Picture of the Day

[Torenico]

Wow. Such a great tank. 100 tons of steel sunken in a mudhole.

180 tons, if that dummy turret is going to represent the actual weight of the full turret.

Yet it remains my favorite tank.

[Hjaldrgud]

A strange picture

[VonMudra]

It's a German border police officer chilling on the Norwegian/Swedish border with two Norweigian soldiers/border guards.

[siben]

Aah, i love that German his rifle, I am super happy that i have one.

[Erwin]

Faaaaakeee 

[VonMudra]

Aah, i love that German his rifle, I am super happy that i have one.

Looks like a Polish Kar98a to me.

[LuckyOne]

And now for something completely different...

The efforts of the Ministry of Food to deflect wartime Britons towards foods that could conveniently be supplied within Britain was not confined to vegetables. They extended to meats not traditionally eaten in Britain, but which were in relatively ample internal supply and therefore not rationed. Still better if the meat in question could be produced, like Dr Carrot, in one's back garden or allotment.

This poster makes a strong argument for the populace eating rabbit meat. While this product was available through butchers, and was off-ration, the clear inference of this advertisement is that one should consider producing one's own tasty bunnies for the pot. No indication, of course, of the difficulties attendant on producing significant numbers of rabbits in one's back garden; or the problem of how to explain to the kids how Flopsy ended up as Stewsie. That having been said, this was a good idea. Potato Pete, Dr Carrot, Ted Turnip, along with Roger Rabbit and a good dash of Bovril, could produce a pretty good, nutritious stew for all the family

[Torenico]

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Faaaaakeee 

That doesn't help.

Bachem Ba 349 « Natter »

[Dukat]

The point was generally not to inflict damage in the biggest area possible, but to hit strategic targets like a factory or railroad station. You'd use 40 planes at once and hope that at least one plane drops the bombs pretty much on target. And when it does, you obviously want that load of bombs to be as concentrated on the target area as possible.

B-29-25BA (#42-63529), 792nd Bomb Squadron, 468th Bombardment Group, 58th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air Force, United States of America, in flight over Rangoon, Burma.

[Sander93]

Seeing that makes me wonder if the bombs could explode mid-air if they happen to collide with eachother? Or do they need a significant amount of force (hitting the earth) in order to detonate?

[Torenico]

Bombs will collide with each other but they will NOT explode.

It would be stupid if that happens....

[VonMudra]

The bombs do not go off because of hitting the earth.  They have a fuse in the nose that slowly spins out of the bomb as it drops.  Once it spins out, the fuze lights and it explodes.

[CHRISTIEFRONTDRIVE]

We Soviet cavalry now!

[|7th|Nighthawk]

Saw the Natter in the "Deutsches Museum" not too long ago. They also have a Me-262A, some VTOL aircraft, Tante Ju, BF109 and even Fieseler Storch (as usefull as medic in FH2)
Natter in the museum has the boosters for the start on. It also had written "Belongs to OKW -I don't know the name anymore- Please report your finding to the local authorities." (no direct quote) There was a reward for reporting it. As many of you already know the tail was disconnected and was to be reused afterwards.
Also seeing V1 and V2 is really nice. I did not even know that Tintin's rocket was based on V2 that heavily

[siben]

The bombs do not go off because of hitting the earth.  They have a fuse in the nose that slowly spins out of the bomb as it drops.  Once it spins out, the fuze lights and it explodes.

Are you sure that it does not just arms them? and then a sudden deceleration that comes from the front makes them explode?

Aah, i love that German his rifle, I am super happy that i have one.

Looks like a Polish Kar98a to me.

The stacking hook on the Kar98a is bend, on the K98 (the one and only real K98 gentlemen, its a polish rifle) it has a sharp corner. The picture is not super clear but i made out a bend, not a corner.