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I'm not going to name it, but there's a Harry Potter fanfic out there that takes the harem genre to heights (or depths) never equalled before or since. He manages to shag pretty much every named female character in the books, Hogwarts (it's a genius loci), a couple of members of the Royal Family, a...

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  Chapter 1: The Hunt The rifle pressed slightly against the Advisor’s shoulder, kicking up hot, dark-yellow sand around its barrel as he fired. Hundreds of yards downrange, a barely-visible figure collapsed onto the rocky sand. Seconds later, another shot. Seated cross-legged on the ground next to ...

Prologue Nobody knew what happened. Well, this wasn’t true. Everyone knew the basic facts: for some reason, the dead no longer stayed dead. If somebody died – in a car accident, from flu, it didn’t matter – they didn’t stay dead. Within a few minutes or so after their brain ceased functioning, they...

During the Chechen Wars, the Russians employed a mean little device called the NVU-P. It was linked to microphones in the soil to hear the footsteps of approaching men and then triggered bounding landmines to kill them. It became known, eventually, that the (primitive) electronics inside the NVU-P w...

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Now I have fairly radical right-wing views. But I think that people who attack 'safe spaces' and oher such verbiage forget a few important things. It's true that safe spaces have in some cases been abused both directly (by people deplyonig them to shut out disagreement) and conceptually (by arguing ...

For a variety of reasons - some of them wanting to protect industry from competition, others, like people stated, wanting to keep the colonies subservient, and partly as a natural outgrowth of their efforts in the colonies, the British often actually held back developement in the colonies. Herbert S...

To the original point: Modern tank guns are equipped with electronic fire control systems. Once the range to the target (and several other variables, such as wind speed) are input, incredible accuracy can be achieved. For many decades, the issue with tank guns has not been the ballistics of the proj...

It's worth noting that stabilization while on the move is best to be described as "firing during short stops". It's not really possible to predict what bump you'll hit next, but stabilizers do help a lot. So it's now possible to fire during short stops where previously the rtank gun would ...

The problem with the concept of killing tripods with indirect artillery fire in 1898 is that indirect fire artillery requires communication with an observer that can correct the fire of the artillery in terms where the rounds are actually falling and what effect they're having on the target. This is...

The zombies in Walking Dead are fairly non-dangerous.

The crew are in such trouble because they keep doing dumb things and are very low on supplies.

It should be trivial to butcher large amounts of these zombies if you can scavenge for supplies even on the scale that the Nathan Hale has.

You should only field extra types of weapons if existing ones cannot do the job, otherwise improving the existing types, or replacing them with entirely better models, is a far superior solution. That isn't a modern thing or even a gunpowder thing, it's been true through history. But it hasn't been...

I think 2-3 SMK prototypes were used in the war, which was another multiturreted tank. On a more broad front, Soviet command was at first very inept at both the strategic and the tactical level, and their troops were not - initially - prepared to deal with the Finnish defensive system which was very...

The trenches would have to be recent. Assuming there's not some really advanced trench-digging tech avaialable (not seen on-screen), trenches tend to deteriorate over time. (Even in frozen ground they could get filled in with snow and ice which would no doubt then become a solid mass). The general p...

They got to a point of promoting new guys only to then purge them later, yes. There were obviously some survivors though, but they actually killed more commanding generals than they had at the start. This also includes retired guys. And guys they fired, and then shot. Another perspective - if you d...

P.S. During the building of the so-called Stalin Line, several of the artillery bunkers were unable to be fitted with artillery because the NKVD officers responsible for planning the Line planned the concrete bunkers with firing slits too narrow to accommodate the guns that were meant to be mounted ...

To illustrate During the 1930s, a star rose in the Soviet arms production system. His name was Kurchevsky. http://morepic.ru/images3/srtje5kyjnaeh5jmukj6_4612.jpg He believed that in the future, all Soviet artillery and guns would be replaced with recoilless guns. Recoilless guns of his own inventio...

The Galactic Empire had come to power through a coup and was run by a literal totalitarian religious madman. Now history shows us - there is a classic, though a bit flawed, book, called The Psychology of Military Incompetence that shows that authoritarian personalities (and one can hardly imagine a ...

To add to what has been said: Yes, some of the measures which rebel forces take at the battle of Hoth look like they're not particularly planned. The whole "try to trip mecha with ropes" thing doesn't strike me as something that a trained professional force would do - a professional force ...

I don't know if I would want to be driving a tank at 90 kilometers per hour in a confined environment such as the build-up starport in the first post. The limited vision field of tanks makes it sound like a recipe for disaster. Also I think that it's fair to assume that if you have tanks fighting in...

I have just registered specifically to comment on this thread. Here is what I believe is a logical take on this scenario: 1. Let us assume momentarily that the vehicles function more or less like vehicles IRL do, i.e. most major combat tasks are carried out by their crew, and the crew need to observ...