{"id":90617,"date":"2024-12-03T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=90617"},"modified":"2024-08-05T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:07:58","slug":"evolution-of-airborne-armour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/12\/03\/evolution-of-airborne-armour\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of Airborne Armour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1bTpAl_GGNg?si=pH55eNBIF42MkXfD\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jul 19, 2024 <\/p>\n<p>Lightly armed airborne troops are at a huge disadvantage when faced with regular troops with heavy weapons and armour. In World War II this led to huge losses for paratroops on Crete and at Arnhem. Since then, many attempts have been made to level the playing field, to give airborne soldiers a fighting chance. <\/p>\n<p>From the Hamilcar gliders of World War II to the C17 Globemaster, we look at how to make a tank fly.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Intro<br \/>\n00:47 | The Origins of Airbourne Operations<br \/>\n02:34 | Gliders<br \/>\n07:20 | A Tank Light Enough to Fly?<br \/>\n09:02 | Success &#038; Failure<br \/>\n14:24 | Post-War Solutions<br \/>\n17:41 | Better Aircraft &#8211; Better Tanks?<br \/>\n20:15 | Strategic Deployment<br \/>\n21:39 | Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9. This video features imagery courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamilcar.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hamilcar.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#tankmuseum<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published Jul 19, 2024 Lightly armed airborne troops are at a huge disadvantage when faced with regular troops with heavy weapons and armour. In World War II this led to huge losses for paratroops on Crete and at Arnhem. Since then, many attempts have been made to level the playing field, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4,1117,7,5,15,13,663,230],"tags":[991,123,974,1298,1359,856,690,585],"class_list":["post-90617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-britain","category-france","category-history","category-military","category-technology","category-usa","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-aircraft","tag-d-day","tag-museum","tag-operationmarketgarden","tag-panama","tag-specialforces","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nzz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90618,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90617\/revisions\/90618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}