Dejan Corovic
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if you want to get rid of a formatting copied from web page just pate into Notepad, then copy it once more. Because Notepad doesn't have formating it will automatically strip all formatting off.
Unofficial Military (and other cool) Stuff Thread
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pigfarmer
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Yes, I use Notepad for that. It isn't the source web page, it's AE's site software.
I can make the links bold but not always change their color, or sometimes only one. In any case I usually try to include the source just as a reference. I've fiddled with it too much and it isn't as if I'm writing a paper anyway.
I can make the links bold but not always change their color, or sometimes only one. In any case I usually try to include the source just as a reference. I've fiddled with it too much and it isn't as if I'm writing a paper anyway.
nivek
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I checked into this, couldn't find the exact source of these occurrences, but an update I'm installing tomorrow afternoon should correct the issue...
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pigfarmer
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I've been to the Intrepid Museum a few times and they mention the kamikaze strike but I never saw this pic before. Ran across this at random on X and Grok says its genuine, or at least no evidence of fakery
pigfarmer
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Posting this primarily for the Corsair drone boats. Apparently this is what picked up the downed Apache pilot recently and in this configuration they are kamikazes. As for the rest of it, wow!
In WW2 the Japanese used something like this. Shinyo (suicide motorboat)
In WW2 the Japanese used something like this. Shinyo (suicide motorboat)
As a concerned citizen, Michael Schratt believes that his Constitutional obligation is to question authority and demand an accounting of special access programs that bypass congressional oversight and public scrutiny. He examines reports of massive underground facilities and tunnel systems, the role of black budget funding, and the engineering challenges of building clandestine structures far below the surface.
Dejan Corovic
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Great video that covers lots of Cold War history, spy catching and very interesting long carrier of an FBI executive who had to move his home 30+ times:
View: https://youtu.be/Rr4i9cFctTE
View: https://youtu.be/Rr4i9cFctTE
Dejan Corovic
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It seems that there is a trend of turning wars into video games. Maybe soon an average consumer would be able to steer real war drones from his armchair?
pigfarmer
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From what I've heard about drone pilots gaming experience is a plus.
Dejan Corovic
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Apparently heat stroke permanently damages one's physiology, so 19 year old soldiers need to be completely retired from military service. Until, these guys came with great solution worth $300 M:
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bl681g_CqK8?feature=share
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bl681g_CqK8?feature=share
pigfarmer
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Interesting.
I just finished reading this book and it was absolutely fantastic., extremely well written. It's not a combat diary per se its a almost poetic description of a young man's experiences in WW2. He spends more time describing friends and food and places than combat - except for the very end. Reminded me a little of A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway made me hungry every time I picked up the book.
The US 1st Marines were withdrawn from Guadalcanal after considerable hardship and eventually hit Peleliu. Absolutely horrifying. Ultimately this young man who had been through quite a lot up to that point succumbed to heat stroke, that's what got him rotated out. At the time they treated it as seriously as any other wound and it literally messed him up for a good long time. Serious stuff, that.
No plastic water bottles frozen or otherwise and the only water provided for them was unfit to drink.
Dejan Corovic
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I remember watching video about how Israeli army won Sinai peninsula with copious water rations. Basically Egyptians were not providing water to their soldiers, they were simply leaving them to succumb to heat strokes in fox holes in the middle of desert. But Israeli army had some huge water rations per soldier, forgot exact number, but it was 2 - 3 gallons per day. Practically all Egyptians perished because of thrust and neglect.
Dejan Corovic
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Not the most exciting video, but serves the memory of military history. These guys, a Brit, a Jankee, and a Viking, retraced steps of British Paras, across Foodland Isles, 50 or so miles from Port San Carlos to Port Stanley in the middle of the winter, across wetlands in boots that were not designed for such conditions. Actually it's a small wanders that paras didn't arrive at Goose Green barefoot. But it serves to honour great professionalism of British Army.
View: https://youtu.be/lXcgrwaQTtU
On another subject, I found few other videos where few countries changed their military doctrine after few successful missions by British security services, one being Argentina itself, another being Soviet Union.
View: https://youtu.be/lXcgrwaQTtU
On another subject, I found few other videos where few countries changed their military doctrine after few successful missions by British security services, one being Argentina itself, another being Soviet Union.
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pigfarmer
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It's not actually a tank but this is a cool find
WWII assault tank found buried in sand near the North Sea
Visible gun barrel markings suggest the nearly complete StuG III took down at least 17 enemies.
Andrew Paul
Published Jun 26, 2026 3:26 PM EDT
Over 9,300 StuG III were manufactured during World War II. Credit: A. Hüser / Archaeological Monument Preservation Cuxhaven District
Construction workers in Germany digging along the North Sea’s rugged coast discovered a massive World War II relic painted with evidence of its dark past. According to archaeologists in the district of Cuxhaven, about 58 miles northwest of Hamburg, experts recently excavated a nearly complete Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) assault vehicle. The remnants of this formidable tank have been buried in the sand beneath the Nordholz naval air base for over 80 years.
