#Turret

Time for a #history thread of British battleships firing. Here’s a Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought firing not long before the First World War. 1/ An unidentified 12-inch gunned battleship firing away
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Today is the 103rd anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, the clash between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet that had been keenly anticipated by both
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Wanna see my adorable grandpa? Okay he wasn’t that adorable; he was a crusty ball turret gunner. He is first left bottom row in this pic. I wish he’d talked
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Navy Captain (and Astronaut) @StationCDRKelly asked me last night "how can you sabotage a Russian T72"He has contacts who can get this information to those young Russian soldiers who see
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My favorite subjects to paint are the ones where I can really push it creatively, and @ShotziWWE is definitely one of those. The moment she came out on that little
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Hopefully we will soon get concrete numbers by variant for UK Boxer buy. It a shame we can be 11 months on from contract announcement and still have no real
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[When I drove an Arjun tank]- One of the benefits of growing-up in Services environment is that you get to see the equipment up and close.- It so happened that
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BTR 60 thread: 1. Over the last year we have seen HTS improvise and then standardize their designs of a light APC ('al-Buraq' pic 1) and a APC based on
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all THSC gays are oblivious but different brands(tm) of oblivious Dave - oblivious via self deprecationRupert - oblivious via misinterpretationBurt - oblivious via underanalyzationSven - oblivous via oversimplificationCharles - just
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I read a while back that PR 3 was announced for April this year (next month, huh) for JP and CN, so I'm going to give y'all a speculation on
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Spicy take: the cartels are fish that swim just fine in the waters of Mexico but wouldn’t stand a chance against even a mild response by US LE or people.
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Right today we are taking in two #hadriansWall’s and a place of pilgrimage, just a days walk today so don’t the cancel the milk delivery #virtualwalk Leaving the car park
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More alternate ways to think about future armoured forces and the role of the tank within them. This time proposing reduced tank fleets due to the increasing capability of IFV-class
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The most common device carried by 79th AD AVREs was a fascine. These were used to fill ditches to allow vehicles to cross, or occasionally placed against walls. Here is
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how to build ningguang: a long-ass thread bc my queen deserves more attention to demonstrate her power, this is my current ningguang one-cycling the cryo regisvine without bennett, food or
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Thread on tanks. Why is the Panther not the best tank of WWII, and why is the Sherman so much better. To follow. First: Disclosure. I am not a "tank
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