Picture of the Day

[Torenico]

[|7th|Nighthawk]

Is this a Hummel without complete fighting compartment?

[Torenico]

That's a blown up Hummel.

[FORGOTTENKEVINOHOPE]

is that one of those special powers bicycles where you cant be shot off of it?  shouldn't they be riding it?

[Torenico]

[CHRISTIEFRONTDRIVE]

[MaJ.P.Bouras]

^ How well did it work at the time?

[Torenico]

Captured KV-2 mod. 1940 in German Service, defending the Krupp Works in Essen against the Allies in April 1945.

[hOMEr_jAy]

[LuckyOne]

That KV2 has an awful lot of holes...

Found something interesting... can anyone knowledgeable comment on this?

Subcaliber firing was used by the U.S. Army to develop a tank gunner's accuracy, speed, and confidence without the costs and disturbance of firing the main armament. In general, the coaxial machine gun was used for the subcaliber training.

However for fire adjustment training, a standard submachine gun was mounted outside the tank. Until a standard mount could be developed, the Tank Gunnery manual recommended the following mount for the 75-mm gun on the M4. For firing, the submachine gun was connected to the firing solenoid from the coaxial machine gun.

[Miklas]

All I know is that we used similar systems when training on the AT4 (handheld AT weapon). We had special versions for 9mm training rounds and 20mm training rounds; both have the same tracetory and speed of the real rocket. Much much cheaper to train on compared to the real deal.

[Kalkalash]

We had similar systems with LAWs (9mm round) and NSV (basically an assault rifle attached to a modified mount)

[Dukat]

is it Eastern or Western front? The burning truck looks a bit old school, thus I thought of russia first, but I guess it could have been used by any other western country in the early stages of war as well.

[PanzerKnacker]

AFAIK it's from the conquest of Yugoslavia and/or Greece

[Torenico]