Similar to other tanks, the StuG III was Nazi Germany’s most widely produced tracked vehicle during the war. The defense company Rheinmetall constructed over 9,300 of them throughout the war, only ceasing production in April 1945. Unlike other tanks, the StuG III’s assault gun was fixed in place, instead of installed on a rotating turret. This meant its four-person crew needed to move and position it facing a target each time before firing. Despite its overall size, the StuG III felt much smaller from the interior.
“The view inside is very impressive. It feels oppressively cramped,” Cuxhaven archaeological heritage director Andreas Hüser said in a recent interview.
The cramped interior seated a crew of four. Credit: A. Hüser / Archaeological Monument Preservation District of Cuxhaven
These design features weren’t necessarily limitations, however. Although researchers have yet to definitively prove that this particular StuG III saw combat, well-preserved details suggest it spent much of the war in action. At least 17 white marks are still visible on its gun barrel,likely a symbol for each enemy tank it destroyed.
Burying enemy weaponry and vehicles after a defeat may sound strange, but it was actually a relatively common practice from Allied forces following World War II’s conclusion. Its location in dry sand at the edge of a slope also protected the StuG III from deterioration. Even after more than 80 years, portions of its original camouflage paint are still clearly visible, and some of its running gear remains undamaged. Near the StuG III, archaeologists also recovered remnants of small shells and light ammunition.
The StuG III will eventually be put on display in a museum in Dresden. Credit: A. Hüser / Archaeological Monument Preservation District of Cuxhaven
“Not only from an archaeological point of view but also simply because the vehicle is almost complete, this is an important find,” explained Hüser. “Armored vehicles surviving in such a complete state are otherwise rare.”
Experts are now prepping the StuG III for transport to Munster in August for additional preservation work. From there, it’s scheduled for delivery to the Bundeswehr’s Military History Museum in Dresden for public display.
WWII assault tank found buried in sand near the North Sea
Visible gun barrel markings suggest the nearly complete StuG III took down at least 17 enemies.
Andrew Paul
Published Jun 26, 2026 3:26 PM EDT
Over 9,300 StuG III were manufactured during World War II. Credit: A. Hüser / Archaeological Monument Preservation Cuxhaven District
Construction workers in Germany digging along the North Sea’s rugged coast discovered a massive World War II relic painted with evidence of its dark past. According to archaeologists in the district of Cuxhaven, about 58 miles northwest of Hamburg, experts recently excavated a nearly complete Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) assault vehicle. The remnants of this formidable tank have been buried in the sand beneath the Nordholz naval air base for over 80 years.
Similar to other tanks, the StuG III was Nazi Germany’s most widely produced tracked vehicle during the war. The defense company Rheinmetall constructed over 9,300 of them throughout the war, only ceasing production in April 1945. Unlike other tanks, the StuG III’s assault gun was fixed in place, instead of installed on a rotating turret. This meant its four-person crew needed to move and position it facing a target each time before firing. Despite its overall size, the StuG III felt much smaller from the interior.
“The view inside is very impressive. It feels oppressively cramped,” Cuxhaven archaeological heritage director Andreas Hüser said in a recent interview.
These design features weren’t necessarily limitations, however. Although researchers have yet to definitively prove that this particular StuG III saw combat, well-preserved details suggest it spent much of the war in action. At least 17 white marks are still visible on its gun barrel,likely a symbol for each enemy tank it destroyed.
Burying enemy weaponry and vehicles after a defeat may sound strange, but it was actually a relatively common practice from Allied forces following World War II’s conclusion. Its location in dry sand at the edge of a slope also protected the StuG III from deterioration. Even after more than 80 years, portions of its original camouflage paint are still clearly visible, and some of its running gear remains undamaged. Near the StuG III, archaeologists also recovered remnants of small shells and light ammunition.
“Not only from an archaeological point of view but also simply because the vehicle is almost complete, this is an important find,” explained Hüser. “Armored vehicles surviving in such a complete state are otherwise rare.”
Experts are now prepping the StuG III for transport to Munster in August for additional preservation work. From there, it’s scheduled for delivery to the Bundeswehr’s Military History Museum in Dresden for public display.
Dejan Corovic
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History of any nation on Earth generally comes in x3 layers:
- first (top) layer: textbook history taught in schools for a sake of preparing a new cannon fodder generation for the sacrifice in the next war, Because of enormity of the historical subject and obvious shortage of teaching hours, students only receive soundbites from the mainstream propaganda of that time.
- second layer: ruling class cossip and tittle tattle, who said what, who did what, more detail, occasional statistics, etc. This layer is vast, and it requires a professional historian. This layer still obscures the main drivers simply by a sheer amount of detail and skilful melodramatization of noise.
