Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:Do Muslim countries ever use female spies as honeytraps?
Do they?
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by Champagne Socialist Sharifistan » Sat Aug 01, 2020 12:48 pm
Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:Do Muslim countries ever use female spies as honeytraps?
by New Vihenia » Sat Aug 01, 2020 1:38 pm
Allanea wrote:
At least if we are to assume that the artillery manuals I have in front of me mean anything.
According to the chart I have here, 152mm howitzers firing HE-F require 150 shells per hectare to suppress entrenched armored vehicles. 203 mm shells reduce this requirement to 40 shells per hectare. One can imagine a further reduction with 305mm shells, although for obvious reasons PSUO-96 does not include them (at that time Russia did not have any such armament).
by Velkanika » Sat Aug 01, 2020 2:17 pm
The necessity of a navy, in the restricted sense of the word, springs, therefore, from the existence of a peaceful shipping, and disappears with it, except in the case of a nation which has aggressive tendencies, and keeps up a navy merely as a branch of the military establishment. 1
by Purpelia » Sat Aug 01, 2020 2:31 pm
Triplebaconation wrote:Purpelia wrote:I am just endlessly amused by the notion of expressing your CEP in units of battleship.
Drift has nothing to do with CEP. It's caused by gyroscopic force in the direction the shell is spinning and is a known quantity that would be input into a fire control solution. This is why this kind of stuff is listed in a range table.
Mean dispersion of a good WW2 battleship gun would be about .5% of range. At 45km this is a probable error of 190m.
by Champagne Socialist Sharifistan » Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:18 am
Velkanika wrote:Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:Do they?
Generally speaking, yes. You should clarify if you're asking about Gulf Arabs, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, or North African Muslim states with these questions, as there are significant cultural distinctions between Muslim-dominated states in those regions. You're asking questions with so broad of a group that the answers you will get are essentially meaningless.
by New Visayan Islands » Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:05 am
Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:Velkanika wrote:Generally speaking, yes. You should clarify if you're asking about Gulf Arabs, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, or North African Muslim states with these questions, as there are significant cultural distinctions between Muslim-dominated states in those regions. You're asking questions with so broad of a group that the answers you will get are essentially meaningless.
Near-Eastern Muslims
by Champagne Socialist Sharifistan » Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:08 am
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by Purpelia » Sun Aug 02, 2020 1:45 pm
by Champagne Socialist Sharifistan » Sun Aug 02, 2020 1:48 pm
by Purpelia » Sun Aug 02, 2020 1:49 pm
Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:What are the downsides of a honey-trap in terms of military effectiveness?
by Champagne Socialist Sharifistan » Sun Aug 02, 2020 1:51 pm
by Purpelia » Sun Aug 02, 2020 1:52 pm
by Velkanika » Sun Aug 02, 2020 1:55 pm
Purpelia wrote:I need an idea critiqued. And that idea is:
Convertible drive halftrack APC / logistical truck for the 1930s. Basically the idea is that you have a halftack used for various things you use a halftrack for. So APC, gun carrier etc. but also ambulance and just general purpose truck to bring supplies to front line units. Design vise it would be a simple thing with unpowered front wheels used for steering and tracks in the rear with a powered rear sprocket. For wheeled drive the rear wheels (which would be large and either 4 of 6 of them in the bacK) would be powered instead. In both tracked and wheeled mode steering is done 100% with the front wheels.
The idea here is that you can basically make a truck that has the endurance and maintenance needs of a truck and is used as a truck. But occasionally when you really need to get into the mud it puts the tracks on. But for most part it would be used on roads as a truck. Only the combat variants would rely heavily on the tracks. This would allow my logistics units to better maneuver with the mechanized elements of my army in all terrain without having to go all in on tracked transporters that cost a lot and are very maintenance intensive.
Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:What are the downsides of a honey-trap in terms of military effectiveness?
The necessity of a navy, in the restricted sense of the word, springs, therefore, from the existence of a peaceful shipping, and disappears with it, except in the case of a nation which has aggressive tendencies, and keeps up a navy merely as a branch of the military establishment. 1
by Purpelia » Sun Aug 02, 2020 2:18 pm
Velkanika wrote:Tracked and wheeled vehicles in the 1930s used completely different suspension technologies, so converting back and forth is completely out of the question. You could potentially build two vehicles based off of the same basic layout,
but then again this is the 1930s where you buy new vehicles every 5 years due to the rapid march of technology so why bother?
by Triplebaconation » Sun Aug 02, 2020 2:35 pm
by Velkanika » Sun Aug 02, 2020 4:22 pm
Purpelia wrote:Velkanika wrote:Tracked and wheeled vehicles in the 1930s used completely different suspension technologies, so converting back and forth is completely out of the question. You could potentially build two vehicles based off of the same basic layout,
You are aware of the fact convertible drive vehicles existed and were in widespread use, the most notable example being the Soviet BT series of tanks?
[/quote]but then again this is the 1930s where you buy new vehicles every 5 years due to the rapid march of technology so why bother?
I figure that it wasn't until the late 30's and early 40's that track technology got good enough for convertible drive to loose its one big advantage, that being comparative ease of maintenance. As in if you have something that mostly uses wheels and only tracks occasionally that was much easier to maintain. Not so much during WW2 but certainly during the 20's and early 30's when a vehicle to be used in the 30's would have been designed. So by 1940 when my WW2 starts these things would be mildly obsolescent, I imagine. But only mildly. And I'd still get a decent truck that has good off road characteristics.
The necessity of a navy, in the restricted sense of the word, springs, therefore, from the existence of a peaceful shipping, and disappears with it, except in the case of a nation which has aggressive tendencies, and keeps up a navy merely as a branch of the military establishment. 1
by Gallia- » Sun Aug 02, 2020 4:52 pm
by Purpelia » Sun Aug 02, 2020 11:36 pm
Velkanika wrote:I did not, I had no idea Kégresse tracks were a thing in the 30s.
I personally am of the opinion that a wheeled APC is inferior to a tracked one unless you're fighting up and down roads and avoiding the areas between them, so I don't see much of a point in investing in vehicles that convert back and forth.[/quote]but then again this is the 1930s where you buy new vehicles every 5 years due to the rapid march of technology so why bother?
Triplebaconation wrote:Kégresse tracks - they were quite common.
by The Akasha Colony » Mon Aug 03, 2020 4:57 am
Purpelia wrote:Very much so. There were also several other variants including the Christies convertible drive which was used on the BT series and even the prototypes of what would become the T-34. The later actually uses metal tracks and has powered road wheels. In theory, you could have built an 8x8 armored car that can turn into a tracked light tank within 30 minutes or less. Which is an idea I, reasonably so, find to be extremely cool.
It is my understanding that back in the 20's and 30's (not so much the 40's) track systems were still underdeveloped and thus required a lot more maintenance than wheeled ones. So convertible drives offered not only the advantage of higher road speed but also being far less maintenance intensive.
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by New Vihenia » Mon Aug 03, 2020 6:46 am
Shanghai industrial complex wrote:Can the large caliber naval guns of World War II increase their range by adding gliders?
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