american light tanks definitely had stabilizers in 1941 , coming at a cheap 1000 dollars per . But then there are many types of stabilizers .
The grand daddy of modern MBTs. Also the first tank to feature a gun stabilizer. Knowing the Brits, I'm sure they also included a tea kettle and a rack for cups and spoons.
I recently read that ww2 US ships had various early computers (particularly so-called mechanical integrators) which would calculate the trajectory of shots with better accuracy.
Today this is likely done even with a cheap pocket calculator.
Probably something more accurate by ww2 ^^ At any rate, Feynman mentions the system in his book, along with various other examples of how early computers had numerous problems and required either mechanical ingenuity or a number of human helpers.Mechanical gun laying computers were developed before the First World War. See for example the British Dreyer Table.
Would make sense to be fair, like most wonder weapons the V2 was innovative and expanded upon post war, but almost completely counter productive to the war effort. Plus thousands of slave labourers worked and died in hellish camps to construct them, but that probably wasn't unique to the V2 or even wonder weapons to be frank given the Nazi regime and its total disregard for just about every norm in their desperate search for victory.Not directly related to tanks, but I heard the cost of a kilo of explosive delivered on a V2 was 100 times the cost of a conventional air-dropped bomb.
That’s all I have to say about that.
Those comments do irk me a little though. Lost count of how many times I've seen people on Youtube or Reddit quote something about the British just sitting around and drinking tea in the middle of a battle. Its like they think that taking a break and conserving your energy when there's nothing to be done is somehow a bad thing. Shades of the confrontation at Nijmegen bridge during Market Garden.Not sure about the cup rack, but it did have a BV or "Boiling Vessel". Which.... yeah, it's a kettle. And, jokes about stereotypical Brits asides, it's actually a really good thing to have in a tank. Allowing the crew make a quick hot drink without having to leave the vehicle is a great way for them to catch a bit of safe downtime during a lull in battle.
Those comments do irk me a little though. Lost count of how many times I've seen people on Youtube or Reddit quote something about the British just sitting around and drinking tea in the middle of a battle.
A pretty round-about way to defend one's nazism ^^
Hey! It wasn't against you at all. I just find it rather suspicious that a literal tankie (well, tank crew member) has a picture of Romel for entirely unrelated reasons to ww2 germansIdeology has nothing to do with it; it's about military doctrine and its application. Oskar Schindler was a Nazi too.
Alexander the Great is familiar to you, I assume? I don't think the people living in the lands he conquered ~2300 years ago, would share our reverence of the man. The World is not black and white.
Actually more were fired at Antwerp and Belgium (1,664) than London and South East England (1,402). Antwerp was at least in theory targeted for military reasons but the poor accuracy of the V weapons meant it had far more impact on the civilan population than the war effort.To add, the V2s were mostly used on civilian targets in South-East England instead of military targets, making them almost entirely redundant to the German war effort. Reminds us of a current dictator bombing another nation with his Wunderwaffen, almost exclusive hitting apartments blocks, supermarkets, hospitals, parking lots and energy grid instillations.
One of my favourite annecdotes comes after the British surrender at Arnhem bridge. A German officer offered his congratulations on a well executed defence, remarking that he fought at Stalingrad and feels the British must have had a lot of experience in street fighting. The British officer remarked that no, this was their first time, next time they'll do much better...Considering how the Brits performed and conducted themselves in WW2, we should all be drinking tea in the hope of becoming as badass as they were.
I know an anecdote from the Gulf War; an Iraqi POW was placed in an American APC and noticed a picture inside the vehicle. It was a picture of Erwin Rommel. The Iraqi, obviously confused, asked the American crew why they would display a picture of one of their most feared adversaries in WW2 inside their vehicle? One of the Americans replied: 'Buddy, if you had studied the books about Erwin Rommel and armored warfare, you wouldn't be sitting in the back of my tank now.'