Germany vs SU WW2 (But no B-17s, etc))

[futon]

16 minutes ago, rmgill said:

Automotives were still in their early years. It can come down to what the manufacturers call an item too. I want to say that I have seen the same things called different things by Daimler and Humber. 
 

Some might have called one a hydraulic damping cylinder. In some applications they are called other things. Every cannon system has a shock absorber, we call them recoil cylinders and recuperators. They are the same thing just with a slightly different application. Some will even have different damping rates for different elevations to account for the ground being near the breech at high elevation and thus limiting travel more at high elevation. In the shock absorber world this is adjustable damping or rate. 

Ok, makes sense.

[old_goat]

5 hours ago, sunday said:

I see some travel stops, but no shock absorbers, nor points to mount them. I could be wrong in the last point, however.

In the Panther, shock absorbers were installed internally. 

[rmgill]

Great place to keep it being damaged by rocks, logs or small arms/fragments.
 

I love all the centralized greaser points. A turret crewman can grease most of the suspension points while two others tend to the engine. All without dismounting. 

[rmgill]

51 minutes ago, sunday said:

Perhaps. It has been a long time since I studied that on my account, but I remember they kept trying a cubic geometry, and that made impossible to achieve criticity with the materials they chose to use.

 

I thought one hang up was their criticality but specifically on the need for the heavy water. They never got what they needed due to Operation Freshman, etc. had they done so, they’d have had actual readings and not theoretical ones and then they’d have sorted out many of their errors and reappraised their math.
 

Thats my thinking on the what if. 

[sunday]

5 hours ago, old_goat said:

In the Panther, shock absorbers were installed internally. 

Cool, thanks.

[Perun]

Trucks, pickups, buses and special trucks (in descending order for 1945), 65.1% of vehicles

GAZ, SU            (53.5% of trucks)                       Post-war models:

ZIS, SU            (27.6% of trucks) (AMO are in Others)   GAZ   ZIS   ZIL   MAZ   YaAZ

Studebaker, US     ( 5.6% of trucks)                       UAZ   UralZIS   Moskvich   LAZ

Ford, US,DE,CAN,GB ( 4.7% of trucks)                       KAZ   PAZ   LiAZ

Chevrolet, US, CAN ( 2.4% of trucks)                       TA   L   KAVZ   GZA   RAF

Opel, DEU          ( 1.3% of trucks)                       Tatra   Skoda   Ikarus

International, US  ( 1.3% of trucks)                       AustroFIAT   Bleichert

Others:            ( 3.6% of trucks)                       Trolleybuses (1930-1966)

   Dodge, US, CAN                                          Tractors

   YaG, SU                                                 Old registration plates

   Steyr-Puch, AUT

   AMO, SU

   Renault, FRA

   GMC, US

   White, US

   The rest

http://www.autogallery.org.ru/gal.htm

Edited June 28, 2024 by Perun