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6/25/2025, 2:30:48 PM
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>The 1950s and 1960s joke went "an american and a russian general are sitting in paris after ww3 and one says: so who won the air war?"
we only have Tom Clancy's word for that
and I submit that he was writing fiction based on the 70s equivalent of Wikipedia, not actually sitting down with NATO generals, so I know who I'll take between the two
>Airpower wasn't enough. It took tactical nukes to counter the tank rush strat
no; pre-microchip it was fucktons of missiles; pre-missiles it was fucktons of various HEAT weapons (the recoilless rifle ruled during that brief period, thus giving us the likes of the RPG, Carl Gustav, the Wombat, the Ontos and its chibi Japanese knockoff)
which merely continues a WW2 trend that began with the ~7.92mm Antitank Rifle and ended with the M3 90mm
nukes sort of developed in parallel, arguably
>The 1950s and 1960s joke went "an american and a russian general are sitting in paris after ww3 and one says: so who won the air war?"
we only have Tom Clancy's word for that
and I submit that he was writing fiction based on the 70s equivalent of Wikipedia, not actually sitting down with NATO generals, so I know who I'll take between the two
>Airpower wasn't enough. It took tactical nukes to counter the tank rush strat
no; pre-microchip it was fucktons of missiles; pre-missiles it was fucktons of various HEAT weapons (the recoilless rifle ruled during that brief period, thus giving us the likes of the RPG, Carl Gustav, the Wombat, the Ontos and its chibi Japanese knockoff)
which merely continues a WW2 trend that began with the ~7.92mm Antitank Rifle and ended with the M3 90mm
nukes sort of developed in parallel, arguably
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