This cunt "judge" needs to be hanged for treason.
Barry was the draw for me, with his passing I steadily lost interest and eventually stopped watching all together. The 12th was the 10 year anniversary of his death, can't believe it's been a decade.
A lot of guntubers and youtubers are making videos on this but... it's not really that special. Trial courts don't do much judicial review of statutes unless there's clear and applicable caselaw. So Constitutional arguments are rare at that initial level (enough that defendants will sometimes plead guilty based on the facts but preserve their right to appeal based on Constitutional grounds). Even though the judge shouldn't have expressed it that way, she probably won't get her willy whacked for it.
Damn, 10 years went by quick.
Another example is the United States had done a few studies on invading Canada in the late 1800ies. Through the border west of the Greaf Lakes and east of the Rockies and concluded while it can be done, but they would suffered a very uncomfortably high number of casualties just from exposure, disease, shit happens and etc. before even encountering a single Canadian.
Othais often references the siege of Plevna where the Turks employed Winchester repeaters in .44 Henry alongside Martini Peabody's in .45 Turkish. The Turks apparently had no real issue in maintaining them for their (short) service life and apparently bought enough ammunition so it wasn't an issue. So if 19th century Turks could manage it?
The Romanian military is not now nor has it ever been considered a 'modern force'. The 2nd Balkan war was a time when poor undeveloped countries tried to field huge armies, with predictable results.
So it's less about the British Army wanting to introduce the GPMG into the section than it was the Army wanting to get rid of Minimi, which was never really able to do what they wanted it to do, mainly because of the short barrel. The Army wanted a DMR and once the Sharpshooter went into service the Minimi's days were numbered.
He's one of those guys that thinks because he gets his gear dirty rolling around in the mud larping that he's an expert on tactics.
Their last TWIG was 2 weeks ago, which is kinda weird. I guess their schedule is less weekly and more like “whenever they feel like it”.
TWIG's schedule has been more like 'whenever we feel like it or have time' for as long as I've known about it, going back to Matt's old cohost Shawn. Weekly shows are the exception, usually 2 weeks to a month pass between episodes. The podcast predates the Fuddbusters channel and was/is hosted on the Firearms Radio Network website. It actually goes back to at least 2013(the earliest episode on FRN is #9) with different hosts. Guess Matt and co. took over at some point from the original cast and never changed the name.
Logistics balancing is the real bugbear, not the effort of keeping the streams separate. It’s about the opportunity cost of providing an overlapping kind of supply without being perfectly predict what the use rate is going to be.
A good logistics system needs to be able to cope with more complicated problems than supplying mixed ammunition calibers to the section level. In WWII where the US army were able to staff logistics positions with high quality personnel they wouldn't otherwise have been able to recruit it doesn't seem to ever have been an issue.
This is lean supply chain thinking and it's fucking cancer. The fact that supply chains in certain industries still haven't recovered after covid gives a present day example of the problems with it.
Compared to Artillery ammunition, and fuel, small arms ammunition would place a fairly small demand on shipping.
I stand corrected. The idea of a bunch of Turks shooting down waves of Russians with western style lever actions in retrospect might seem a bit crazy. I read an article on militaryrifles.com which I think was a reprint of an older article that had me convinced.
British tanks used 7.92mm BESA Machine guns for the Hull and Coaxial positions well into the 1950's. The Bren gun on each tank was .303. Later on in the war the same Regiments would use 1919 Brownings in 30-06 that came with US supplied vehicles. They managed with relatively minor headaches. Their logistics problems all centered around the supply of main gun ammunition. Meanwhile the infantry were never issued the 30,000 M1 Garands that they got given by the US through lend lease.
I think German logistical problems are often misunderstood. There was a theoretical logistical system that centred around rail networks which essentially boiled down to a constant movement of equipment moving between the front line and well developed depots, maintenance facilities and factories. A system that Germany had the resources to operate, however the Army in particular fucked it up.
