Guy on the left reminds me of Omar Sharif.
Grizz
More like a strung out Sean Connery.
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More like a strung out Sean Connery.
fingers284
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Plaque on it.
very much reminded me of a hunting trip with a neighbor and his son, the kid jabbed the barrel of his shotgun into the snow...his old man told him "not to pull the trigger on that thing, it'll be the biggest bang you ever heard".
Dark Alley Dan
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The 20mm MG151/20 Fla SL 151:
A nasty surprise for low fliers.
A nasty surprise for low fliers.
I realize those were mainly used in the anti aircraft role, but that particular triple mount would have devastated the beaches at Normandy and played pure hell on lightly barricaded emplacements as well as light armored vehicles/trucks.
I wounder how they managed to destroy the British BL 5.5-inch Medium Gun ?
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/BL_5.5-inch_Medium_Gun
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/BL_5.5-inch_Medium_Gun
Perhaps its was intentionally destroyed, the ol put some sand down the bore and send it trick
Torpedo Blackburn Shark Mk IIa
Probably the worst plane in the service of Naval Aviation. Due to the poor structural resistance of the wings, the commission in charge of their reception in England refused to receive them. Despite this, 6 entered service in 1936 until... 1938. I don't think torpedoes were ever acquired for them.
Probably the worst plane in the service of Naval Aviation. Due to the poor structural resistance of the wings, the commission in charge of their reception in England refused to receive them. Despite this, 6 entered service in 1936 until... 1938. I don't think torpedoes were ever acquired for them.
Ask and Ye shall........
Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Zrinyi, armed with 305mm (12") in twin turrets fore and aft, with four wing turrets mounting 240mm (9.4") guns as part of her mixed main battery. In reality, really just a standard pre-dreadnought, but some will refer to her as a semi-dreadnought due to the size of her mixed battery... the British KEVII and Lord Nelson classes, the Italian Regina Elenas, and several American classes (Indiana, Kearsarge, Iowa, Virginia, Connecticut) all shared similar armament schemes and were not necessarily superior to the convoluted multi-calibers found on other pre-Dreadnoughts. There are other examples of such hefty mixed main batteries as well, but the only instances where the term "semi-dreadnought" really seems to be justified is the Japanese Satsumas, which were to be uniformly big-gunned until material shortages forced a reversion to 10" guns for the wing turrets, and the French Dantons, which used turbine propulsion.
Pre-Dreadnaught USS Texas C1900.
French Pre Dreadnaught Bouvet
French battleship Bouvet, sunk by an Ottoman mine and a simultaneous large-caliber shell hit from shore during the Forcing of the Narrows during WWI on 18 March 1915. This view of the ship, pre-1908, shows how her tumblehome hull permitted wide firing arcs for her hull-mounted waist turrets. Note also that the amidships arrangement is superfiring.
Marcelino da Mata (Ponte Nova, Guinea, 7 May 1940) is a Lieutenant Colonel in the reserve of the Portuguese Army, born in Portuguese Guinea, known for his acts of bravery and heroism carried out during the Colonial War, in 2412 command operations, which give him the title of the most decorated Portuguese military in the history of the Portuguese Army. Lisbon 2018
Virginia Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS New Jersey pictured sporting her experimental camouflage livery on July 1st 1918.
The Virginia class of pre-dreadnought battleships were built for the United States Navy in the early 1900s. The class comprised five ships: Virginia, Nebraska, Georgia, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. The ships carried a mixed-caliber offensive battery of four 12-inch (305 mm) and eight 8-inch (203 mm) guns; these were mounted in an uncommon arrangement, with four of the 8-inch guns placed atop the 12-inch turrets. The arrangement proved to be a failure, as the 8-inch guns could not be fired independently of the 12-inch guns without interfering with them. Additionally, by the time the Virginias entered service, the first "all-big-gun" battleships—including the British HMS Dreadnought—were nearing completion, which would render mixed battery ships like the Virginia class obsolescent.
Nevertheless, the ships had active careers. All five ships took part in the cruise of the Great White Fleet in 1907–1909. From 1909 onward, they served as the workhorses of the US Atlantic Fleet, conducting training exercises and showing the flag in Europe and Central America. As unrest broke out in several Central American countries in the 1910s, the ships became involved in police actions in the region. The most significant was the American intervention in the Mexican Revolution during the occupation of Veracruz in April 1914.
It was interesting to see the US do the double turret again considering the problems with the USS Kearsarge class.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/b...e-class-battleships-had-scary-problems-150876
https://www.history.navy.mil/conten...usn-k/uss-kearsarge-bb-5-crane-ship-no-1.html
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/b...e-class-battleships-had-scary-problems-150876
https://www.history.navy.mil/conten...usn-k/uss-kearsarge-bb-5-crane-ship-no-1.html
Battleship RM Roma pictured fitting out alongside Battleship RM Conte di Cavour undergoing repairs post the raid on Taranto.....Trieste,1942.
IIRC, the Roma was sunk by a German guided missile !
