France a year earlier:P French had just as bad situation with radios, but they ALSO had a paranoia that Germans were intercepting their signals to such a degree that they have not permitted officers to use even available ones!
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  2.  @samiamrg7  not when you're yourself within a deadly envelope of more powerful 45mm gun. If you want to survive as AT gunner in those times, you'd better stay VERY low and quiet and do exactly as his gramps said, only engage in ambush.
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  3.  @Nelson-gs9yv  any AT rifle gunner should hold their fire until same distance or ideally until the tank can be flanked at 100m. Long distance shooting of those rifles is a nowadays idioticy invented by CoD WWII and BF V devs, who made sniper rifles out of them. Because they want to sell gamers M82/M107. Irl they wouldn't even have adjustable iron sights because you'll lose too much penetration at distance anyway.
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  4.  @fumoblitzkrie  "and of course the protagonist ends up in gulag" Sometimes I wonder if people who're obsessed with Archipelago Gulag are aware of Two Centuries Together by the same author and whom their supporting:D
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  5. Tbh I've always felt like the best use for captured allied and particularly soviet equipment was to give it to major german allies like Italy, Hungary, Romania and Finland. Rather then allowing it to slowly become obsolete, rust in the field awaiting melting that would never happen or forcing germans to diversify training, maintenance and supply. Italians were already looking at turning P75 ie predecessor of M26/40 into their own take on T-34, so why not just give them lots of captured T-34 and allow small italian industry to concentrate on supplying those with spare parts? Romanians did great with french R35, so why not give them S35 and B1 too? Hungarians already are producing czech designed Turan, maybe instead of dismissing czech T-25 proposals, someone should have directed them to hungarians? And so on.
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  6.  @AndrewVasirov  look up mechanics of those guns and their development history. Thompson and MP-18 had drums even earlier if it is the only thing that matters to you.
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  7.  @robertalaverdov8147  best counter to German air superiority is Romania that doesn't build airfields:D
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  8. During development of IS they have gone through testing of several 85mm, 100mm, 107mm and 122mm guns. They chose 122mm solely because it had highest armor penetration and retained good accuracy at long ranges(despite WoT creating a myth that it's a shotgun, the A-19 is a descendant of 120mm Canet naval guns that were supposed to penetrate moving cruisers from miles away). Why? Because appearance of Ferdinand forced their hand:D IS-2 exists solely because at the same time germans fielded Ferdinand and this USSR expected that it would be encountered en masse. In fact not only was the choice of the gun forced by its appearance, but first muzzle brake on D-25 was a copy of one from Ferdinand's Kwk43(Stuk43? Pak43? I don't care, it's same gun) due to similar forces in play. It blew off from the gun during testing though. P.S.: alongside a WoT myth people also mention a Discovery channel one created back in 1990's a lot - that A-19/D-25 can only be reloaded if the gun is brought down into ideally horizontal position after each shot. Suffice to say I was unable to find a single reliable(and even unreliable too) source that mentioned that.
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  9.  @Silverstream-74  "lacking" You mean none? Germans had no idea what the word "ally" means. Thankfully for us all.
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  10.  @HistoryGameV  "this time without fees" You have just answered your own question. Germany was looking to further only its own interests in a "team game". Only when they were left with Hungary alone had they figured out that the amount of experienced highly trained and physically fit men in Germany is finite.
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  11. There were also czech T-24/25 projects. But germans called them obsolete completly ignoring the fact that it was the best that czech factories of the time could have mass produced and it would have still ended up being leagues above older pre-war LT vz.35 and 38. Instead they continued production of SPGs that were limited by older chassis and suspension and later on when things got worse, started production of Hetzer, inspired by Maresal and sabotaged during testing by its head designer, who was a russian immigrant. Hetzer also fully reaped the results of abusing the old obsolete chassis and units(suspension, transmission, engine) of old pre-war tanks instead of being SPG/tank destroyer on newer chassis of T-24/25 tanks. German logic: It's smaller then Panther that is a heavy tank in Allied eyes? Then it's bad! Don't mind us ourselves still producing last Pz.II's on german factories...
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  12.  @Kannot2023  Poland lost 30%, Belarus lost almost 40%. What the hell are you on about, apologist?
