Recent content by Grognard49

I still have my first edition copy of Jutland on a shelf of my bookcase. It sits next to my first edition of PanzerBlitz. And yes, I bought them both new.

This aircraft wasn't on the OPs list but it was still in service flying around Kabul Afghanistan International Airport in 2006. How many years of service would it have? I don't recall ever seeing another aircraft there that was older than I was.

Would you please site the sources for this information you posted because it is not in agreement with my experience. I worked on radar equipment that used magnetrons from the 1960s to mid 2000s. Many of these were used in radars that were of late 1940s vacuum tube design. The warm-up time for...

If you go to estate sales or auctions today, old Sears Craftsman hand tools will sell for as much or more than modern day Snap-on or Mac hand tools. Quality is ageless.

I did my part to help the Opel Manta be successful while I was in college. My Manta at the top of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire.

The chances of getting any of the engines on the Yorktown to operate are slim to none. The turbine shafts will be warped and turbines inoperable. When hot turbines are suddenly stopped, they must be slowly turned until the temperature returns to a much cooler temperature. If this is not done...

True, the Philippine army was without tanks, but two companies of the US Army 194th Tank Battalion with 54 M3 tanks arrived in Manila on 26 SEP 1941. On 16 OCT, 25, 25 T12 Gun Motor Carriages arrived, followed by 20 more on 18 NOV. Paired with Philippine Scout infantry battalions, these could...

Lusatia had been previously looking for a ground attack aircraft and had considered the CW-19. They asked Curtis Wright designer George Page if the CW-19 could be made into an interceptor. He agreed to try and stuff the biggest Wright Cyclone into a modified CW-19 (since the Bristol Jupiter...

I thought that posting an old story that has been bouncing around the interwebs since the time of dial-up modems would be appropriate for this discussion. The title was "What can one gun do against an army?" A friend of mine recently forwarded me a question a friend of his had posed: "If/when...

"Guarding the United States and Its Outposts" by the Army's Center of Military History has some interesting info about this situation, "One well-directed shot from the deck gun of a German submarine or a clever act of sabotage by one of the workmen could have seriously damaged the cryolite mine...

Not to worry. The residents of the Goat Locker will have that covered.

I was thinking "American submarines--American torpedoes". The British torpedoes you described sound like the Whitehead Mark I & II torpedoes that entered USN service in 1898. Maybe some reloads could be "negotiated" from old USN stock.

From the information in the book "Ship Killers " by Wildenberg and Polmar, your details on the Mark IV aren't quite correct. The Mark IV (5m x 45cm) was designed by the Bliss-Leavitt Company of Brooklyn and was the first USN submarine torpedo to incorporate both a dry heater and a turbine...

Hire dozens of engineers, designers, and quality control specialists from BMW and give them freedom to reform the outdated designs.