>The Nakadashi Ki-111 (Allied repoting name "Shlomo") was the Ki-102 (Allied repoting name "Gaylord") with a newer, more powerful engine.
>With this new engine, performance was drastically increased, becoming equal or superior to any American fighter.
>Combat performance was hampered, however, by a combination of low-quality aviation fuel made from rotting sushi, and pilots who had 70 hours of flight experience combined.
>Production was severely limited after B-29s bombed the Senpai Aircraft Factory where the new engines were being produced. All together, 23 were produced and five were captured by the Allies and tested.
yeah
Indeed.
>pilots who had 70 hours of flight experience combined
That's way too generous for '45 Japan.
>your job is to bomb the Allied carrier fleet
>where is the bomb release button
>I wouldn't worry about it.
Seppuku is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or reeve it
If I prease
Meanwhile in Italy...
>the Spastico S.43 was an late war Italian fighter accepted into service by Regia Aeronautica in 1943
>Spastico S.p.A was a manufacturer of sewing machines that pivoted into aircraft production during WW1
>they produced several prototypes during the interwar years, some of which flew and none of which were accepted into service
>with the S.43, the company finally had the chance to make their name as an legit aircraft company
>the brainchild of controversial aircraft designer Luigi Pessario, S.43 had numerous innovative features, such as wing-mounted machine gun turrets that could be turned to face the rear to deter any pursuers
>however the design was plagued by numerous problems, such as the fact that the above mentioned turrets could rotate on their own when fired, spraying bullets everywhere, including the hull of the plane itself
>famous test pilot Pietro Bastardo was killed when flying the S.43, when a wing came off and somehow decapitated him
>furthermore, Spastico S.p.A's primary manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Torino was entirely staffed by communists, who decided to sabotage the Italian war effort by producing as many S.43's as they could
>in the end however only 23 of these planes were made due to material shortages and just italians in general
>after the war Allied fighter specialists took a look at the design, and concluded that if equipped with German engines, armed with German weapons and manufactured entirely in Germany, the S.43 could have been a mediocre fighter
people are really too harsh on italies vehicle designs. they just didn't have the necessary industry to make that stuff but went to war anyways because fascism
>if equipped with German engines, armed with German weapons and manufactured entirely in Germany, the S.43 could have been a mediocre fighter
worth opening this thread for this
>who decided to sabotage the Italian war effort by producing as many S.43's as they could
hehehe
i hate wopmutts
> Spastico
> Pietro Bastardo
Spastico Fantastico
>just Italians in general
My sides
Source? Can't find anything about it online
Not much more is known about the Spastico S.43 other than what has been shared by anon. This photograph of the Spastico was only recently shared by Poco Bastardo, the son of Pietro Bastardo. It is claimed to have been taken moments before his final flight
>furthermore, Spastico S.p.A's primary manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Torino was entirely staffed by communists, who decided to sabotage the Italian war effort by producing as many S.43's as they could
>Luigi Pessario
This did not get enough attention. Mostly because /k/ is filled with illiterate spergs who have never seen a vagina.
I've never touched pussy but I still know what a pessary is, sit down sperg.
you almost got me
he almost made you laugh at a joke?
>furthermore, Spastico S.p.A's primary manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Torino was entirely staffed by communists, who decided to sabotage the Italian war effort by producing as many S.43's as they could
so funny I read it to my 74yo parents
lmao
>entirely staffed by communists, who decided to sabotage the Italian war effort by producing as many S.43's as they could
Got a genuine laugh out of me, thanks anon!
>who decided to sabotage the Italian war effort by producing as many S.43's as they could
the most aesthetic
My grandma has a bit of a thing for Italy, so of course I had to share it with her.
She thought it was hilarious.
>Spastico
>Piss-ario
>Bastardo
You made that up
you got me good, now I have to live with myself knowing I googled Spastico S.43...
