A good example of someone armoring a civilian vehicle in order to survive intense combat is the 1977 Clint Eastwood film titled "The Gauntlet." He turns a bus into a tank in order to withstand the complete firepower of the Arizona police. A good film.
That documentary of the first tank battle: It feels like a nature documentary because the guy who's voice you hear voiced almost every documentary that aired at the time. weather they were history or nature or documentaries. He voiced almost EVERYTHING, so you've likely heard his voice before about half a million times.
The kill dozer was so up armored that it was impervious to all the ammo the local citizens and the local police had the city was discussing calling the national guard to try and kill that thing before it drome down, it took police in using cutting torches and sledgehammers hours to break into the cockpit. If America was invaded all I can imagine is legions of civilians armed with hunting rifles, potato cannon mortars, and modified model rockets fighting an enemy infantry division.
And that’s just the civilians! Just imagine the carnage once the Air Force, marines, and army are assembled. No invasion force is leaving as anything but a shadow of its former self.
To be fair, the only way Americans would be truly happy with a gun they could carry around would be if someone made the gun from an A-10 man-portable and loaded it up with only tracer rounds.
Nah, the US doesn’t WANT Russia’s territory. It would occupy what was left of it when the dust settled for a few decades and rebuild it like it did with (West) Germany and Japan. Tho Probably as 4ish countries given the Russian Federation is still to this day better thought of as a bunch of oppressed colonies under an imperial hegemon in moscow than a single Nation-State.
Seeing how you enjoy videos on tanks and ships (and lazerpig which I also love!) I highly suggest you also check out the World of Warships channel documentary on the greek cruiser Averof. A truly amazing history, the ship is still existing today as a museum ship, and the whole story involves a rebellion over cheese
Also. I highly recommend you look into Sir Douglas Haig past the public perception because he was honestly a very interesting man who wasn't just the donkey people keep calling him. Sure he wasn't a tactical genius by any means But when you consider the fact that he had to fight a war nobody had ever seen before while trying to make sure that he keep pressure on the Germans while trying to figure out ways to break the line, while dealing with people who make you attack at the Somme with minimally trained conscripts when you wanted to attack Flanders and train the men more, he did alright, at least compared to guys who most definitely can be called donkeys. As historian Alan Wakefield once put it. "Everybody has to learn, and unfortunately trying to learn in the middle of a world war, means learning learning on the job, and that means there are gonna be mistakes made and there are gonna be heavy casualties." It's an unfortunate fact which every commanding officer had to deal with and to be honest I think we need to understand Haig more before we judge them. Unlike other certain individuals. *Cough.* Modern politician's. *Cough* superhero fanboys.
@@bradanklauer8926 How the hell did we go from Sir Douglas Haig to modern confederates? Because if you think I'm one of those people who think that the civil war was started by southerners trying to prevent government tyranny then you are sorely mistaken.
@@Baldwin-iv445 I just saw your comparison between Douglas Haig and Ulysses S Grant. If you think Grant was someone who just blindly threw his men at the enemy, just study the Vicksburg campaign. Grant's counterpart, the obnoxiously over hyped Robert E Lee, had a higher body count, 121,000 men under Lee's command were killed while 94,000 under Grant. What I will give you for your comparison between Douglas Haig and Ulysses S Grant is that outside their headquarters, they were good men underneath. As president, Grant temporarily crushed the KKK, perhaps his only victory during the Reconstruction era. After the end of the First World War, Haig, if I remember correctly, founded or at least, participated in an organization for crippled veterans. I'm sorry for calling you a Lost Causer, I just see a lot of these low IQ fuckers and their delirium.
