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The Supermarine S.6B was built for the RAF High Speed Flight team in 1931 and was the cutting edge of aerodynamic technology. It would later be developed into the Supermarine Spitfire.

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Jack Northrop's design for a bomber capable of reaching Nazi Germany in the event that Britain fell, it was never adopted but it's grandson was the B-2 Spirit.

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>>28256245
The USAF were so impressed by the performance that despite not adopting it they continued its development with jet engines post-war.

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Anti-Aircraft barge in the Baltics

>>28256224
>build an awesome battleship
>dont have enough fuel to actually operate it
>only known because it got sunken by the first radio-controlled bomb

Such is life in the Regia Marina

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Serb T-34 alongside a British Challenger 1 in Bosnia

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RAF Lincoln bombers attacking communist targets in Malaya.

The Lincoln was a post-war variant of the Lancaster, the bump on the fuselage is a ground radar for targeting through cloud cover developed during WWII.

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>>28256293

>>28256309
>>28256293

are these actual paintings or were they created for empire total war?

>>28256292
Wow, I never realized just how small those things used to be. Didn't the T-34 have like a 4 man crew? How many slavs can you stuff into a phone booth?

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Ju-87s on the Eastern Front during the winter of 43-44.

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Promotional post for the SR.A/1 flying boat jet fighter.

Intended for Royal Navy ships to carry in place of their spotting aircraft to be able to defend themselves from kamikaze aircraft during the invasion of Japan.

>>28256204
Are those guns from a particular ship?

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It's Christmas time, do you have any pictures of soldiers celebrating?

Pic related is from the Second Chechen War.

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The defensive fortress now known as "Sealand" in its better days.

>>28256343
They're from the Revenge-class Battleships HMS Ramillies and HMS Resolution. 100 tons each.

Where can I find some good military lectures? I don't care what the conflict was as long as the school giving it isn't so poedunk shithole.

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>>28256355

>>28256330

5 men with the 85mm version.

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German missile research installation

Initially dismissed as a defensive earthwork till an RAF photographic interpreter took a pair of 3D glasses and realized there was a missile sitting in the middle of it.

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HMS Dreadnought alongside the HMS Victory

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Airship crew, probably Royal Navy

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RAF Beaufighter and Mustang on anti-shipping duties following D-Day

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Whippet and Mk 1 tanks on parade

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Dangerous European Skies

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F-80's near Mount Fuji during the Korean War

The Junkers Ju 288. My personal favorite plane.

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>>28256784
Here it is being tested.

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>>28256327
They were commissioned, digital artworks for Empire Total War yes.

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Pretty amazing photograph of a British tank attacking the German line at Amiens.

British soldiers can be seen firing over the top of the hill to the left.

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Old ship plans are fascinating. All hand drawn too.

>>28256851
I'm getting vertigo just looking at that.

>Booms on the main mast
Oh boy.

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HMS Edinburgh with two centrally mounted turrets

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The US Navy Alaska-class "Large Cruiser" CB-3 USS Guam. A revival of the battlecruiser concept, the Alaskas were built as a response to the superheavy German and Japanese cruisers believed to be under development in the late 1930s. Larger than a South Dakota-class battleship with twice the displacement of a heavy cruiser, they served little purpose in a navy that outgunned the rest of the world.

>>28256957
*CB-2 USS Guam, rather. CB-3 was USS Hawaii, which was cancelled at 90% completion.

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HMS Daring circa 1893, armed with an Armstrong-Whitworth 12 pounder

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The BK 5 2in autocannon is visible on this Me 410 as it passes a B-17G

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The first hovercraft operated by US forces on patrol in Vietnam

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Rear observation position on a Royal Navy airship

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Rocket-assisted launch of a PBM Mariner

>>28257033
Holy fuqq i got over my fear of heights long ago but this triggers me

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A "Zippo"; a US Navy patrol boat fitted with a massive long-range flamethrower for use against shoreline targets during the Vietnam War.

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Top cover anti-aircraft position on a Zeppelin

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Coldstream Guardsmen on riot-breaking duties

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Icebreaker rescuing a Russian coastal defense ship

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>>28257342
>me
>incharge of picking the wrong photo

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Supermarine Walrus, the typical spotting/rescue aircraft carried by Royal Navy ships in WWII

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Lockheed YO-3

The only powered aircraft I know of that was made to be as silent as possible

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Mosquito "Grim Reaper", over a hundred strike missions

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Task Force 58 of the US Navy's 5th Fleet at Majuro Atoll, 1944. The most powerful naval formation of the war. Visible are 4 Essex-class fleet carriers along with the surviving Yorktown-class CV USS Enterprise; 3 (maybe 4) Casablanca-class escort carriers; 3 Iowa-class and 2 South Dakota-class battleships; numerous heavy cruisers, destroyers, and support ships.

