#wunderwaffen

[nelc]

Arado E.555

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L-133, Wunderwaffen

[kramlabs]

Remember when a Nazi German Submarine delivered Uranium 235 and infra-red atomic fuses to the United States during World War 2?

….and then the most amazing kwinky dink happened:

2 weeks later: Oak Ridge suddenly had enough weapons grade uranium for a test (June 1945)

2 months later: Trinity (July 1945)

3 months later: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945)

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Dr. Heinz Schlicke was a passenger onboard U-234 and he showed the Americans how to use the atomic German infra red proximity fuses that were also on board the sub.

H/T: JPF

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Also just a coincidence I’m sure:

FDR “dies suddenly” at age 63, April 12 1945

Three Days later: U-234 begins delivery of uranium/atomic fuses to America, April 15, 1945

[pinturas-segunda-guerra-mundial]

1944 10 German A4 V2 Rocket

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

It wasn’t a dead end but he squandered it by calling quantum physics the “Jewish science” and getting rid of his Jewish scientists that were working on nuclear weapons research.

[midnightactual]

something that goes underappreciated in shōnen contexts is that power isn't everything

to guide your thinking on this: why don't soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, etc., look like Dwayne Johnson? well, because that's not their job. warfighters, and emergency response personnel more generally, build for endurance, not peak strength, because they need to be able to handle prolonged tactical and strategic situations, as part of a larger response apparatus. there is little to no point in training physically to be The Strongest™ if you can't sustain it

(and in real life a gun would kill Dwayne Johnson just as dead as it would Milton Waddams, so a strong physique isn't unto itself a strong survival adaptation for combat)

so, when you tune your thinking on things like this, shōnen manga situations are the ultimate in freakishness, because the setup is you inevitably have one bad guy who is super strong or has broken abilities, and so you have to raise your own local pet science project freak to beat them. it's not a generalist situation, it's a very niche one. but neither of those two freaks are actually optimal for combat or really built for most general-purpose scenarios—they're just black swan events. a Thing That Should Not Be is running amok, and so you create another Thing That Should Not Be to stop them. that's what Ichigo is, for example

Ichigo has a lot of experience by the end, but his experience is janky, his training is garbage, and his mentality is garbage: he's just raw power, and that's it. it's like giving Dwayne Johnson a minigun. yeah, maybe he can wield it whereas a normal person can't, and maybe even move and fire with it, but that doesn't actually make him more impressive than a given Navy SEAL. it just looks flashy

so, if you are the equivalent of a Navy SEAL, of course you're going to resent this Captain America wannabe coming in and doing brash, stupid things, and getting away with it because of a bunch of science hacks that made him overpowered

(to give another example: this also explains the early Halo canon of ODSTs hating SPARTANs. the SPARTANs did have grueling training, not just science hacks, but it's reasonable for the ODSTs not to know that. where it would become obvious is in actual combat) so, Yoruichi disliking Kisuke's science projects, and all the various enhancement ideas of Bleach scientists generally (such as Hollowfication) is I think quite rational and reasonable. they're cheating the system, and producing meatheads who only know how to brute force situations. there is no technique and nuance, but more importantly there is no grit (compare Rocky IV, Rocky Balboa vs. Ivan Drago)

we see this with Aizen, who at the end of the fight in Karakura is attributing everything to the Hōgyoku rather than himself and throws a temper-tantrum at being outsmarted; and with Ichigo, who never internalizes an ability to persist in the face of despair without motivation from Rukia. neither has any grit, because neither is actually a fighter, and neither is actually really in tune with themselves physically, mentally, psychologically, or spiritually. they're just lab experiments

[symbiotebadger]

The DSS indiscriminately bombarding everything and every one is the funniest possible outcomes for the game, the narrative, and Arrowhead. Seriously, genuinely, fantastic job devs. I'm not being sarcastic even a little bit. This is the best possible outcome.

Let me tell you a little history about fascist wonder weapons.

See, during the rise of European fascism in the 30s, the fascists started dumping a ton of time and resources and money into superweapon programs. The idea was that they could make a weapon strong enough to win the next war and conquer Europe if only they put enough time and money into figuring it out. Tons of resources, figuratively and literally, were poured into these programs that, at best, provided mediocre results.

The Maus, the King Tiger, the Graf Zepplin, the Bismark, Heavy Gustav, the list goes on and on and on. Each one stronger than the last. Each one capable of ending the war.