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  13. And by what we've heard both were far from stellar. Correct me if I'm wring, but Matilda Hedgehog is one off prototype that couldn't even pass testing proper and is known solely thanks to Warthunder where it's also unusable? Given that track record, it's no surprise people started to ridicule the improvised MLRS above too.
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  14.  @KhabarovVictor  ehm... "fight a war to prevent a war" was a justification for invading Iraq. What's your problem with that justification if "preemptive strike" is accepted military tactic as long as you are the winner?;)
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  15.  Andi B  still salty that you haven't won and that the innocence myth is falling apart?
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  16.  @MegaKaiser45  CoD was always much better then this. Only modern period of the series makes no sense in political and economical view.
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  17.  @adamanderson3042  yep, it could. Because Germany and Italy had no way to make Britain capitulate. You need to change too much to give Axis a chance of victory. And one of the first things that would change is ideologies of the members itself. Even in multiverse there would be at best a few realities where their one in a billion chance worked.
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  18.  @paulbenedict1289  just like poles believing that "soviets were worse then nazis", "Zaolsie, Brest, Wilno and Danzig being all equally polish by God's will", "ukranians and belarusians being fake culture and languages made up by soviets to justify taking away rightful polish land", "poles being liked more then russians in Belarus and Ukraine" and many other interesting bits of madness. But keep it coming, some guy who insults people for their family history;)
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  19. ​ @frankguz55  you're not really reading his comment, are you? Please remind me what basic geometry that you're trying to use as an argument says about plate thickness and weight? You may be replacing a vertical 120mm plate with angled at 60° from vertical 60mm one, but you're also replacing a significan portion of 10mm roof plate with it here and are cutting the internal volume of this corner in half.
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  20. 122mm was chosen because it simply was a more powerful gun. No ifs or buts about that. That's why it stayed on IS-3 and even T-10. And no, D-25 wasn't available in infinite numbers either, in fact it was a more expensive gun. Production of IS-2 caused shortages in production of ISU-122 and ISU-122s(even if only the latter uses D-25) whenever IS-2 had an above average monthly production. As a result in those months ISU-152 production was going up as well. Guess why? Because they used only different guns so any finished vehicles waiting for the gun was simply equipped with 152mm cannon-howitzer and added to those production numbers. There were even tests to put A-19(aka original without muzzle brake) onto IS-2 later one because D-25 wasn't produced in high enough numbers. D-10 maybe had a value as gun option for commander tanks, but that's mostly it. P.S.: You people are also forgetting that D-10 is actually harder to reload in IS-2 turret. It has comparable recoil distance to D-25 due to lack of muzzle brake and also as it uses single piece ammunition, the round is very long and heavy. D-25 takes longer to reload, but is actually easier. If you understand basics of geometry, take IS-2 blueprints available online and just look at the amount of space behind the breech you need when you use single piece ammo. And if you can reload D-10 at all once the axis of the breech crosses the back of the turret ring when the gun is elevated at certain degrees. This is why proposed 105mm gun on Tiger B had to be switched to two piece ammo to even fit in the turret. Same thing with 100mm gun on IS-2. It isn't much lighter, isn't recoiling less and definitely isn't easier on the loader to operate.
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  21. Ah yes, Post Scriptum, the only game ballsy enough to give us 1940 Battle of France. Well, maybe Gates of Hell would now join it on RTS side since they added Finland and have special bracket for 1939-1941 period.
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  22. 14:15 This may be true however. If you look at Chieftain's video on the Panther interior, their commander cupola hatch is very hard and time consuming to open and close unlike previous medium tanks. So maybe Panther commanders were less inclined to open cupola and look outside with binoculars in combat conditions since they knew they'd have no time to close the hatch if combat started. Can anybody check if it's true?
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  23.  @Chetanoo  are you sure you've meant to send this comment to me and not to the guy, whom I was saying this exact words? And yes, good of you to spread word of Gun Jesus:D
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  24.  @doxun7823  modern russian propaganda(yes, the one that demonizes Stalin, but ironically praises Mussolini. You approve of this change, right?;) claims that Finland was basically ruled by leftover Russian Empire officers and Whites so it was basically guaranteed to attack Leningrad and align themselves with the germans. And there were finns that supported said nazi ideals even more then their own country, just looks up the guy who became the basis of the song "Soldier of the Three Armies".
