Gallia- wrote:Destroying enemy weapons is a good way to keep them out of the hands of the enemy, yes.
Who cares once the enemy is defeated? The German army of WW2 wasn't equipped via the second hand luger market.
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by Volkite Hegemony » Thu Jun 15, 2017 9:42 pm
Gallia- wrote:Destroying enemy weapons is a good way to keep them out of the hands of the enemy, yes.
by Gallia- » Thu Jun 15, 2017 9:45 pm
by Austria-Bohemia-Hungary » Thu Jun 15, 2017 9:48 pm
by Gallia- » Thu Jun 15, 2017 9:51 pm
by NeuPolska » Thu Jun 15, 2017 11:11 pm
Kar-Esseria wrote:Who is that and are they female because if not then they can go make love to their hand.
Impaled Nazarene wrote:Go home Polska wins NS.
United Mongol Hordes wrote:Polska isn't exactly the nicest guy in the world
Impaled Nazarene wrote:Hurd you miss the point more than Polska misses Poland.
Rhodesialund wrote:when you have Charlie ten feet away or something operating operationally.
Nirvash Type TheEND wrote:Gayla is living in 1985 but these guys are already in 1916
by Crookfur » Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:00 am
NeuPolska wrote:Is there any benefit to specifically pick out unmarried young men if conscription is put into effect?
It seems to me like unmarried young men have a lot less to lose than married ones, and it's not like they're helping society by helping in creating more future soldiers or workers. I personally am a young unmarried man but I wouldn't hesitate getting married to my loyal girlfriend, especially if I meant not getting thrown into the meatgrinder. However the point I'm trying to get at is that if I didn't have a particular love interest I'd be a lot more willing to fight in a war.
by Consular » Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:48 am
by Crysuko » Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:27 am
by -Celibrae- » Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:29 am
by Allanea » Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:48 am
Bringing back a firearm for keepsake's purposes is generally very different from bringing back a firearm for actual selling purposes. The latter encourages development of a black market in firearms, or at least eases the ability of seditious elements to arm themselves with ordnance for no particularly good reason. Most war trophies in WW2, for example, where kept by their owners and used for display or hunting.
by Allanea » Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:52 am
NeuPolska wrote:Allanea wrote:
What exactly do you mean? Do you mean soldiers looting individually as people, or looting as an organized process, like the Soviet Trophy brigades?
In general, looting from enemy civilians is to be avoided (there are perhaps some exceptions), because it has the double effect of generating discontent in the occupied population and eroding troop discipline because soldiers start being more interested in raiding the locals for collectible local carpets (as Soviet troops in Afghanistan) than actually doing boring thinbgs like guarding base camp. It also makes them easy targets for partisan violence.
As for looting enemy troops, it's almost inevitable your soldiers will either grab on to whatever is useful for them to use during the campaign (starting from small items like a well-made foreign food thermos to outright vehicles and weapons), or take small keepsakes like knives, enemy medals, and even weapons.
I was thinking along the lines of taking enemy equipment or crap with the intention of making it a keepsake, a souvenir, or selling it to museums and collectors.
As for civilian crap, I was thinking along the lines of looting food, or if they come across an abandoned farm or a house that's been hit by arty fire, they take whatever they find that might be worth taking. Obviously if living civilians are found, then the items they claim to own cannot be looted, and civilians themselves are to be left alone or instructed on how to evacuate safely if in a war-torn urban environment.
by The Akasha Colony » Fri Jun 16, 2017 5:56 am
NeuPolska wrote:Is there any benefit to specifically pick out unmarried young men if conscription is put into effect?
It seems to me like unmarried young men have a lot less to lose than married ones, and it's not like they're helping society by helping in creating more future soldiers or workers. I personally am a young unmarried man but I wouldn't hesitate getting married to my loyal girlfriend, especially if I meant not getting thrown into the meatgrinder. However the point I'm trying to get at is that if I didn't have a particular love interest I'd be a lot more willing to fight in a war.
by Gallia- » Fri Jun 16, 2017 10:24 am
Allanea wrote:Bringing back a firearm for keepsake's purposes is generally very different from bringing back a firearm for actual selling purposes. The latter encourages development of a black market in firearms, or at least eases the ability of seditious elements to arm themselves with ordnance for no particularly good reason. Most war trophies in WW2, for example, where kept by their owners and used for display or hunting.
A large amount of WW2 capture Mausers have ended up on the surplus firearm market a decade or two later, however. I'm not actually sure where they were in the interim.
-Celibrae- wrote:I've been Inspired by Air Force 2025, particularly the hypersonic missile: I'm envisioning a system similar to the X-51, which uses a rocket booster to accelerate to Mach 4-5, but instead of cruising the scramjet then sustains that speed in a climb. Then, a stealthy supersonic/hypersonic vehicle detaches and glides towards the target, with perhaps a range of 300 nautical miles if launched at 50,000 feet at subsonic speed. Longer range if launched by a higher-flying, faster aircraft.
Is this feasible and if so, to what extent?
by -Celibrae- » Fri Jun 16, 2017 10:29 am
First on the list is a Global Information Management System (GIMS), described as a "pervasive network" of information and data collectors, processors, and analyzers. It would not only be "smart" in the sense that it "sees all and knows all," but it would also be smart enough to tailor the information at its disposal to a particular user, giving him the data he most needs, and at an appropriate level of detail. The GIMS could also provide a three-dimensional "holographic war room," summarizing instantly and in real time what it could take hours to figure out from numbers, reports, or even flat-panel images.
A Global Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting System (GSRTS) would be a spacebased sensor and data-distribution system that could create and relay a real-time, three-dimensional image of a target or other area of interest to a ready room or gathering of decision-makers. It would be useful for command-and-control and situational awareness "at all levels."
by Gallia- » Fri Jun 16, 2017 10:45 am
-Celibrae- wrote:My question is, what difficulties would one face in making these paper technologies a reality, and how soon could it be done?
-Celibrae- wrote:Before 2025, given enough investment?
-Celibrae- wrote:Edit: Boom goes the dynamite. I'm sad now.
-Celibrae- wrote:Edit 2: It seems to me that GIMS would require a network to link all of the sensors we have today together, and supercomputers to sort the data. But that seems to be a rather simplistic interpretation of something I probably don't understand.
by Ardavia » Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:29 am
by Aldina » Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:35 am
Ardavia wrote:for a unit without proper mine-clearing equipment, what could be done to clear a minefield in a reasonable hurry (during a breaching operation, so with a pretty constrained timetable)?
would artillery fire be effective at all at clearing a lane through it?
by Gallia- » Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:36 am
by Arthurista » Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:37 am
by Gallia- » Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:37 am
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by Ardavia » Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:33 pm
Gallia- wrote:SLUFAE could defeat certain forms of mines, but most are pressure hardened nowadays IIRC. A nuclear airburst could exert sufficient pressure to detonate mines, maybe? That's a bit Spizanian or 2012 Galla. It also would probably create a crater obstacle at the altitude that generates adequate psi to trigger the fuses and that would require crossing, so it might be counter-productive.
Breaching a minefield depends on how dense and large it is, ultimately. Without mine rollers, dozers, or lane clearing charges, you're probably stuck with dismounting infantry and having them poke the ground with bayonets to uncover buried anti-tank or anti-personnel mines and trying to disarm them by hand.
Honestly though, if you don't have dozer blades or mine rollers, you shouldn't be fighting a war.
by Gallia- » Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:35 pm
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