I see he was very resourceful and hope it runs in the family. Sorry you lost him. The P225 is sweet! So much better than the burned out Inglis. Pretty sure he pissed off a CSOR op.
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I see he was very resourceful and hope it runs in the family. Sorry you lost him. The P225 is sweet! So much better than the burned out Inglis. Pretty sure he pissed off a CSOR op.
Strange and far away (by 1990's standards)
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/resources/media/image/awm-p04580065
20, or 25 mm?
To me it is more likely to be an IJN Type 96 Model 1 25 mm single mounting AA gun. I guess the original wheeled mount was lost to history by 1994. The FAL looks very 'Imperial' if you get me.
Just imagine if we all were as committed as these men.
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From what I read, the sole ammo source for the cannon was a cave stash. A testament to the quality of manufacture of the ammo. I read the first of these 25 mm cannons were made by Hotchkiss. The ammo stash was probably the only stash of live ammo for it anywhere in the world barring something Stalin got ahold of stored deep in a salt mine.
So this went on for ten years and cost 20,000 lives. The world kept unaware of it
I bet the peace there is very fragile.
So this went on for ten years and cost 20,000 lives. The world kept unaware of it
I bet the peace there is very fragile.
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interesting that man with the FN is careful enough to keep the muzzle out of the mud …Strange and far away (by 1990's standards)
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/resources/media/image/awm-p04580065
20, or 25 mm?
To me it is more likely to be an IJN Type 96 Model 1 25 mm single mounting AA gun. I guess the original wheeled mount was lost to history by 1994. The FAL looks very 'Imperial' if you get me.
The first Stahlhelm. Progressive stamping, 10 steps, then rivet the air holes in, which also served as a hinge/attachment point for an applique front piece to increase the metal thickness over the forhead, then add the liner and strap.
Quite the production process for the era, something only the German steel industry was really capable of at the time. Starting from a round piece of sheet steel, then stamping it 10 times to achieve a complex shape while maintaining a uniform thickness of metal with no weak spots is a much, MUCH more complicated industrial process that people realize.
The Brodie helmet, used by the British, U.S., and a number of other smaller nations, only took two stampings to form, IIRC, and was a lot cheaper to make. The Americans tried a couple of prototypes of improved shapes over the Brodie, but just couldn't come up with something they could mass produce.
Odd to think of progressive stamping - which is common across a wide range of industries now - was a high tech industrial process only a few nations were capable of such a short time ago.
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ship's company, HMCS Bras D'Or, WWII.
http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_BRAS_D_OR.htm
The good ship and crew were said to have been caught in the teeth of a bad storm in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and never seen again.
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