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Personally, im a big fan of the Junkers Ju 87, aka Stuka dive bomber. The germans fitted it with a siren that scared the gently caress out of anybody on the receiving end of its bombs. Since it was a dive bomber, pilots would often black out from the extreme g forces when diving. They solved this by putting some automatic brakes on the wings that would level the plane off even if the pilot was totally unconscious. Imagine that, two sleeping krauts in the cockpit, whisked away to safety by Nazi engineering.
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BeefThief posted:Personally, im a big fan of the Junkers Ju 87, aka Stuka dive bomber. The germans fitted it with a siren that scared the gently caress out of anybody on the receiving end of its bombs. Since it was a dive bomber, pilots would often black out from the extreme g forces when diving. They solved this by putting some automatic brakes on the wings that would level the plane off even if the pilot was totally unconscious. Imagine that, two sleeping krauts in the cockpit, whisked away to safety by Nazi engineering. you ever seen them cannon-equipped stukas? they used them on the eastern front, badass looking plane. the memoirs of their pilots were also heavily scrutinized when they were designing the A-10 
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Feb 19, 2015 09:42
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It's also crazy how many Nazi companies that produced tons of materiel for the war are still kicking. Volkswagen, Rolls Royce and BMW come to mind, particularly BMW and their engine design for the ridiculous Heinkel He 162  Fuxkin ridic
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Feb 19, 2015 09:50
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BeefThief posted:It's also crazy how many Nazi companies that produced tons of materiel for the war are still kicking. Volkswagen, Rolls Royce and BMW come to mind, particularly BMW and their engine design for the ridiculous Heinkel He 162 Your plane is dying of a tumor.
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Feb 19, 2015 09:51
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BeefThief posted:It's also crazy how many Nazi companies that produced tons of materiel for the war are still kicking. Volkswagen, Rolls Royce and BMW come to mind, particularly BMW and their engine design for the ridiculous Heinkel He 162 well, considering the Me-163, which they actually used, it's a bit of an improvement  because it was rocket-powered, its final approach really was its final approach: if you screwed up the landing you were toast
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Feb 19, 2015 09:53
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The Alchemist posted:
Yeah Luger's were/are pretty sought after. Went to a gun show the other day and M1 Garand's are like $3000+.
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Feb 19, 2015 09:54
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 This was never made but they actually designed it
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Feb 19, 2015 09:59
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The Stuka siren is easily one of the best sounds to come from war
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Feb 19, 2015 10:01
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Pookum posted:
I like how the ventilation shaft is just popped on there like an afterthought this is like, if there was a videogame equivalent to Space Engineers, but for tanks, and in real life
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Feb 19, 2015 10:01
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verbal enema posted:The Stuka siren is easily one of the best sounds to come from war the Jericho trumpet is used as the goto sound effect for crashing plane in every movie ever so yeah
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Feb 19, 2015 10:02
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The Mad Archivist posted:I like how the ventilation shaft is just popped on there like an afterthought I bet its like the weakspot on the deathstar too, one well placed molotov and the whole crew is breathing superheated air
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Feb 19, 2015 10:04
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The Mad Archivist posted:I like how the ventilation shaft is just popped on there like an afterthought I like how goofy long the treads are
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Feb 19, 2015 10:07
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Pookum posted:
How can it turn? Can it turn?
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Feb 19, 2015 10:08
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might as well have just copied the German rail gun design instead: damndest thing is that it actually worked
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Feb 19, 2015 10:12
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The Alchemist posted:How can it turn? Can it turn? Probably not. This was probably someones wet dream and not even Stalin was crazy enough to greenlight it.
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Feb 19, 2015 10:13
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BeefThief posted:Personally, im a big fan of the Junkers Ju 87, aka Stuka dive bomber. The germans fitted it with a siren that scared the gently caress out of anybody on the receiving end of its bombs. Since it was a dive bomber, pilots would often black out from the extreme g forces when diving. They solved this by putting some automatic brakes on the wings that would level the plane off even if the pilot was totally unconscious. Imagine that, two sleeping krauts in the cockpit, whisked away to safety by Nazi engineering. Sure sure, but without air superiority it was very vulnerable, and for much of the latter part of the war they did not have air superiority. I'm particularly find of the Tiger tank, and the T-34. The Mosquito is also cool - airframe made of balsa wood and super fast.
