Does anyone know the reason why Poland and other Euro countries seem to have zero towed artillery? Is there a doctrine reason for this I am missing or something?
Does anyone know the reason why Poland and other Euro countries seem to have zero towed artillery? Is there a doctrine reason for this I am missing or something?
Towed arty is MUCH more vulnerable to counterbattery than SPGs.
Hence the question might be - why do other European armies still have towed arty in 1st line units?
Yes.Here's a question that I was wondering: is there a naval equivalent of a thermobaric weapon, or could an actual thermobaric weapon be installed to a naval vessel?
So any kind of torpedo would do?Yes.
A torpedo designed and set to detonate right under a ship's keel makes a thermobaric bomb look nice. That'll lift the target ship (at least partially) out of the water and then drop it into a hole in the water and break the keel along with practically everything else she's got.
No.So any kind of torpedo would do?
Okay. I would have to find out the names of those kinds of torpedoes, and to see if they're already in active service.No.
It has to detonate under the keel and be a specific kind of "near miss".
They have been in service since 1917 (or earlier).Okay. I would have to find out the names of those kinds of torpedoes, and to see if they're already in active service.
Without the US basically saying "don't worry, I've got this." the rest of NATO would have been either much better prepared or would have been completey wiped out.Just how much weaker would NATO have been in the immediate post-WWII time period if the US would have returned back to isolationism after the end of WWII for whatever reason(s)?