Recent content by TofuTanker

This made me chuckle.

You're building a what :eek: I don't think that's ever been done before.

It was rolled homogenous steel; face-hardening was done by the Germans to improve its strength during WWII, which other countries did not catch on to until after the war had started. There had been experiments with ceramic armor, but it was not used on tanks until the 80s or 90s I think. Modern...

I like possible German military aircraft from 1919-1920 even if it's not a well known subject. Also, MUSTARD deserves a spot. Three identical reusable launch vehicles with one acting as the payload vehicle and two as launch boosters that are capable of transferring remaining fuel to the...

OK. If you fundamentally change Hitler's strategy in terms of who he was going to war with and when, things would have been different. But Germany did have serious economic problems and it would not have been feasible to have them just "not invade Russia" or try other simplistic solutions.

I know that Hitler's sporadic ideological stupidity led to problems for Germany, but uh, please elaborate.

I'm interested.

Fighters had male names (Zeke, Tony, Frank, Oscar, etc). Bombers had female names (Nell, Betty, Peggy, Val, Kate, etc). Training and transport aircraft were named after types of tree (hickory etc). Yes. Me-109s could also be referred to as Friedrich, Gustav, Konrad or Kurfürst. Oddly, as far...

A revival of steam engines during the 1970s fuel crisis could have had pretty good results. There were plans for this IIRC.

Something went wrong, lemme try again... Me or Claymore? Er, thanks. :)

I just looked through the Design a German Tank contest on the WoT forums... then I saw your post and thought, wait a second... It's a small Internet, isn't it. Here's my entry: German medium tank: “Volkspanzer” Development and Operational History The Volkspanzer was a...

If the French had put radios in every tank then the DCRs would have been more successful.

Yeah, considering how abysmally Japanese pilots often faired in the battles of 1944/1945, I wouldn't say kamikazes were such a bad idea from a strategic point of view.

I don't know exactly how many problems the German nuclear program had but it certainly wasn't anything with a high chance of succeeding. So Japan tries to expand but the US doesn't declare war? Elaborate. Is Japan just not going to attack Pearl Harbor? Because if Japan expands in the East...

I think the Murmansk railroad could be cut, and that would be important, but then, Murmansk only accounted for about 25% of military aid to the USSR. Keep in mind that the addition of Swedish troops in Finland would further tax the area's poor logistical system. A capture of Murmansk would be...