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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16095 on: 01-12-2018, 15:12:02 »


M17 MGMC from 26th Guards Heavy Tank Regiment, 21st Army. Eastern Bohemia, May 1945
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16096 on: 02-12-2018, 11:12:21 »


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German 37-mm ZSU Sd.Kfz.7 / 2 is preparing for battle at the corner of Budennovsk Avenue and st. Turgenevskaya in the city of Rostov-on-Don. November 1941

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16097 on: 02-12-2018, 11:12:22 »
^FH3 will need 37mm flak, there's just no FPS game where you can shoot it :D



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« Reply #16098 on: 02-12-2018, 13:12:04 »


Ferdinand KO-ed by a ricochet through the open drivers hatch, while trying to recover another bogged down Ferdinand. Open hatches were mandatory in cross-country conditions, due to severe overheating of the engines: at least four Ferdinande were marked as a total lost in 1943 due to engine fires.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16099 on: 02-12-2018, 16:12:20 »
^FH3 will need 37mm flak, there's just no FPS game where you can shoot it :D


I think it's mounted on some subs in FHSW...

Anyway I want this instead :D

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16100 on: 02-12-2018, 20:12:39 »


Ferdinand KO-ed by a ricochet through the open drivers hatch, while trying to recover another bogged down Ferdinand. Open hatches were mandatory in cross-country conditions, due to severe overheating of the engines: at least four Ferdinande were marked as a total lost in 1943 due to engine fires.

Ah, German engineering at it's finest.


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16101 on: 02-12-2018, 21:12:31 »
I suppose. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche was so impressed by the first captured T-34 and KV-1, that he told Waffenamt 6 just to copy them. Ironically, overheating was also a problem with Soviet tanks, so much that the tank crews were ordered to drive max. 22-25 km/h in hot and dusty weather. V-2 diesel engines also took a lot of maintenance (every 50 km), nominal warranty being around 200 km back in 1942-43.
"T-34 Mythical Weapon" by Robert Michulec and "The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa: Soviet Versus German Armour on the Eastern Front" by Boris Kavalerchik are pretty good books on the topic.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16102 on: 03-12-2018, 09:12:34 »


Munitionspanzer IV Ausf. D

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16103 on: 03-12-2018, 13:12:34 »


Häyhä receives Sako M28/30 donated by Swedish businessman Eugen Johansson near Kollaa, February 1940.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16104 on: 03-12-2018, 23:12:35 »


Munitionspanzer IV Ausf. D

th's a nice pic !
i wonder the performance of a turret less pzrIV (speed, ...)


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« Reply #16105 on: 04-12-2018, 07:12:50 »
th's a nice pic !
i wonder the performance of a turret less pzrIV (speed, ...)

No idea regarding top speed, but definitely more nimble. The conversions were rebuilt to the last factory standard with new suspension and engine grills but no extra armor plates to keep the weight down. The turret ring was also kept to ease the ammunition type selection.
Trivia-bit; initially, Germans didn't bother with factory refurbishments (not even basic automotive parts), when they converted battle worn tanks for example into Sturminfanteriegeschütz 33. Naturally, this just led to early mechanical breakdowns.



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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16106 on: 04-12-2018, 17:12:50 »

What happened there? Flooding of the Flakposition?


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16108 on: 05-12-2018, 14:12:49 »


Suurmäki - Bolšije Gory, 22 July, 1941

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16109 on: 05-12-2018, 18:12:20 »
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What happened there? Flooding of the Flakposition?


yes, but i don't know where.