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[A People's Military History of China (1911-2026) @PLA_Past1927]

Paid Volunteers: How the People's Volunteer Army Paid Itself (A Thread)

[Kuboid @Kubojd]

9M111-2 anti-tank guided missile, electrical schematic.
(dashed section is the launch container, small section in bottom middle is the launch motor, the rest is the internal circuitry of the missile)

[Kuboid @Kubojd]

9M111 anti-tank guided missile, functional diagram of onboard guidance scheme.

[Cringman @Crngman]

@heatloss1986 There's so many ways that this video is bad but it's so hard to pin down what the worst part is, since even by his own standards he is off topic on tangents for so long that its hard to track. There's tangents about soviet TVs for some reason and he gets those wrong too.

[Cringman @Crngman]

This video is so impressively bad at historiography that it took malice and effort to be this wrong. It's actually incredible that just by presenting yourself in a gimmicky fashion people will look past any mistake you make to clap like a seal.

[Cringman @Crngman]

Been having a blast and would recommend it as well

[Combination K @Combination_K]

Deviating from standard posting to state that Marathon is incredible and you should play it immediately

[Bundesfaust @Bundesfaust]

It tried to engage oncoming traffic.

[Combination K @Combination_K]

The Vozdukh-1 video has finally been uploaded. Make sure to check it out!

[Cringman @Crngman]

Both the post this is replying to and this post itself are two extremes. Once again no nuance is allowed discussing soviet technology at all

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

I always thought this was a hilarious fact.

BUT the MiG 25 Foxbat wasn't actually a paper tiger. You see, it was built by the Russians to intercept the Convair B-58 supersonic nuclear bomber. Their MiG 21s & 23s wouldn't do the job. Since they had the vast expanses of Siberia to defend, they created the MiG-25 to basically be a gigantic engine carrying missiles. It didn't have good electronics, because it would be guided by gigantic radar stations in Siberia. It couldn't maneuver, because it was just all about speed - trying to get to the B-58 by traveling at Mach 3 in a straight line, at super-high altitude, then launching its missiles. It was actually a good design for what it was intended. Which was absolutely NOT a fighter.

Then the Americans saw the stats on the MiG-25 - speed Mach 3.5, Max Altitude 80,000 feet. Our Air Force panicked. We assumed the rest of the MiG-25s stats were also superior to anything we had, so we poured everything into the F-15 to have something that could at least have a chance against the mighty Foxbat.

Of course the Foxbat was useless in conventional combat. Its natural ecosystem was Siberia, hunting down America's non-existent Mach 2 bombers. Non-existent, because we'd retired the B-58s at the end of 1969. Its only success was in the movie Fail-Safe, where one bombed Moscow.

The MiG-25, with its super-high altitude and super-fast speed and terrible dogfighting capability DID turn out to be a terrific reconnaissance plane and got used for that a lot in the Mid-East. It was tough to shoot down, but it was never a threat to any other plane.

I own the old wargame Foxbat/Phantom which was designed before we knew the truth about the Foxbat, so it's portrayed as the Ultimate Fighter. Pretty funny in hindsight.

[A People's Military History of China (1911-2026) @PLA_Past1927]

I wouldn't use Sarah Paine as a good historical source for anything beyond surface level overviews of events in East Asia

[Animarchy History 🇦🇺 @AnimarchyYT]

@BaA43A3aHY @Combination_K S P E E D

[Cringman @Crngman]

@BaA43A3aHY @AnimarchyYT @Combination_K As the saying with friends goes, if you exceed the 2.35 limit to reach 2.6, and if you do not die from airframe instability or melting from such high temperatures, the crew cheif will surely kill you himself after landing for your stupidity.

[A People's Military History of China (1911-2026) @PLA_Past1927]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞'𝐬 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏: 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧/𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

[Cringman @Crngman]

@JanezoviNasveti @Combination_K We are going to hurt you in ways that have not yet been comprehended by humans

[Combination K @Combination_K]

No people have suffered more throughout human history than the humble MiG-23 fan. You have no idea what we endure on a daily basis. No matter how hard life gets, remember: it is only a fraction of the burden the enlightened few are forced to bear...

[Combination K @Combination_K]

A new video has been uploaded, make sure to check it out!

[Cringman @Crngman]

@WestlannWyvern When your goat is right

[Combination K @Combination_K]

Just one more video about the Pipeline Troops... I promise...

[Combination K @Combination_K]

"Do you agree with my solutions?"

"Always"