world war ii

The Ha-101 class submarines were laid down as transport submarines, but during construction were converted into tanker submarines, small submarine motherships/tenders, and radar picket subs. Any specifications or illustrations of the intended original design would be bussin...

The Ohama and her sister ship Okashi were laid down as target ships, successors to the Hakachi. Ohama was completed as an escort vessel, and Ohashi collided with Yamashio Maru and sunk before completion, but would have been given the same treatment. I can't find any illustrations of their...

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%A6%E8%A3%BD%E4%B8%AD%E6%88%A6%E8%BB%8A_%E3%83%81%E3%82%BB Given that there is one magazine listed as a source, and I don't have it to look into further, posting this here.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%AD%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E7%B3%8E%E7%A0%B2#cite_note-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_ShinHoTo_Chi-Ha_medium_tank#Short_Barrel_120_mm_gun_tank https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%AD%E5%8D%81%E4%BA%8C%E7%B3%8E%E8%87%AA%E8%B5%B0%E7%A0%B2 This thing's big...

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220905/p2a/00m/0na/020000c?dicbo=v2-c68a3d101177a19f336252dfd46fdc77

Designed in 1942 by the American Ordnance Company, an old-established gun-making concern of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the M3 half-track carrier, known as the 40mm Gun Motor Carriage T68 (GMC T68) and featured unusual gun layout. The guns were placed, one above the other, a configuration with an...

Hello all. I am not sure if this post really belongs here or not, but I just found the photo below and I find the theoretical implications fascinating. It sure looks like a Panzer II turret with a 37mm gun. Sure enough, it is. This turret was used on the Atlantik Wall as a static defensive...

Perhaps one of the greatest what-ifs of post World War Two history is what would have happened if the US and UK had succeeded in getting the Atomic Bomb to work? President Truman and Curtis Le May's round the clock bombing of Japan drawing on the destruction of Dresden by the RAF and USAAF is...

Video might be of interest. Can't speak to its accuracy, but at least it doesn't seem too insane. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfio0VHXUmw

When the demand exceeded the capacity of Daimler, Ford Canada, in Windsor Ontario, begun production of a local derivative. The "Scout Car, Ford Mk.I", also called the "Lynx armoured car". Almost identical, it was one foot taller because of the Ford transmission. The Ford engine was more...

Profile of the Brewster 639 (1942), an improvement project for the F4U Corsair which, at the start of its career, was a difficult aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. This project will not be developed and the British will have the idea of an appropriate angle of approach during landings on...

Hai Except some drawings concerning the P-33 projects, I did not find any information concerning other Brewster projects. The only which I earlier mentioned was the two-seat fighter, further no details etc. Is there any material/information concerning this two-seat fighter and other not...

So, after my mom's fifth session of chemotherapy, things are...slightly but decisevly better, not only I got back to study for my last three exams but time to read what I like about : horror podcasts, alternate history and more. So, I browsed the net and I got inspiration from this article ...

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G'day folks, I am trying to find good reference material on the following gun systems. RO QF 17 pounder RO QF 20 pounder Rarde EXP 7 to 28 110mm I have a sort of project to convert a Centurion tank (Card/Paper) to various types/marks and possibly produce a Chieftain with the 110mms as an...

As we all may know, the French were developing land-based heavy AA guns in the 1920s and 30s to counter the next-generation bombers of that time. They designed and tinkered a lot with 75 mm guns, then decided to up-gun it to 90 mm caliber. The 90 mm gun, or known as the Canon de 90 mm Modèle...

Rifles Anti-Tank (Training Pattern) This is esoteric but I'm looking for more information about an anti-tank training weapon created at Esquimalt, British Columbia in 1941-42. This training device was created by modifying a service rifle to mimic the shape of a Canadian-made Rifle, Anti-Tank...

What it says in the tin basically. In OTL Britain laid down 10 Colossus class ships in 1942-43, followed by 6 larger Majestic class in 1943 and then the Centaur class in 1944, going from 18,000t to ~20,000 and then 26,000t full load in two years. So how do you get the British designers to...

http://aviationarchives.blogspot.com/2022/04/mcdonnell-aircraft-model-28.html Note - the McDonnell Model List says TG-100 engine which is wrong - that was a turboprop.

Hi all, i found this article from Wired about a common problem that plagues Wikipedia: unreliable/dubious sources and fan edits, all of which have caused it to be seen as untrustworthy and/or not taken seriously as a reputable source by netizens. In this case it narrates someone's struggle to...