>The Nakadashi Ki-111 (Allied repoting name "Shlomo")
>Shlomo
That's insulting
shortage of
>oil
>petrol
>steel
>ball bearings
>wood
>glue
>pilots
>coast guard boats
>The Me.42069 ausf. X "Toilettenschelf"
>Somehow designed by Ferry Porsche, who insisted that Schachtellaufwerk be used for the landing gear
>Hitler repeatedly interfered in the design
>Insisted it be able to leave Aalborg, bomb New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Singapore, and Pearl Harbor (in that order), and return to Germany without landing
>Final design had a takeoff weight of 11,800 tonnes, exceeding limits set by Treaty of Washington
>Rocket engine used TS-Stoff (a hypergolic mixture of sarin gas and hydrochloric acid), which was routed through a mixing chamber directly behind the pilot's head
>Three engine pods, two and a half wings (differently sized and vertically offset), propellors at front and back, and two pilot seats
>This was done to confuse Allied fighter escorts
>Production was started in 1942 in a cave outside Prague staffed by starving homosexuals
>One airframe was ready by March 1945, and managed to ram a single B-17 (minor damage) before exploding, and dissolved before it hit the ground
>Other was captured by the RAF
>In post-war test flights, it was shown to have a crude emergent consciousness that would actively try to flip itself over and kill the pilot
>(concept transferred to Lockheed and later used on the Starfighter)
>Eventually it was scrapped and now forms part of a Soviet war memorial and jungle gym in Plauen
>In post-war test flights, it was shown to have a crude emergent consciousness that would actively try to flip itself over and kill the pilot
topkek
>exceeding limits set by Treaty of Washington
kek
I had to doodle this craft.
...
But mostly because you mentioned consciousness and I'm a hopeless planefucker.
And only after I was already done did I notice that the foreground fuselage-pod just turned out to be a prop A-10.
I kneel
Golden anon, thank you.
>cut to footage of Blohm und Voss executives furiously masturbating
bless
Good work anon
>I'm a hopeless planefucker.
based
>actual OC drawfags on /k/
That genuinely seems no less crazy than some of the designs that were shopped around and even made it to prototype.
>Rocket engine used TS-Stoff (a hypergolic mixture of sarin gas and hydrochloric acid), which was routed through a mixing chamber directly behind the pilot's head
kek, Jesus Christ anon, I can't take this anymore
>hypergolic mixture of sarin gas and hydrochloric acid
unironically less dangerous than UDMH-RFNA
>that illustration
really
One day you'll have some lost media folks going on a quest to find the origin of the Wikipedia creampie picture. The original source link is already dead, so who knows whose pussy that is.
That's a photograph, mein neger.
Kek. Imagine not searching Ki-111 first.
Reminds me of how there's a plane named Suisei, like my favorite vtuber
Wait till you try to image search literally any fucking IJN ship.
Lmao I know. Azur lane and Kancolle have made me kill billions
I son't really like AL's Warspite design. Kancolle makes her look much more dignified with the regal motifs. It's the best design imo
Not anti-Japan, just some friendly slander
I love AL Warspite, she's a qt
Oh god hand fetish don’t activate now nooooo
Lots of anti-Japan threads lately, huh?
nah you just missed out on previous threads of the same theme mocking a variety of other nations
You forgot to mention that the engine was a 2 cylinder radial that made 30000hp because they designed it for a total runtime of 12 minutes.
>The Yankomig 8.
>Designed by Vlodomir sinkorfly, a brilliant engineer in both submarines and air plane design.
>Sent to gulag after NKVD found anti-communist objects in his possesion (socks)
>Project taken over by Pietr putlomich who was educated in the finest engineering schools, sent to Gulag after NKVD determined plane was approaching degenerate western ideas of performance.
>Project taken over by Vladimir Vladimirsky. Local party official, has heard of planes once and was deemed the perfect fit. will be awarded the hero of the soviet people medla for his work.
>Yankomig 9, the production version, is fitted with a repurposed tractor engine that is simultaneously simple enough to be produced by half starved brilliant engineers in a gulag, and complex enough to necessitate frequent and intense percussive maintenance.
>Curiously nearly all parts are phallic and suited for both sodomy and beatings.
>Fueled with mazut. Heavy windshield wiper system driven by PTO shaft of engine ensures visibility amid dark cloud of exhaust, at the cost of the rough wiper blades scratching the glass to a milky white.
>Heavy armament of lend lease .50 brownings and an autocannon fed with a carousel autolader under the pilot. all weapons are zeroed to not waste ammo by shooting where other guns are shooting.
>Served with distinction at just fourteen aircraft lost against one finnish deer-skin glider in winter war.
>Special lead-mercury-pig iron alloy in pilots seat and parts of frame for ruggedness.
>Oxygen system powered by leaky impeller pump connected to engine just feeds outside air and some exhaust into pilots mouth at rapid pace (pilots operating outside of the Soviet union get panicky without enough toxic smog in their lungs).
>After war the manufacturing plant is turned into playground. Subsequent birth defects and sickness is covered up.
