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Old 04-27-09, 09:26 PM   #41
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I found one for you, gunter.

Jester, the Panzerfaust and the Panzerschreck were point-detonating shaped charges. Flak jackets were only for aircrews then, too. The Red Army treated their troops as throw-away assets. They made sure that no tank went out without infantry escort. The Panzerfaust and Panzershreck were relatively short-ranged weapons, so any German soldier definitely had to have solid brass cojones to use these devices.

1 cookie for Gunter.

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Gunter, you didn't say WHY those dimensions, so only 1/2 a cookie on the Panamax question.

The length, beam, and draft dimensions are determined by the lock sizes and the depth of the water. The height is determined by the PanAmerican Bridge over the Canal.

'NOTHER QUESTION:

Another particularly nasty close-in weapon is a rehash of an old idea dating back to the Greeks, but a relatively NEW invention, actually invented in 1901. attributed to Richard Fiedler. This weapon, too, required the user to have big brass ones.

What is it? Pix, pls. What replaced it?
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