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    I thought this was nicely done - some good footage of the largest operational rail gun in history.
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    If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."

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    Schwerer Gustav and Dora...magnificent and magnificent wastes of resources, albeit somewhat in hindsight.

    One wonders how the campaign in France would've unfolded if these giants had been ready in time for action against the Maginot Line.
    “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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    • #3
      ding, I thought this thread about dora the explorer... I could not be more wrong
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        "...magnificent and magnificent wastes of resources, albeit somewhat in hindsight..."

        Somewhat. Germans may have felt justified by the expenditure at Sevastopol. Had DORA shown up outside Stalingrad in late August 1942 it would have posed an interesting threat to both the city defenses and assembly points on the east bank of the Volga.

        "...One wonders how the campaign in France would've unfolded if these giants had been ready in time for action against the Maginot Line."

        This is an interesting point. Had they been ready might the German Army contemplate, instead, a direct assault through the Maginot line? With their inmobility, pre-positioning might have been an intelligence indicator as to main effort. It also, therefore, raises the question of where might the BEF and French deploy their mobile forces. Postured forwardly against the Belgian border? Maybe not.
        "This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
        "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs

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        • #5
          But that Toucan could kick some ass.
          “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
          Mark Twain

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          • #6
            Swiper would be great at gathering (theft of) military tech.

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