>Decades later several documentaries are released about the brilliant Yankomig 9, the superior soviet fighter the best of the war.
later several documentaries are released about the brilliant Yankomig 9, the superior soviet fighter the best of the war.
The claims in these documentaries are used as a citation for the aircraft's stats in war thunder, where it out performs all non Soviet aircraft of the same era.
with distinction at just fourteen aircraft lost against one finnish deer-skin glider in winter war
>Becomes BR2.3 premium
>All flaws magically gone
>starting price $250
You forgot:
>flight testing was first delayed then terminated when the oxen who dragged the prototypes to the test airstrip (30km by dirt road) suffered fodder shortages and were then posted to Burma for operation U-Mad (3 million japanese casualties, of which half eaten by centipedes)
>as a result of this, early adoption by squadrons was halted by reports of a tendency to both snap roll and snap in half while rolling in left turns, right turns, mild rain and days deemed inauHispanicious by one's ancestors.
>operation U-Mad (3 million japanese casualties, of which half eaten by centipedes)
>When a government inspector passed through the Nagoya works in late 1943, he was surprised to learn that newly manufactured Zeros were still being hauled away from the plant by teams of oxen. There was no airfield adjoining the Mitsubishi plant. The new units had to be transported overland to Kagamigahara, twenty-four miles away, where the navy would accept delivery. The aircraft were too delicate to transport on trucks, and the railheads were not convenient. Twenty oxen had died, and the remaining thirty were verging on complete exhaustion. Feed had been obtained on the black market, but the supply was not reliable. Essential wartime deliveries of replacement aircraft thus hung on the fate of a diminishing herd of underfed beasts. Mitsubishi engineers at length discovered that Percheron horses could haul the aircraft to Kagamigahara faster and required less to eat.
>Canadian Car and Foundry CF-42
>design work began entirely as a private venture in 1938, rejected repeatedly by Canadian government
>basically just an American airframe with British engine and guns
>accepted at the outbreak of war off the drawing board
>production ready in 1942, by which time it was thoroughly obsolete
>never saw combat, entirely replaced by US made fighters that were basically the same thing but better
>kept in Canada for training, in service 1942-1992
Lacking the part about how decades later a horde of seething Canadians keep bringing up how the Americans bribed the government to buy their planes to kill off the Canadian aerospace industry, and it would be still be in service today because it's better than the F-35.
nothing's better than the F-35 currently
There's a small segment of leafboos who used to insist the Avro Arrow would still be in service today because it was so ahead of it's time. They're wrong in that it was just a worse MiG 25. They're right that it would still be in service because we'd have called it "good enough" for fifty years and be scrambling to replace it today as the airframes fail.
>Production was severely limited after B-29s bombed the Senpai Aircraft Factory
Senpai certainly noticed that.
>The Florida Aircraft Guild P-46 was initially designed in 1939 for the Polish Air Force, with the project then taken up by the Belgians from Sept. '39 to April '40, at which point the French picked it up from April '40 to June '40.
>At this point both America and Britain showed interest, so design work progressed.
>The first prototype, despite being underpowered, performed better than the Spitfire at under 20,000 ft.
>As a result, the British purchased 400 P-46A and used them in North Africa. The type performed well enough and more orders followed from China, whose pilots promptly crashed every single P-46 during familiarization training, and subsequently blamed it on bad feng-shui.
>The Soviet Union obtained several thousand P-46 and their pilots were amazed at its comforts, like having seats, gunsights, and wings. NKVD officers kept a watchlist of everybody who interacted with this decadent American fighter.
>Meanwhile, the British and American engineers solved the power problem by switching to the Cuckingham Bluetit-40K engine.
>The re-engined P-46R was a massive leap in performance above 25,000 ft. It also had much better fuel consumption. An engineer who noticed this suggested the radical notion of fighters escorting bombers, and that their range could be greatly increased with disposable "drop-tanks."
>The Bomber Mafia, upon hearing of this suggestion began screeching autistically and took Roosevelt's dog hostage at the Library of Congress, packing the building with 600 tons of TNT, threatening to destroy the entire 3-mile radius if a single American fighter ever touched a drop-tank.
>Eventually Jimmy Doolittle was able to talk them down and free the dog. The P-46R went forwards to become the premiere American fighter of WW2.
>Japanese pilots who tested a captured P-46R were amazed by its performance, survivability, and lack of cockpit seppuku daggers.
>The P-46R served in numerous 3rd world airforces until the 1980s.
