Interesting Military Facts,Incidents,Trivia etc You Want to Share

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Share Interesting Military Facts,Incidents,Trivia etc you can find.

1.After the Pakistani shelling of Indian town Dwarka,during 1965 war,about 40 shells were recovered unexploded,and the carried the mark "INDIAN
ORDNANCE"; these were dated from the 1940s before the Partition of India into India and Pakistan.

2. The Polish Iskra Trainer aircrafts of IAF (now retired)were operationally deployed during the Kargil fighting. Aircraft equipped with the front gun and 57mm rockets flew to Srinagar to carry out Anti-UAV missions wherever required. The Iskra was the only armed aircraft that could operate at slow speeds in the constraints of the forward areas. The Kiran MkII with its 7.62mm Machine guns was deemed to be too lightly armed for the role.

3)The United States has 737 military
installations overseas alone.

 

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4)While the Hiroshima atomic bomb was being built in New Mexico all applicants for menial jobs at the plant did not get a job if they could read.
This was because the US authorities didn't want staff reading secret papers.

 

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5)Indian army has a horsed cavalry regiment. It is among one of the last 3 such regiments in the world

6)India's Military Engineer Services is the largest construction agency in the
country. In times of war, MES can provide accessory services such as military roads, water and electricity
supply, drainage, refrigeration, furniture, required by the Army, Navy
and Air Force in India like no other agency.

 

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7) Battle of Kiev is the largest battle of encirclement in history.Germans took 665,000 Soviet prisoners. (that's almost the size of Pakistan Army). Five Soviet armies were annihilated.

Battle of Kiev (1941) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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8) “Dora” is the biggest gun ever made. Its caliber was 31.5 inches. Sixty railway carriages were needed to transport its parts. Its 107-foot barrel ejected high-explosive projectiles of 4800 kg over a distance of 29 miles. Or it could hurl even heavier armour-piercing missiles at targets nearly 24 miles away. The missiles together with its cartridge measured nearly twenty-six feet in length, the height of a two-story house.
“Dora” was able to fire three rounds in one hour. The giant gun stood on two double rails. Its operation, protection and maintenance required 4120 men. The fire control and operation alone included one major-general, one colonel, and 1500 men.

 

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8) “Dora” is the biggest gun ever made. Its caliber was 31.5 inches. Sixty railway carriages were needed to transport its parts. Its 107-foot barrel ejected high-explosive projectiles of 4800 kg over a distance of 29 miles. Or it could hurl even heavier armour-piercing missiles at targets nearly 24 miles away. The missiles together with its cartridge measured nearly twenty-six feet in length, the height of a two-story house.
“Dora” was able to fire three rounds in one hour. The giant gun stood on two double rails. Its operation, protection and maintenance required 4120 men. The fire control and operation alone included one major-general, one colonel, and 1500 men.

Schwerer Gustav is other name...

 

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Yea two guns made with the same specifications. One called Dora the other Schwerer Gustav but only Dora saw combat. It was used against the fortress of Sevastopol.

 

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9) According to Manstein the Soviet offensives of 1945 were based on a ratio of 400 guns to every mile of assault front. (revenge )

 

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^^^Thanks for the contribution mate!
10)In 1980, the computers of the Strategic Air Command in Nebraska
indicated that the US was under attack missles launched by submarine. Within minutes, more than 100 B-52 bombers loaded with nuclear bombs
were on their way to the Soviet Union. Fortunately, it was quickly discovered
that the computer made a mistake. The culprit was a comuter chip, which cost
46 cents.

11)The French purchased aircraft from the Wright Brothers for scouting befor
the United States did.

12)More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions, your chance of being killed was 71%.

 

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@acetophenol though the idea was good but your thread is not taking off....

13) A word on the contribution of Germany's allies to the outcome at Stalingrad.
Soviets executed a classic encirclement to trap Sixth Army at Stalingrad i.e a double envelopment. Both pincers were launched from the sectors held by Rumanians. In the north 3rd Rumanian Army was overrun and in the south Soviets broke through the sector held by 6 and 7 Rumanian Corps. Earlier when reports of Soviet build-up against these sectors were coming Hitler remarked "If only this front were held by German formations I wouldn't lose a moment's sleep over it." But no German reserves were available.
Later when a relief attack was launched to try and save 6th army, Russians got a breakthrough in the sector held by Italian 8th Army. The new situation meant that 6th Army had to be sacrificed.

 

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^^^Thanks for the contribution mate!
10)In 1980, the computers of the Strategic Air Command in Nebraska
indicated that the US was under attack missles launched by submarine. Within minutes, more than 100 B-52 bombers loaded with nuclear bombs
were on their way to the Soviet Union. Fortunately, it was quickly discovered
that the computer made a mistake. The culprit was a comuter chip, which cost
46 cents.

11)The French purchased aircraft from the Wright Brothers for scouting befor
the United States did.

12)More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions, your chance of being killed was 71%.

I think No 10 thing happened to soviets too. Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As a reward, he was given a land line connection with immediate effect (there was a 3 year waiting period for others)...

 

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The Russian Ekranoplan looks like an aircraft but it only flies a few metres above water. Translated the Russian name Ekranoplan means sea skimmer and this is exactly what the Ekranoplan does. The Ekranoplan is what is known as a Ground Effect Vehicle, it operates on the principle of wing in ground effect, where the air gap between a wing and the ground is small enough for the air to be compressed.

Born out of the Soviet Unions Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau it was developed by their chief designer Rostislav Alekseev. Several different Ekranoplan's were developed from 1961 to 1990. Since the fall of the Soviet Union many of the design team from the CHDB have formed a new company with plans to develop new craft for passenger and cargo usage. Also 11 small 5 passenger craft were constructed between 1995 and 1997, they were used in trial commercial operation in USA and the Bahamas.

The benefit of Ground Effect Vehicles is they can carry very heavy payloads economically at fast speeds. This is one of the reasons the former Soviet Union invested in their development as they were seen as
military benefit, one added bonus in flying low just above the water is they can keep below enemy radar. The largest Ekranoplan could transport over 100 tonnes of cargo and would use less fuel to cover the same distance of an aeroplane at the same speed.

The largest Ekranoplan called the KM was built in 1967, it was dubbed the Caspian Sea Monster after the sea it was on when first seen by the west. It was almost twice the length of a Boeing 777-200 but as with all Ground Effect Craft it need only half the wingspan. At over 100 m long, weighing 540 tons fully loaded, the KM could travel over 400 km/h mere meters above the surface of the water. Once moving at speed, the Ekranoplan was no longer in contact with the water, and could move over ice, snow, or level land with equal ease.

The important design principle is that the wing lift reduces the further above the surface of land or sea that the ekranoplan "flies". Thus its dynamically stable in the vertical dimension.

These craft were originally developed by the Soviet Union as very high-speed (several hundred km/hour) military transports, and were mostly based on the shores of the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The largest
could transport over 100 tonnes of cargo.

The term ground effect vehicle is often misapplied to hovercrafts, which use fans to form an air cushion (hence the correct term air cushion vehicle) rather than relying on true ground effect. they are also confused with hydrofoils which were also developed by the same Russian design Bureau. Similar in operation, Hydrofoils are more like a boat with wing