Interwar Military Equipment

>>34905194
>Ba.65
No Italian orchard will ever produce a lemon as big as this one.

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>>34905231
idk

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Based Konigsberg-class

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built in 1926

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>>34905194

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interesting tracked car
interwar stuff is very underated it should be talked about more

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I love this plane.

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>>34906312

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>>34906324

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The BT-7 will forever be my favorite light tank.

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>>34906042
>awkward light cruiser
>not the coolest fucking heavy cruiser ever to set sail
I'm still bitter that we nuked her instead of preserving her. Prinz Eugen is my shipfu.

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spooky tanks

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More burger planes, now in color.

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>>34906429

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>>34906448

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>>34905231
you are like little babby

>>34905194
>Donta talk toa mea or my Wifes Son ever againa capiche?

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Has a sexier ship ever been put to sea?

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Were Interwar and Early WW2 GI's the most A E S T H E T I C soldiers of all time?

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A little infograph

>>34906405
paint it white and you have a tanKKK

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without the american aircraft carriers japanese had a fighting chance in a war plan orange pacific war during the 20s

would have been a lot more interesting than the ww2 3 punches your out war we got

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retarded russians...
they could have easily wiped out the jap navy and probably invaded japan. and it's pathetic how the chinese couldn't get their shit together until like 5 years from now when they'll be an actual naval power

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>>34907027
Well, they would have had a better chance in the 20s, but it still would have been slim. All that American prosperity in the 20s would have suddenly been redirected to building... probably more battleships, since no one knew how useful carriers were yet.

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first japanese aircraft carrier. they could have sped up production and had it by 1925. interesting 3 deck design. something like this today but much smaller would make a cool chopper tender

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>>34907138
That's not the first Japanese carrier - Hosho was (pic related).

Your pic isn't Kaga, it's Akagi.

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>>34907116
yes, but if the americans made the same mistake as russia and played in japanese waters like trying to defend the phillipines than we could have been crushed

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>>34907159
Not him, but are you sure? Kaga had the pipes running along the sides, Akagi had the downturned vents.

>>34906053
I would live in this in an apocalyptic landscape

>>34905194
Anybody have any interesting stuff from the Korean War? I understand it was a pretty interesting transitional period between WWII and Vietnam and had some neat equipment, but I know next to nothing about it.

>>34906429
>dauntless
That's a Northrop BT my friend

>>34906968
Basically in winter terrain

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1938

>>34908113
Good eye. According to wikipedia the SBD was developed directly from the BT:

> The final variant, theXBT-2, was a BT-1 modifiedto incorporate landing gear which folded laterally into recessed wheel wells,leading edge slots, a redesignedcanopy, and was powered by an800hp (600kW; 810PS)Wright XR-1820-32radial. The XBT-2 first flew on 25 April 1938 and after successful testing the Navy placed an order for 144 aircraft. In 1939 the aircraft designation was changed to theDouglas SBD-1with the last 87 on order completed as SBD-2s. By this point, Northrop had become the El Segundo division of Douglas aircraft, hence the change.

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>introduced in 1935
>relevant until the very end

German engineering

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Interwar is cute, cuuuuuute!

>>34909580
Bf-109 had tons of engineering problems (never fixed its landing gear on multiple versions) that prevented Germany from ever gaining air superiority on any front except Poland, and even that cost 25% of the luftwaffe

>>34909580
Outstanding energy fighter.

The later introduced Fw 190 was the better workhorse but the Me109 was relevant for what is was designed.

>>34909580

>relevant until the very end
By the same logic the Po-2 was relevant till the Korean War

>>34909810
>implying it was not
SAJJUZZZAAA MAATTT SOWIECKAAAAA

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>>34907243
>>34907196
>>34907159
>>34907138
>>34907116
>>34907074
>>34907027
>>34906460
>>34906448
>>34906429
>there will never be another glorious naval conflict of the scale and fury of the Pacific War
>ywn streak across the wavetops in a torpedo bomber, closing on the enemy fleet under an impossible barrage of flak
>ywn scream down on an enemy flattop in a divebomber, the massive Rising Sun on its deck growing larger and larger
>ywn prowl the gloom of the Sea of Japan in your fleet boat, hunting the last elusive battle wagons of the Imperial Fleet
>ywn see the guns of a hundred ships hammer an island day and night
>ywn stumble onto enemy cruisers on a moonless sea and fight a desperate point-blank slugout
>ywn chalk up kill after kill in your Hellcat as the IJN runs out of experienced pilots
>ywn hear that the war is over, and that two cities were turned to ash by as many bombs
Hold me, /k/

>>34909810
The only bi-plane in history which shoot down a jet fighter.

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>>34909882
Feels bad, man.

>>34906042
based konisberg

>>34909810
Po-2 wasn't a frontline fighter - fighting the most modern fighters of the enemy.

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>>34906837

Just curious is this color scheme still in effect today?

>>34906489
I always found the Dornier Intriguing.

>>34910085
>Just curious is this color scheme still in effect today?

None of the carriers exist anymore.

>>34910085
Tail flashes are still a thing, but it'd be pretty cool to go back to a peacetime color scheme like >>34906429
Aesthetic af

>>34906053
>40k intensifies

>>34906053
>play multiturret tank in tank vidya
>extra turrets are just excess silhouette and weakspots in your armor
fug

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>>34911116
>World of Tanks

There's your problem.

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Interwar italian air force equiment is my secret fetish

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>>34909882

>>34909580
Same goes for the hurricane and the spitfire . German engineering = complicated stuff that don't have to be

>>34912611
nice meme

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>>34912611
>>34912653
there are bad examples of German engineering, and there are good ones, just like with every other nation.