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  25. 1:00 Haven't they copied copied parts SVT-40 to make G43 too?
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  26. @Jonathan Stiles I presume that the book was written by american author and said "that guy, who's a brother of another guy, whose sister slept with a guy I knew in college" russian general was used as an example for topic in it, am I right? Probably a few paragraphs about how this view is wrong and why?
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  27. ​ @phunkracy  main threat to russian tanks was Stuhna ATGM, not Javelin or NLAW. Mostly because Stuhna is a massive 152mm ATGM with enormous range and tandem warhead that can brute force through almost any armor(and even then it's still used in top attack mode). Likewise Moskva was sunk by ukranian Neptun antiship cruise missiles designed exactly for the occasion. Bayraktar drones? They use ukranian engines. Ukraine was preparing for precisely this mess since 2014.
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  28.  @romanbuinyi  does he? He got the likes he came for AND spread that nonsense further. Pretty successful shitpost if I might say
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  29. Omega Alpha lol, nope. Because his first replacement was a moron who let 4 cosmonauts die and next man in line destroying ALL work connected to Korolev out of pure hate for the man. Including two already BUILT N-1 and miniature Shuttle with 2 tons of cargo load designed for resupply of space station.
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  30.  @logoseven3365  soviet doctrine or NATO idea of soviet doctrine? You know, those two aren't the same, right?;)
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  31.  @aleksanderkorecki7887  My view on history, your view on history or actual history? That's 3 different histories, don't you think? No, wait, yours is objectively right. I know that same excuse doesn't work for all 4. Spin it, but there is always one left that falls out. Which one would it be this time, enlighten me, oh wise one?:D Once again, population data according to whom, German Empire? Certainly not bad™ lithuanians and ukranians? Wait, why does it sound exactly like russian revanchist rhetoric? P.S.: I have Ad Hominems for days if you want only that, I mean, it's definitely a productive way to invest time.
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  32.  @petrsukenik9266  I have multiple times suggested russian speakers to give over Crimea to Turkey if they want to fix "historical inequality". For some reason they don't find this option acceptable. Return of lake Baikal to chinese hands also insults them for some reason, not to mention when I speak of japanese Sakhalin or rightful korean lands. Weird people \/(-_-)\/
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  33. 1)you mean Turkey Missile Crisis?;) The one where Khrushev bluffed, CIA inflated numbers to get more funding and USSR and USA actually cooperated to find diplomatic solution and even were discussing joint space missions behind the scene all at the same time? I love how it's still called the low point of relationship between USSR and USA despite what is happening for last few weeks. Still think Khrushev was bad?:D 2)it wasn't just his fanboyism. USSR had no way to economically support all of those programs. They needed parity in strategic nuclear front to continue existing and thus Khrushev concentrated all available specialists and budget into nuclear and missile programs. He also used it as a way to create diplomatic capital for USSR as even nowadays when people speak of soviet or russian achievements it's talks of Khrushev's space programm. No other soviet leader before or after him invested as heavily into making good PR image for USSR. Everyone after him just insulted him and kept riding on his achievements in this field. Including current embarrassment.
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  34.  @filipmisko9363  it also was the period which earned KV-1 reputation of "mobile bunker" ie it spent 90% of the time being broken down mess. Which was fixed by KV-1S that did the opposite, lowered armor thickness to lower weight and had a new transmission type installed, the one that would be inherited by IS series. People still argue if KV-1S deserves to be called heavy tank or if it was de facto heavily armored medium like Jumbo, considering it brought KV series even closer to T-34 in terms of armor and mobility. This is where KV-13 project started. Ironically enough, just like Tiger is basically a german KV-220 being a year late to its grave designed without knowing about one another, both Tiger and Panther copy timeline of problems encountered by KV and T-34 themselves. The more you read on them, the more of a deja vu you have about different people running into same trouble caused by same sources.
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  35.  @hrotha  ah yes, put it in my mouth, do it! And? Why does the mention of preemptive strike justification being widespread even nowadays suddenly trigger you? But the line about "as long as you are the victor" passed over you and now I am a staunch stalinist?
