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Bugger...

Discussion in 'Weapons, Technology & Equipment' started by von Poop, Aug 23, 2022.

  1. Fatboy Coxy

    Fatboy Coxy Junior Member

    He nose how to land an aircraft, pinpoint accuracy, on the nose!
     
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  2. jwsleser

    jwsleser Well-Known Member

    The first piece of Stukahenge is laid in place.
     
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  3. Andsco

    Andsco Well-Known Member

    Damn Britisher, bet he couldn't do that again.
    Is that the WW2. Version of Robin Hood splitting the arrow.
     
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  4. stolpi

    stolpi Well-Known Member

    Cuirassier.jpg
    French Cuirassier harness: Battle of Waterloo 18 June 1815
     
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  5. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

  6. JohnG505

    JohnG505 Getting there...... Patron

    Reverse parking was never my forte......

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  7. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    Sniffed really hard on that one. The hole is too neat, and WTF fired a round like that at the time? Not to mention the physics of the energy transfer would have spun the poor dog face like a top.
     
  8. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Direct hit by a solid shot cannon ball, I assume.
     
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  9. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    And add in close range (charging the guns and all that) to your observations Chris and why not?

    Kind regards, at close range things go through things, they don't tend to "bounce off", most always,

    Jim.

    P.S. You'd reasonably think that the mottling/speckling below the shot hole was caused by powder. Have to be pretty close for that.
     
  10. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    But that's a piercing puncture, not a ball puncture.

    I'm inclined to "Let's see how cool a hole we can make."

    Closer inspection shows that the hole was cut around most of the circle and then the center pounded in. The center was bent down and to the right. Not a bursting impact, in my opinion.

    Just my opinion, of course.
     
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  11. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    Gets funnier. ~200 mm hole in the front, ragged hole in the back. "Yeah, shot completely through him, it did!" Punched through the breast plate but didn't distort the arm hole reinforcement noticeably.

    Some 'historical artifacts' are too good to be true I think.
     
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  12. stolpi

    stolpi Well-Known Member

    Bugger 2.jpg
    Just as he is about to be immortalized in a LIFEmagazine photo, the last US soldier in the line slips on the icy road surface. Belgium, Ardennes Jan 45 (Courtesy FB World War Pictures)
     
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  13. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    "Right hand down a bit !" :wacko:

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  14. Andsco

    Andsco Well-Known Member

    Have you ever wondered sometimes when you've seen a crashed vehicle in an unusual position how it ended up like that.
    When I was a young man I watched a boy racer once drive at speed past the apartment where I lived, travelling past a row of parked cars there was a car coming in the opposite direction without room to pass, he braked hard turning the car sideways and shot though a gap in the parked cars mounted the kerb which bounced him a few feet in the air and and landed on a raised triangular flower bed, the wheels hanging over the edges, as no one was hurt except for the drivers pride as he got out I thought it hilarious, it was also funny watching the passerby's afterwards scratching their heads wondering how it got on there. :blush:
     
  15. stolpi

    stolpi Well-Known Member

    A picture that surfaced on FB 'Troubleshooters - Living History Group's Post':

    Knoop in TD.jpg
     
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  16. Richelieu

    Richelieu Well-Known Member

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