Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

  1. the term is fluid defense, instead of a static line, or several fall back lines, you have small defensive positions and a highly mobile defensive force that can respond to where the assault is then redeploy to other assaults
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  2.  @obsidianjane4413  crude by today, but rockets were probably still a lot more expensive than shells due to scale of industry, the machinery and materials were all well established for artillery, while rockets were all new equipment and industries
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  3.  @genericpersonx333  say that to yemen. Precision munitions have allowed the saudis to carry out a low intensity conflict while destroying most of the civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and utilities. Plus with their naval blockade results in mass famine and destruction, just with less munitions
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  4. ya the sad part is russia won't blink so far and there's so far no good avenue to a negotiated withdrawal. They want ukraine to be destroyed economically, culturally, and baring complete conquest, they want to take its industrial areas from it as well as insist it shouldn't have a military, positions that nobody can accept
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  5. unsupported armor charges have been obsolete since what, Cambria? You can't send armored vehicles in without somebody to shoot the infantry that may have anti armor weapons
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  6. its generally hard to put a high angling gun, plus achieve high rates of fire in a vehicle with an armored roof
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  7. The bigger question is what's up with the Freud look
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  8. thought the idea was you couldn't get a charge to stick to like a moving tank thats shaking and rolling
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  9. I'd say the opposite, the russians are firing 100s of shells to kill anything
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  10. On the power vs man hour issue, its an interesting problem of very advanced piston engines vs very early jet engines. jet engines are much more complicated then piston engines today but in ww2 jet engines were not as complicated as the piston engines they were building
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  11. Should also look at the US Marine M-2-4 Rocket Trucks used in the pacific war. They loved the ability to drive up, drop 10 guns worth of barrage, and move before any counter barrages happened since its all truck mounted. they worked particularly well in the pacific since they created a steep plunging fire that could be better employed against the very steep terrain
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