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  36.  @watcherzero5256  problem is, presence of Mk.III ruins that. IF they've sent only Mk.I-II and in the meanwhile ordered all Mk.III+ to be uparmored to 100-120mm frontal THEN it would have looked like what you've said.
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  37.  @ChristianThePagan  imagine if Wiesel had 1)electric drive and wider tracks for increased off road and silent running capability; 2)had mast erector launcher to mount both the ATGM and thermals/radar? I guess we'd be speaking of Wiesel 2 then though.
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  38.  Andi B  explanations and stereotypes are different things
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  39.  Andi B  a fact is easy to prove and doesn't rest on people's popular perception. You know what you did
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  40. I feel like covering both back to back is just inviting a disaster. Someone will try to get channel blocked or to hijack it.
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  41. Bruno dos Santos yeah, said by internet people, who don't care to proof read facts before repeating whatever they've heard as if they're trained parrots. On the other hand it is also said that he haven't left his office for 3 days straight because he was meeting all the people required to plan and organize defense. Who could have guessed?:\
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  42.  @ken0272  why is it called that on english then? It's as if someone would suddenly start calling Battle of Moscow as Siege of Moscow just because their language doesn't have a differentiation.
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  43.  @thomasellysonting3554  yes on most of it except on comparison to heavy tank. It's a medium infantry tank. It doesn't need high speed to begin with, it doesn't need huge operational ranges because it's not operating independently and it doesn't need high penetration gun. But most importantly, it is cheap and easy to mass produce... relatively. You can try to argue that it was neither cheap, not produced in enough numbers by the british, BUT any actual modern heavy tank was just going to end up even more expensive to produce and would face even smaller production numbers. It was a bottleneck resulting in deficiencies of british tank industry, that was getting a fifth flute to all other services and for a good reason(at least they thought so). Infantry tanks aren't marvels of bleeding edge technology by design. The only downsides were 1)retention of small turret ring from Matilda which was useless since Matilda has no backwards compatibility with Churchill I turret due to suspension and transmission inability to survive added weight and lack of any modification reserve; 2)initial lack of reliability typical for new vehicles. Design reached Vauxhall too late and even then they've improved it considerably before production; 3)question of armament. I can see the point in calling NA75 as probably the best armed one even above 17 pounder of Black Prince prototype due to different priority(once again, for infantry tank penetration isn't that important), however I can also see why 2 pounder might have also had a point with its high RoF. But all of Churchill's armament lacked an ability to fire at upper levels of tall buildings, something that would highly benefit infantry tank.
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  44.  @thomasellysonting3554  I agree with you on that. However I notice a weird lack of thermite charges left behind on tank engines and breeches.
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  45.  @hrotha  and... come on, you can continue that thought, Mr."You're deflecting", come on, it isn't that hard
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  46.  @ruthlesstruth8639  if we go by value, Sweden provided Allies with more 40mm AA guns then Axis with iron ore.
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  47. Considering that for many years I have believed it to be a photoshop/myth, my expectations are already very low:D Not helped by the fact that that thing was created at the point where it was already technologically possible(for Allies) to equip troops with recoilless rifle with VT fuze for short range AA task.
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  48.  Sony Pony  Lol. Don't you see the parallels between T-34 and Panther? Your hypothetical "better Panther"(which has nothing to do with Panther 2 project btw) is the same case as T-34M(units and improvements gradually introduced on T-34 until the T-34 mod.42 is basically T-34M, but without torsions and new hull) and it's later version T-43(which itself was deemed obsolete in 1943 when T-44 project was already starting, but the turret was introduced onto T-34 and thus we got T-34-85). Better Panther is just Panther G. It would have never gotten time to iron out its flaws before production and would have never fixed its core flaws just like T-34 and M4.
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  49.  @Scotian6444  japanese naval situation around submarine warfare and 25mm AAA is still a mystery to me just like the situation with italian machinegun development. You are mass producing one of the most advanced submarine types in the world, you know their strengths and weaknesses, you know how to use them... and then you neither use them, nor prepare for them to be used against you? What? How? It's as if champion of the world in pistol sharpshooting tried to defend their house with only either grenade or pike. Yes, example doesn't make sense. that's the point.
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  50. Tsar hoho and then CoH2 ruined it all by abandonning neutral outlook on both sides and going all political:D Men of War series FTW!
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