Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

  1. When you're the gunner of a tiger tank, looking at your targets through the optics. Are you then watching them all with the eeeeeeeeye of the tiger?
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  2. So ironically, if you went for realistic tank formations for a movie, you could easily get away with just using 1-2 real tanks, and just use CGI to add some blurry outlines of tanks in the distance for every shot? That could certainly trim down a movie budget by a lot 😄
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  3. The most badass looking helmet of WWII.
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  4. A fighting chance with the risk of death is always preferable to certain death.
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  5. Erwin Rommel. Taking the term "balls deep" to a whole new level.
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  6. Essentially, kamikaze attacks gave the japanese something akin to self-guided cruise missiles. Something that hadn't been invented yet. So naturally that would grant them an edge.
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  7. Remember to play "Battery" by Metallica when setting up your battery position.
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  8.  @samsonsoturian6013  Yes. There were hundreds of extras wearing "okay" costumes, with a couple of dozen wearing higher quality costumes for close up shots. And for pulled back shots they would digitally clone masses of extras and copy/paste them into the shot.
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  9. German engineers to Tiger transmission: "Bite the pillow honey, Papa's gonna switch holes"
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  10. Original Tower Defense! B-)
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  11. The preference for T-72's over Leopards are a given. Too much of a logistical burden for the Ukrainians to field Leopard 2's compared to T-72's, along with difficulties in familiarizing tank crews with Leopards as opposed to T-72's. Better to have companies or slightly reduced performance tanks with crews that are very familiar with them, than higher performing tanks with crews unfamiliar with them.
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  12. Who needs high defensive walls, when your cities and factories are surrounded by huge stretches of muddy land for an invasion force to exhaust themselves on the road to their objectives? All you need to do is set up artillery and keep the QRF on stand-by.
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  13.  transylvanian : What a load of crap. The soviets even worked their own citizens to death in gulags. Why on earth would they treat enemy troops any better?
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  14. "Vienna - the only city the soviets left voluntarily" XD
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  15. And sometimes, a madman is just what the situation calls for.
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  16. @John Fulghieri Yes, because it looks like a kitchen utensil rather than a soldiers helmet.
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  17. The part about continually waging war on external enemies to prevent your own army from disuniting. Isn't that the lesson that George Orwell tried to teach in 1984? One part of the book describes how the Big Brother state was possibly in collusion with the enemy states in the effort of perpetuating an eternal war which served the purpose of keeping all of the populations "united" (in a very brutal and oppressive way) against their "enemies". It was also the mechanism behind Ozymandias plan in Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons graphic novel Watchmen. He staged a completely bogus alien invasion of Earth to prevent World War 3 from erupting between Nato and the USSR by leading both sides to believe that they were both faced with a common, extra-terrestial enemy. Looking back at human history in the past, the strongest uniting factor between different people's and countries seems to be the belief in having a common external enemy.
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  18.  transylvanian : Sounds to me like you're thw victim of pro-soviet propaganda. It's obvious youre pining back for the days of "the glory of the soviet union" more than anything. A pinko commie in other words.
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  19.  @ignacejespers8201 : I would argue that capturing and securing the Caucasus oil fields was not only NOT pointless, but absolutely necessary for the german war effort to continue the war. So saying that all of Operation Barbarossa was meaningless isn't entirely true. That said, too much emphasis was placed by Hitler and the german high command on capturing strategically irrelevant cities like Stalingrad. All that manpower and resources would've been better used in capturing the oil fields and get them running to serve the german war effort rather than the soviet war effort.
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  20.  transylvanian  In western penal labour systems, convicts were not purposefully worked to death or put through starvation on purpose like the barbaric soviets did. People also weren't sent to penal labour for the mere act of disagreeing with the ruling communist party, like the vile, disugsting soviets did. What's next? Are you gonna tell me that the Holodomor was just "an accident"?