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Pookum posted:
I thought I was gonna scroll down and see that it was on a rail car but nope, its even more fuckin stupid.
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Feb 19, 2015 11:45
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Nuke
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BeefThief posted:It's also crazy how many Nazi companies that produced tons of materiel for the war are still kicking. Volkswagen, Rolls Royce and BMW come to mind, particularly BMW and their engine design for the ridiculous Heinkel He 162 hmmm?
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this nazi bayonet is my favourate ww2 weapon because i own one (thanks grandpa you rule!) BeefThief posted:It's also crazy how many Nazi companies that produced tons of materiel for the war are still kicking. Volkswagen, Rolls Royce and BMW come to mind, particularly BMW and their engine design for the ridiculous Heinkel He 162 dont forget Siemens electronics that made mobile murder vans and Bayer pharmaceuticals once a part of IG Farbin (the great guys the did that whole holocaust and manufactured Zycoln-B) Rutibex fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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The Alchemist posted:
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The mustang and the zero are prolly the sexiest planes
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Wild Horses posted:The mustang and the zero are prolly the sexiest planes bf / me 109 begs to differ
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lets not forget american companies operating in nazi germany in our list of holocaust-complicit enterprises. im looking at you ibm, ford and coke sten guns are pretty cool   
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Feb 19, 2015 12:40
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MG42, just to get the obvious out of the way because no one's mentioned it yet. Effective weapon at any time, with a ridiculous rate of fire, and could be made just almost light enough to almost be used as a squad assault weapon before the idea had really caught on. So good that it became the MG3 which is still being used today. Also it's fun reading about different philosophies of warfare and how it might have shaped weapons design. Like the Germans came from an old culture of regimented warfare and then later they had four years of hell in trenches where machine guns were great, so they put a lot of effort into those in the next war. While Americans had fought wars where good rifles made the difference and there's a sense of having every soldier being equally capable with that hint of egalitarianism and/or libertarianism, which meant they invented and used way better rifles. So of course the M1 Garand is my other favourite. Edit: vvv Possibly intentional. If you were walking through northern France with your platoon, and suddenly a giant fart shattered the serene quiet and starting shredding all your buddies, what would your mind make of the situation? And every moment later on in your life, if you heard a fart, you'd experience flashbacks. IronClaymore fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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I'm a giant fan of the k98, that thing is almost always a one shot kill in WWII games
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 One of the prettiest aircraft ever imho.
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M1 Garand is still my favorite gun ever. That thing is so legendary.
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social vegan posted:trenchfoot Well, if you're going to go with that I've gotta go with syphilis. Imagine you had a German agent in London, how much damage could you wreak if you gave him the amount of money needed to buy, oh I dunno, a V1 rocket or something, and told him to hire every trumped out half-dead prostitute in the city to give a free "good time" to every man in uniform, without rubbers? You'd do a lot more damage than the V1 could ever have done. Also, doesn't count as biological warfare because agents operating illegally are plausibly deniable. Hey, why doesn't ISIL do this? If you wanna kill people large scale sexually transmitted disease is the way to do it. IronClaymore fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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The Mad Archivist posted:well, considering the Me-163, which they actually used, it's a bit of an improvement   And the two fuels used were hypergolic, they would ignite just from contact with each other, so filling had to be done by two completely separate teams with color coded uniforms.
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I'm going to be a dumb baby and say the StG 44, but just because of the krumlauf attachment for shooting around corners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu95abudQjc
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Guavanaut posted:And the two fuels used were hypergolic, they would ignite just from contact with each other, so filling had to be done by two completely separate teams with color coded uniforms. Aren't rocket fuels also hypergolic? Because it saves on space and complexity? I mean if you want a super energetic fuel just bursting with sheer chemical energy, it's going to be ready to pop at a moment's notice once it so much as sniffs an oxygen molecule, unless you're really clever, like with something like C4 (which subsequently can't be used as a rocket fuel because of the processes required to make it safe to handle, and also doesn't count because it doesn't require a separate oxidiser). Sucks that the best rocket engineers had to work for Nazis too. If your life's work is making cool rockets that can make it into space, the last thing you want is to give them a payload of TNT to drop on some hole like London. IronClaymore fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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