"harry" wrote in message
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On Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:28:07 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 26/11/2015 10:47, Rod Speed wrote:
Another John wrote
harry wrote

Came across this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_..._VW_Type_1.jpg


Very good Harry! I always knew that the A10
(tank buster) fired "rounds the size of milk bottles"

Never seen any 30mm milk bottles.

(and at about 4000rpm), but I really hadn't
envisaged the size of the mechanism!

I can't help thinking that the world would be a much better place
(though
less interesting for me) if the American arms industry didn't exist
:-(

Could have been rather more 'interesting' for you if the krauts had
prevailed.

The Americans didn't win WW2 despite Hollywood.

It they had decided to stay out of WW2 entirely,
you lot would either have eventually decided
on a truce, or would have been occupied.

The Russians did more than the USA by a long stretch.

But were only able to do that because of the lend
lease stuff that the US provided them. Without that they
wouldn't have survived to be able to do that stuff later.

Drivel.

We'll see...

The Russians produced the best tank the
world had seen and in greatest numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34

And they wouldn't have been able to do that
without the assistance the yanks gave them early
on that ensured that they got to do that later.