Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

  1. I can't say I know what the Italians thought of Rommel. But i'm sure many vigorous hand gestures were involved.
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  2. If you make a weaker tank look like a tiger, isn't that a small strategic benefit? It might fool enemy recon and make the enemy act in a different (hopefully desirable) way.
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  3. So on christmas morning during WWII... Getting coal in your stocking was a good thing?
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  4.  @hewlett-b3v : Meaning they brought the shermans from elsewhere, to fight weaker tanks that weren't tigers. So that the actual tigers can be deployed in an area where the shermans are not. In strategy it's often beneficial to make the enemy think you have certain weapons in a specific location that you do not, just as it's beneficial to make the enemy think you do not have certain weapons in an area which you do.
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  5. They should've turned the half-tracks into armored convertibles. :D Open topped for those breezy summer days. Armored top for when it's raining bullets and artillery.
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  6. "Stugs, Drugs and Rock n Roll" ;)
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  7. Das Boot (the film) is one of my alltime favourite films. And one that I feel more people should watch. Since the second world war, there has been this public precption that all german soldiers were evil bootlickers completely in agreement with Adolf Hitler, which was far from the truth. Das Boot presents a more nuanced and realistic picture, and really showcases the differences between regular german navymen and the "loyalist" party members. It shows that for good or ill, germans were human beings.
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  8. From a gameplay perspective, being a loader sounds kind of dull. Your entire gameplay experience will be "press F to load" :P
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  9. First rule of a panzer grenadier: "Try not to get squished under the tracks"
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  10. The important thing to know is which rank will land you behind a desk and keep you away from glorious field duty.
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  11. MrGuySnailz: They already are. At least small flying RC drones with cameras that helps infantry scout potentially hostile areas.
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  12. Hans... Get zie Raketenwerfer
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  13. In some situations, horses are prefarable to motorized vehicles though.
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  14. I'm not surprised tanks are vulnerable in transmission capabilities. It's a lot of weight for the engine and the transmission to haul around.
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  15. My impression was always that the Germans bit off more than they could chew.
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  16. I like torpedoes. I like scandals. So this should be good!
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  17. I've heard that the wehrmacht issued extra rations of sauerkraut to the troops. To this day, the outside world has yet to determine if this was intended to be a proverbial carrot or stick.
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  18.  @asahearts1  I think that was mostly a mistake on the Reddit volunteers though. They basically gave up their own positions through their ego-driven social media interaction rather than maintaining comms-discipline. Like with regular radio equipment. Anyone can listen in with the right skills and equipment, so no radio comms are completely safe from prying ears. But if you use radio comms with the correct procedures and doctrine, it will be hard for outsiders listening in to make good use of the intel.
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  19. The french go: "Whaddaya mean logistics? Surely we can win this battle of Agincourt by simply spamming the english with our massive heavy cavalry! Who cares if our crossbowmen weren't able to bring their shields or make sure that their crossbow strings are dry and in functioning order. Our knights will surely win the day!"
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  20. Genuine Norseman here. Some of my best friends are berserkers.
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  21. I love tanks. I love fighter jets. But at a height of 6'2, I know that serving in either would not be a comfortable experience. So if I went into service, my lot would be to be a big, scary footslogger, while my short king bro's man the tanks and the planes.
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  22.  @Schnittertm1  The problem is that quick time events are pretty much universally hated in video gaming and for good reason. And as to your other suggestions: the gameplay will just bottle down to doing the same key-combo over and over again. Probably not as thrilling as riding in a tank and loading the main gun in real life. So if they want to make a game to simulate real tank warfare, it would probably be better to simply stick to the commander acting as a "spotter", the gunner does the shooting with impaired vision and the driver does the driving but with impaired vision. So both driver and gunner have to communicate back and forth with the tank commander to get the most performance out of their tank.
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  23. I suppose this is also a reason why viking raiders really put the fear into the rest of Europe. Vikings rarely fought battles. They rarely committed armies to fighting battles. Instead they were expert raiders. They got in. Raided and then got out fast enough that no contemporary military force could muster an army fast enough to fight them in an open battle. Viking raiders therefore could strike at all the things necessary to keep and supply an army, without actually losing men to fighting actual armies.
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  24. Anyone else love the scenes in the tv-series "Black Sails" where the pirates (primarily using repurposed merchant vessels) try to take on the Spanish Urca De Lima (a proper man o' war)? I'm particularly fond of that scene because it really shows off the differences in combat capabilities between repurposed merchant ships and a purposebuilt navy ship. That broadside barrage from the Urca is downright scary!
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  25. I'm experiencing a bit of a memory lapse here... Did Germany field any carriers?
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  26. Did the germans infantry in Stalingrad have any kind of smoke grenades or flares and such? I'm thinking about the difficulties of coordinating tanks and infantry that hasn't trained with tanks. In a city, there will be buldings that infantry can capture and buildings that are far too reinforced with enemy occupants. So you'd want a way to mark those buildings so the tanks can open fire at them from a distance if possible. Deploying smoke or visible flares can be used as a marker if agreed upon with other units. Even if you can't directly communicate with the tank crews through radio, you can assist them by giving clear visual markers of targets to engage. But maybe they already did that?
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  27. Suddenly, I got very curious of what you sound like when speaking in Spanish.
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  28. The lady of my heart, only wears armoured skirts.
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  29. ​ @WangMingGe Had a funny moment attending a big airsoft game with about 2000 players from all over the world. Met up with some slavic fellows at a respawn zone, I think they were Russians but I can't be sure. So we were chatting for a bit and I mentioned that i was from Scandinavia. They just replied "Yes, we know" I asked them what gave it away and they said "You're like a full head taller than everybody else here" 😄
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  30. Determination is very important though. The U.S has lost a lot of wars lately due to lack of determination (Vietnam, Afghanistan etc.)
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  31. Ambassadors and negotiators = "tactical peace operatives" XD
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  32. Some initial thoughts, that may be adressed later in the video. The first one is that the taskforce sent to invade Ukraine does not seem numerous enough for the job. Figures I read was in the realm of 200.000 men, tasked with taking and occupying a country that is quite large and with a population in the tens of millions. Furthermore, it seems that the Russian government is unwilling to make a formal war declaration against Ukraine for propaganda purposes. Which ties their hands from deploying significant numbers of conscripts. So currently they are relying on a small number of career soldiers and hired mercenaries from the Wagner group. (Russian legislation stipulates that the full force of it's armed forces, conscripts included, can only be deployed during an actual war. Not during "special military operations") Maybe this would explain why they are having such a hard time being able to pacify Ukraine?
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  33. I don't think adrenaline can keep you going forever. There comes a point where you get so tired and exhausted that not only do you become sloppy, you essentially stop caring about your own survival. So I can see why some countries looked into developing performance enhancing drugs for the troops.
