Picture of the Day

[Desertfox]

US Marines on Okinawa...

We need to be able to do that in FH2

[Yustax]

We need to be able to do that in FH2

Only if I could later blow you to smithereens with a Panzershrecks for multiple carnage.

[Invincible]

Is that Dark Helmet from Spaceballs?

Looks like the Danish helmet  .


But I think special helmet are made for Flak crews, like the US navy had helmets like this MK.II.

[Seth_Soldier]

  check the uniform to know the country

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

But I think special helmet are made for Flak crews, like the US navy had helmets like this MK.II.

Rebel troopers use those helmets.

[[WDW]Megaraptor]

But I think special helmet are made for Flak crews, like the US navy had helmets like this MK.II.

Must be so he can fit his headphones on inside the helmet.

[siben]

Why did't they just use the one the air force has. I never understand why they do things like this in the same country. Just share, its better in every way.

Anyway, Bristol Bombay after a bombing run (note the empty bomb racks under the fuselage)in France, 1940. It was also used as a troop transport although not so much on the western front, it was used much more in Africa.

[Torenico]

A column of Type 94 Te-Ke tankettes in China. This tankettes armour was so thin it couln't withstand some small arms fire.

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

Khalkhin Gol

[Dnarag1M]

Why did't they just use the one the air force has. I never understand why they do things like this in the same country. Just share, its better in every way.

The reason for this (besides politics, big ego's, separate budgets) is that you simply cannot compare the field conditions of a flak/AA crew with that of a navy vessel or air force base.

AA/Flak crews might need a helmet that is lighter (so you can run around with it). Or perhaps they need greater comfort for groundfighting/close quarter. Either way, field conditions are different, hence design philosophy will be different.

[VonMudra]

Exactly.  An AA crew on a ship, with hundreds of AA guns on it and other ships combining their fire overhead, means a shitload of shrapnel coming down, giving need for much larger helmets.  The germans did this as well with the Luftschutz helmet for their home defense AA:

[THeTA0123]

The russians on the other hand=


The Russians had the best AA guns of the war, yet this is not very well known. The 3.7CM M1939 Air defense gun is one of them. With a confirmed kill rate of 10 000 axis plane's shot down. (Russian sources claim 14500, Luftwaffe claimed +- 10 000)

[Seth_Soldier]

[Torenico]

AA Nambu?

Since the termination of production for the Sd Kfz 138/1 Ausf M in 1944, troops still needed many 15cm SPGs. It was decided in November 1944 to build it on the Hetzer chassis. Only 30 vehicles were produced, had a crew of four.

[siben]

I did not know about this tank, looks kind of nice, any combat records or surviving examples alive today?