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There are many examples of senior oficers carrying whatever arms they liked, Lord Lovat carried a hunting rifle. The British special forces could request just about anything from the weapon inventory, Churchill intervened to allow this as the Commandos were his brainchild and in the dark days from J...

I agree totally about the Tigers, often, especially late in the war, they had to operate as mobile pillboxes, fighting in static positions. In such a situation, a complex, expensive, petrol-hungry Tiger is wasted, something like a Nashorn or Marder or JagdPanzer would do the same job, after all, a l...

Hi phylo, yes I'm well aware that the British basically used cavalry style tactics and never learnt how to use their armour properly. Too many death or glory charges in the desert fell upon the jaws of the 88s. They did the same thing in Normandy, so the tactics hadn't evolved. However, the British ...

If you look at the Centurion, Pershing and IS-3, they were all fantastic tanks that remained in service for decades, they were WWII weapons, but really should be considered as a new generation, the first MBTs, its not really fair to compare weapons of diferent generations. The gap between the tanks ...

Well, the later WWII tanks would be knocked out by sabot, things like Tiger, King Tiger, IS-series, Panther etc. would be very vulnerable to sabot and heat from modern tank guns like 120 rheinmetall smoothbore, or even the old 105mm L7. As for earlier tanks like T-34 and Pzz IV, even a normal HE rou...

The Tiger has been restored and is running now, its the only running one in the world, there is a site dedicated to the restoration: http://www.tiger-tank.com/ I think it must be the same one that was sitting outside rusting. The restored one was captured in Tunisia, so its probably the one knocked ...

Having looked at the pics of the Abrams, there is a black scorch ring around the entry point, that, to me, makes it obvious it was a shaped charge warhead, almost certainly fired from an RPG, could be a Chinese, Russian, or even Czech warhead, possibly of unknown type, could possibly have been a two...

It took a while to work the flaws out of the British rifle design, but when they had worked them out, it was a formidable weapon. The mauser design was mature by 1898, probably because the Prussians had a lot of practical experience with fighting modern wars. The Prussians at Mons advanced en masse ...

I found this fascinating in-depth debate of the comparative strengths & weaknesses of the Mauser & Lee-Enfield, its well worth reading all of it. The general concensus they form is that the Lee-Enfield is the better battle weapon due to its easier, faster bolt, bigger magazine, resistance to...

The Austrian Mannlicher did indeed eject the clip from the bottom, it did make a noise too, but compared to the other problems with that rifle, the noise of the clip was a minor problem. The straight-pull bolt is no faster in use than the British Lee-Enfield, in fact, the Lee-Enfield is easier and f...

I found that pic of the destroyed Jagd Tiger: Conflict surrounds the credit for the destruction of this massive King Tiger or Jadgtiger. Two sources are credited with the 'kill': 1- A well placed bazooka shot; 2- A long-range precision round from a 90mm gun on a 776th 'Slugger' tank destroyer. http:...

Here's the story on the mystery weapon: What killed a U.S. tank? Mystery munition knocked out Abrams October 27, 2003 'Something' felled an M1A1 Abrams tank in Iraq but what? Mystery behind Aug. 28 incident puzzles Army officials By John Roos Special to the Times Shortly before dawn on Aug. 28, an M...

I live in Millom, just a few miles from Barrow, so I do know that story well. I actually think it was one of my relatives who shot him, at least thats the claim, though there was more than one old fella claiming the honour in the pubs round these parts. I remember the old Hall in ruins before it was...

During the First Gulf War, an Abrams came over the crest of a dune and found itself surprised by 5 to 7 T55s, the T55s shot at the Abrams, which calmly took out each T55 in turn, the Abrams crew only knew how many times they had been hit when they got out and counted the impacts on the armour, they ...

I've never heard of any successful German escapes, they certainly did try to escape and did get out of the camps from time to time, but with an extremely hostile population and no underground to help them, it would be very hard to escape from England back to Germany. I know that where I live, they u...