How come he didn't rewind it when he was finished? Always be kind and rewind.
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This device, which looks like a tobacco pipe, discharges .22 calibre cartridges through its 'stem'. It is a prototype, which was sent by its inventor, Mr Vivian Marten-Gwilliam, to the Chief Commissioner of Police in 1940. Mr Gwilliam hoped that it could be produced in quantity as a 'means of dealing with isolated enemy paratroopers in country districts whereby certain plain-clothes members of the LDV would be trained in its use'. The weapon's disguise was completed by the fact that it could be smoked like a real pipe, even when loaded. It was not, however, taken into service.
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The Welgun was designed during 1942 by the British Special Operations Executive, who sought to create a submachine-gun more suitable for their purposes than the standard issue Sten Gun. Its name derives from the place where it was designed - SOE's Station IX, situated at The Frythe, a large house near Welwyn in Hertfordshire. The Welgun possessed some novel features, in that the mainspring was positioned forward of the bolt, around the barrel, and that no cocking handle was provided: instead the user grasped the ribbed rear-section of the bolt itself. Its short overall length and folding butt made it more compact than the Sten, but it was not adopted for service.
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Register states that this device was used by German sailors aboard destroyer V125 to shoot seagulls during their internment. No fresh meat was delivered to the High Seas Fleet while interned at Scapa Flow, so the sailors fitted snares to their ships and used devices like this to catch gulls. Evidently used in conjunction with some sort of quarrel - possibly attached to a line which enabled the bird to be hauled aboard.
Maybe the short story by Edgar Allen Poe titled, Annebelle Lee will give you the words you need.
I can say "Nice" though.
I....kinda like it tbh
I actually like this. Looks starwarsy
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Ukarine has turned a BTR into a Patria
So what is under/behind that large steel plate on hinges at the front?
I think it's a trim vane, as they're called. It prevents water from going over the front when it is crossing water, so it doesn't sink. Here it is deployed on an APC:
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Pictures of APCs or IFVs crossing water always give me anxiety for some reason.
Interesting, thank you.
Same. Just imagine if there was a small wave. The water would flow over the top and into the APC. It then sinks, taking you with it.
Yeah, that's a rather unpleasant possibility, memory serving during the invasion of Czechoslovakia a squad of Russian soldiers met their end in a BTR-60 like that.
That's not crossing the water though, it's going to become a reef so fishies have a place to live.
Nyet tovarisch, stop crazy talk, it obviously hunt submarine for Motherland.
No, it's military aid to our fellow communists in the Revolutionary Worker's Party of Atlantis.
Lies! It's going to kill submarines for the Motherland!
Not so effective though
https://youtu.be/HMy29ubXvcc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg99w0n4Te8
Also both of them ignore that what soldiers actually did was put condoms or water balloons on the end of the barrel and that effectively waterproofs it.
Did you even watch that video? The BMP didn't sink until the trim vane folded. If anything it proves that the trim vane is extremely effective, as an APC can sink very fast without it.
As far as I know, the BMP-3 addressed many of these issues. If I'm not mistaken, the trim vane folds down onto the lower glacis, rather than back onto the upper glacis. This way water can't fold it down like it did in that video. Did a little sketch to explain:
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It also has two water jets to provide a lot more maneuverability.
My bad, I just forgot to mention that in the video it isn't good on the BMP-2 attempting to cross over great distances.
Everyone's probably dead
Boy, if you guys think fording in BMPs and BTRs sucks, wait till you see what the tankers have to put up with.
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Swedish variant is better IMO:
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The British came up with that first. And it only works if your vehicle is light enough to float. The Stridsvagn 103 is a featherweight as far as tanks go.
Heavier vehicles like MBTs have to use the snorkels or wait for combat engineers to build a bridge.
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