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August 26, 2021

Winchester WWII 50 AT rifle

Filed under: Cancon, History, Military, USA, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Design, ForgottenWeapons, Guns — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 3 Aug 2016

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David Marshall Williams was hired by the Winchester company in 1939, and would have a hand in a number of major projects during his 10-year stint with the company, although best known for the M1 Carbine. The Carbine was an offshoot of the Winchester G30 and G30M rifles, which would also evolve into the G30R and Winchester Automatic Rifle. Another offshoot using this same basic mechanism was this undesignated .50 BMG semiautomatic antitank rifle developed by Winchester during World War II.

This rifle, like its developmental precursors, uses a two-lug, Garand type rotating bolt and a Williams gas tappet short stroke action. It has a 10-round detachable box magazine.

Although I have not found a testing report, the gun was apparently tested by the Canadian military and performed quite well. It was never purchased or put into serial production, however, most likely because as an antitank rifle the .50 BMG cartridge was not effective by the end of World War II.

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August 25, 2021

Tanks Chats #121 | The Cascavel | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Americas, History, Military, Weapons — Tags: 1970s, AFVs, Brazil, Design, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 2 Apr 2021

The Tank Museum’s Curator David Willey presents a Tank Chat on the EE-9 Cascavel, a Brazilian Armoured Car developed during the 1970s, primarily for reconnaissance. David also touches upon the EE-11 Urutu, which shares many of the Cascavel’s components. Join him to find out more.
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August 18, 2021

Tank Chats #120 | Sd.Kfz. 234 Panzerspähwagen | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Design, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 26 Mar 2021

The Tank Museum’s Curator David Willey presents a Tank Chat on the Sd.Kfz. 234 Panzerspähwagen, a heavy German reconnaissance vehicle from the Second World War, and the only wheeled German armour in The Tank Museum collection. Join David as he tells you more.
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August 11, 2021

Tank Chats #119 | Churchill Mark VI and VIII | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 19 Mar 2021

The Tank Museum’s Historian David Fletcher discusses a tank in the Museum’s collection which entails a certain level of controversy. Is it a Churchill Mark IV, or Mark VI? David believes it to be a Mark IV 75mm, with a number of updates, hence the disparity. David also covers the Mark VIII variant with the 95mm close support howitzer. Join him to find out more.
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August 4, 2021

Oil – Hitler’s Only Chance to Win the War? – WW2 Special

Filed under: Economics, Germany, History, Military, Russia, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Logistics, Romania, SovietUnion, TimeGhost — Nicholas @ 04:00

World War Two
Published 3 Aug 2021

Well, we all know by know that the Wehrmacht is driving into the Caucasus to try and take the Soviet oilfields, but how bad is their oil situation, actually? And how will they get it out of the ground if the Soviets sabotage the fields and wells? What exactly is the plan? Let’s find out.
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Tank Chats #118 | Churchill Mark IV & V | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 12 Feb 2021

The Tank Museum’s Historian David Fletcher discusses the Churchill Mark IV, a British heavy infantry tank used throughout the Second World War. Armed with a 6 pounder gun, this Churchill is known for its thick armour and great ability to climb steep inclines. The chat also covers the Mark V variant, which incorporated a 95mm Howitzer for close support roles.
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July 28, 2021

Tank Chats #117 | Stridsvagn 103 | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Europe, History, Military, Weapons — Tags: AFVs, ColdWar, Design, Innovation, Museum, Sweden — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 5 Feb 2021

Curator David Willey discusses the Cold War era Swedish Stridsvagn 103, also known as the ‘S-Tank’. Developed in the 1950s, the S-Tank was the first production tank to be powered by a turbine engine and it was also the only mass produced tank since the Second World War to not have a turret. A truly unconventional tank.
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July 21, 2021

Tank Chats #116 | Churchill III | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 15 Jan 2021

The Tank Museum’s Historian David Fletcher discusses the Second World War British Churchill Mark III. The Mark III was the first Churchill to receive the upgraded and more powerful 6 pounder gun. The Museum’s Mark III* also mentioned, is now an incredibly rare variant, and was converted from an AVRE and given the even more powerful 75mm gun.
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July 14, 2021

Tank Chats #115 | A34 Comet | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Design, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 8 Jan 2021

Join The Tank Museum’s Historian David Fletcher has he discusses the A34 Comet, widely regarded as the best tank Britain produced during the Second World War.
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July 13, 2021

Japanese Armour Doctrine, 1918-1942

Filed under: China, History, Japan, Military, Russia, USA, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Cavalry, Design, Infantry, Manchuria, SovietUnion — Nicholas @ 04:00

The_Chieftain
Published 11 Jul 2021

Sources include:
Japanese tanks and armoured Warfare 1932-45, David McCormack
WW2 Japanese Tank Tactics, Gordon Rottmen, Akira Takizawa
Japanese Tanks, Tactics and anti-tank weapons, Donald McLean
Type 89 and Tankette books, Kazunori Yoshikawa

Continuing on this series of videos supporting the WW2 Channel, I look at what I can find about how the Japanese thought of tanks and their usage, tempered by quite a bit of combat experience.

