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

  1. Probably misunderstood it as heavy tank instead of infantry tank because of its size and weight.. before going back to calling Panther a medium tank because doctrine matters more then your tank being heavier and taller then IS-2. So I guess, something about weak gun(which was required to have high rate of fire to be able to suppress MG positions) and slow speed(on tank that is supporting foot infantry) for a "heavy" tank?:D
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  2.  @petrsukenik9266  separatists don't, how did russian media called it, come begging to be absorbed into bigger brotherly state. That's in the word. Separatist, separatism, separation, separate. Both in english and in russian. So you may call them absorbents;)
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  3.  @jussim.konttinen4981  weird PoV, but the the one not without a point. Countries that were in Axis, but switched sides when Allies approached were the ones least suffering in terms of population losses. Though in most cases those also were countries NOT included in Generalplan Ost so it's hard to make a concrete analogy here. Would have Poland suffered as much if it was in the Axis and was later betrayed by germans? Or would nazis somehow twist their tale and claim that poles are aryans too if Poland would have joined them in 1937 or earlier? That's a "several dozen millions lives worth" question right there...
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  4. Pardon for asking, but 1)with what; 2)where would you even get an info on it? Okay, I know that I make it sound like I treat 1970's as neolithic era, but what I mean specifically what have you used as base for casemate as obviously such vehicle wasn't known back then and how did you check if it wasn't something made up? To this day I have a lot of weird myths printed out in various tank and artillery related books and they're form 1997-2004 era.
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  5. Edward The Butler hello to our polish brothers:D Yeah, sorry that it's not the other way around.
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  6. So the switch from H to M model was based on copying SU-76?
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  7. AT-1, SU-122, SU-76, SU-85, SU-100, SU-152, ISU-152, ISU-122 don't count?
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  8.  @RotgerValdes  why not? Why not start an offensive in 1941 when your rearming programm ends only in 1943 according to author, who believes that tanks with wheeled drive is an evidence of Napoleonic ambitions(ah yes, Czech empire conquered by mighty Kolohusenka)? Suvorov is russian army intelligence if I recall right. Yet he tries to dabble in engineering matters he doesn't understand and believes that somebody liked russians before USSR:D
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  9. ​ @johanderuiter9842  ah yes, the "5 Shermans per 1 Tiger" myth strikes again. Pity that irl it required 0 Shermans to see abandoned Tigers on the side of the road which either broke down, used up the whole liter of fuel they had or crew just shat themselves and ran because plane flew nearby.
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  10. Because above and before everything else, it acted like majority of nations during world wars - by repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot with some sadistic glee and being surprised at the results?
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  11. ​ @INSANESUICIDE  that's what he was referencing. However him saying "Ukraine oblast liberated" makes him sound like a typical tankie ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
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  12. Allied flame tanks in comparison had much thicker armor and had retained their main guns. I'm referring to both Churchill Crocodile AND KV-8, the latter had 45mm gun in place of their normal 76mm, but said 45mm still had APHE shell that can deal with most german armor up to Panther and has a respectable HE shell to deal with towed guns.
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  13. Here is the thing. It's like mentioning cold in Winter War or Stalingrad. Both sides suffered from cold equally. Likewise Russia also has access to cheap chinese drones, their own anti radiation missiles, ballistic radars for counter battery fire and so on. Difference is that it's neither produced, nor maintained, nor are troops and officers trained with it. Russia is exactly where Georgia was in 2008 and Ukraine was in 2014 in terms of functional military. And unlike those, it's not interested in learning.
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  14. Simple - because they KNEW what they have done and there was no "innocent Wehrmacht" myth to save them from people, who would want to have revenge and just delete their whole damn culture for all they have done in th east. They'd knew that if they had collapsed, there will be the equal amount of mercy to them that they have shown to civilians in the east:D
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  15.  @xharth8136  yeah, it was kind of ironic. However not everyone were as lucky. There are mentions of some former wehrmacht soldiers in french foreign legion, who were sent to fight french colonial wars(why waste such brutality, right?), not even being 18 at the time of their deployment. Plus whole working camp situation when relatives couldn't even find them and the infamous "hunting" of american PoW convoys to take away prisoners to said camps to help restore french industry. However they should be thankfull that Cold War was in full swing and potential soviet front needed meat on the grinder ASAP:D
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  16. So the switch from H to M model was based on copying SU-76?
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  17.  @calessel3139  makes sense. Though that opens up another potential can of worms. But yeah, I guess the problem then indeed was in inexperienced crews(after all Normandy was sort of a "safe space" for training and rest) combined with lack of proper infantry support(though here I am not sure how easy it was for Panther commander to communicate to infantry outside the tank).
