The design was unusual because the main weapon – a larger caliber, medium-velocity 75 mm gun – was in an offset sponson mounted in the hull with limited traverse. The sponson mount was necessary because, at the time, American tank plants did not have the design experience necessary to make a gun turret capable of holding a 75 mm weapon.
Good context. All true, the M3 was indeed kludged together in a very short time after America didn’t invest a lot into interwar tank design.
In addition, the configuration of putting the main gun in the hull was not unprecedented. The French Char B1 did the same thing, and it was considered a very capable tank, even by the Germans up against in in 1940.
If you put yourself in the mindset of a 1930s designer trying to figure out the role of a tank and assuming a kind of breakthrough role, it does make sense to put the lighter weapon meant to target more mobile targets on a traversing turret and the heavier weapon for targeting heavy defensive positions in the hull rather than trying to figure out how to fit such a large gun into a turret.
Yes but more importantly they don’t have to contribute anything to the other eu nations! Cutting the nose off to spite the face always works out for the owner of said face after all
Wait, wait. I’m worried what you just heard was, “Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.” What I said was, “Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.” Do you understand?
Damn, here I thought I was living in a capitalist dystopia. Truly, the race mixers pulled one over on me. Must be the mixed blood in me making me vulnerable to communist brainwashing.
I miss the days when we fought war with theretofore unimaginable charity. I imagine if the Israelis dropped five billion dollars in aid over Gaza instead of five billion in bombs they’d probably be more likely to experience a positive outcome.
Eh. This charity was done to prove how superior capitalism was to communism at the start of the Cold War and align hearts and minds to Western ideology.
This is right after WWII, when it was common practice to drop hundreds of unguided bombs out of an airplane and blanket entire sections of densely populated cities.
I’d argue we haven’t really changed that much. Charity just isn’t appealing to achieve current agendas.
Probably not testing, but rather demonstrating to potential buyers (the pig in the background). It sells better, and demonstrates the seller’s conviction that the product works.
People still do it today. There was a bullet proof glass company where the CEO (iirc, might have been owner) sat in a car with their windshield and let someone shoot at it with a rifle.
Mind mentioning where I said this was the first test?
I think OP is just grabbing posts from “fakehistoryporn” off Reddit and not understanding the difference…
You do realize that's not the kind of material "fakehistoryporn" posts, right? It would be labeled something more like "Experimental worm-removal by shockwave, 1865"
Just another of the (probably hundreds) of shitty meme communities OP mods or posts too. At this point I’m just blocking their whole account.
I might get flack for this but I don’t get the segregation thing because race is more trivial than AGAB. Usually people use AGAB to talk about health concerns. It seems race is a thing because we make it a problem.
I mean, race is a thing when it comes to likelihood of certain diseases and handfuls of medications affect some groups differently than others. There are legitimate differences in trends of bone structure/length/shaping. Like, even if you’re not outwardly presenting as being black, like if your family is Hispanic mixed but mostly Hispanic, sickle cell anemia is highly prevalent in the black community and you SHOULD know things like that if only for the doctor to better understand the results and tests
Race, or at least what regions your genetic makeup best adheres to, can be important for dietary changes, as there have been some (I haven’t looked at this in a decade) minor research in regard to whether eating foods similar to genetic ancestors might help that was inconclusive (I think. Mostly, if I remember, they just found some data to suggest people who have medditeranean ancestry benefit from adding fish to their diet, but so does everyone else for the most part).
Skin color matters for things like external medication absorption, varying levels of need for sunlight and vitamin d production. But other than that and the fringe elements above, yeah it’s mostly just a thing because we make it a thing, but we’ve made it a thing for so long it’s seemingly one of our ‘stickiest’ holdovers.
But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with me. It’s the faces of the white men in the crowd. There’s the photo of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Indiana in 1930, in which a white man can be seen grinning at the camera as he tenderly holds the hand of his wife or girlfriend. There’s the undated photo from Duluth, Minnesota, in which grinning white men stand next to the mutilated, half-naked bodies of two men lashed to a post in the street—one of the white men is straining to get into the picture, his smile cutting from ear to ear. There’s the photo of a crowd of white men huddled behind the smoldering corpse of a man burned to death; one of them is wearing a smart suit, a fedora hat, and a bright smile.
Their names have mostly been lost to time. But these grinning men were someone’s brother, son, husband, father. They were human beings, people who took immense pleasure in the utter cruelty of torturing others to death—and were so proud of doing so that they posed for photographs with their handiwork, jostling to ensure they caught the eye of the lens, so that the world would know they’d been there. Their cruelty made them feel good, it made them feel proud, it made them feel happy. And it made them feel closer to one another.
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