Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

  1. "we're also seeing an increase in the consumption of hard liquor instead of wine" yikes, it takes a lot of anxiety to increase the alcoholism rate in russia
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  2. this was exactly like the old Missile Gap where the US looked at what russia was doing, where it was, and extrapolated and then it turned out it had plateaued instead of increased its efforts
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  3. looking back, it seems like much of the debate of armed drones was because the world to that point had been using armed drones rather cavalierly against insurgents and anyone we called an insurgent. this war in ukraine has been the first real conflict where armed drones are being used in a peer level conflict
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  4. its hard because you have to train your infantry, artillery, and armor, then train the infantry to work with the artillery, the artillery with the tanks, the tanks with the infantry, then you need to train all 3 to work together, and that's a gross simplification
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  5. one area where the western philosophy seems unequivocally better is our focus on situational awareness. the ussr just believed that they'd have enough tanks in the field at once to identify targets and support each other, but once you're not doing that your soviet designed tanks have very poor situational awareness
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  6. less drilled forces as well. soviet forces were at least expected to be fairly well trained and not do stupid things but your middle east army lacked the resources to maintain a large professional force or their standing forces were used more for internal security. they go to war with little training and troops that aren't used to operating together
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  7. I'd like to say the soviets by the 1960s had worked out how to cross a river without having to worry about a bridge but we've seen Russia is still working on that...
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  8. as someone who went to one of those universities which had huge defense contracts, it wasn't at least to me the defense spending but that the university seemed to prioritize the R&D over actual opportunities for students and the facilities for students. We had 60 year old labs and crappy equipment while the university was building a state of the art facility for GE just down the road and had literally an entire second campus just for the research groups
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  9. you can kind of see what they were going for if you put it in terms of a howitzer in an armored box that happens to be ontop of a tank. an SPG has the gun integrated into the vehicle such that it usually sticks down into the hull
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  10. tbf a panther 4 and a tiger look awfully similar down the sights of your sherman
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  11. people also are largely unaware that the bulk of this war is static trenches especially along the eastern front
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  12. @Lost_Achaean  ww2 allied tank losses are greatly exagerated by a quirk of the reporting back then where a tank that was not combat capable for any reason was counted as a loss, even if it was just a tank that blew a transmission
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  13. churchills with the spigot mortar at least made a little sense because they were primarily heavy engineering vehicles that could be wheeled up to wreck something if you needed to
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  14. I just finished reading/listening to Brothers In Arms, i think there's only a handful of times they ever were close enough that ramming or getting closer was a better idea than just stand to and fire a couple rounds, and even those only seem to happen in Normandy where everything was such a mess they seriously could drop into a road between german tanks by accident. Its all based on a mix of battle reports and letters but you'd think if they rammed a tank they'd have made a bigger deal of it
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  15. I think there will be a push at the point when electric drives and battery systems begin to out perform IC systems, and dedicated electric platforms would be much better than retrofitted ones, though solid state batteries are ages away for military vehicles
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  16. If you could use composites in the chassis construction you could probably save enough weight to add more armor but composites aren't great at being rough and rugged
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  17. same thing with their navy really, their large ships were just bristling with guns, missiles, and nearly no living quarters
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  18. way more in raw materials went to the USSR which was seen as a more important use of shipping capacity since factory space in the US was not infinite
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  19. just use smaller crew lol
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  20. there's more than a few book that have dwelled on how Hitler and the upper echelons of the reich delayed major movements and reallignments to the point where all stategic advantage was squandered and the plans were out of date with the tactical situation
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  21. that's not what's happened. the ships being short by 5 meters means someone was rushing in the shipyard and did undocumented changes just to get the ships off the slips and off the books and can affect a lot of things internally such as pipe fittings, cable runs, bouyancy, even balance
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  22. not sure we're ever going to get a full picture on that one since it more likely than no involves participation by the US, NATO and is still in use
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  23. I think the tank was originally meant to be a 2 man tank but they found they needed the 3rd guy