- third layer: is "Show Me The Money" layer, or economic history. This is the real layer the above x2 layers are trying to hide. It reveals the financial interests of the most powerful people in the nation. Everything that top two layers hide, third layer makes suddenly clear as a day.
Here is the illustration of the above principles. American civil war was never about abolition of slavory, that was just mainstream media story sold to 650,000 ordinary Americans who would die in that war. Real "show me the money" story was that Oligarchs from the South produced agricultural goods and needed to buy manufacturing goods from Britain, where they were the cheapest and of the best quality. But, Oligarchs from the North had a nascent manufacturing sector which was still growing and it needed tariff protection in order to buy the time so it can compete with Britain. So, North Oligarchs wanted to use tariffs to force South Oligarchs to buy more expensive manufacturing goods from North, instead from Britain. Simple, straightforward economics, no moralising head fakes and virtue signaling. Whole story about slavory was just a head-fake.
Obviously, both South and North Oligarchs owned their respective mainstream media and paid their respective politicians, and used slavory as a high moral head-fake distraction from their real economic interests. None of ordinary Americans would want to die so that their respective oligarchs can put more margin on a top of their costs.
View: https://youtu.be/p1FWjMlYuf4
N.B. - I'm not taking a pick on US, its just that there is more data from US then other countries, and this historian provided a perfect, thoroughly researched example of how history really works. Same process happens in all the nations and all societies: "Money talks, . . . walks"
- first (top) layer: textbook history taught in schools for a sake of preparing a new cannon fodder generation for the sacrifice in the next war, Because of enormity of the historical subject and obvious shortage of teaching hours, students only receive soundbites from the mainstream propaganda of that time.
- second layer: ruling class cossip and tittle tattle, who said what, who did what, more detail, occasional statistics, etc. This layer is vast, and it requires a professional historian. This layer still obscures the main drivers simply by a sheer amount of detail and skilful melodramatization of noise.
- third layer: is "Show Me The Money" layer, or economic history. This is the real layer the above x2 layers are trying to hide. It reveals the financial interests of the most powerful people in the nation. Everything that top two layers hide, third layer makes suddenly clear as a day.
Here is the illustration of the above principles. American civil war was never about abolition of slavory, that was just mainstream media story sold to 650,000 ordinary Americans who would die in that war. Real "show me the money" story was that Oligarchs from the South produced agricultural goods and needed to buy manufacturing goods from Britain, where they were the cheapest and of the best quality. But, Oligarchs from the North had a nascent manufacturing sector which was still growing and it needed tariff protection in order to buy the time so it can compete with Britain. So, North Oligarchs wanted to use tariffs to force South Oligarchs to buy more expensive manufacturing goods from North, instead from Britain. Simple, straightforward economics, no moralising head fakes and virtue signaling. Whole story about slavory was just a head-fake.
Obviously, both South and North Oligarchs owned their respective mainstream media and paid their respective politicians, and used slavory as a high moral head-fake distraction from their real economic interests. None of ordinary Americans would want to die so that their respective oligarchs can put more margin on a top of their costs.
View: https://youtu.be/p1FWjMlYuf4
N.B. - I'm not taking a pick on US, its just that there is more data from US then other countries, and this historian provided a perfect, thoroughly researched example of how history really works. Same process happens in all the nations and all societies: "Money talks, . . . walks"
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pigfarmer
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Went to a car show yesterday to visit a friend (I am sick of car shows) and to my surprise this thing was sitting near where I parked. I guess if you bring a tank to a car show you automatically win best in class.
I chatted with the owner a while and he's a walking encyclopedia - a damned good wrench too apparently. I can't imagine how much $$$$ it costs to own and maintain. There were a few jeeps and a six by six too but with this thing sitting there they were rendered invisible. I've never seen one of these 'out in the wild' . He said it's powered by a thirty cylinder engine comprised of ten six cylinder Chrysler truck engines mated together somehow. Apparently that was because radial aircraft engines were in greater demand for aircraft, go figure.
I chatted with the owner a while and he's a walking encyclopedia - a damned good wrench too apparently. I can't imagine how much $$$$ it costs to own and maintain. There were a few jeeps and a six by six too but with this thing sitting there they were rendered invisible. I've never seen one of these 'out in the wild' . He said it's powered by a thirty cylinder engine comprised of ten six cylinder Chrysler truck engines mated together somehow. Apparently that was because radial aircraft engines were in greater demand for aircraft, go figure.
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Dejan Corovic
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Top Ukrainian(-Canadian) drone expert, who's advising Ukrainian general stuff and government, is talking about how NATO is ill prepared for modern drone dominated battlefield in comparison to Russians:
View: https://youtu.be/LDD6cvHhNeU
View: https://youtu.be/LDD6cvHhNeU