Posted on 03/28/2005 9:45:36 PM PST by SAMWolf
Yeah, SSI games had minimal graphics but great game play in ost of their games. Miss the "grand strategy" games.
Yeah Russia would not have allowed it. :-(
LOL.
LOL. No you weren't. ;-)
Hi w. I didn't even think of it. Shame on me, such a sad fate for those men.
Night all.
BE GOOD! Everyone should try it at least once.
Been there. Done that.
Good night Valin.
"a battery of six 75mm smoothbore recoiless rifles that fired downawrds and to the rear. This system was fired by an automatic magnetic trigger that fired when the aircraft flew over metal objects"
With an airspeed input and height over ground input that should work with 1940's tech. Low and slow attacks with constant speed and altitude, target well centered under the magnetic sensor, and it shouldn't miss with only magnetic inputs. Interesting.
Germans made interesting missle warhead fuzes for use against B-17s. The Ruhrstahl/Kramer X-4 air-to-air missile used a Kranich fuze tuned the sound of the B17's engines for proximity calculation.
http://www.luft46.com/missile/x-4.html
An interesting German surface to air missle was the Rheinmetall-Borsig Rheintochter 'Rhine Daughter'. A Kranich fuze was fitted to some of them. The Reich had a number of other proximity fuzes, the names of which I forget.
Rheintochter,
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/rpav_germany_rb.html
Enzian E-4, http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/enzian.html
You are likely familiar with this stuff.
A lot of the "Third Reich Secret Weapons" stuff is delusional, but some is not.
I had to go back to read this post. Very interesting revisionist research that the Germans were much closer to victory than previously thought.
Once again, I'm forced to observe what a strategic asset Hitler's awful generalship was for the Allies. He needlessly sacrificed an army at Stalingrad, and then when his weakened forces might have won at Kursk, he pulled the plug on the operation. On the other hand, his general staff produceed a poor, very predictable plan for the Kursk operation, so another Nazi leader might not have done much better than Hitler.
The breadth of the fighting on the Eastern Front, in terms of troops, weapons and territory, is truly astonishing. Most Americans, even in this era of WWII awareness, still don't appreciate the role of Stalingrad and Kursk in paving the way for our victories in Italy and France.
Thanks for this very interesting Treadhead post.
Welcome back home, CT.
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