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  34. Remember, when driving a tank: you must ensure safety for the crew inside, so you can make the situation very unsafe for the enemy outside the tank.
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  35. I foresee power armoured infantry, commanding ground based drones armed with machineguns and grenade launchers.
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  36. What I found surprising in this is how smartphone usage ended up being a strategic benefit and reserve plan for Ukraines national defence. The Russians hoped that precision strikes against communication infrastructure would cripple Ukrainian comms entirely. But since it's 2022 and everyone has smartphones, and it's easier to back up the phone communications, they could cope with it.
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  37. So what you're saying is... When the japanese had to perform under actual combat conditions, it was a "shamefur dispray"?
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  38. Niels Vantilburg: Soldiers on all sides kill innocent people for no reason. That's the nature of war. The responsibility fall on leaders of countries who treat war way too lightly. The soldier is a trained, government sanctioned killer. Killing is what they do. The soldier is not an arbiter of moral right from wrong. The moment they start behaving like moral arbiters rather than what they were trained for, that's when they cease to function like soldiers are supposed to function.
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  39. So it's a tracked proto-ATV?
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  40. Hehe, in Sweden they strapped a recoilless cannon to a freaking Jeep for tank hunting purposes. XD The reasoning being: you don't need armor to fight tanks. You just need mobility and being able to spot the tank before it spots you. Plus it's cost effective and easier to field in great numbers.
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  41. The question is: do you really want a table if you don't need one? The inside of these vehicles are pretty cramped as it is.
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  42. I wonder, is it possible to find information about the amounts of raw materials necessary to produce a specific tank as well as the amount of raw materials that the country in question can/could produce for it's manufacture? I think you're onto something about criticising the use of "cost" in terms of money, due to the fact that the value of pure currency is unreliable during wartime. So taking a hard look at raw material input in production and raw material output of the country is infinitely more relevant than a pricetag. Basically, you need to look at the economy as if it was a game of Age of Empires rather than a game of money. :)
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  43. The principles in Starcraft are all right. What I hate about it is the micromanaging and the fast game speed. In real warfare you don't micromanage individual soldiers or tanks. You delegate instructions and let them deal with the problem.
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  44. Is there any war in history where the impact of logistics isn't huge? Personally, I doubt it.
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  45. INCREDIBILIS DEUS VULT: I really think the ending was good though. It's a grim and realistic reminder of what war is and was for millions of soldiers back then. You struggle through hardships together and save eachothers lives on multiple occasions, and just when they think they were going to return home safe and sound, they ended up getting killed by an enemy attack that they didn't anticipate. It had a great impact. Even if it didn't necessarily make you feel very good as a viewer. But then again, not all endings are supposed to make you feel good.
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  46. Snake Island just seems like a deathtrap for whomever holds it.
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  47. When the force isn't fully motorized or mechanized but use horses... Is it then Equestrianized? :)
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  48.  @DaSpineLessFish  I'd say both, actually. An army needs a determined nation behind it. There wasn't enough national determination behind the war in Vietnam or Afghanistan, and both ended up in a loss for the U.S. It will be exceedingly difficult to win a war without determined soldiers. But the same is true for not having a determined nation, since the army depends on the nation for material support.
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  49. Are there any tanks with semi-automatic main guns? Like using a magazine or hopper for several shells?
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  50. Niels Vantilburg: If the order to kill the entire village came from their superior officers then not only do they have the right to kill everyone in that village, they have a DUTY to do so. You clearly do not understand the role of a soldier or the concept of chain of command. Nor do you understand the philosophy behind the relationship between a soldier and the state. It is not the soldiers place to question or "choose" which orders to follow. Their duty is to obey orders to the letter.
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  51.  Scott Joseph  Their weight must've certainly contributed a lot to that. Pretty big tanks after all. Also, I think the tracks themselves on tanks probably contributes to the issue. They give good traction obviously, but generally in all things mechanical, the more traction you have, the more friction and strain it will put on the engine and transmission. A car is not nearly as heavy, but what it also has going for it is that it only have two, pretty small contact points with the road. Accelerating the car puts the most strain on engine and transmission. But once you get it up to speed, it can lazily roll onwards by it's own momentum, only requiring a little extra gas to maintain the desired speed. Can't really "roll" along on tracks as easily, so the engine has to work more during movement.
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  52.  @MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized : Thank you for the clarificartion. I didn't want to assume anything because from your videos I've learned that the german forces were hard pressed for resources in Stalingrad, so I thought that perhaps they didn't have such ammunition at the time.
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  53. Akvavit vs Vodka. ;)
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  54. You don't think like soldiers think. Their motivation was that if they didn't fight the russian hordes or advancing western armies, then they would reach their families and loved ones. And seeing as how the russians indulged in mass rapes of civilan german women, I'd say that their motivation was well founded.
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  55. Why shouldn't they justify it? They were soldiers. It was their duty. It's not a soldiers place to question or disregard their duty because they may or may not have a problem with the nature of the orders or their commanding officer/supreme commander. German soldiers who fought did nothing wrong. They just happened to find themselves on the losing side of the conflict.
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  56. Niels Vantilburg: The SS were not soldiers. The SS were a paramilitary organization. They had nothing to do with the Heer/Wehrmacht. There is only one justification that a soldier needs for killing people: "I was following orders". If he was indeed following orders, then the responsibility of his victims deaths fall on the state, not the soldier himself. Also what you fail to realize, even though the video even brought it up, is the fact that Nazi germany executed soldiers for insubordination. That means that soldiers were subjected to a choice of either killing their targets, or being killed themselves. Are you seriously saying that these soldiers should've just accepted being executed rather than following orders?
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  57. "I made a very important discovery at Camp Currie. Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you've ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it, and he's as happy as a worm in an apple—asleep. " -Starship Troopers, Robert A Heinlein
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  58. My personal dream would be a tank armed with a Vulcan rotary cannon as the main weapon. And I've always wondered if someone ever tried it out. Think of an A-10 Warthog, only it's a tank rather than aircraft. While a single round might not be enough to defeat armour on it's own. Bjt what if you had 15 rounds smacking into the same square inch almost at the same time? 🤔
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  59. nattygsbord: That's a very interesting problem. Many officers and privates would say that the chain of command is sacred and has to be followed. The thing those commanders seem to have neglected is that the chain of command does not just apply from bottom to the top, but also from top to bottom. A general or commander in chief is not supposed to issue personal orders or instructions to privates, corporals or sergeants. Even though he technically outranks them, he should never act as their "boss". His orders are to be issued to colonels and other second in commands, their job is then to assign duties to officers directly below them and so on until the chain of command reaches the privates on the ground. That's how a real chain of command works, as opposed to a pyramid of command.
