WW2Talk

A free WW2 Internet research platform/forum, with a primarily commonwealth focus.
(A personal bias towards tanks may be displayed on this account...)

[WW2Talk @WW2Talk]

Handy guide from the 1946 Vauxhall book 'An Account of our Stewardship'.
The Evolution of the #Churchill #Tank
#WW2:

[WW2Talk @WW2Talk]

@thinkdefence Been thinking a lot about this since you shared.
Obvs. from a WW2 perspective - Normandy & most other amphibious ops a near inevitable bloodbath during 1st waves.
It's genuinely 'Interesting'.
Though imagine 1st wave may now fight other robots & bloodbath just happens later... 😶

[Tony Brown @agbdrilling]

Remember, it's swim your Stalwart Day 🇬🇧 🙂

[Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer @EvanKirstel]

A boat with no crew crossed the Black Sea, beached itself on Russian-occupied shoreline, lowered a ramp, and sent a machine-gun-armed ground robot rolling onto the Kinburn Spit to run a fire mission behind enemy lines.

Ukraine’s 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade announced it on July 13, and as far as anyone can tell, it is the first amphibious combat landing in history performed entirely by machines.
Sea drone, ground robot, aerial overwatch. Three unmanned domains working one coordinated mission, pulled off by a territorial defense brigade, which tells you how far down the unit level this capability has already spread. The sea drone even carried a self-destruct charge so nothing useful could be captured.

Amphibious landings have always been brutally costly because the landing exposes troops at their most vulnerable moment. Put a machine on the beach and that calculus changes. Every contested coastline just became a potential insertion point, and Ukraine is solving it in production with lives on the line.

[Think Defence @thinkdefence]

This brief clip illustrates a Smartshooter counter UAS sight in action

[Andrew Hills @FWD_Publishing]

A British Conqueror Mk. I tank being loaded onto an Antar transporter and receiving a police escort through town. 1:17 - No sound. #tanks #history

[Niels Henkemans @Niels_1944]

Currently sitting at 10 chapters finished. #defendingnormandy #ww2 #dday #history

[Phil Loder @PhilLoder]

#OTD 110 years ago, my great uncle Capt A.F. Smyly wrote home after the 8th Bn Sth Staffs attacked nr Fricourt, on the #Somme: "All my friends have gone and half my company, and at present I am simply broken-hearted… I am untouched, God knows why." He survived the war. #WW1

[Abakcus @abakcus]

“Escher! Get your ass up here!”

[John D. Cook @JohnDCook]

"Armed with generative AI, a B student can produce A work while turning into a C student." -- Nicholas Carr

[Paul Reed @sommecourt]

Much of this #WW2 past in Germany has been eradicated in recent years. On one level I understand: move on. But there is a risk that to erase the Nazis completely may make future generations believe they never existed. These sites act as a tactile warning, an important one.

[Marc Heighway @NewForestRamble]

On this day 1910, Charles Rolls of Rolls-Royce fame had the misfortune of becoming the first Briton to be killed in a powered aircraft accident when he crashed during a flying display at Southbourne, Bournemouth.

[Paul Reed @sommecourt]

It's the 300th Episode of @OldFrontLinePod and we look back on six years of the #podcast and retake a walk across the Somme at Pozières.
https://t.co/Of8wdIrHmN

[Breadman @BTCBreadMan]

The next time you’re feeling down, remember it's all about perspective. I got a friend who reads 2-3 books a week, works out twice a day, has no financial worries, & has people who want to have sex with him all the time & yet he constantly complains about how much he hates prison

[Grant Slatton @GrantSlatton]

have a rat getting into my attic somehow

calling exterminators to get quotes

one guy sounds like rats slept with his wife or something, guy was getting angry just talking about rats

found my contractor

[Andy Saunders 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 @1940Andy]

James Nicolson VC: the AI garbage just gets worse.

[WW2Talk @WW2Talk]

@Peter_S_Bailey Christ on a bike...
Seems like every single time when you 'test' it on something already known.
Not just bad for historiography, but indeed potentially dangerous on other real-world things.
'The AI said it was ok' - sure to be heard in court soon.

[Ben Mayne @BattlefieldBen]

The series does nothing to educate on a wider allied effort. The ‘Overlord’ episode is very US centric. Omaha and Utah featured in relation to the landing beaches only. The US airborne element is mentioned but the British is not.

Last week whilst on a @LegerBattleTour D-Day Landings tour I had an American guest. After the inland battle day and conclusion of the tour he came up to me and shook my hand. He said he didn’t appreciate just how much of the ‘heavy lifting’ was conducted by the British and Canadians around Caen against the bulk of the German Panzer Divisions. He said he appreciated the wider context far more and something that had not come across in US Histories and Documentaries.

Unfortunately this new series does nothing to address that.

[WW2Talk @WW2Talk]

@sommecourt My old man (80s) is already getting taken in by bullshit 'AI' yewchoob channels.
And he's got deep & wide history knowledge.
Stuff he's no specialist in, though - a phone call raising some absolute rubbish becoming quite common.
Chilling to me.

[WW2Talk @WW2Talk]

@sommecourt I encourage everyone to query an 'AI' on something they truly understand. Something you have 'depth' on.
Be prepared to be 'surprised' at just how diametrically wrong it usually is.

[WW2Talk @WW2Talk]

@sommecourt Horrifying, isn't it.

For truly objective maths/code things, I'm seeing some utility.
And yet on anything even mildly subjectively complex, requiring understanding connections between, and where it's plainly trained itself on other 'AI' - absolute nonsense out.