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  24. if your gun is a bit too droopy there's a pill for that
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  25. the best way to avoid getting hit is not to go to war, its got a 100% survival rate
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  26. ya I can see that, the t44 they got to mess around with cast turret armor and advances with tank design that happened in ww2, but couldn't be produced right at the moment, but by being bigger and a very promising side project let them keep developing it
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  27. ​ @zestygokart2992  it remains to be seen if these changes result in a satisfactory outcome, other russian shortcuts don't end up all that cost effective in the long run either
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  28. naval armor went out the window because airplanes and the very large guns of the time had made it impossible to make a ship survivable enough to justify armor. Tanks still survive because they have the mix of mobility, protection, and heavy firepower that makes them difficult to pin down like old battleships
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  29. However much it contributes to their current situation I think we underestimated how badly corruption cores out a fighting force because we can't imagine it getting so bad that your lowest conscripts are destroying multi million dollar weapon systems so they can afford to eat
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  30. the armor is the problem, the turret pop is a symptom
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  31. dispersed infantry supported by IFVs to rapidly concentrate or disperse is how modern militaries deal with the problem, assuming they can't bomb the guns. the artillery may be able to still target individual groups of infantry but they can't effectively suppress one group without allowing the others to advance
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  32. I suspect on the multiple systems issue, the first suggestion sounds more correct, they probably just use the hardware until they can't, then they either junk it or ship it back to get fixed
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  33. germany did care about losses but the government and military structure did not permit really anything beyond fighting
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  34. @Eugene Kaptur  in retrospect had the US just embraced Ho-Chi-Min instead of demonizing him, and been willing to maybe allow a measure of socialism in such an impoverished country, they could have avoided the whole damn war back then. instead the powers that be embraced a horrible dictator that did half the work of the north Vietnamese by torturing and killing his countrymen
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  35. flamethrower halftrack, seems sensible
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  36. Putting 500 men in a field with a shovel in range of enemy artillery is not the most effective way to dig a trench
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  37. its really hard since any infantry held anti-tank weapon is a much more effective anti-IFV weapon
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  38. they're not being bombed but I do think russia is suffering systemic damage that just stopping the war today won't fix
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  39. as my time in materials testing showed me, hardness is an arbitrary scale, but like he says, there's some ways to work across the different scales. from a manufacturing standpoint, your customer would specify the hardness testing so you would just need to test to that scale.
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  40. western allied forces did use tanks in indirect fire roles to suppliment artillery in some cases in ww2 though limited
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  41. mbt i guess would be that magic mix of fast, armored, with a high powered gun that represents the best of the technology of the time.
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  42. 22:30 you pluck some brits from north africa in 1942 and they'd perfectly understand this issue of cooperation and coordination to break through mines and defensive chokepoints, it really isn't a new concept
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  43. I really wish the politicians saying Biden failed Ukraine by overestimating russia would shut up, this was the good mistake to make, nobody wants to be 1940 france thinking they're superior to their peer. Afghanistan is an entirely other bag, and they're being disingenuous about their response especially if trump had been in office since biden was forced to follow through the plan he was left, and the only other option would have been to keep staying there which would have made the aid to ukraine way more difficult to do since we were tied down in afghanistan
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  44. Coming to a Streaming Service Near You: Drones Und Panzers!
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  45. interesting, these are basically being used as SPGs instead of MBTs
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  46. I kind of understand the logic, training against something this dang tiny is probably an excellent standin against 'enemy' IFVs since its smaller, quieter and more nimble than anything else in its category
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  47. terror bombing only kind of worked with Japan but on the extreme example of "starting from this day, we're going to systematically remove a city and everybody in it each week with a nuclear bomb" and there's still a lot of debate whether they would have surrendered when they did if we hadn't nuked them
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  48. really hard to steal a few rounds if everything is cannes
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  49. look you can weld as much era on a t55 but I can't imagine its going to hold up against any anti armor weapon system
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