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  18.  @ChillDudelD  funny how your comment exactly matches mine. Hard to use same argumentation for all of them, isn't it? Funny how you didn't mention whom was the "rightful owner" of Vilnius and Brest-Litovsk for 700 years... And again, never are germans as right as in their population censuses whenever they are convenient to someone:D Real specialists right there. But why do I treat it as a joke, what do I find funny here? Is there something else you don't want to mention...
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  19.  @Piromanofeliz  can you shoot panzerfaust from a closed room? How much noise does it make and is that noise directional? How bright is the rocket motor and how visible the trail it leaves behind? Can you arc panzerfaust shots over obstacles? And more importantly, how easy is ammo for panzerfaust to produce in improvised workshops? So, let me ask again, do you still believe what you've said?:D
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  20. It's actually simpler, they just needed to know what THEY themselves did. And that soviets were going to make them for everything they've done:D That alone was more then enough even if irl it didn't end up as dark as expected. Maybe for worse...
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  21.  @frankguz55  so not only the math is the problem for you, but also reading comprehension? Sorry, I have no cure for your dyslexia. My condolences.
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  22.  @politenessman3901  we're talking about soviet tanks, not french ones.
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  23.  @politenessman3901  compared to a man that projects early T-34 turret onto tanks armed with 45mm gun and is too lazy to look up difference between relative weight of complete rounds of 76mm and 45mm? But it's okay, T-28 had 76mm gun too for example, I'm pretty sure that one was cramped despite having 3 people and 1620mm diameter of turret ring (100mm more then Pz.III and 20mm more then T-28's distant relative Pz.IV!). Could you stop with stereotypes, guys? Yes, please, look it up, it'll do YOU some good:D
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  24.  @politenessman3901  only in T-72. But yeah, I guess I never had to load anything by hand, you're right there:D Please read comments before responding.
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  25. Because above and before everything else, it acted like majority of nations during world wars - by repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot with some sadistic glee and being surprised at the results?
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  26. So all in all it was similar to deployment of Bazooka's before D-Day? Undermining Allied war effort by giving away new equipment to the enemy in situation when it wasn't exactly needed.
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  27.  @thomasellysonting3554  it is great to have high operational range(especially considering thing like constantly running out during Battle of El Alamein), however it isn't such a high problem for infantry tank that keeps close to allied logistics. And even Centurion was infamous for short operational range, with many trailers being proposed and not adopted. It was still a good tank. And Matilda had double the range of Churchill if I recall right, not just 50%.
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  28.  @abellseaman4114  Dieppe isn't in Italy and neither were US involved in the raid, Captain Obvious. I was talking about invasion of Italy which left bazookas in german hands which allowed them to develop panzerschreck by the time of D-day and panzerfaust later on. While bazooka itself provided NO overwhelming advantage in Italy above what allied mechanized units and aviation already provided there due to opposing mechanized force being significantly weaker in terms of both quality and quantity.
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  29.  @doxun7823  so "preemptive war" is a statement of ultranationalism? I would have agreed, but then I wouldn't want to be the one to take flak for outright calling yankees nazis;)
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  30.  @Kumimono  Romania supports this claim, Hungary stands against this claim. So it's 50/50 with each side claiming that their 50 is 100. There is however little factor called Sweden, country with good military, intent to not take sides other then their own and who even irl refused to allow Allied volunteers to enter Finland from their side. So in case Finland indeed did join up Mr.H's suicide pact, Sweden would have made sure to make Finland reconsider and sit quiet. But on the other hand France also had one of the strongest militaries and probably the greatest military industry in Europe... many variables.
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  31.  @logoseven3365  well, we're studying long term effects of biological warfare right now as "global pension reform 2020" continues...
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  32. 4:20 Wait, I've thought that main purpose of Hood was backstabbing french sailors and of Bismarck to be a force of ironic karmic death of the former?0_o Was I lied to?;)
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  33. Technically speaking Wiesel can be basically classified as power armor😂 Wouldn't be surprised if it can be used inside a building or on top of one either. Tankettes didn't have turrets, this one has. And Universal Carrier left people in the open, this one doesn't.
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  34.  @jarikinnunen1718  yes, but no. For example bacteriophage research.
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  35.  @riploljustforfu9929  by that margin Czechoslovakia can sue all sides for all they're worth because both Allies and Axis heavily use either licensed, or captured, or bought czech equipment from guns to tanks to ammo. Except soviets(they preferred to license british and american staff both pre-war and during it and two german tanks during Weimar times... which were notably stolen by germans from british anyway), japanese(I guess Czechslovakia was too far away for them so they bought and copied french equipment) and italians(I have no fucking idea how to describe italian weapon development and production. Random and chaotic can't even begin to describe it. It's still a mystery to me).
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  36.  @Fruzhin5483  the funniest part isn't even that. Combined with earlier usage of 25mm naval autocannons on same MTLBs implies that russians are stripping and maybe even cutting down ships to "win" in this purely land based(for now) conflict. Old ones first of course, but that implies that their navy is shrinking rapidly from their stated paper numbers to far smaller real numbers of actually new, crewed and maintained vessels. Imagine germans being kicked so hard in 1940 that they decided to strip down Bismark for its secondary guns?