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  60. I don't think real soldiers fight with hatred initially. Hatred is primarily taught by governments. Every real soldier in the world knows that their duty is the same, regardless of which country you're fighting for. Yes, enemy troops may kill your comrades. But they do so because they are ordered to and have a duty and obligation to. If enemy troops surrender when they are spent (out of ammunition, out of food, energy or in a hopeless situation), you accept their surrender. Take them as captives and proceed with the strategic mission until the war is over. Always knowing that the men you just took as captives could've just as easily have been you if the tables were reversed.
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  61. Trisha: Badass dude that one. There's no shame in surrendering when you've spent all your ammunition and food on the front lines.
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  62. I would just like to make a suggestion for interviews. If your subject doesn't feel as comfortable with english, then I for one would have no problem with a interview conducted in another language but with english subtitles. I think most military history buffs would agree if it is more conducive to a smooth interview. Keep up the good work!
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  63. Yes, the orders came from higher up. Therefore the individual soldiers are not to blame. They did what they were told, and therefore their actions are completely justified. The responsibility lies with their commanding officers, and if these officers had their orders from the leading politicians then it is the politicians responsibility. Soldiers do not declare war. Politicians do. Soldiers are just there to supply the violence. It's not their duty nor right to determine where, why or how much violence is used. So yes, EVEN during the holocaust, the soldiers actions were completely justified. The only instance where soldiers are individually responsible is where they take actions upon themselves or disregard standing orders and act completely on their own accord. And yes the concept of warcrime is completely fucking ridiculous. Wars are not societies or "games" which you can hope to enforce "rules" or "laws". The state of war is by definition a state where two or more nations have completely abandoned rule of law with the goal of getting their enemies to surrender. Also germany and german soldiers were not sentenced for "warcrimes" during the post-war trials, they were sentenced excessively harshly for LOSING the war. The Nürnberg-trials were nothing but kangaroo-courts with the sole intent of adding insult to injury after the germans had lost. German soldiers didn't do anything more severe or terrible than their enemies did. Yet German soldiers got sentenced with harsh punishments by the victors, while the equally reprehensible and murderous soldiers of the victors got celebrated as "war heroes".
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  64. SantiFiore: It's hard to blame people praising Hitler seeing as how these people are forced to live in a regime that's basically the complete opposite to Hitlers vision, and that regime is hardly working out very well for native Europeans. In fact, it's leading straight to their doom.
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  65. A pin seems like a very unreliable method for a detonator since it can be bent. If I were to design it, I would've made the nose of the torpedo out of a sphere sticking out from a hole in the front that is large enough to get the sphere to stick out, but small enough for the sphere to fallout. Basically it would be like a ball point pen. Then the sphere would rest in front of several pins positioned at different angles behind the sphere. So when the sphere is pushed back hard enough, it will push in at least one of the pins and make the torpedo explode. And it wouldn't matter much which angle the sphere is pushed back, because even if the angle of impact isn't 90 degrees the sphere would be pushed back enough in a particular direction to depress at least one pin.
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  66. Clergy was nobility in practically everything but name: substantial land holdings, obesity and diabetes being the their primary cause of death, insane amounts of wealth, influence with kings and rulers etc.
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  67. Klobi for President: I don't speak german (I understand bits and pieces only), but I prefer to watch films in their original language with subtitles. I watched Das Boot in german the first time, even though I've heard there's a dubbed version as well. Finding films with subtitles, either in my native language or with english subtitles tend to be easier.
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  68. You're absolutely right. I try to get my squad mates to apply real world squad tactics in PUBG as well, because they do actually work in the game.
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  69. wood1155: It's sad how deplorable the treatment of POW's was in Germany as well as the soviet union in WW2, compared to WW1 when the Hague Conventions had recently been signed and ratified by most of the countries involved (except for the Ottoman Empire). Soldiers of different nations might be enemies on the battlefield. But that doesn't mean you have to mistreat or be disrespectful towards captured enemy soldiers doing their duty. There's some great examples of professional courtesy between enemy combatants in WW1. Of course being a POW will never be a fun experience, but the rampant sadism and purposeful mistreatment of POW's in WW2 wasn't as prevalent in WW1. Even though it may sound strange to some people to treat a captured enemy with decency, it does make a lot of sense. For all they might be, they still have a lot in common with you as an individual soldier, and you've got to respect a person putting their own life on the line in service to their country, even if they might be your enemy.
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  70. Niels Vantilburg: The concept of warcrime is utterly ridiculous and also used completely arbitrary so it holds no merit whatsoever. And no I don't hold individual soldiers responsible for the holocaust. The people responsible are the leaders of the nazi party and the higher officers who ordered the holocaust to begin with.
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  71. Strategy: National, division and army level warfare. Tactics: battalion level and below.
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  72. The tank drinks diesel. The crew drink vodka.
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  73.  @TheRedandWhit  Exactly. All the more reason why national leaders shouldn't go to war over vague and abstract geopolitical goals and pissing contests, but instead choose war as a last resort for situations where goals and conditions are clearly defined and which have the full support of the public.
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  74. I like trains Choo choo! 😏
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  75. Töppel is quite the devils advocate. XD
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  76. Famously known among the troops as "asskisser of the commander"
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  77. Well you can disagree all you like but the fact remains: a soldier or an army will not be able to function if they were run your way, where the individual soldier is being forced to make "Moral decisions" during wartime and choosing to disregard some orders because they don't fit with his own moral conviction or conscience. That is why states justifiably liberate individual soldiers from responsibility of their victims deaths. Soldiers are state sanctioned killers. When a soldier enlist, the state assumes his individual responsibility of any ordered murders he commit in the line of duty, in exchange for the soldiers obedience.
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  78. That's it. I figured that carriers wouldn't have made that much sense for Germany, mostly being locked in a land war. Perhaps they would've been useful for a full invasion of Britain, but they never came close enough to do it.
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  79. That being said: if propaganda and morale only end up feeding your troops to the meatgrinder that the enemy creates... Then the propaganda and morale is actually causing your war effort a detriment. The soviets were so sure of themselves that they would win, that they ended up dying because they underestimated their enemy. Pushing forward at all costs, does not make an army great or effective. In fact, pushing forward at all costs can end up losing you the war.
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  80. Well, it's your channel and your decision or course. But I want to put it out there that I found it refreshing with the focus on military equipment, tactics, strategies and doctrines without the war crimes. This because, the war crimes are always shoehorned in there somewhere in all the other sources. For a novice with hardly any knowledge at all about WWII, it would be a necessary subject. But for one who has been schooled in the war crimes already and is mostly interested in the military matters, it always becomes a "Here we go again..." moment when the war crimes are brought up. I don't hold this view to be dismissive. I do it because the war crimes have been adressed so much already that I start to feel like i'm becoming desensitized to them. And I don't want that to happen.
