An offer of Help
 

I pride myself in my knowledge of the second world war. Tactics, diagrams, etc.. If you have any questions about the war, ships, planes, tanks, fighting capabilities ect. I will do my best to give you a quick answer. If I don't know the answer, I will do my best to find it for you. Yes I know I'm only a Bilge Rat, but I know my stuff, and am willing to help others!!!!

how often did skippers make post-2000 yard range shots on targets?

haha jk.

Welcome.

Probably better to hang around and see what questions are asked, and then offer answers.

Welcome aboard.

There was this debate regarding rate of fire... http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...lies/angel.gif

Oh gawd not that again !

To the OP you ought to get together with Sailor Steve and compare notes. He is somewhat of a naval historian as well.

Yes he is and welcome aboard.

If you need help with German aircraft/tanks ask me thats my specialty

Ok, what German tank had difficulty with the drive gear where the bolts would sheer off the main gear to the tracks as a result of poor engineering and was some of this attributed to sabotage by imprisoned workers? If so on the sabotage, what did the workers do to sabotage these gears?

Wow! Somebody knows their tanks.

Ok, another....what tank was built in response to the T-34? What design on this tank other than tracks, engine, armament and suspension made it a much more effective weapon against the T-34? Is this particular design still used today?

What is the air velocity of an un-laden sparrow?

:hmm:

And


AT full speed if the sparrow crashed into a BB, would it move the ship sideways in the water and if so, how far?:D :D

AVG a answer
 

as I suspected, every tank put into production was at one point sabotaged, if it was being worked on by prisoners of war!. That said i came across some interesting notes. Did you know that the turrent was sabotaged on the Tiger mk.1 and 2 and the gearbox was screwed with on the panzers mk.3 and 4 but that was found out to be done by anti-nazi germans in their own factories ( would kinda suck to be stabbed in the back by your own countryman) anyway, some further reasearch into the specific question asked raises a few ways the sabatours were dealt with. They were shot and killed on spot, and to fix the problem they were forced to grind all parts with a hand grinder. It slowed production by 5 tanks a month, but reduced the sabotage rate greatly ( my source is a ex-canadian army tank driver and a book I have on different tanks of first and second world war.)

That said, your input into how it was repaired was greately appreciated. The panzer and Tiger tanks were very formidable weapons whether they were sabotaged or not, but the shear number of shermans produced + the ability for the shermans to be more adaptable ( flamethrower, rocket launcher, mine destroyer ect. ) made them a far more superior tank. Thanks for the first question and in a moment I'll answer your second one.

The engineering on the final drive gear on both the Panzer and Tiger were problematic. The weight of the tanks alone was enough to sheer these bolts off. Not to mention sabotage in the form of poorly torqued bolts and poorly manufactured bolt attributed to the failure of the main drive gear.

I'm going to give you the long answer, The first time the Russian T-34 medium tank was used in combat against the Germans was in late 1941. They were introduced at the same time as their heavy tank design the KV-1. they were both armed with 76mm guns, the biggest on the battlefield so far. The german copycat of the T-34 was the Panzer mk.5 that copied the revelutionary use of signifacantely sloped armour, at the rate of first 75 mm thickness and then later 130 mm thickness. yes to this day sloped armour is used to protect tanks from incoming rounds. that is why the Javelon anti-tank missile attacks from the top.

A furthur note, Germans captured T-34's during their rush across Russia, they also captured and designated plants that would refurbish them so that they could be used against their creators as only the biggest guns that the germans had at the time could, in fact, destroy a T-34.

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