Comments on: Parade of the Rubber Army

By: Meneldil

Meneldil — Fri, 30 May 2014 02:50:11 +0000

The french built a fake, wooden Paris in 1916. That beats a couple plastic tanks IMO.

By: mr_clark

mr_clark — Thu, 29 May 2014 23:22:43 +0000

So a nice oddity with most likely no real value but the radio games. At least the British “Ghost Armies” pretending to wait for an attack on Calais delayed German intervention on the Invasion Beaches for several weeks.

But seriously, the part on Brest was silly. Especially the thing about “almost ten thousand lost” when the Allies barely lost four thousand. The City was well defended because the Germans weren’t idots, and had their share of supply lack experiences. They knew the Allies needed to take Harbour facilities, and that it was virtually impossible to attack the Brittany ports from the sea. Hence landward facing entrenchments.

By: RedShocktrooper

RedShocktrooper — Thu, 29 May 2014 18:58:31 +0000

Considering the limitations of satellites and drones, it seems entirely possible that an Inflatable Army of sorts would still be possible.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Thu, 29 May 2014 17:56:22 +0000

More like the other way around, as the AMX 40 was designed before the war.

By: Dark

Dark — Thu, 29 May 2014 17:13:57 +0000

Ayep XD If you want i can scan photos of all three examples form my mini book on El Alamein :P

By: Hustodemon Zewel von Lelek

Hustodemon Zewel von Lelek — Thu, 29 May 2014 14:56:55 +0000

reminds me of the joke about a certain Soviet tractor… :D

“On USSR-China border, five chinese tanks attacked a soviet tractor. The tractor returned fire, and after it destroyed all attackers, it flew back to the USSR.” :D

there is an artist who depicted the joke: http://roen911.deviantart.com/art/mean-while-in-soviet-Russia-336200056 :D

By: lemonizzle

lemonizzle — Thu, 29 May 2014 14:55:11 +0000

Now we know where did the French got their idea to create an amx 40

By: UNDEAD_DC

UNDEAD_DC — Thu, 29 May 2014 14:35:17 +0000

I hope they wont be added in WoT…
Enhough tomatoes crying about no armor already…
But nice article, I want on of thoseXD
The ultimate light tank

By: CaptianNemo

CaptianNemo — Thu, 29 May 2014 14:06:40 +0000

They hid the City of Alexandria. The Suez they just blinded anyone stupid enough to fly near it.

By: anonymoususer

anonymoususer — Thu, 29 May 2014 13:48:48 +0000

Awesome read man. I can only imagine how tedious and hard to organize all that work was. And secretly!

And to think today we have satellites that will detect even well dug underground bunkers.