crusaderproject.bsky.social
Long-running research project on the desert war 1940-43, with a specific focus on Operation CRUSADER.
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Whatever people pay for the subscriptions is too much.
Insert joke about smart bombs, Kuwait and US high school students here.
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Show me a carrier-capable torpedo bomber in February 1942 that wouldn’t have been slaughtered on that mission. 😉
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Same. Used it on one of the kids, worked exactly as it should.
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As an aside, my other unpopular opinion is that the Swordfish wasn’t obsolete on any meaningful indicator measure.
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That’s indeed my point about loss rates. They are meaningful in terms of what you can achieve on the other side of the ledger. In themselves they’re just a planning tool. I’m pretty sure the crews understood that they were going out there at high risk and low potential impact.
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I’m talking specifically about late 41, so not broad brush at all. I looked a lot at the actual effects that the strikes had on the targets and am comfortable with that assessment. It was an okay performer in 1940, but it was never an awesome plane during the war. I know that’s not a popular opinion
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The Blenheim got a lot of crews killed for what it could achieve. And the crews knew it, as Tedder’s quote shows. By late 1941 it was arguably more in the awful direction than the ‘meh’ one.
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Losses depend on the type of sortie and are in themselves not a meaningful indicator for performance (useful for other things). 3.5% losses to deliver 1,200lb of ordnance with a 3-men crew is much less a acceptable than 6% with a crew of 7 and an ordnance load of 10,350lb.
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My view of the Blenheim is here.
I know there’s a lot of nostalgia in English aviation history. That doesn’t change the fact that the Blenheim in its various makes wasn’t a great performer, by comparison to what other nations had in that class at that time.
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The Russian army of 2022 wouldn’t fight in the same manner, it would use superior tech and force to overcome its adversary at speed. The Russian army of 2025 isn’t fighting in the same manner by choice. So there is that to consider.
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Christ, you lot are useless.
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3. S-Flotille (Schnellboote - E-boats) who had transferred to the Med from late 1941 using French rivers and canals. They were very active including on mine-laying, sinking HM/Sub Urge in April 1942, and then on the coasts of Egypt and Libya. rommelsriposte.com/2019/11/02/6...
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Regular reminder there are still people who take this… person… seriously.
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Indeed. Plus manufacture in a few point locations that can more easily be controlled/converted/shut. Plus the use case is quite specific and there are replacements (my car a/c runs on CO2 with GWP of ‘1’ instead of some freaking ?lon with a GWP of 10,000. Made it a lot easier.
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Funnily enough that’s almost my day job. Almost the only global environmental agreement that can claim to have been successful. Lots of lessons to be learned from it for climate.
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Regular reminder that we did put lead into fuel so some companies could make money.
Why do you folks hate capitalism? No wonder Bluesky is in terminal decline.
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Missing a trans element for the evil trifecta. Still, good effort by the GOP goon in concocting this, 5/10.
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She’s a few sandwiches short of a picknick is my explanation.
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Ah yes, next step we’ll see Rassenschande.
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Tewkesbury Mustard really only makes sense on a Swan sandwich.
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Das Meme wurde von mir jetzt mal gestohlen! Ich bereue nix.