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  37.  @DaCouchWarrior  yep. Well, technically speaking that thing isn't that far removed from Mattress at all, it's the sonar, firing computer and reloading device that made RBU-6000 more modern systems. All of those are massive components not designed for land combat that remained on the ship. So technically yes, it's shorter ranged, but slightly fatter Land Mattress.
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  38. @Roughman Volley sights survived until late 20's in fact. However I'd say they were obsolete after Crimean/American Civil War. And no, not because of machine guns alone. Back then machine gun was more of an artillery piece, remember? It was because of MAGAZINE rifles. Henry, Winchester and Vetterli to be specific.
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  39. @Roughman Battle of Little Bighorn is still picked apart today on whether Henry was superior to 1873 cavalry carbine and taken part in the overall outcome as one of decisive factors. If it was that simple, there would have never been such a question asked, not to mention researched. Vetterli was not only adopted, it was MADE to the specifications of Swiss army. And won the competition. Not to mention it's long service and huge geography of usage also raises a fair point.
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  40. @Roughman 1)it signifies the afterthought of this discussion. You wanted an example of if those rifles were effective. They were. 2)look up Vetterli magazine since you've just clearly stated that you're oblivious to any connections of the design. And you'll see how Henry and Winchester are connected to it. And the ammo it used. The ammo you complained about previously. Henry's magazine is what brought repeating rifles into the light instead of being revolver jokes. You've also tried to skip on service length and what other armies used Vetterli.
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  41. @Roughman wow, such attempts at sarcasm, so much butthurt. If you have comprehension problems then that's it - YOUR problems. Sorry.
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  42.  Mialisus  they were most affected because of the small shell weight. Linear progression works great for guns like D-25, who achieve their kinetic energy by mass and thus don't lose much of it on longer distances. But guns that rely solely on velocity like german 5cm AT gun, would really be screwed over(unless they take short range data as basis, but then the gun would have too much penetration at long ranges)
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  43. Well, it's a perfect tank as it perfectly fits into technical requirements it was created for:)) Jokes aside, if infantry tanks still existed as a classification and their niche wasn't taken by IFVs(some of which has armor and weight comparable to MBTs), Merkava would be ideal infantry tank. Though one could say that we're witnessing the dusk of MBTs as a classification norm since even medium tanks are having a resurgence.
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  44. Chieftain, you probably won't see this, but: Is there a merit of mounting Wiesel 1 autocannon arrangement onto Leopard 2 tanks in case of "low intensity conflicts" where the height of the tanks isn't as detrimental and usage of main gun may not be advised at all? I mean, it's a ready module, just install the whole mount onto the (commander) hatch. Boom, 2 hours of work, done, a week in testing, ready. So why not? Or is NATO and IDF experience say that it isn't a good idea?
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  45.  @TheChieftainsHatch  thanks for the answer.
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  46. Omega Alpha why or ?
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  47.  @allewis4008  yeah, I've already mentioned that under "allowed to get obsolete". Not like they would have been more useful on Eastern Front in 1941-1942 when they still could have made some difference...
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  48.  @05KAR  have you just admitted that poles act the same way as russians towards Belarus and Ukraine? And that somehow makes it good? Sorry for asking, but are you braindead? Maybe you wanted to use some other statement as your argument rather then the one that admits everything I said was true?:D Yeah, sure, "poles are the same as russians", I agree. Now if only we had nukes for both...
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  49.  @MyPrideFlag  Literary every second pole I meet online. Which means that we're talking about mass revanchism brainwash of people between 12-30, I presume. I haven't visited Poland in almost 20 years, but that crap wasn't as widespread back then. Some people I was with even talked russian and there was no shit flinged at them for that. If you haven't watched the news, Putin is preparing for invasion of Ukraine right now. Likely with "lawful"(ie allowed by mustached ass on the throne) occupation of Belarus to use it as a way to encircle ukranians from the north. If you think it's bad, you haven't been following the media in last few weeks. Russians are pulling no stops on their propaganda campaign.
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  50.  @aleksanderkorecki7887  poles who act like in the examples above or poles who don't dabble into nationalistic revanchism and dreams of thinly veiled empire building? Those are two different types of poles(but you can guess which one you mostly exclusively meet online;)) Same as russians - there are people supporting Navalny and opposition forces, there are those who scream to invade Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus. Do I treat them the same too? People in-between?(though I admit I developed a certain degree of disgust at people who claim to "not be interested in politics and neutral" over past decade) Or do you mean governments? Come on, elaborate. My position should be obvious if you've read my comments, but I'll gladly repeat it 100500 times for every person who has trouble with reading comprehension, basic logic and understanding context and tone.
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