Forgot:
>In January '44, Göring witnessed the P-46R escorting bombers over Berlin and suffered a nearly fatal rectal prolapse. Hilter dismissed the threat, asserting as always "Nur noch zwei Wochen, dann wird Amerika Russland angreifen."
>whose pilots promptly crashed every single P-46 during familiarization training, and subsequently blamed it on bad feng-shui.
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US military weapons programs be like
>In 1984 The Department of Defense allocated 80 billion dollars a year to a black project that involved the CIA, FBI and NASA
>In 1995 The project produced a 2 kilometer long cannon capable of projecting a miniature hydrogen nucleus sized black hole at speeds of Mach 14 in atmosphere, but the project was halted after degrading the barrel in 8 shots
What’s the weapon that they tested that was like an actual plasma cannon that they stopped talking about in the 90s? I can’t remember the name
marauder
thanks m8
british fighters be like
>During the earlier part of its service life the Barracuda suffered a fairly high rate of unexplained fatal crashes, often involving experienced pilots. Experienced test pilot Baker-Falkner was brought in to address the issues and boost morale amongst operational squadrons.[13][14] During 1945 the cause was traced to small leaks developing in the hydraulic system. The most common point for such a leak to happen was at the point of entry to the pilot's pressure gauge and was situated such that the resulting spray was directed straight into the pilot's face. The chosen hydraulic fluid contained ether and, as the aircraft were only rarely equipped with oxygen masks and few aircrew wore them below 10,000 ft/3,000 m anyway, the pilot quickly became unconscious during such a leak, inevitably leading to a crash.
Kek for the Wikipedia formatting.
you cheeky fucker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Barracuda
I assumed the Barracuda would have been made by Blackburn due to the love of alliteration
it's beyond me to come up with a joke about british aeronautical engineering funnier than 'occasionally sprays the pilot in the face with knockout gas'
>That one actually happened
Ho Lee Phuc
>mfw that one was real
>it's real
Holy fucking shit. I bought the "Shlomo" japanese fighter as "well may be", but not this.
Someone do French military development, I'm too ESL to do it right
>I'm too ESL
>For french
Work on the Entreprise Aérospatiale Française twin engine bomber Petit-Ami 2 began in 1920, when the lead designer proposed that there would be a need for rapid tactical response should a re-armed Germany launch a major armoured assault through Belgium. Work was suspended in 1921 due to lack of funds; restarted in 1923 when the company provided French bureaucrats with sufficient bribes to afford higher grade prostitutes; halted in 1924 when the french military said that the Maginot line would negate any german invasion; continued development as a mail plane between 1925-1935 by 6 different companies and at least 3 people who wandered in off the street; halted from 1935-1937 due to labour disputes and political instability; and finally rushed into production in 1939 when the military realized that there was actually going to be a war. The first squadron was delivered in April 1940, where they performed excellently. The designers and production engineers were forced to eat the blueprints and tooling to prevent them from falling into German hands during the occupation. A full production run was completed post-war, by which time all of the airplanes were completely obsolete.
Mechanically the plane uses a supercharged Semi-radial V-42 engine where three banks of 7 pairs of pistons give the plane significantly better power to weight ratio than it's contemporaries at the cost of causing suicides amongst the aircraft's maintenance crew. The plane uses a unique cupro-nickel alloy manufactured in Grenoble by a Franco/Swiss company later dissolved for having collaborated with the occupation in the removal of israelites for it's structure and skin, making repairs challenging. In addition the rivets, seat leather, cockpit layout, bomb sights, bomb release mechanisms, machine guns, and cup-holders are all unique to the Petit-Ami 2.
The plane has a passionate fan community who argue it could have easily stopped the Fall of France had sufficient numbers been made.
I love these "Nation X Summary" threads.
nagger this is a fucking blue board
Blue is for blue waffle.
It's wikipedia therefore it's strictly for scientific research purposes
>>With this new engine, performance was drastically increased, becoming equal or superior to any American fighter.
this but minus this part
late war jap superfighters were about as good as mainline US fighters, not markedly better
What do you count as superfighter?
A7M, J7W, Ki-87
Nothing super about the initial A7Ms, except how much they were delayed.
A7M3-J, J7W, Ki-87 and few others were simply high altitude flying gun boats to blow B-29s. It didn't help how draggy those uncovered Japanese turbos still were. For lower altitude fighter to fighter combat they were simply a waste.
