My father was a waist gunner on a B-17 in WWII. This narrative reminds me of his war stories. Any bomber crew that completed 25 missons was allowed to go back to the states for rest and relaxation. Unfortunately most bombers only lasted for 8 missons on average. Dad spent the last 20 months of the war as a POW. He was one of the lucky ones.
@@f.b.ispywilliam7841 William, You are incimpetent as a F.B.I. spy. You should have incriminate him quoting Joseph Stalin. This quote is reminiscent of the Marxist theoretical principle that steady quantitative changes can lead to a sudden qualitative leap.
I've started looking at the number of the story, just for the hell of it. I think the lowest number so far until this one was 220 or something, in Pretty Little Deathworlders. Now 38 is the lowest. I don't actively seek out higher or lower numbers, I just note it with some interest, because this guy has to be the hardest working MFer on the internet. The 24/7s and stuff, plus uploads, I mean I'm relatively new to the channel, but damn, there must be at least a thousand, maybe 2 thousand videos. YT has even lost track of my watched content, and offered me the same vids a couple times. Sometimes I even watch them over, either because it was a great story, or because I can't remember until I get to a particular plot point or something, and I don't want to mess up the algorithm by ending the vid before it's over... I've heard watching to the very end helps, and that stopping begore halfway is especially bad
WWII: German tanks were works of art and hard to repair, Russian tanks are barely held together piles of leaking garbage that last just long enough to do the job before they are destroyed. American tanks were somewhere in between, smaller, more numerous, easier to transport and better built so we didn't have to fix them as often. Germans had no grasp of logistics. Or weather for that matter.
German tanks were generally speaking, over engineered and difficult to repair in the field. Things like over lapping wheels that had to be removed to fix the ones behind them. Their welds were damn near perfect, works of art even, rather than simply good enough to do the job. The Germans were perfectionists. But in war, perfection is the enemy of good enough.
The sad thing about that is that the Germans in WW2 had good generals who had a grasp on proper logistics, but a certain drug addled psychopath wouldn't let the generals actually use their own strategies.
Artistry in war can too often become expression of the irrelevant, an almost comically contradictory attempt at inappropriate positive elegance where the message to convey is coldly terrifying brutality.
My father was a waist gunner on a B-17 in WWII. This narrative reminds me of his war stories. Any bomber crew that completed 25 missons was allowed to go back to the states for rest and relaxation. Unfortunately most bombers only lasted for 8 missons on average. Dad spent the last 20 months of the war as a POW. He was one of the lucky ones.
There is a great truism of those that study war... amateurs discuss tactics, professionals study logistics.
logistics in life is the class I could have used
This is a mix of WW2 and WW1 battle strategies. It's horrifically effective.
8mm Mauser? In space? I enjoy the reintroduction of God's chosen caliber.
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I believe you misspelled 30-06 John Moses Browning was the tongue in the mouth of death as he barked forth upon the beaches of Normandy
@@ianmoore2850 out dated, 30-08 is the better one
I know this is a fiction but damn. Max effective range 1000m? damn M249/M240 qual goes out to 1500.
For the 249 your really pushing it at 1000m even for area targets.
quantity has a quality all of its own
Tactical Marsupial i think these still have quality
@@f.b.ispywilliam7841 William, You are incimpetent as a F.B.I. spy. You should have incriminate him quoting Joseph Stalin. This quote is reminiscent of the Marxist theoretical principle that steady quantitative changes can lead to a sudden qualitative leap.
@@МихаилРозов-ю9п
These days the FBI are the marxists.
Space warfare, Kalashnikov edition.
War does not determine who's right. War determines who's left.
I've started looking at the number of the story, just for the hell of it. I think the lowest number so far until this one was 220 or something, in Pretty Little Deathworlders. Now 38 is the lowest. I don't actively seek out higher or lower numbers, I just note it with some interest, because this guy has to be the hardest working MFer on the internet. The 24/7s and stuff, plus uploads, I mean I'm relatively new to the channel, but damn, there must be at least a thousand, maybe 2 thousand videos.
YT has even lost track of my watched content, and offered me the same vids a couple times. Sometimes I even watch them over, either because it was a great story, or because I can't remember until I get to a particular plot point or something, and I don't want to mess up the algorithm by ending the vid before it's over... I've heard watching to the very end helps, and that stopping begore halfway is especially bad
WWII: German tanks were works of art and hard to repair,
Russian tanks are barely held together piles of leaking garbage that last just long enough to do the job before they are destroyed.
American tanks were somewhere in between, smaller, more numerous, easier to transport and better built so we didn't have to fix them as often.
Germans had no grasp of logistics.
Or weather for that matter.
Well yes and no, I believe the germans also had limited materials and thus had to increase the quality, as they already list in terms of quantity.
German tanks were generally speaking, over engineered and difficult to repair in the field. Things like over lapping wheels that had to be removed to fix the ones behind them.
Their welds were damn near perfect, works of art even, rather than simply good enough to do the job.
The Germans were perfectionists.
But in war, perfection is the enemy of good enough.
@@MashedPotatoes690
I recommend looking up the British tank Museum here on UA-cam for in-depth discussions on the matter by experts in the field.
@@zredband Thanks for the additional information!
The sad thing about that is that the Germans in WW2 had good generals who had a grasp on proper logistics, but a certain drug addled psychopath wouldn't let the generals actually use their own strategies.
For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice! For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice!
Ah, "Lose lips, sinks ships." ;-)
The sinews of war is unlimited money
-Cicero
Ww2 in space
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To please the algorithm
How you beat them? , maby by changing the hot barrel from time to time before the thing is just metal trash
reasonable
Not to mention linking belts together instead of doing a full reload every time you burn through one.
Bob the dragon
Artistry in war can too often become expression of the irrelevant, an almost comically contradictory attempt at inappropriate positive elegance where the message to convey is coldly terrifying brutality.
wow this is old... love it though
FtA, FtA(s), FtDV!
For the algorithm
Sounds like WWII all over again
39th, 20 October 2023
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