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  81. Klobi for President: Well, they're a bit strange, I'll give you that. But homo sapiens nontheless. :P Another film I like that doesn't really have much to do with germans or the war, but still makes a great impression regarding nazism and the people involved or affiliated with it is a film starring a very young Russel Crowe called "Romperstomper", where he basically plays the leader of a nazi skinhead gang in New Zeeland. What I like about it is how the film doesn't actively try to portray them as good or bad, but yet again showcases a more human perspective that makes you think and feel for the characters. You want to assume that they're evil due to their ideology, but after the film is over it's very difficult to maintain such a single minded perspective.
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  82. Soldiers had a lot of other drugs to resort to. Tobacco to steady the nerves. Coffee to wake themselves up from exhaustion... And alcohol to treat their PTSD when the war is over.
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  83. Block the german government approval for sauerkraut, and the jerrys will certainly lose their nerve!
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  84. NeoNEET: You do realize that if the Allies had lost the war, it would've been them being portrayed as an "evil empire" utilizing "mindless minions" as their soldiers right? I'm sorry but your entire post is filled with typical 20/20 hindsight. Just a statement like "it was more clear which side was good and bad back then" just goes to show how little you know of the knowledge and perspectives of the people of the involved countries. Your entire post is composed of self-righteous ignorance.
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  85. NeoNEET: Do you even know what the Versailles treaty was and how it affected germany?
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  86. So, ironically, the daily and constant cyber attacks by the Russians since 2014, probably hurt their war effort since it made the Ukrainians adapt to them and set up procedures for back-ups and restoring systems that had been wiped? Imagine if Russia had conducted limited cyber attacks before only then engage in an all-out cyberwarfare attack during the invasion, it would've probably have had a more devastating impact.
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  87. I'm not surprised. Warfare tend to favor the asymmetrical approach. You don't really want to send tanks to destroy other tanks. The most prefarably option would be to send planes or other aircraft to destroy tanks, since the tanks have no considerable means of shooting back. A lot of rock, paper scissors going on.
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  88. I doubt the use of Fly Agaric. That said, there are actually mushrooms native to scandinavia of the psilocybe family, containing the psychadelic stimulant known as psilocybin. Which isn't that dissimilar in effect compared to LSD. Of course, you can't really know for certain what effect psilocybin will have on the person ingesting it, since it relies a lot on that persons general psychological state. But it's not beyond the realms of possibility that it could induce a psychotic rage if it is ingested with other substances combined with rituals designed to promote anger and battlelust. Regarding drugs granting users superhuman powers, while probably not available to the norsemen of the time, PCP (aka "angel dust") users and police officers who interact with them have frequently reported things such as reduced to non-existent sense of pain, meaning that they can be shot, bludgeoned with a baton and even smash their hand straight through a windshield of a car without registering the pain that the injuries would've caused in a sober state.
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  89. I've been thinking about a couple of ideas for future tanks. Feel free to give me some input: 1. A primary weakness of tanks have always been the limited visibility from inside the tank. Visions slits and optics have been employed, but tanks still need the eyes of infantry support to gain full situational awareness. So what if the tank crew was equipped with a VR-system that is linked to strategically placed cameras outside the tank, effectively letting the crew to "see through" the interior walls? The loader might not require one. But the gunner, commander and driver could probably benefit from this feature. The technology to pull it off is already avaliable as there are VR-cameras capable of sending a live visual feed to VR headsets. Of course, a point of criticism might be that cameras on the outside of the tank hull would be vulnerable to enemy fire. But tanks already employ external optics (protected as much as they can be) so it's not a bigger weakness than the ones tanks already have. It would just add a greater field of view for the crew instead of being locked to the very narrow field of view that current optics provide. 2. Pyramidal tank hulls. Sloped armour has been proven to be effective protection against many anti-tank weapons. The effective armour thickness is increased, and the angle of the sloped armour creates a greater chance of hits glancing off the armour rather than hitting it dead on. So suppose you shaped the exterior top half of the tank (above the tracks) into an armoured pyramid shape. This would give you sloped armor on all sides, leaving no vulnerabilities on any side. The top part of the pyramid could house the turret and be designed to rotate just as a regular turret on top of the rest of the pyramid.
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  90.  @rasmusrw8140 : There isn't any. Because most of society likes to pretend that they don't rely on violent men to sort out their wars and protect their freedoms. So when the war is over, most people just want the soldiers to go away and disappear.
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  91. Joseph Ahner: That's just the every day grind of soldiering that you're talking about. It's a different story during such large scale conflicts such as World War 2. Especially when the involved governments controlled information as much as they did back then, compared to today where governments are struggling with controlling the free flow of information. If you're told, every day by every news outlet you have access to that unless the soldiers keep fighting, your women will be gangraped by foreign invaders, and your elderly and your children will be executed by the enemy and you have no reason to believe otherwise then it will affect you and push you to do things that you might not ordinarily have done. The camraderie amongst the soldiers themselves is then added on top of all of that sense of guilt and responsibility.
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  92. Trisha: And both were lied to by their governments, because state control of the media was much more pronounced back then, both among the axis and the allies.
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  93. NeoNEET: The idea that various ethnic groups were subhuman was not exclusive to germany. Practically all over Europe and the U.S these ideas were accepted practically among the entire civilian populations as well as in academia and the political sphere. Trying portray germany as "evil" because they believed that humans could be categorized according to race looks pretty fucking dumb nd hypocritical when the U.S instituted things like Jim Crow laws that were kept in place until LONG AFTER Nazi Germany had been defeated. There wasn't much practical difference between Nazi Germany and the Allies at all when it comes to ideas and mindsets.
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  94. NeoNEET: No, i'm not a neo-nazi. And no, you haven't "refuted" any of my points at all. You've made ignorant statements that clearly prove your loose grasp of history, and have tried to pass them off as facts. You desperately need to go back to the school bench before trying to lecture someone like me.
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  95. NeoNEET: So wikipedia and some unnamed "textbook" are your sources, that you have yet to present fully, even after having been asked to do so? Colour me impressed...
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  96.  @ungainlytitan1460  But all of this hearkens back to my point. National determination includes political support. A politician in office can completely neuter any army, no matter how well trained or well equipped by simply pulling them out of deployment. So Ukrainian troops may lack the training and the equipment. But they all know they're fighting for their countrys very existence and have the full support of both the population and government. The American troops in Vietnam and Afghanistan were not so fortunate. Both being victims of the hubris of certain presidents believing that they could wage wars without full national support.
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  97.  @phunkracy  How would starlink affect the situation?
