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  1. I found a snippet a bit after I posted this which -rightly- suggested that misidentification of tanks was commonplace, as US troops routinely labeled anything with a long-ish barrel and a cylindrical turret rear as a Tiger. Put schuerzen on a Mark IV and it would probably look 'Tiger' enough to anyone, especially the crew of an armored car going up against something a lot tougher and harder-hitting than they could be.

     

    Still, there's the turret-traverse question for the Tiger; and there's the fact that a Tiger of either sort is a lot larger than a Mark IV.

     

     

     

    Shot

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    Shot, you making a diorama?

    I hadn't planned to, but I might if I get some good info.

     

    At the moment the only thing I would need in terms of data is the serial for the vehicle, and the unit insignia. The latter would be easy enough to generate even if I don't have a shot of the vehicle, since the unit it belongs to was listed in the wiki entry.

     

    The Tamiya kit makes for a sweet build, I did one a couple of years ago and I got another as a result of an estate sale. I'd love to do this one up as 'Jack the Giant' (okay, 'Tiger') 'Killer'.

     

    For a sardonic giggle, a little more research found me an article which said that the Tiger was still traversing its turret when the Greyhound back-shot it, and that the Greyhound got off a total of three shots before the Tiger could return fire.

     

     

     

    Shot

  3. I note that gas-operated weapons operate by sending a quantity of propellant gas back along a tube to charge the weapon and feed in a new round.

     

    No problem, understood.

     

    My question is, what keeps the gas tube itself from fouling? Training with the M-16 I remember a bit of wisdom about cleaning the interface between bore and tube, but the tube itself must accumulate a lot of crud, and while the barrel itself gets cleaned regularly I don't remember any advice regarding the gas tube.

     

     

     

    Shot

  4. Rocky Davis

    'I still feel that my refusing to eat there (when the government had paid for our meals) was the right thing to do.'

     

    No argument from me. GC tries to be more than what it is, and fails to be what it should be.

     

     

     

    Shot

  5. The doco I watched -for what it's worth- did nevertheless mention that a DCF system had been installed in the F-117 for specifically that reason.

     

    Not to argue the F-16 and -18 issues; both of which are considered to be aerodynamically unstable IIRC, but that only serves to underscore the point.

     

     

     

    Shot

  6. Thanks Stuart. Failing memory fogged by a lot of bourbon that particular night with that particular lass has smudged some of the details, but that's the gist of what I recall from the book the lass placed in my hands.

     

    I seem to recall as well something about the Rendelsham Forest incident, in which the tools the various technicians used to recover wreckage and so forth were immediately classified as 'Top Secret', since they might contain residue from the wreck itself. I also remember hearing that a USAF general was killed in at least one crash.

     

    Interestingly, the thing I saw on the glass teat went to some length to talk about how F-117 pilots were exhorted to trust their instrumentation, and how said instrumentation either was designed to or was the forerunner of certain aspect of current 'Bitching Betty' systems.

     

     

     

    Shot

  7. Interestingly -particularly for my pal Stuart Galbraith- early stealth tests -apparently- resulted in a crash at Rendelsham Forest, which is not-surprisingly proximate to RAF Rendelsham Heath, and did indeed occur during the mid-eighties.

     

    At the time, the crash was widely circulated to be that caused by a UFO going down in that area. The notion was sold successfully enough that a rather thick book was published on that basis. My neighbor (at that time), a rather charming and winsome lass, asked me over for drinks and crisps, and amongst other things we talked about that crash.

     

    Apparently not a little mystique remained, even a decade or more on.

     

     

     

    Shot

  8. Tomas, we the living say that about our friends who are no longer with us.

     

    What we do about is to keep in better touch, because our friends passed and we didn't get a decent chance to say goodbye.

     

     

     

    Shot

  9. This wasn't one of those estimations. This was -per the show- a study based on estimations of Soviet AD capacities, regarding how long the USAF would last in a presumably conventional conflict.

     

     

     

    Shot

  10. Per something I was watching on TV, a secret report issued by the Pentagon during the Cold War estimated that the US Air Force would last about 17 days, had the Cold War gone hot.

     

    What say ye?

     

     

     

     

    Shot

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