Thread 64369027

I just think they're neat.

>>64369036
imagine the smell

This thread is approved by the US War Department:
*Blocks your path*

What heck did you just say about me, you misguided fellow American? I'll have you know I graduated middle of my class at West Point, and I've been involved in numerous logistical planning sessions, and I have over 3000 confirmed miles of railroads i've built. I am trained in logistics and I'm the top organizer of artillery in the entire Union Army. You are nothing to me but another wayward fellow American. I will slowly fortify my position while reinforcing my reserves the likes of which you have never seen. You think you can get away with retreating from me? Yes you can, i don't want anyone to get hurt. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of railroad executives across the Union and telegraph lines are being hung right now. I am the immovable wall that will just stand there and thwart you. You're in need of uniforms, rifles and shoes kid. I can be in one place, all the time, and I can out supply you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my pen. Not only am I extensively trained in logistics, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Army of the Potomac and I will use it to its full extent to educate you as to why you are wrong to fight me, you misguided fellow citizen. If only you could have known what unholy logistical build up your little "clever" rebellion was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have have looked to your own supply lines. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you fools. I will build fortifications and field hospitals and you will envy them. I hope you guys come out ok from this war and as many of you get home as possible.

>>64369818
The only mortal human Dorn would have respected.

>>64369800
>>64369803
>>64369817

>>64369882
He seems to be highly observant, physically fit and in a well defended position.

Avoid him until his loyalty can be determined, if he isn't on our side use overwhelming force to eliminate him. If he is on our side hand him a gun and ask him where the closest foe is.

28cm gun made in 1889 by Krupp, installed at Oscarsborg fortress in Norway.

>>64370794
I can see something that looks like a surface radar on the roof of the observation bunker in the background.
Is it still an operational facility, even if it's not military?

>>64370928
The facility itself is a museum, but that radar could have been installed in the 90's for all i know, the fort was active to 1993 and used as an officer school until 2002. If that radar is still active it's probably used by coastal authorities to monitor maritime traffic.

Yes.
more pics

>>64370786
>>64369800
I like how things going from wood to all metal makes them look modern.

>>64370786
>>64370794
Is that what sank the Blücher?

>>64369051
>14" sandy hook
now THATS a school shooting.

>>64374933
The almost 30 year old Whitehead torpedoes finished it off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ79i11JSnU

>>64369818
>2025
>simping for McClellan

>>64375160
Get some shoes and medical care rebel.....Oh wait you can't.

French Canon de 120 mm modèle 1878 used by Finnish army in 1941.

>>64369027 (OP)
Anti-aircraft guns are significantly older than the airplane

you do know how to calculate balistics without electronics, right anon?

>>64376346
Look, you just accuracy thru volume with a spotter, you dont even need optics or math, just send and correct. Fuck the cops, they can't unverdun your field.

M1890 12 inch Coastal Defense Mortar my love

>>64369027 (OP)
I got webms.

>>64369818
holy based

>>64376479
>>64369027 (OP)
would these do more damage than modern guns?

>>64376680
Not really, the explosive is not as strong and the shells were usually timed so they blew up too early or too late most of the time.

>>64376680
A modern gun of equivalent caliber? No.

Very few countries use big guns anymore because guided missiles fill that role better in most situations. It's expensive to keep that shit in service for whatever niche uses cases they are useful for.

>>64376346
don't you need a bunch of fuckhuge pre-calculated tables for that?

>>64376680
>modern guns
as in Glock 17? Sure.

>>64376634
>>64369818
"CONFEDERATE CAVALRY could be here" he thought, "I've never built railroads in this part of Virginia before. there could be CONFEDERATE CAVALRY anywhere."
The warm air of his planning tent felt good against his face. "I HATE CONFEDRATE CAVALRY" he thought. The hymn of the Battle Song of the Republic reverberated his entire tent, making it flap as cheap Quaker canned coffee circulated through his thin and unknown to him somewhat weak veins and washed away his (merited) fear of Jeb Stuart after dark.
"With Trains you can go anywhere" he said to himself, out loud.

>>64370928
The torpedo battery was kept operational up until the late 80s

>>64376479
>>64376483
Do you have the webm of that german battleship point blank shelling a port?

>>64369036
>>64376388
>coastal defense mortars
Wouldn't it be extremely difficult to hit a moving ship with mortars?

The mortar's hit rate on moving targets would have been low, but enemy ships also lacked machines that could continuously calculate changes in firing parameters, making long-range firing while moving difficult at the time.
It could fire from inside defensive walls and terrain obstacles without the bulky mount of the disappearing gun.

I dare anyone in this thread to come up with a way to get past an entrenched Army of the Potomac under George McCellan using the technology and manpower of any nation extant in the age.

The CSA never even considered it in any real sense, if he was defending an objective neither side could get him to move. The man did a multi stage amphibious invasion under rapidly canging conditions during the Peninsula campaign which was the greats US amphibious operation until D-Day and established a unassailable beachhead.

If you don't want to kill people unnecessarily then McCellan was right, his only flaw was that his strategy would require that the people of the Union were not capable of sustaining his tactics indefinitely to the shame of them and the entire Union war effort.

Given enough time McCellan's strategy is obvious; wear them down with superior numbers, weapons, logistics and superior everything. The fact that his high opinion of your average American (both Union and Confederate) was unjustified does not reflect poorly on him. He thought better of us and we failed.

McCellan didn't fail the USA or even the CSA, the people of both failed him. He thought we were up to a higher standard than we were and we have been suffering for that failure ever since.