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  98. On the one hand, you want competitive people in your armed forces to make sure you have people with drive and who can push themselves in extreme situations rather than freezing or quitting. On the other hand, more competitive people means more competition, animosity and prestige between different branches of armed forces.
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  99.  @AlexanderSeven  Perhaps. But I would argue that the situation is different compared to Chechnya and Georgia seeing as how the Ukranian military is armed and outfitted by practically every western country, while Chechnya and Georgia since they were left to fend for themselves.
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  100.  @kireta21  It depends on how you look at it. Do you take Putin's televised, stated goals as genuine or as a ruse? Personally I suspect that his real goal was to take control of the Donbass region. But at the same time he told his own people in Russia that they were going to "de-nazify" and "de-militarize" Ukraine (all of Ukraine). You can't really break a country's military without taking over the entire country.
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  101.  @Legitpenguins99 : Depends on your definition of racism. There's some scientific research that uncovers racial differences between people that goes beyond mere skin tone (The Bell Curve and others). But people of a particular political persuasion dismiss such findings and research as "racist", even when they follow strict scientific doctrine. But I doubt such research played any part in decisions made during WWII.
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  102. One thing that was lacking though: ... Motorcycles with sidecarts armed with MG-42's. That would've been awesome!
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  103.  @Nikarus2370  You're probably right. When I looked at the video and there was talk about contact exploder, it conjured images of naval mines into my mind. You know, the kinds of mines that are basically spherical, equipped all over with spring loaded pins, that when depressed they trigger the explosive in the mind. I assumed there was a similar mechanism involved in the nose cone of the torpedo with the direct contact exploder. And if that was the case, then I wouldn't have designed it with a single pin to be depressed through impact, because it would require a very specific angle of engagement to properly depress the pin. (If such a torpedo had impacted at an angle slightly off 90 degrees, then chances are it would've just bent the pin and prevented it from being depressed all the way to the bottom of the mechanism) Granted, my idea would initially have problems with water pressure in the front of the torpedo since the more velocity it picks up, the greater water pressure would be exerted on the nosecone. But this would've been solved with spring tension in the pins to be set at a specific degree as to keep the pins extended until the torpedo actually impacts a hard surface. As with bomb making in general though, there are a huge selection of methods to get a bomb to explode.
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  104. There is no "blast back" that would tip over a jeep in a recoilless gun. Also, it works because of the terrain mentioned. Hitting targets up to 2 miles away assumes that you're going to have 2 miles of open ground to target from. Which you'll rarely find in Scandinavian forests. Also this was for cold war era purposes when it was implemented. Russia didn't have sophisticated laser guided targeting systems for their tanks back then. That stuff was still being developed.
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  105.  @ВячеславСкопюк  It's a numbers game. Whatever costs you incur on yourself, has to end up giving your side a net gain. Otherwise the costs you've incurred are wasteful by definition, and many smaller wasteful costs will add up and end up losing you the war. Patton described it quite consisely: "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." The red army during the winter war had such effective propaganda and high morale that they ended up running headlong into the finnish guns, dying for the soviet union... While failing to cause enough finns to die for Finland. And that is a problem, for the red army and for the soviet union, no matter how you try to look at it. Which teaches us that it's not very useful to teach or indoctrinate troops that dying for their country is some sort of "Noble goal" in itself, because it isn't. Getting results for your country is the noblest goal. Sometimes your own individual death might garner big results for your countrys war effort, and in such a situation, self-sacrifice might be noble. But just dying to the guns of the enemy to show "bravery" or "zeal" is useless. So what all your troops should know is that if they are about to die in battle, then they should do their very best to make their deaths useful rather than wasteful. In modern times, there's another group that has repeated this mistake: ISIS and their glorification of martyrdom. Dying in "Service of the prophet and Allah"... Might sit well with the prophet and Allah, but it's not winning ISIS any wars.
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  106. I heard something on the radio the other day. Is it true that the land owners really can't demolish the old flak towers because the amounts of explosives that it would require would also end up destroying adjacent buildings in the same neighbourhood? If this is is true, then "built to last" is certainly a bit of an understatement
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  107.  @rotschadel3574  No, they were not "guilty". As a soldier your job is to follow orders, period. You do not get to decide who the shotcaller is or what orders you are given. The fact that you are german does not make you a very balanced authority on the subject since you have been indoctrinated since childbirth to hate your country and your people. It's not about whether the men serving in the wehrmacht were "good" or "bad". Soldiers are ordered to do bad shit all the time. What matters is whether they did their duty or not. If they fought for their country, they were good soldiers. Period. The guilt of soldiers actions lies further up the chain of command in times of war, so long as the soldier is only following his orders. If soldiers did what you propose that they should do, any military would break down in mere minutes. Which might have positive results when it is the Nazi military breaking down. But if you take a step back for a moment and imagine if the same thing happened to the Allies, then suddenly it's not a very prefarable scenario anymore. So you best be appreciative of soldiers who understand their duties and carrying out orders rather than constantly second guesssing their superiord, ignoring orders and waiting for the first best moment to desert their posts. We saw that happening in Afghanistan recently. The end result is that The Taliban has re-taken the country, and are now in possession of 85 billion dollars worth of american made weaponry, military vehicles and aircraft. Because the Afghani government troops who were supposed to use that equipment AGAINST The Taliban just threw their hands up and surrendered or abandoned their posts to join the enemy.
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  108. Us damned Swedes and our modifications to German armored vehicles and guns. 😏
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  109. The terrain in Poland is just awful. Endless fields everywhere. They're so big you hardly ever see a treeline. Rain will turn it into a sea of mud for vehicles to get stuck in and for infantry to get bogged down in. So if you're an invader, the defenders will quite literally see you coming a mile away.
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  110. Franco Andrés: It wasn't the Wehrmachts job to question direct orders from the politicians ruling the country. A soldiers job, general or private, is to do what they are instructed to. They do not have the luxury of choice or freedom of conscience.
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  111. Franco Andrés: If the civilians had "fought with the allies". Then clearly they weren't civilians at all. This is a perfect example of why it's idiotic to "join in the fighting" while not wearing a uniform yourself.
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  112. NeoNEET: Not once have I said that I think "the nazis were cool". Your problem is that you don't know anything about the whermacht or how they differed from the nazis. The SS were the actual nazis. A PARAmilitary organization. They were not members of the wehrmacht. The wehrmacht was an older organization that defended germany before the nazi party even existed. Your other problem is that you don't understand what it means joining up to become a soldier. You think soldiers can just "quit" if the elected government starts giving orders they don't like, which has never been the case in any country in the world. When you sign up for service, the government practically owns you. You sign away any rights to "quit" or refuse orders or disagreeing. That's the part you fail to understand. So, like I said: go fuck yourself. You don't know shit about shit. You are in no position to educate me about history or military action.
