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.Here’s a shipload of hindsight: The optimal anti-air artillery calibres of World War Two.7.62…7.92 mm machineguns were rather ineffective. There were some aircraft with thin armour plating during WW1 already. Such armour plating provided good protec…
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I hope you muted the video in time. Anyway, I showed this thing from 2022 because I remember having asked ballistic helmet manufacturers on Eurosatory 2018 why they don’t provide a proper helmet for support troops.Those hardly ever wear their …
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I keep looking at historical army equipment and it’s fascinating how simple the equipment even of an entire infantry regiment can be. An example from WW2:All an infantry regiment really needed (if I break it down to minimum required quanti…
.It’s often said that the CVR/T tank family of the British was required to be narrow enough to fit between the rubber trees on Malaysian plantations due to the British experiences in the late 40’s conflict there.(c)Irish Defence ForcesI don’t care whet…
.I like to cut things down to essentials, so I wrote in 2023 about a minimum weapons sset for an army. To have very few different weapons helps coping with the difficulties in procurement./2023/01/a-minimum-army-weapons-set-for.htmlSo, almost two and a…
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/2017/08/very-low-level-air-defence-against.html/2018/05/summary-modern-air-defences-for-europe.htmlOne might increase the rate of fire of a MG3 back to about 1,500 rpm and use a duplex cartridge (two bullets in one cartridge) for 3,000 bullets…
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previous parts:/2024/07/free-europes-security-challenge-if.html/2024/07/free-europes-security-challenge-if_8.html So what could be done for defence of Europe against American airpower?Defending against aircraft & missilesWe would need to ti…
A brigade of the line should be modestly ambitious, high end only in critical key areas (reliable instant communication in the field and ability to defeat any AFV type) and it can be designed to be very dependent on higher level support. This way we ca…
Personal Defence Weapons (PDWs) are weapons meant for soldiers who do not have shooting at the enemy with small arms as an important part of their job description. Support troops, tank crews, helicopter pilots and even infantry platoon leaders qu…
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Helmets were introduced in the First Word War and did cut the count of killed in action troops by about a half (rule of thumb) by protecting the skull against most fragments (mostly of high explosive grenades).Fragmentation protection vests (colloqui…