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  21.  transylvanian : Ever heard about the Katyn Massacre? The victims in that were not nazi germans, but polish officers and soldiers. Are you gonna claim that poles would defend or buy into a nazi narrative just because they hate the soviet union?
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  22. I never had a good throwing arm. So I always liked the design of stick grenades since it's so much easier to throw.
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  23. Well both tanks and infantry move and fight across land, so it kind of makes sense that they operate according to roughly the same principles.
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  24. Haven't tanks been deemed "obsolete" by the "experts" since WW1? 🤣
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  25. "Violence, naked force has settled more disputes in human history than has any other factor!" Robert A. Heinlein (My favourite quote to bring up when people start arguing that we have to "stop the drone strikes" against terrorists, or how they will just stop being terrorists if we start being "nice" to them)
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  26. Aye. But like Napoleon, Hitler seemed to believe that taking an enemy capital was somehow important. But unless the capital is also a main producer of oil, tanks and planes, taking it is meaningless.
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  27. Another self propelled gun that comes to mind that does MRSI: The Swedish "Archer". I think it can do 5 simultaneous impacts if I remember correctly.
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  28. Damn... If the brass solves the problem of you getting slaughtered by removing the fire simulation equipment, then I can see why we get so many american and british servicemen travelling to our bigger airsoft games saying that it's excellent practice for the real thing. I mean how are you supposed to learn what you're doing right, and what you're doing wrong unless hits are registered and there's some kind of penalty for it? :S I've breached alot of buildings just playing airsoft. It's fucking hard just doing that when all you got to worry about is losing a game and maybe experiencing some sharp pain when some asshole fires a full auto burst to your face at close range (happens a lot more often indoors than firefights in the woods). It's damn good fun though. Especially when people are using pyrotechic grenades and smoke grenades, since there are so many tactical uses for it in built up areas. Although opposing teams tend to think we're overdoing it when we throw pyrotechnic frag grenades into pretty much every room before entering (no civilians to worry about, so why not sprinkle frags everywhere you can right? ;) )
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  29. Aren't there some modest authors of memoirs though? Reading memoir sections of books of scientists in natural science, they've often come across as quite humble and they often make a point of stressing the contributions from colleagues, predecessors and science team members. The quote: "If I can see far it's because i'm standing on thw shoulders of giants" come to mind here. Then again, in military culture, assertiveness and pro-active dispositions seem to be favored among high ranking officers. So maybe it's difficult to find a modest officer, let alone one who wrote memoirs.
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  30.  @uwu_senpai : That's not a realistic representation of the U.S and also an intellectually dishonest position.
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  31. Bean counters - the unsung heroes of war
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  32. Grand1Admiral: I think he means is that it is sad, because it's an evident sign of the media abandoning their role and purpose on society. Instead of presenting news as objectively and fair as possible, they have all turned to becoming political propaganda platforms.
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  33. Most RTS games don't really contain much strategy at all, but concern themselves purely with tactics. RTT would be a more descriptive term for them. Especially games like Starcraft.
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  34. To me, the Versailles treaty seems like a big mistake. Not only because it could be circumvented. But also because of the heavy blow it lead to german industries in general. One can only imagine the poverty and unemployment that the german people had to suffer through as a result of it, and both resentment of the way they were treated as well as desperation made people flock to Hitlers cause.
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  35. Well.. You don't want your gunners getting mowed down by stray bullets now do you? Artillery is useless without a crew.
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  36. "NÖ" XD
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  37. They promote someone just to shoot him. It's communism we're talking about here. It doesn't have to make sense.
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  38. I'd say that the issue wasn't going to war too early. I think the bigger mistake was Hitler trying to bite off more than he could chew. If he started out with Poland and then consolidated his position there for a few years, he would probably have been more successful. Britain and France might've rattled their sabers but I doubt they would have made any serious commitment in trying to liberate Poland from German occupation. The success in Poland just seems to have made the Nazis overconfident.
