Picture of the Day

[Seth_Soldier]

[Seth_Soldier]

[Roughbeak]

"Sir, where is our KT at the moment, what is the holdup?"

"I sorta rammed it in a building.."

[Sander93]

Shouldn't it kinda be able to do exactly that?
How did a few falling bricks and planks disable it? Rubble in the engine?

[Oberst]

Biggest danger is rubble being stuck in the tracks and roadwheels/drivewheels. In particular any metal.

I remember a story form my time in the german bundeswehr of a modern leopard 2 tank getting stuck, while driving accidently over some old, rusty rolls of barbed wire. Four leopard 2 dashed through an thick hedgerow in which some old rolls of barbed wire was still layed out. After some driving forth and back the barbed wire roled up around the drivewheels of one of the tanks and completey jammed one of the tracks. One out of four tanks was just immobilized by driving over old, rusty barbed wire.

Now imagine a tank with a building collapsing beside it. From all directions rubble, wood and metal falls and slips into the roadwheels. While maneuvering the rubble moves and makes its way deeper and deeper in between the wheels. Eventually the tank is stuck.

[siben]

You can see a pile of thick rubble on the back where he takes the air for running and cooling the engines. They probably just quit due to blocked airfilters.

[Seth_Soldier]

[Torenico]

^ Cannonfodder?, it's so cruel, when your country is envolved in a ideological extermination war and you "have to" send children to die at the frontlines.., how can somebody support that ideology today?. It's beyond my understanding.



Soldiers of the 73rd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 25th Guards Rifle Division, armed with automatic rifle SVT-40, in the battle for one of the settlements of Voronezh.

[Seth_Soldier]

Boulogne sur mer 1940

[THeTA0123]

USS alaska magazine holding the powerfull 40mm shells of the bofors 40mm AA gun. This photo was taken right before the battle of okinawa. USS Alaska, an alaska class Large cruiser, shot down 7 enemy aircraft, one friendly aircraft (an F6 hellcat, pilot survived uninjured), one Ohka flying bomb (claimed), And used her radar to direct fighters to an enemy KI-45 heavy fighter wich was shot down.

[Seth_Soldier]

[ajappat]

http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_4cm-56_mk12_Alaska_passing_pic.jpg

USS alaska magazine holding the powerfull 40mm shells of the bofors 40mm AA gun. This photo was taken right before the battle of okinawa. USS Alaska, an alaska class Large cruiser, shot down 7 enemy aircraft, one friendly aircraft (an F6 hellcat, pilot survived uninjured), one Ohka flying bomb (claimed), And used her radar to direct fighters to an enemy KI-45 heavy fighter wich was shot down.

Did they have all the ammunition needed for battle in readyracks near guns or would they actually supply the guns through that tiny hole by hand in combat situations?

[VonMudra]

IIRC there would be a ready rack near the gun, but the majority of the ammo was kept below in sealed off compartments for safety.  In battle, the ready racks would be used first, then more ammo would be chain-ganged to the guns.

[Seth_Soldier]

[Seth_Soldier]