Comments on: Russians rage on IS-4 video

By: Mr.White

Mr.White — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:14:41 +0000

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles!

By: Not SerB

Not SerB — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:10:48 +0000

It was more like “A tiny group of Russians troll using the IS-4 video”. They successfully trolled you, SS.

By: xiantom

xiantom — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:46:04 +0000

China was in the Han dynasty during the Roman Empire. Iron has appeared during the middle of the Warring States but was not adopted because it was expensive. Not the ore itself, but to make it usable, charcoal was needed whereas wood furnaces were able to melt bronze. That was the biggest reason why iron was not big in China until after the Qin Dynasty. Forging at the time was a relatively new idea and much more expensive than casting. When you arm your men to the tens of thousands, cast bronze was better and cheaper than cast iron while being much cheaper than forged iron. Yes, the ore would be cheaper, but the furnace is much more expensive to run.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:42:02 +0000

N. Koreans kind of still live under a rather aggressively oppressive regime which kind of thing tends to make people rather proficient at concealing their actual opinions. The Russians don’t, Putinist kleptocracy nonwithstanding.
Also ever heard of a little something called “destalinisation”?

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:23:45 +0000

Not terribly relevant as tanks *themselves* tended to suffer relatively little from air strikes (unless they took a direct hit from a bomb or rocket or somesuch, and good luck withstanding *that*). The main value of those was forcing them into evasive maneuvers and generally distrupting their operations, shredding the assorted much softer support vehicles that kept the steel cans in fuel, ammo and spare parts, and often enough panicking the crew to the degree of bailing out – the Germans apparently noted that few things unsettled even veteran tankers as readily as ground-attack strikes.

By: hey

hey — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:09:47 +0000

FFS when will people understand it’s not russian people moaning, it’s the fucking decades of brainwashing of people, that Iosif Stalin was an angel and Soviet Union was the best thing that could happen in this world. Same applies for tanks. Russians tanks are the best in the world! thats what the brainwash propaganda told them!!

You expect North Koreans to say there is a better country than theirs? or military equipment?

By: SVL

SVL — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:59:55 +0000

Okay, SS, it’s very simple case – fucking bad translation. I don’t know who did it, but English (original version) is not offensive at all and I was surprised WTF are ppl raging about. But then I listened to the Russian (translated) version and it is indeed offensive but that’s not Chieftain’s fault, the translation is horrible, whoever did that should never be allowed to do that again.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:59:50 +0000

“And the IS3 was a rubbish tank as well.”
so rubbish that three western tank designs quickly appeared in the 50′s to directly counter it, copying some of it’s major features.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:51:56 +0000

double edged sword here

remember that less sloped Armour means more paper thin roof.

By: Captian Nemo

Captian Nemo — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:03:04 +0000

We are an equal opportunity flame here at FTR.