Interesting Military Facts & Stories You Discovered

[stephen the barbarian]

Yup, it's a strange theory to throw around when a huge AMPV production run is just starting.

are they producing new hulls or fitting out existing hulls?

 

[Zachowon]

are they producing new hulls or fitting out existing hulls?

I think both and seeing which is better

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Regarding military things: people on the internet say things, and one of those things I saw somewhere was that the US Military has only a limited, finite inventory of Bradley APCs - and once those are gone, they cannot be replaced as the MIC is no longer able to make them. They stopped all production of that class of vehicle long ago.
@Zachowon ?

The original production run of the Bradley IFV was from 1980 to 1995, totaling 6,724 Bradley vehicles. With the post Cold War draw-down in forces, the number in active service declined substantially with many being placed in storage; later versions of the Bradley were manufactured as upgrades on existing hulls rather than new-builds, as new builds would have been a pointless waste with plenty of low mileage hulls available for upgrading.

 

[ATP]

Another compilation from polish press:

1.Polish Holy Cross mountain brigade - polish nationalist partisants,who first fought german and soviet bandits,later go to Czech without being part of german army,and finally captured german concentraction camp in Holiszów saving 300 jewish woman there from being burned alive by germans.
Later they captured few german units helping americans.Soviets demanded them,but Patton say fuck off.
Here:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://ipn.gov.pl/en/news/1057,The-Holy-Cross-Mountains-Brigade-Polish-Brygada-Swietokrzyska-of-the-National-Ar.html&ved=2ahUKEwidx4SnzrKFAxUuQ_EDHSdPAtYQFnoECDMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2I-7dBr3J-CYQjIn7yL96y

2.commies in occupied Poland practically did notching,except stealing from civilians,so they leaved very few documents - as a result,commies faked them after war - for example,taking photos of Home Army or nationalist units,and replacing heads with commies.
Or,made photos of commie army after WW2 cosplaing as partisants.
As a result,now it is not always possible to check which commie document is real,and which faked/except those photos with changed heads/

3.But,commies had their succes - they partially infiltrate polish Home Army.our counter-intel inform leaders,but they did notching.Which mean,that at least some leaders of Home Army worked for soviets.
Hard to check which one now.

 

[Buba]

I just learned that Catholics could enlist/be commissioned into the British army from 1778 already. I thought that had been enabled later.
Anybody know when the first Catholic reached the rank of general?

 

[ShadowArxxy]

I just learned that Catholics could enlist/be commissioned into the British army from 1778 already. I thought that had been enabled later.
Anybody know when the first Catholic reached the rank of general?

The earliest I can find was Martin Dillon, who was appointed to the rank of Major-General in 1878, Lieutenant-General in 1887 and full General in 1892. There were substantial numbers of Irish Catholics in the enlisted ranks, but disproportionately few were commissioned officers, and hardly any of high rank.

 

[Buba]

Thanks!
As AFAIK both English and Scottish Catholics do exist, could any had reached such rank sooner?
Or were these too few and peer pressure to convert too strong?

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Thanks!
As AFAIK both English and Scottish Catholics do exist, could any had reached such rank sooner?
Or were these too few and peer pressure to convert too strong?

In theory, sure. In practice, I suspect that if so few Irish Catholics reached high rank out of a disproportionately high number in the British military, much smaller groups are that much less likely.

 

[ATP]

Interesting action of polish Home Army during WW2.

Polish officer ,Jan poznański,who fought in France and later was trained and parachuted to Poland,made big mistake - he made friend with one neighbour,and told him that he is in Home Army and come from England.

His friend was gestapo agent.He get arrested,tortured - but,germans,instead of kill him after getting info,tried to made him their agent .he agree to found higher ups in polish underground, get free,go to his superiors,and,when he meet with two gestapo agents in coffe shop "European" - Boehme or Boehm and sidekick,probably Dolężal.
Both was schoot by waiting poles.

Poznański was send to another city,never screw up,and died during killing gestapo agent Helena Michalkowa 22.10.1943.

Interesting story - both sides made stupid mistakes,but this time we win.

 

[Typhonis]

Apparently, back in the 50's the US convinced NATO to go with the 7.62 x 51mm round. The infamous 7.62 N round. Now then as part of the deal was the US was to adopt the rifle. It didn't instead it went with the allegedly better rifle which was the M-14. A rifle that the Springfield armory had to make because the other manufacturers were not up to the quality standards.

After 5 years of service...it would be replaced with the M-16. A variant of the AR-15 that the US Army would actively sabotage during it's military development. Doing such fun things like changing the powder type used, not chroming the barrel to save money and not issuing cleaning kits. Even though Army regulations require cleaning your rifle especially in a damp, hot environment like South East Asia.

Lastly the movie, The Pentagon Wars is supposed to be satire about an idiot Colonel that wanted things done his way so he could have a bigger budget and it gets the development of the M2 Bradley totally wrong.

The M-2 was developed in response to the Soviet BMP. The Isralei army never bought any Bradley's