Ki-83 was probably the most impressive thing they finally managed to build. From single engine fighters I'd say J6K was maybe the best middle ground.
>the "tanketta merde 36" or TM36 was a light tank designed and used by the french army in WW2
>the design was first designed in 1924 in a competition for designing tank models for the army in which all of the country's 6 tractor factories participated in.
>all other designs had been ditched because they were attempts at making a tank that would bebetter than the FT-17, and had some outrageous design aspects that the French High Command simply rejected, such as more than 2 crew members or a gun that wasn't a Hotchkiss 37mm
>the TM36, which was the civilian TC89 with some armored plates and a one-half-man turret shoddily welded above it the innovatice design aspect of an equal, amount of forward and reverse gears which allowed for retreating as fast as they advanced.
>the unitary price was of over 500,000 francs (Around 250 USD as of 2018), though some suspect there were cases of corruption involved
>being the 1920s, many countries were still unsure on what the fuck were tanks supposed to do, and a balance between "sheets of metal and a machone gun" and "bunker that makes a mile a day" was still not found.
>Despite the prototype being made in 1924, production never actually began as the government officials feared that preparing for a possible war would becomea self-fulfilling prophecy, and thus all military projects were frozen until 1936 when they realized the rising tensions
>by 1939 68 units were produced, of which 4 saw combat when captured by the germans and used for anti-partisan roles in occupied partsof the soviet union.
>no combat records of them beyond 1942 remain, and the only ones that exist today ard Serial No. 3 which was abandoned after the gears of the transmission stuck for 2 minutes and it was abandoned while under fire
First time trying something like this. It's probably shit but i liked writing it
>the unitary price was of over 500,000 francs (Around 250 USD as of 2018), though some suspect there were cases of corruption involved
You did good anon
>The Fu-1488 Volksfighter
>Made of OSB held together with corrosive water-soluble glue
>Armed with twenty-eight 8.8cm Panzerschreck rockets launched from rails in a single salvo at one second intervals
>Foot peddles were made of cast iron coated in asbestos to protect the pilot during landings (i.e. belly-skidding)
>Designed for the same engine used in a much better plane, which was already in short-supply when the project started
>To keep the water-soluble glue from dissolving in the rain, the plane was to be waterproofed using a mixture of sawdust and coal tar, 80 years later idiots will insist was actually a stealth coating.
>The Volksfighter, which was designed by a team of brilliant men with engineering doctorates aided by the most advanced wind tunnel modelling available, killed every test pilot assigned to it because it was an unflyable deathtrap.
>Luftwaffe planners had intended it to be piloted by 9-year-old Hitler Youth.
>The Fu-1488 was asymmetrical for no real reason whatsoever.
>It's engine was powered by peroxide and Q-stoff (arsenic and mercury dissolved in a mixture of hydrofluoric acid and paint thinner), the latter spontaneously ignites at temperatures above 25 C or below 22 C
>80 years later idiots will insist was actually a stealth coating
Sensible chuckle.
> The Focker D.MLXXXII was designed in the mid 1930s as a new generation aircraft for the Dutch Air Service of the Royal Ground Forces, or Koninklijke Landstrijdkrachtenluchtvaartdienst.
>The design was to fulfil a demanding multi-purpose role known as the Zware Luchtpatrouillegevechtskruiser.
>It's armament consisted of a single machinegun sticking through the front canopy and it boasted a theoretical bombload of 25kg, although this was never tested.
>The Dutch government refused funding as they considered it an offensive weapon unsuited to its policy of strict neutrality.
>The Royal Dutch East Indies Army Air Service, Nederlandsoostindischelegerluchtvaartdienst, was uninterested as they considered the Japanese incapable of flying airplanes and had already spent their budget on a single armoured car.
>The project was kept alive by foreign investments from over 30 countries, resulting in the production of 2 airworthy prototypes.
>One was captured by the Germans in 1940 and used as a trainer until being shot down by Tempests in 1945.
>The other was sold to Finland where it successfully shot down 400 Soviet aircraft before being used as firewood.
>Some argue that increased production of the Focker would have prevented the bombing of Rotterdam, allowing the Netherlands to hold out for 2 more days before capitulating.