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  39. To be fair... War is murder porn.
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  40. This puts General Mattis in a very positive light. If his ambitions and philosophies really add up to what has been described, then he is an exceptionally competent commander of armed forces. However, my natural skeptic side finds it a little bit "too good",and makes me want to question your sources a little. Can we be certain that the authors of your sources aren't biased in some way and have some sort of self-interest in portraying General Mattis in an extremely favorable light? Do take note that i'm focusing more on the sources now rather than you personally, because you concluded your video with a high degree of integrity and intellectual honesty by admitting that you primarily made this video to present your own personal interpretation and impression of the information that you've gathered from the source material so far. And i'm not going to flat out say that the sources are wrong or misrepresentative in any way (I haven't read them, so I couldn"t possibly know). My instinct just make my "too good to be true"-radar flash if you get my meaning? Although I certainly hope he is just as competent and inspiring as your sources and this video presents him to be. All soldiers who put their lives on the line in service to their country deserve competent commanders. Even if their civilian national leaders don'r always have noble goals with their military actions.
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  41. A friend of mine served in the armed forces, and he was assigned as close protection to the command staff of a tank brigade. He told me EVERYTHING about where you pee and shit when inside a tank Some of that stuff will make you wish you were an infantryman who could simply dig a hole and do your business wherever you please.
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  42. Even if the intakes are protected from having accelerants going inside the engine, an engine still needs oxygen to function. If the entire fuselage is on fire, the flames will consume the oxygen outside, preventing the intakes from taking in air. Won't that pose a danger of the engine stalling if the fire can't be put out?
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  43.  @redbaron2829 : At that time it was pointless. Railway hubs and supply lines are only really useful if you've got something to transport. If the germans had first captured and held the oil fields, the clock would be ticking for the Soviets because they would be faced with a prospect of severe fuel shortage, while the germans in turn would've secured a fuel source for themselves. It would've been logical to capture the caucasus oil fields first and THEN go after railway hubs and port cities slong the volga river.
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  44. Naughty Caulifla: Europe didn't become the center of civilization by "taking it chill". Every battle fought required Europeans to come up with new weapons, inventions and defenses to beat their opponents. The warlike behaviour is what pushed technological progress further than any other cultures did.
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  45.  @day2148  All armies rely on logistics at the end of the day. But my reflection was more about bullying an enemy into submission by bringing weapon systems to the field which they have nothing to counter it with. "Shock and awe" basically.
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  46. To answer the question: Not at all. In real life, bullets do not bounce off car doors or corrugated sheet metal. Cars do not "explode" by being hit by gunfire either.
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  47. @John Fulghieri: Holes weaken a structure. I'd rather have a helmet that gives me hearing problems than a helmet that doesn't protect the side of my head properly. Battlefields are pretty noisy anyway. And orders are usually bellowed at eardrum splitting sound volume.
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  48.  @ssm445  You'd think so. But Swedish engineers are well versed in the difficulties of rough and snow covered terrain. They could've made a tracked vehicle but opted not to.
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  49. The Juice: "If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an axe. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want to do. Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how—or why—he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people—'older and wiser heads,' as they say—supply the control. Which is as it should be." -Starship Troopers (Robert A Heinlein)
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  50. I'm curious about an issue regarding amphibious assaults in WWII. Is there a reason why smoke wasn't deployed to cover the advance of troops unloading unto beaches during battles like the d-day assault on the beaches of Normandy? Of course, maybe smoke was used but popular depictions of it in movies and games show masses of soldies storming headlong into the jaws of bunkers and pillboxes firing back at them with machine guns and such. I'm thinking: what if the battleships fired massive smoke shells designed to blanket the beaches in thick billowing clouds of smoke to cover the advancing troops? Wouldn't that have reduced the effectiveness of german machine gun emplacements due to not being able to pick out any individual targets until allied infantry got close enough to throw grenades into the bunkers and neutralize their occupants?
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