The thing is that some """historians""" portray German WW2 equipment as some space alien tech which it obviously wasn't - neither was it overcomplicated and unreliable stuff all the time.

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>>34911774
The Spaghettiniggers had some neat ideas

>>34911116
That's part of why the concept was dropped. Turns out a coaxial MG and one in the back of the turret worked just as well.

>>34911774
That's legitamitely the best looking aircraft I think I've ever seen.

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>tfw we were this close to going full-on Crimson Skies

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>>34915997

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What is the sexiest interwar biplane and why is it the Bristol Bulldog?

>>34906312
>dat airfoil

thicc

>>34914280
Of course that is true but the term "German Engineering" is a bad meme

>>34909882
This is why we have BBfags, honestly. People just want to resurrect the awe-inspiring might of an all-gun naval fleet, however obsolete it my be. Can't really blame the romantic bastards.

>>34909610
Can it accelerate to ludicrous speed?

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Breda 5c, the predecessor to the notorious Breda 30 LMG.

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The Surcouf is my subfu

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>ywn sail the atlantic in a cruiser submarine continuing the fight for free France

>>34909580
It was clearly the best energy fighter through the war.

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>>34914820
That's the Caproni-Campini N.1 for you

Beautiful, and interesting

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>Invites France and Britain to their training demostration
>Neither of them took any fucking notes.

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try not to drool boys ;)

>>34918123
Absolute Kek
its like that time when British officers ignored Colonial officers advocating the use of machine guns before WW1

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>>34916212
>sexiest interwar biplane
But it's I-153

>>34918035
The Italians had a bunch of good aerospace engineers, they just couldn't catch up in engine developement with Germany and the UK in the war.

>>34917307
It used to be a thing, when Mercedes Benz cars were built by hand. Except vacuum hoses. Fuuuuuuuck that.

>>34909954
You say this, but a PO-2 shot down a f-94 starfire

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>>34918202
>not the Fix-It-Again-Tony that gave Hurricanes and early Spitfires a run for their money

>>34906429
>>34906448
>>34906460
mickey mouse much eh

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It's so strangely propotioned and just wrong in all the right ways

>>34919584
What even is that? Who the hell thought to have an open air cockpit when the plane is plenty big enough for it to be closed. Can you not afford glass?

>>34906402
This.

Damn good ship, survived two nukes, more than those faggots sleak eyes Japs.

>>34919768
>designed by Fairey Aviation
they had a couple of good designs and a LOT of bad ones

>>34919768
That was just the prototype

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>>34918998
>Gave spitfires and hurricanes a run for their money
And yet they couldn't suppress four aging biplanes on an island literally on their doorstep

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ladies, please contain your orgasms

>>34919778
>he doesn't know Nagato survived two nukes as well

>>34917686
We've gone to plaid

>>34911774
That's a piston engine driving a turbofan right?

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>>34917940
>>34917950

I will fight you for the Surcouf.

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>>34920006
That's just it, anon, it was the kind of battle that only they could fight. Anachronisms in a rapidly changing world, they twisted and twirled a deadly dance in the warm skies over Malta. Left behind by the march of technology, the two aging warriors met each other in duels like those of legend, associated with names like Richthofen, Ball and Guynemer.

>>34921574
woops, meant for >>34919997

>>34906390
cute babby speedster aesthetic is best

>>34906312
>>34906324
>>34906342

>tfw can't design aesthetics like these anymore with the advent of better, thinner airfoils and things like laminar flow and drag reduction

I hope there's a way for me to design aesthethic like these in my future career, but it seems like a blurry dream

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>>34921450
A (three stage) compressor, it's a motorjet.

>>34921450
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Campini_N.1

Its a proto jet engine, it has compression but not the ignition.

>>34921574
Lad could you elaborate on this?

>>34921811
>>34921891
>Powerplant: 1 × 900hp (670kW) Isotta Fraschini L.121 R.C.40 engine-driven three-stage, variable-pitch axial compressor motorjet, producing 6.9 kN (1,550 lbf)
Performance
>Maximum speed: 375 km/h (233 mph)

Kinda disappointed on the performance desu.

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I've always been curious how the having only main turrets up front that French battleships and how they would have performed.

>>34906565
military aesthetics died on 11 November 1918

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French interwar tanks are muh dik.

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>>34914604

>>34922598
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Far_Fighter_Flight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Malta_(World_War_II)#Italian_siege_.28June.E2.80.93December_1940.29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Gladiator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_CR.42
When the Axis siege of Malta began, the only British air defense available were a handful of old Gloster Gladiator biplanes that were boxed up for transport. They were assembled and pressed into action until reinforcements in the form of Hurricanes and later Spitfires could arrive, and as a fair amount of Italian fighter strength was made up of FIAT Cr.42 biplanes, Malta was one of the last scenes of biplane combat in history.

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Sorry I don't have a real picture of the Wellington besides this model. I real lazy. It was built with a fabric skin in the mid-30's.

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>>34925372

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>>34925382

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>>34925390

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>>34925414

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>>34925427

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>>34906274
This

>>34922819
Biggest problem with them was the excessive spread of the salvoes at long range due to the muzzle blast of all the guns firing at once and disupting each other's shell trajectories - but that was an issue with even triple gun turrets in other navies as well, and they basically fixed it by adding delay coils postwar.

Other than that, they worked fine once they ironed out the design issues such as defective shells. crappy US-made powder bags or slow ammunition hoists. You just gotta remembe that those ships were never really completed through the entire war so there was a lot of trial and error involved.

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>>34925445

>>34909580
that tail is missing something #starthistoryoveragain

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>>34909580
also, what's with the 109-G?

>>34918470
the biggest problem was the lack of resource
Italy had 2000hp radial engine already in 1939