8/10
But you don't just stick one word on an other in Dutch like it's german
eh, in that one you'd just have to split up the services into Koninklijke Landstrijdkrachten luchtvaartdienst and Nederlands Oostindische legerluchtvaartdienst. you can still stack some pretty wild words in Dutch.
for example: Autobandventieldopjesfabrieksmedewerkersvertegenwoordiger (representative of employees at the car tire valve cap factory)
You can, vrachtwagenventieldopjesfabrieksdirecteurskantoordeurhendelbevestigingsmechanismeschroef is a perfectly valid word in Dutch
>as they considered the Japanese incapable of flying airplanes and had already spent their budget on a single armoured car
heh
WE GAAN
>Consolidated-American B-30 Freedomfortress was an American WWII heavy bomber
>Born out of Army Airfoce requirement to bomb both Japan and Germany from the continental united states in a single sortie, the B-30 was the heaviest and most expensive aircraft developed at the time
>The aircraft mounted 8 Pratt&Wright Wasp Colonel engines, the most powerful piston engine ever produced, with 42 cylinders and 5200 cu displacement, the development of the engine suffered major setbacks delaying the introduction of the aircraft
>Particular problems were in the 180 octane super-leaded avgas sometimes fouling all 672 sparkplugs
>The issues were eventually ironed out and the aircraft became operational, flying long range reconnaissance patrols in the pacific, against the soviets this time
>First flight: 1942
>Number built: 3765
>In service: 3 September 1945 - 1 January 1946
>In service: 3 September 1945 - 1 January 1946
Why did they do this? The B26 Marauder was simply dipped the instant Japan surrendered. It's not like it was a bad plane
they wanted to consolidate the types of aircraft in service down to a few different models as they massively downscaled the military
>Consolidated-American B-30 Freedomfortress was later developed into the Consolidated-American XB-48 Superfreedomfortress
>It was designed as a backstop in case the B-52 failed to live up to expectations.
>Other than its sweptback wings the XB-48 was identical to the B-30
>Its top speed was 6 mph greater than its predecessor.
>Mercifully cancelled before a prototype was built.
>M56AB3 Teški Tenk "Radašin"
>developed by yugoslav engineers from a german prototype tank found in a ditch
>originally powered by a transnistrian combine harvester engine, with the tito-stalin split heating up all units were retrofitted with lend lease 1930s studebaker milk truck units
>post-WW2 material shortages meant the door handles, ash trays and indicator stalks were made from recycled V2 rockets
>the existence of the heavy tank was highly classified until 1975 when a slovenian M56AB3 platoon fired on some drunk austrian border guards
>several thousand tanks were exported to kuwait during the 80s directly leading to a 15% increase in yugo 45 production during those years
>a planned M56AB4 modernization with ERA package, a 2A46 main gun, cummins diesel engine and advanced FCS was in development during the late 80s with the french government expressing great interest
>unfortunately the project was stopped by the dissolution of yugoslavia with the sole prototype sold for scrap in monteBlack
>the last combat use of the tank was in 2001 when it killed some albanian zergs in macedonia to the great excitement of tank autists
>Designed in 1937, the Shart's Shitbird was a response to Admiralty Request A/Baker£4589 App. 11 for a carrier aircraft to fill the roles of torpedo bomber, ASW patrol, fighter, lover, target tug, washer-dryer and captain's pinnace.
>critical to the design specification was the need to fit in the 15in gap the royal navy called a hangar deck, thus the Shitbird was innovative for it's use of an inflatable airframe made of natural rubber sourced from a colony 3000 miles away from England
>development at Shart's was fraught when both head designers fell out over who didn't put the firm's only pencil back in it's pot, as well as by frequent attempts by Battleship Admirals to burn down the factory
>First viewing of the completed prototype caused the hair of several Fleet Air Arm officer's to turn completely white. All test flights took place at night to spare ground crews exposure, but despite this compensation claims by farmers alleging the mere sound of it caused livestock to miscarry soared
>despite exceeding its design speed of 80kn, the legendary 3-armed and 4 -legged Royal Navy test pilot Peter "Crabby" Blumpkin refused to fly the Shitbird a second time, simply writing "Cunt" in the report section titled Handling Characteristics.
>An order for over 1000 Shitbirds was nevertheless placed, with the majority being sent as lend-lease to the soviet union, where it was generally well regarded by soviet planners for its takeoff and landing performance on poorly prepared eastern aerodromes and ease of repair via bicycle puncture repair kit. No soviet pilot accounts of combat performance could be acquired
>Derivatives of the type remained in service in the far east until the mid 1980's. License build versions are still operating in China and North Korea.