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  113. NeoNEET: Oh yeah? Just like how the germans made bars of soap, lamp shades and furniture out of the fat, skin and bones of dead jews. Because totally legit sources claim they did! By the way, I still haven't seen you present any sources. So I guess my statement about you being ignorant of history has to stand.
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  114. Duke Craig: This was my point before the self-righteous moralist NeoNEET started his sermons. The soldiers task is a thankless one, and regardless of which country they fight for, they have almost every detail of their duty in common. Another factor is the fact that as an enlisted man, you aren't really allowed to follow your conscience, when duty demands that you go against it. (which it often does) Which is why I don't think it's right to judge the Wehrmacht during WWII. They didn't choose their leaders or orders. They just happened to be enlisted at a time when evil men rose to power. They did their duty, and deserve respect for it. Regardless who they fought for.
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  115. Couldn't the germans just have focused on bombing the airfieds and mined all of the key ports and crossings to cover it?
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  116.  @ungainlytitan1460  True. The last competent war and aftermath dealing the U.S did was against Japan. Turning a former enemy into a prosperous ally.
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  117. Colonel AND Doctor? He can pretty much pull rank on anyone! 😄
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  118.  @fazole : Yes Vietnam was a shitshow in that regard. The cradinal error made was using conscription to fight a war that had zero to do with defending the U.S. When the enemy is at your doorstep, you might have to consider conscription to defend your homeland. But fighting proxy wars on someone elses behalf should only ever use volunteers and never conscripts.
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  119. fazole: That's a reason to call off the war and simply not participate.
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  120. Imagine having to fight on the front lines while also suffering through withdrawal symptoms of a drug like meth. Front line conditions are usually fucking awful as it is (lack of sleep, being cold, wet, too hot or sweating, maybe not having enough food, being exhausted after long marches etc.) adding withdrawal symptoms of a drug on top of all that crap... Doesn't seem like it would be very beneficial. :S
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  121. To auto-loader skeptics I have but one word to say: Archer
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  122. I've mentioned this idea in the past, but what I would like to see is augmented reality for tank drivers, commanders and gunners that basically turn the hull of the tank transparent. This could be achieved with 360 degree cameras on the outside of the tank, and a computer which process the footage into the VR headset worn by the necessary crew inside of the tank. One of the main drawbacks that tank crews have always suffered from in comparison to infantry is the lack of vision, having to resort to vision cupolas, slits, periscopes and sights to spot the enemy before being spotted themselves. With this solution, that drawback would be a thing of the past. Not sure if it will be mentioned in this video since I haven't watched it all yet, but that's an idea I've been thinking of for quite some time.
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  123. What the hell? Several replies of mine keep getting algorithm'd. I guess youtube has been instructed by Nato or something...
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  124.  @WangMingGe  "Stridsvagn"? Literal translation to english "Combat Wagon" 😆
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  125. I assume the air canisters are also hooked up to a belt powered compressor that refills the airtanks when the engine starts running?
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  126.  @oddballsok : Did I say that? No I don't believe I did. So why even ask?
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  127. It's amazing how similar german and swedish is. :)
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  128.  @kamilszadkowski8864 : Peasants could be knighted and nobled as well. Usually for partaking in wars and doing outstanding services to the king. A very good example would be medieval Japan, especially after the rise to power of Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Which also spurred the many wars that Japan engaged in up until the Meiji reforms, because non-samurai saw the wars as an opportunity to become elevated into the samurai class. These types of battlefield commendations and promotions happened in ever feudal society on earth.
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  129. I agree that all societies are fraught with hypocrisy, ignorance and finger pointing. I think it's because even in times of "peace" there are still battles going on for supremacy over parliament and executive positions. Hypocrisy and ignorance are just weapons of war in these battles. If the warring factions can get away with hypocrisy, ignorance and pointing fingers at their opponents, they score victories in elections. I think Machiavelli taught me the most to view these phenomenons in society this way. People fighting wars of politics are only honest or righteous when they stand to gain something from it, but are just as likely to be dishonest and underhanded when they stand to gain from those as well.
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  130.  @Pilotmario  Almost, but not quite. The T-34 still has a lot of flat horizontal and vertical surfaces. Especially on the top. And seeing as how many anti-tank weapon systems employ guided missiles which are guided to a trajectory which sends the missiles high above the target in order to strike the target straight from the top in order to defeat the benefits of sloped armour, the T-34 would still be vulnerable. My intention with a completely pyramidal profile was to eliminate a "flat" top side for such weapon systems to target.
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  131. Klobi for President: Haven't we all? :D
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  132. INCREDIBILIS DEUS VULT: As an addendum to my earlier post, it's not like Das Boot is without it's feelgood moments. I really love this scene in the film: https://youtu.be/pddW-HeHAwo
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  133.  @rotschadel3574  Or you stay and wait for the inevitable arrival of the enemy and surrender.
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  134.  @rotschadel3574  What "conspiracy"? Also, you were the one who bothered me in the first place, you self-hating excuse for a human. If you can't take the heat then stay out of the kitchen, you wimp.
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  135.  @rotschadel3574  You are also clearly historically illiterate when you babble on about "moral choices" in a country where specific narratives had been normalized and the government held an iron grip on all the media outlets and publishers. Let me guess: you're one of those who criticize medieval Europeans for the Crusades or the Ancient Romans for the fact that they captured and owned slaves too? 🤣
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  136.  @rotschadel3574  I don't really care what disturbs such a pathetic weakling like you, to be honest. You have no conception of what the real world is like, apparently.
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  137. För kriget det kan Förgöra en man Jag ger mitt liv För mitt fosterland Men vem saknar mig Så se mig som den en make en vän Fader och son som aldrig kommer hem Men vem sörjer mig
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  138. Military History not Visualized: Ok, so maybe he got a bit over-enthusiastic :P
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  139. Duke Craig: Can't say I've heard that one. But like a glove sounds about right. I wonder if cows would experience roughly the same feeling if anyone designed a pair of pants for them? :D
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  140. Swedish imperialism intensifies https://youtu.be/mo3cd1Rjsz4
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  141.  @wsm7929  Yes. Winning battles is pointless if you lose the war
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  142. @Military History not Visualized: have you made any videos about Swedens actions during WWII? The official story seems to be that Sweden was neutral. The anti-Swedish sentiment is that Sweden primarily cooperated with germany at the expense of it's neighbours. But the more unknown facts seem to imply that Sweden acted more as a double agent, helping some of it's neighbours unofficially while at the same time trying to project a neutral stance towards the more aggressive nations (Germany and the Soviet Union), for example by sending weapons and ammunition to the Finns during the winter war, as well as looking the other way when Swedish military officers went over to fight for Finland as volunteers. It would be interesting to watch your take on Swedens role during WWII, if you haven't already made a video about it.
