PanzersAndTea

I don’t see why you’re dragging the Jagdpanzer 38 into this, that’s a completely unrelate tangent. Like sure, it was a great tank, but I don’t see how it’s relevent at all here. I’d argue the SturmgesChütz III (also known as the Hetzer by its crews) is still the better tank, but I digress. Please stop trying to spread disinformation, we’re incredibly passionate about historical accuracy around here, and if these posts are some kind of joke then i’d ask you to refrain from posting them. Historical accuracy in our tumblr posts is no joke.

Thank you for this, for far too long has the hetzer been ignored. But not today! God bless x

Technically it is the SturmgesChütz III and if we’re being all german and nitpicky it’s a Jagdpanzer so yes it is a tank.

@sturmgeschutz-lll

actually arty i think you’ll find it’s called a hetzer

The Tiger hall!!

A magician does not share her tricks…. ;)

azrael556

Her tricks? HER tricks?

Yes …??

*Herr

i ship you with gruene-teufel

Ew why

gruene-teufel

Don’t play hard to get

Don’t tell me what to do

Yikesssss

Oh no I started to play WoT again. When will my soul find peace.

anglerfishtanking

Buy the Defender for the true easy mode experience.

Why have they done this

Oh no I started to play WoT again. When will my soul find peace.

the-hummelverse

I was thinking about how the tanks would “realistically” look in the Hummelverse. I usually always draw them quite “on model” because I’m lazy, but they’d actually be carrying around lots of stuff and modifying themselves to have a better chance at survival. There’s lots of mix-and-matching, just using whatever is available for upgrading and maintaining their bodies.

oh my god I’M BEAUTIFUL

Ok so I found this offer for an RC tank:

Looks good

Very nice.

Uhm

What

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artysanctuary

Tiger Trivia

Nothing too new or exciting, but it’s hard to find facts that haven’t been already compiled a million times about these popular vehicles. Anyway:

The driver sat to the left of the gearbox, the radio operator on the right.

Behind them, there is the fighting compartment that is connected to the turret by three steel tubes and revolves with it.

The commander’s place was in the back of the fighting compartment, the gunner was left of the gun and the loader right of it, facing backwards.

The actual translation of the Tiger II’s name Königstiger would be Bengal Tiger, which has nothing to do with kings. King Tiger sounds badass, though.

The Tiger II’s “Henschel” turret was actually produced by Krupp.

At first the fighting compartments were painted in ivory colours, but later on they just left the interiors red.

At some point the Germans started believing that the Zimmerit paint could catch fire and discontinued its use.

Otto Carius was not impressed by the Tiger I’s angular look and called it “plump”. He was pleasantly surprised however that it drove “just like a car”.

Since even the Tiger I was too heavy to cross most European bridges, it was fitted with wading equipment to go through the rivers instead. But the equipment was expensive and used so rarely that it got discontinued.

When the Tiger I first entered the battlefield, the commanders basically mostly improvised their tactics. By the time the Tiger II appeared, there were more established doctrines.

An unofficial dictum was: “If a Tiger I appears, send out a platoon of Shermans with a Firefly and expect only one to come home.”

There was such a thing as Tiger-phobia, basically. A solitary Tiger I once fired for an hour and drove off unmolested because not a single tank went out to engage it.

Source: “Tiger Tank” by Marcus Cowper

butmuhgains

“ The actual translation of the Tiger II’s name Königstiger would be Bengal Tiger, which has nothing to do with kings. King Tiger sounds badass, though. “

It translates to “King Tiger”, but it meant “Bengal Tiger” because that was the German word for the animal. “Koenigsburg” doesn’t mean “Bengladesh City”

And the Zimmerit was pasted sawdust. It most likely was extremely pyrophoric. Although, it was designed to defeat magnetic mines, and only the Germans really used magnetic mines funny enough.

kineticpenguin

An unofficial dictum was: “If a Tiger I appears, send out a platoon of Shermans with a Firefly and expect only one to come home.”

If 6lbrs on Churchills and Crusaders could kill Tigers with no problem in Africa and Italy why would Shermans (who’s height gives them advantage in the unique terrain of NWETO) have any more difficulty?

artysanctuary

I’m not an expert on US tanks but I’m guessing the problem is the 75mm.

6 pounders had huge problems with taking out tiger tanks. Tiger 131 at the Bovington tank museum has all of these dents all over the front where the rounds just bounced harmlessly off. The only reason that tank was captured was because a Churchill fired a round into the turret ring, jamming the turret, so the crew abandoned it. (Edit: it seems the only possible exception would be a 6 pounder gun firing APDS which was available in limited supply from 1944, but I have no idea if that was even supplied to tank crews)

artysanctuary

But then…..

SDKFZ Go omg

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B-17G

oheyace

None other than Sally B residing at Duxford IWM Camebridge

*Cambridge

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This week on David Cameron’s crusade to fulfill his somewhat sordid desire to embody Margaret Thatcher and become the Iron Lady this country deserves, matters turn away from the Tories oft criticised domestic affairs and become international. In the wake of the largest migrant crisis seen since the end of the Second World War, and the abhorrent terror attacks in Paris (and across the globe), our wise and benevolent Prime Minister has decided that we must respond with Force. Whether this is a knee jerk and emotional reaction to a tragedy, or a ploy dictated by international prestige and the Russian backing of Assad, remains to be seen; but the real issue here is not the motivation, but rather the results of those actions. The only result being: more suffering, and more death.

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When a website titled ‘The Thirty Years War’ attempts to talk about the Peace of Prague (1635) but somehow manages to fuck up and begin by talking about the Peace of Prague (1866) and the end of the Austro-Prussian war.

Be careful what you read on the internet, kids.

In China the army needs democracy as much as the people do.

Mao Zedong, The Struggle in the Chingkang Mountain, 1928. (via whatthefuckhistory)

I think it’s interesting to look at firstly the progression of Mao in terms of ideology, but also at the different interpretations of democracy that exist in the world. The nature of Chinese democracy is not one of a multi party state, as western democracy is. In the early years of the Chinese Communist Party, democracy was a form of consensus politics. Any individual of any position or rank within the party or the army was allowed to raise their concerns in an official forum, where their criticisms would be heard, potentially acted upon, or dismissed with a developed explanation. Decision making in this way was the cornerstone of the CCP’s development, and ensured that decisions made were for the right reasons and done in the right way. Once a decision was made, however, it was expected that every member of the party or army would follow the decision to the letter, and in no way undermine it.

Western nations often criticise China as being un-democratic; but it is democratic in its own way. There are still elections, but one singular party. If one is inclined to believe Noam Chomsky, then there is very little difference between Chinese democracy and US democracy (Chomsky made the case that the Democrat and Republican parties were essentially just two different branches of one singular party, both serving the interests of big business). Certainly an interesting viewpoint, and one I think holds merit.

Is China more backwards and less civilised than the US? Is it less democratic? Is it less democratic than other western nations? I’m going to say probably, especially considering its censorship and the relatively restricted freedom of speech. Still, something to consider.

(via whatthefuckhistory)