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July 7, 2021

Tank Chats #114 | Luchs | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 1 Jan 2021

In his latest Tank Chat, The Tank Museum’s Curator David Willey looks at the Luchs, a Second World War German reconnaissance vehicle from the Panzer II family. The Tank Museum’s example is one of only two survivors in the world.
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June 30, 2021

Tank Chats #113 | Ferret Scout Car | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons — Tags: AFVs, ColdWar, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 11 Dec 2020

Tank museum Historian David Fletcher discusses the Ferret Armoured Car, also commonly known as the Ferret Scout Car. Built between 1952 and 1972 by Daimler, the Ferret was pressed into service in a reconnaissance role and saw service with the British Army, RAF and multiple commonwealth countries throughout its service life.
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June 23, 2021

Tank Chats #112 | Churchill Mk I and II | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Design, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 4 Dec 2020

Tank Museum Historian David Fletcher discusses the British Second World War Churchill Mark I, the very first Churchill, as well as its successor, the Mark II. This chat also covers the development of the A20 prototype and how this became the production Mark I variant. The Churchill displayed is actually a Mark II made to look like a Mark I, and is the oldest surviving Churchill in the UK.
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QotD: Churchill’s support for Stalin

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Quotations, Russia, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Aircraft, Lend-Lease, Stalin, WinstonChurchill, Yugoslavia — Nicholas @ 01:00

Churchill threw all of his support behind Stalin’s armies despite Stalin’s alliance with Hitler during the first 21 months of the war — the USSR having invaded the same number of countries as Nazi Germany (seven), having supplied the German Wehrmacht as it invaded France and the Low Countries, and having literally fueled the Luftwaffe as it bombed London in 1940.

This support was more than rhetorical. In a gesture of astonishing (and short-sighted) selflessness, Churchill responded to news of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union by sending Stalin 200 brand-new Hawker Hurricane pursuit planes which had been pledged to defend Singapore against Japanese attack. Churchill then “re-gifted” Stalin 200 Tomahawk fighters and 300 Douglas A-20 Havoc bombers from Britain’s own Lend-Lease consignments, and shipped Stalin 2,000 tonnes of processed aluminum for Soviet warplane factories, despite it being desperately needed at home.

Even more striking was Churchill’s decision to ship Stalin nearly 600 tanks, which helped tip the balance in the Battle of Moscow in December 1941. Churchill even agreed to strip Cairo command of hundreds more tanks in 1942, routing them to Stalin’s USSR via Iran to bail out the Red Army at Stalingrad, which left Egypt vulnerable to Rommel’s Afrika Korps.

Churchill doubled down on his pro-Soviet policies even in areas where Britain had her own clients, such as Yugoslavia. Despite hosting the Yugoslav exile government in London, by September 1943, Churchill abandoned that government’s commander on the ground and threw his full support behind Stalin’s man, Josip Broz (“Tito”). Bamboozled by a Soviet smear campaign against Colonel Draža Mihailovic, Churchill cut off Mihailovic’s Chetniks and shipped Tito more than 100 times more war materiel over the next nine months than Mihailovic had received in the previous two years.

Sean McMeekin, “Churchill’s enigma: the real riddle is why he cozied up to Stalin”, Spectator, 2021-03-21.

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June 19, 2021

Airfix Catalogue 1962 Page by Page — The Very First Catalogue

Filed under: Britain, Railways — Tags: 1960s, AFVs, Aircraft, ModelTrains, Nostalgia, Toys — Nicholas @ 02:00

MOS6510 Models
Published 29 May 2020

Airfix Catalogue 1962 Page by Page — The Very First Catalogue

We turn back time and go through the very first Airfix Model kit Catalogue one page at a time. 1962 was the year of the first edition Catalogue of Airfix Constant Scale Construction Kits. Filled with 135 kits — planes, trains and automobiles the norm, with figures trackside OO/HO constant scale. There is lots in here to look at and enjoy.

As you flip through the pages of this Airfix Catalogue, you will see details of over 135 constant scale plastic construction kits. From the photographs and brief descriptions you will get an idea of the look and size of the finished models. Not until you begin to build them, however, will you feel the excitement and satisfaction of creating miniature exact scale models of famous fighter planes, tanks and ships. So put this video on HD 1080p and make it full screen … sit back and enjoy this catalogue page by page

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