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  143.  @MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized  Understandable. Hopefully you'll come across some sources in the future that will meet your rigorous demands. I've only had wikipedia to use so far. But wikipedia is not very reliable.
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  144. I was thinking the same thing. Maybe "General Purpose Battle Tank" would be a more appropriate designation. As in this is the tank we intend to produce the most of and expect to use for the widest variety of engagements. It's versatility would be the main focus, rather than the thickness of armor or size of the gun.
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  145.  @elljay3453 : Yeah, the technology wasn't there yet. But they clearly wanted to be able to engage the tanks with aircraft. And technology certainly moved in that direction overtime.
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  146. I think a lot of scandinavian men who had troubled youths can relate. Although nowadays there's not much incentive to seek out such a lifestyle compared to the iron age where you could earn a lot of wealth by being a ferocious fighter. But still some people do. They are most commonly found within various football hooligan groups nowadays, where they can indulge in their preferences for fighting.
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  147.  @TheChieftainsHatch : Yeah, I noticed. Thanks for the reply Chieftain! I'm just sorry I wasn't in a position to get that idea out on the market first. :D
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  148.  @MozTS : That's kind of my point. The technology already exists. So in terms or costs it would require very little research and development to create a tailored solution for any given model of tank. That is compared to researching and developing all the necessary components from scratch.
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  149. I've always said the same thing. Example of a real time strategy game: The total war series. Because it includes optional real time battles, but also non real time aspects where you move troops around to attack and defend different provinces as well as building your armies and infrastructure. Examples of real time TACTICS game: Starcraft. Age of Empires. Warcraft. Command and Conquer and the rest.
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  150. It's not that hard to convert in your head. I usually think like this: 1 inch equals 2,5 centimeters. It's not exactly 2,5 centimeters but it'll give you an inkling of what caliber is being spoken about. So if they say .50 cal. Then that is 0.50 parts of one inch i.e half an inch. 2,5 divided by 2 equals 1,25 centimeters. But there is no such thing as a 1,25 cm caliber in metric. But there is a famous 12,7mm. So a .50 must be 12,7mm (although this only concern the measurement, it doesn't account for powder load or cartridge length) With feet I usually think that there is three feet in one meter. Once again it's not an exact conversion, but it's close enough to get the gist of what sort of measurement is being talked about.
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  151. Huh, looks like youtube is deleting comments mentioning the former Ottoman country...
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  152.  @reidparker1848  But there are always weitd half-and-halfs in the military. Like the rank of "Major"...
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  153.  Alexander Challis  It goes without saying that it's pretty dumb to steal farm horses from farmers in allied countries. I was just saying that in some situations horses were just plain better for the task at hand than vehicles.
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  154. We don't watch his videos for expert english pronounciation but his keen insight and knowledge into history of warfare. As long as his english can be understood, I don't give a crap about how he pronounce it. Language is just a tool to make yourself understood, nothing more.
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  155.  @MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized  Me neither... But I do fancy myself a tinkerer in my spare time. Building various inventions and contraptions, as well as modifying existing ones. :) If I had acess to a proper metal workshop though I would've tried my hand at some actual engineering. Unfortunately, lathes, heavy duty drills and grinders are a bit expensive and hard to store. :(
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  156.  @Nikarus2370  I live in Scandinvia. Haven't heard of any MakerSpaces here. But it sounds like a good idea. Regarding your question: don't you mean arm the torpedo? I assume that once the torpedo has left it's tube, disarming it is of little concern. But regarding an arming device, I suppose it could be done in a number of ways. Radio controlled solenoid that blocks the exploder from activation until the proper radio signal is sent. Or it could be something mechanical like a metal wire attached to a loop at the rear of the torpedo (like the propeller central axle), and the loop in turn functions as a safety mechanism until it is pulled out hard by the torpedo traveling towards it's target. Or the explosives and detonator charge could be composed of a separate piece which you only insert in the torpedo just before launching it. I guess it all depends on desired weight, dimensions, costs and difficulty of manufacture really.
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  157.  @twirlipofthemists3201  The ball wouldn't have to be made of massive metal (in fact, it would probably be easier and cheaper to manufacture in two halves, creating a hollow sphere).
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  158.  @princeofcupspoc9073 : This is also why I find warfare fascinating, and overall consider the phenomenon more of a benefit than a drawback for mankind. Granted, it involves a lot of killing and destruction. But the quantum leaps made in engineering and technology is not only captivating, but also usually end up helping mankind in the end. Most of the technological marvels and conveniences we use in our everyday lives can trace their origin to technologies developed for warfare originally. My theory is that people are simply more spurred to be inventive during war than during peace. If you're not being more invetive than your rivals in peacetime, all you risk losing is market shares. But if you're not more inventive than your rivals during war, you risk losing your life and the future for your whole society.
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  159. Shinobi HOG: What's wrong with the Ghost division?
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  160.  @CallanElliott  Sweden isn't very mountainous though (only the north, and northeastern parts). Norway is "worse" in that regard. But what you do have in Sweden is miles and miles of dense spruce and pine forests. The kind of enviroment where the swedish armed forces train to fight the most. But the jeeps would've made sense in that kind of enviroment too, combined with the doctrine of the armed forces called "The Free War". Basically it's guerilla warfare but with a conventional army. The country just doesn't have the GDP necessary to maintain a large enough fighting force to keep a foreign invader "out" of the country. So instead they're betting on pulling the foreign invaders in and making their stay as miserable and untenable as possible. The russians are regarded as the primary threat in this scenario. And they had their fair share of being subjected to that kind of warfare when they invaded Finland during The Winter War.
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  161.  @wingracer1614  I'm not so sure. Sloped armor does increase the effective thickness of armor plating that is true. But only so much. Would like to do a practical experiment of this
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  162.  @galaxy_canon6039  I didn't mean that money is never a reliable indicator. But it most certainly can be very unreliable when desperate governments start printing money like crazy to fund war efforts and basically circumventing regular markets when they acquire their raw materials to manufacture weapons and vehicles (like with slave labour or appropriating captured resources from enemies etc.) Unless each and every part involved in a particular machine has been bought with currency through an open market, it's very hard to accurately describe it's actual cost. Then there's the wealth difference between countries to consider, and the amount of tanks or planes that they need to field for the task at hand. For instance, South Korea is usually credited as having the worlds most expensive tanks in service today (due to having the highest pricetag). But whether something is expensive or not is relative to whichever budget makes the purchase, what roles the tank is expected to fulfill and how many you intend to field etc. So in the context of South Korea, maybe their tank isn't as expensive as if it would've been if they tried to manufacture it in the U.S or China.