>a carrier aircraft to fill the roles of torpedo bomber, ASW patrol, fighter, lover, target tug, washer-dryer and captain's pinnace.
kek
>The M7 entrenching tool was an innovative case of war-time tool development to make a powered entrenching tool
>The contract was awarded to one Mr. Oknee Delireieux of the North-west Louisiana A&M college who promised to come in on-time and under budget
>The team spent no less than 9 days working out the initial prototype
>Due to constraints of war time and spanish history month, they had to begin forging the prototypes in the lunchroom of the school's engineering building (now known as outhouse #9)
>Notable to most historians is that the M7 appears to just be a regular shovel
>When asked during testing, Mr. D turned his nose, shrieked, and cleared 9 cu yards of dirt in 47 seconds
>The delegation was so impressed they ordered 80,000 for the upcoming Bougainville Campaign
>The M7 was received with mixed reactions, chief of which is that the handles appeared to keep slicking in red ooze or "speaking"- written off as combat stress
>In action, the shovel M7 was noted to have a much more traditional rate of moving dirt like the m1910 tool
>Upon army follow up, Mr. D was not founda at his home but a postcard was delivered stating "make the right noises!"
>Soldiers reported the shovels seemed to work best either when making small-motor like noises ("BUHbuhbuh-VRRRRRRRRR) or shortly after using the tool to slaughter small animals- convinced that their shovels were "thirsty"
>The most interesting point across all documents is that personnel assigned the shovel (along with the obviously ridiculous m1941 Johnson) seemed to have higher rates of desertion, Blue-on-blue incidents and making sand-castles
>post-war reports in U.S. occupied islands did see small reports of "hold outs", when questioned, the locals went white in fear, reporting of ghosts of the old war rampaging through the night cutting small animals in half whilst screaming "VRRRRR-DOOOOTTT"
The M7 has found a surge of popularity in the 2020s after being discovered by what is called "Goth tiktok"
decent post, very halloween
when I was little we have lots of chickens and I treated them like pets, but every so often one would get old or sick and it was time for them to go, I didn't cry but I protested because they were my pets and I hugged them every day, eventually I began doing it myself with a shovel, I still dream about it
>the CV/94 CC (Contra-Cavalla) was an Italian armored car adopted in September, 1944.
>First drawn up in 1894 by engineer's of Italy's oldest and most prestigious engineering firm, Toccare-Testicolo (Est. 1273), the CV/94 entered service after only 50 years of testing, a record for the company.
>Armed with a clip-fed, 5-shot, manually-actuated machine gun chambered in 4x60R Scarso, which was loaded with a cutting-edge bimetal-jacketed spitzer projectile.
>The CV/94 had a formidable 1-0.2mm mild steel armor array, a turret with a limited traverse of 15 degrees.
>The vehicle's powerplant was updated in late 1920 from a chicken to a hobbyist sterling engine once owned by the king of Italy, giving the CV/94 a top speed of 10km/hr over flat ground.
>Italian tankmen generally had positive reviews, and were confident it would defeat most tanks produced before 1914.
>Allied crews in northern Africa were unaware of the vehicles existence until a wreck was discovered crushed beneath the burnt-out hulk of a German motorcycle.
>Combat-worthy examples still appear in the hands of Ethiopian schoolchildren and Afghan dopeherds.
Beautiful.
>toccare testicolo
>4x60 Scarso
Good namings anon
>The M214 Thundercock is an american Tank Destroyer designed and built in WW2
>It was built on the chassis of the widely successful M4 Chad and used the same powerplant
>It was equipped with a more powerful gun than the M4 Chad to deal with the threat of the german heavy tanks, and had similar armor to the M4 Chad
>After the first trials, the designers quickly realised that they built an excellent tank that could easily replace the M4 Chad
>and in their pursue of Tank Destroyer Supremacy, they decided to make changes to the design to prevent troops from using the vehicle as a regular tank, after all it is a tank destroyer and should be treated as such
>The designers then removed the turret roof, the machine guns, and the powered traverse of the turret
>Without the powered traverse, traversing the turret a full 360 degrees manually proved to be very time consuming
>Troops would improvise and mount their own machine guns onto the vehicles to overcome the lack of machine guns on the vehicle
>they would then use the vehicle like a tank, much to the disappointment of the US Tank Destroyer Branch
>The vehicle also never met any of the german heavy tanks that it was built to fight
Too real
>The M214 served with distinction through the Korean War, being easily able to defeat all Soviet tanks encountered in the theater. Israel used 6 M214s to defeat an entire battalion of IS-3s in the Sinai, while Taiwan and Peru continue operating the M214 to this day
>the australian Didgeridoo
>ordered by the war board when a drunken typist mistranscribed racial slurs overheard during a 9am drunken brawl
>basis for the design is a yet to be unidentified item of early industrial age machinery
>corrugated metal was riveted, bolted, and drywall screwed on to form crude surfaces that could vaguely be described as "tail-like" and "wing-like"
>featured a unique-to-aviation cattle guard design to allow for survival in event of impact during landing with the local kangaroos, wombats, and moderately large spiders
>at least 4 were made, a fact discovered incidentally by squinting at pictures of heaps of rust displayed in author Sheila Cunt's national best selling coffee book, "Abandoned Farm Machinery: a Pictorial Exploration of the Open Scars of White Colonization".