>>28257092
>filename
I don't think Spitfires ever had chin radiators.

>>28257548
Is there anywhere I can read specifically about this task force? Google seems to just give carriers task forces in general

>>28257594
You're looking at a Spitfire Mk V with a Merlin 45 supercharged engine

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First men on the Normandy beaches.

From Christmas 1943 taking sand samples to establish suitability for vehicles to June 5 1944 putting beacons down for landing craft, all the time directly in front of German positions.

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Sure love flying boats

>>28256204
Went to that museum at the weekend (last week).
Dissaponted, they've dumbed it waaaaaay down; no proper displays, no explanations, no information, badly layed out exhibits, poorly designed info boards (as in, in the middles of the room is a board with the outlines of exhibits on it then numbers and names that corospond to the numbers).
The only part laid out in a useful way is the holocaust section.

>>28257909
>don't let them know how the weapons work
>but remind them of the 6 gorillion kajillion bazillion

>>28257909

>The only part laid out in a useful way is the holocaust section.

Which funnily enough is the only bit they didn't touch when they redesigned it.

Old style was AWESOME. Not been there in a while to see the new one but that doesn't sound good.

Bovington and Duxford are the real museums to see anyway.

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>>28257080

>>28256245
>>28256261

What a charmer!

>>28257921 see
>>28257924 then take the /pol/ shit elsewhere.
I NEED to go to Bovington.

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>>28256204
In best my James Cromwell voice "That'll do Tripfag, that'll do"

Well done on the thread so far, and if you want, I will relieve you from your post.

Aerial photo of Normandy invasion coast 1944.

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>>28258230
Some very close action. Marines at Guadalcanal.

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>>28258243
Bursting flak fills the skies above the USS Enterprise CV-6 as she operates during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. October 26, 1942

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>>28258253
New Zealand Pioneer Maori Battalion performing a haka for PM William Massey and Deputy PM Sir Joseph Ward at Bois-de Warnimont, France, 30 June 1918.

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>>28258409
An injured soldier is wheeled to safety from the front line at the Somme, July 1916.

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>>28258430
Crew of the German U-52 firing its deck gun at an American ship, c. 1917

>>28256344
Dat bulge.

I almost feel like they went too far with it, like it would just aid flat penetration from shots at the end of a ballistic arc.

>>28256492
Looks chilly as fuck

>>28257760
Pathfinders and men like that are underrated as fuck in terms of appreciation I think.

>>28256309

Being in the navy back then would have been GOAT. Anyone know any historical books or online reads about life as a sailor in those times?

>>28258586
There is sadly very little contemporary accounts of being a common soldier or sailor in the Napoleonic era and other similar periods because of widespread illiteracy and the large gap between officers and men. There would be plenty of officer accounts though.
There are a few good Osprey books on age of sail ships and how they operated on a day to day basis though if you can hunt down the torrent.

>>28258540
It's one of those incredibly risky and important jobs that nobody cares about because there's no movie about it

>>28257018
i had the giiijoe version of that hovercraft

>>28258942
At least the paratroop pathfinders have that one mission in Call of Duty.

>>28256204
Not equipment but battlefield related. There is a battle brewing in Princeton, NJ. The university wants to build faculty housing on a part of the battlefield that they own. The section of the battlefield in question is where General Washington launched his counter attack against the British forces. Construction has not begun yet on the housing and the state of New Jersey and the Civil War preservation trust are getting involved to prevent it. The fight has only just begun.

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RAF Coastal Command Wellington dropping a motorised lifeboat to a crashed B-17 crew

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RAF Air-Sea rescue team, Wellington finds the crash site and guides the motor launch to it

>>28256270
Italy was such a wonderful drain on Germany.
>provide men and material to North Africa
>bail them out in Greece, delaying Russian invasion
>have to provide them with fuel too

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I love the Coastal Command colours

>>28256380
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/lectures.cfm

>>28257594
Airfilter. Deserts tend to be dusty.

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>>28259347
The PFF occasionally had experts to help out.

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>>28256492

holy fuck that looks badass. do you have anymore no cabin shots like that? was there a model of blimp that came standard without cabin

>>28257594
And i think you are wrong in thinking so.

>>28259418
The cabin is the bit the guy is leaning out of in the back between the engines

Most of the people would be engineers or observers

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>>28259418
This is the side view of what you can see

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>>28259547
Gunner on the lower deck, engineer on the upper deck

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>>28259547
>>28259560

thank you, are those x strings supposed to stop you from falling? looks questionable.

>>28259664
No they're just to support the cabin