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  163. Wouldn't it be possible to jam all radio comms in a local area by putting a high wattage jammer that clogs up all the radio bands at the same time?
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  164. Kamil Szadkowski  The point is that nobiliy wasn't as rigidly decided by birth or lineage as some people interpret history. Status and wealth was everything.
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  165.  @stevenardian1485  Because they were expensive af. And annoying to maintain. Doesn't mean it's a bad tank in a fight since it had thicker armor than most of what it encountered and it could punch hard and far with it's gun. So when the enemy sees a tiger in the area of operation, it will influence their behaviour.
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  166.  @Hubilicious90  Uh yes, it is a STRATEGIC benefit if you take a step back and look at it. I'm very familiar with the difference between strategy and tactics.
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  167.  @Hubilicious90  I did not use "the wrong term". You made the mistake of confusing my idea with being applied to a handful of tanks. Whereas I was thinking of several divisions.
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  168.  @abdullahakhtar9824  Which is what you want. You're forcing the enemy to commit materiel to which there is no net gain. Aircraft fuel is more expensive than tank diesel after all. And producing aircraft was more expensive than producing tanks.
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  169.  @Hubilicious90  Exactly. It depends on which echelon makes the decision. Now tell me, which "tactical officer" has the authority to outfit an entire nations tankfleet with a particular piece of equipment? How many officers working at the operational level has such authority? It is a pretty huge expenditure after all. I'm fairly confident that the people approving budgets for such endavours operate in the strategic echelon rather than the operational or tactical levels.
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  170.  @cantbanme792  That's the nature of war. Commanders have to send as many soldiers to die as is necessary to get the job done. Unwillingness to risk the lives of troops lose wars. There's nothing to "like" about it. It simply is what it is.
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  171. From my understanding, some Mig's had crazy acceleration and top speed. Some pilots even refering to them as a rocket ship with wings. But they had trouble with agility due to going as fast as they did. From a physics perspective it would make sense (the faster you go the harder it gets to turn), but I can't say for sure if this was true for them since I've never been a jet pilot.
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  172.  @Marc83Aus  or so they say. ;)
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  173.  @raylast3873  Yes. Only the losers of wars are tried for war crimes in international courts... Except if they are commanders of bases or scientists performing illegal human experiments on prisoners of war and captured civilians. Then they are offered immunity in exchange for their research notes and findings.
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  174.  @CS-ri1eo : Not necessarily. It's really down to a matter of design and proportions. Also, with VR-equipment making the tank armour effectively transparent for the crew, you might actually get away with less people crewing the tank than you'd need otherwise. Making it less cramped.
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  175.  @AleksandrKramarenko : The pyramid shape does not require a square bottom. It can be elongated. Also, the height isn't necessarily an issue because you could influence the vehicles height with a new or different kind of suspension for the tracks. No existing tank is completely optimized. There's always room for improvement. Also regarding your comment about tanks rarely getting hit from the sides. That's got more to do with doctrine and formations. Tanks operate in a formation intended to prevent being hit from these angles. The problems is that the formations are also troublesome and not as flexible as they could've been if the tanks had equally strong defenses on all sides of the tanks. This could potentially create new and even more flexible doctrines, increasing the effectiveness of the tanks.
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  176.  @AleksandrKramarenko : No, they are not at their limits. Like I said, no existing tank is optimized. Plenty of concessions has been made with aspects like ease of production and costs in mind. The tanks you are referring to are not in any way at their "peak". They're merely "good enough".
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  177.  @podemosurss8316 : My mistake. When I talk about "periods" in naval warfare I tend to divide the periods into the age of sail period (that is when sails served as the primary means of propulsion rather than galleys with oarsmen), the age of cannons (when cannons became the most common armament over ramming or using ballistae, bows and arrows etc.), and the age of steamships an onwards (when engines replaced sails as means of propulsion). In my view, these conventions are the most distinct changes in naval warfare up until modern times.
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  178.  @dirtydan2721  It's because of germans and austrians being the way they are. The war is an extremely touchy subject, and having Hitlers giant flak towers sitting right smack in the middle of your city would be a constant reminder of the reich. They are raised and taught to hate their countries past before they can even walk after all.
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  179. Klobi for President: Wait, are you referring to the 1959 original or the 2008 remake of the film? Apparently there's two. As a sidenote: I figured out what "Die Brücke" means, sort of. It probably means "bridge". The way you pronounce "Brücke" is very similar to my language (Swedish) where we have the word "Brygga". Brygga in Swedish means "jetty" or "pier", the word we use for bridge is "Bro". But the words are closely related since they usually refer to a structure that allows you to walk over water. :)
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  180.  @rotschadel3574  If you are serving in the armed forces, you don't get to make decisions. Especially not when a war breaks out. Leaving then would mean desertion. Sabotaging the government would mean treason. Both of which carried heavy penalties in Germany back then (getting executed).
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  181. Tokisaki Kurumi: It's more expensive to field human soldiers than it is to field mechanic autmatons. Robots can be easily replaced. Do not sleep. Do not eat. Do not get ptsd or cost a fortune for the state when they are handicapped due to combat injuries. They can be produced on an assembly line, and they don't panic or feel fear in the face of hostile situations.
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  182. Tokisaki Kurumi: You should watch the robots developed ny Boston Dynamics. Like the Atlas. The move on two legs, over difficult terrain (even ice). When they're about to slip, they right themselves. They are also able to climb stairs, open doors and if knocked over with a forceful push they can jump up and right themselves again.
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  183. Tokisaki Kurumi: Just getting a biped to stay upright and righting itself when tipped over is probably one of the most difficult challenges in designing a robot. Programming them to get themselves out of a hole is a piece of cake compared to that.
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  184.  Matthew Littlejohn  Excuse me?
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  185.  @phunkracy  Tanks get bogged down in mud too. And tanks don't really want to be in completely open terrain either, because artillery will have a field day with them when that happens. Tanks require a lot of close support from combined forces to feel safest in open terrain. At least during WWIi way before the invention of thermal imaging and the like. Nowadays tanks can spot threatening infantry quite far away. But then again, nowadays there's also a bigger threat from the skies with the obscenely accurate and fast aircraft equipped for destroying tanks. Not much you can do when a Warthog or something similar pproaches your position if you're in a tank.
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  186. One of my favourite scenes in the film, when the u-boat sailors have their sing along: https://youtu.be/pddW-HeHAwo
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  187.  @demomanchaos  They lost the war by a simple metric. The stated goals of the intervention in Vietnam was to prevent the spread of communism and stopping them from coming to power. Yet in the end, the communists did come to power, and have been in power ever since.
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