Only Melbourne cunts get into that shit. Literally everyone else can't stand that 'look how virtuous i am' act and cunts get bashed for it, but unfortunately Melbourne, much like the Californian cities and NY in the US, is where most of our media comes from so that's all people see to form a picture around.
I expect Canberra and Sydney are equally woke, no? Put together, what percentage of the population is that?
Canberra is full of Indians and Sydney, except for the really rich suburbs, is full of lebs. So I'm not too sure on that one.
In any case as a Westie the answer to your question is 'too much,' pic related.
>The "tractor de rahat cu tun" or TRACUT was a Romanian tank destroyer used in the Second World War made in 1942
>The tank was made up of a panzer I and II chassis that were picked up abandoned in the frontlines (not that they cared about those in 1942)
>the Romanian Government, after realizing the Germans would ignore their request for armored vehicles, decided to salvage the ones left on the battlefiekd and be put to use.
>the turret of the tanks was removed and instead a russian artillery piece (57mm for the panzer 1 hull and 76mmfor the panzer 2 hull) as held in place with 4 bolts produced in Romania's sole metalworking factory
>a total of 9 of these modifications were madem which stands as the greates production of armored vehicles in Romania to this day.
>They were all sent to support operation Fall Blue, but half of them were abandoned in their way as their crews left them to loot and forgot about them
>The remaining 3 saw combat once, when having to cover the retreat of the German forces
>no surviving example remains today, and some historians suspect that it may have not been priduced by Romania at all, but rather that the germans lent some panzerjagers and marders which the romanians passed as their own
American cold war era planes are like:
>The XF-84H "Thunderscreech" was an American experimental turboprop aircraft during the 1950s. Powered by a turbine engine that was mated to a supersonic propeller, the XF-84H had the potential of setting the unofficial air speed record for propeller-driven aircraft.
>The initial inception came from a U.S. Navy requirement for a carrier fighter not requiring catapult assistance. Thrust was adjusted by changing the blade pitch of the 12' diameter Aeroproducts propeller, consisting of three steel, square-tipped blades, with the tips traveling at approximately Mach 1.18 .
>First flown in July 1955, the XF-84H had incredible acceleration.It was unsuited to combat due to the engine's 30-minute warm-up time, but the most serious concerns were vibration generated from the 12-foot diameter propeller
>Lin Hendrix, one of the Republic test pilots assigned to the program, flew the aircraft once and refused to ever fly it again, telling the formidable Republic project engineer, "You aren't a big enough guy and there aren't enough of you to get me in that thing again".
>The XF-84H was almost certainly the loudest aircraft ever built, earning the nickname the "Mighty Ear Banger". On the ground the prototypes could reportedly be heard 25 miles away. The outer 24–30 inches of the blades on the XF-84H's propeller traveled faster than the speed of sound even at idle thrust, producing a continuous visible sonic boom that radiated laterally from the propellers for hundreds of yards. >The aircraft was notorious for inducing severe nausea and headaches among ground crews. In one report, a engineer suffered a seizure after close range exposure to the shock waves emanating from a powered-up XF-84H.
>The noise also disrupted operations in the control tower by vibration damage to sensitive components and forcing air traffic personnel to communicate with the XF-84H crew by light and hand signals.
>It was never put into adoption
>Cold War
>propellers
Cold War is considered to be from the end of the Korean War to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 1955 is right in the middle.
>to the Cuban Missile Crisis
hell to the no
fall of the Berlin Wall
Yeah that one is real
Aside from the test pilot anecdote
>mfw isreal
>haha what a funny meme
>it's real
we will never ever enter an era of kino like the early cold war
>It was never put into adoption
Proof that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.
>shlomo
>gaylord
>senpai
fucking /misc/tards