Meanwhile, the Allies built perfectly serviceable and easily manufactured machines and absolutely rolled over the wunderwaffen. They were, at best, novelties and at worst dangerous to anyone who might be operating them.

The DSS being a Super Earth Wunderwaffe is fucking amazing. Of course High Command was so blinded by the 77 Presidential Class orbital cannons that they never bothered to figure out how useful this weapon would actually be for soldiers on the ground. Of course they are going to deploy swarms of Eagles with no strategy or focus. It's about sending a message. Super Earth is the biggest, baddest motherfuckers around. Who cares if it is basically fucking useless and at best a decent tool for sending somewhere far away from you. It's literally perfect.

The community getting mad about this or thinking this is in any way an accident from the devs need to think about why this might be frustrating to the Helldivers on the ground, and the enormous loss of life in universe that came from the Wunderwaffe. Is it fun to play with? Absolutely not. But see, sometimes games are about more than fun. Sometimes they make you think. Maybe the DSS is a chance to reflect on the story being presented and share a hearty chuckle with the developers.

[nickthetoony]

I've been in a prolonged Star Wars mood recently which has coincided with me getting deep into Gundam so I've been comparing and contrasting their different approaches to similar ideas a lot, and I thought I might as well lay it all out in writing to get it out of my head.

I'm specifically comparing Star Wars to UC Gundam, starting with the original Gundam which for context began airing in 1978, after A New Hope but before Empire Strikes Back. You can see a bit of A New Hope's visual influence in some aspects of Gundam.

Both series prominently feature a laser sword of some description. "Lightsabers" in SW and "Beam Sabers" in Gundam. Other than the obvious difference of Beam Sabers being in scale with 18 meter tall mechs, there's also the difference in that the lightsaber is made out to be an elegant weapon, harkening back to a nostalgic imagining of knights and samurai, before the invention of less honorable firearms with future stories ascribing a deep cultural significance of the lightsaber to the people that made them.

The Gundam Beam Saber is in comparison a very utilitarian tool in a Mobile Suit's arsenal, usually carried right alongside rifles and bazookas. It still invokes a little bit of that knightly image, but the fact that it's usually used as a last resort weapon of desperation hampers the idea of it being a weapon of elegance or honorable combat. In a way they're more like real swords in that they're sidearms you only pull out in a battlefield when all your other options are unavailable.

Another superficial similarity they share is their masked villains, I don't think it's a stretch to assume that Char Aznable was inspired a little bit by Darth Vader. Of course, since Gundam was pre-Empire, when so much of Vader hadn't been established yet and his most notable trait was having a cool costume, the two ended up diverging into wildly different characters.

Char is a pretty young man who uses a mask to cover his identity and Vader is old and scarred and needs the mask to breathe. Vader is the main character's father and Char is completely unrelated to his main character until they meet face to face late in the show. In a way Char is kind of more similar to Kylo Ren being masked pretty boys with daddy issues though again their arcs end up wildly diverging. Kylo and Vader both end up "redeemed" but Char isn't really the kind of character who can or should be redeemed.

Somewhat related to the above, both Gundam and Star Wars have enemy factions who are meant to invoke Nazi Germany. Star Wars' invocation of German fascism (at least in the movies) is a lot more nebulous than Gundam's, communicating this analogy through visual reference to Nazi iconography while leaving the actions of the Empire more broadly as just general cartoon bad guy stuff.

The way Gundam compares the Principality of Zeon and the Nazis is a lot more specific and a lot more direct. The way the Zeon arms race plays out in the original is a direct parallel to the real-life Nazi wunderwaffen projects, where the Third Reich's internal friction and investments in ludicrous super weapons ended up costing them more than they gained, contributing to their eventual defeat. Gundam also takes place in our future (or atleast a future envisioned in 1978) so the real Nazis existed in this world and Hitler is brought up as a direct comparison to the original show's big bad.

(Writing this out, I had the thought that you could draw the same comparison between the Death Star and the wunderwaffen program, but idk if Star Wars itself has ever drawn that comparison.)

Another point of comparison is that both series heavily feature mystical, psychic powers inspired by the spiritualist movements of the day. The Force for Star Wars and Newtypes for Gundam. The Force is cribbing a lot aesthetically from eastern spiritualism while Gundam takes a lot more from the visual ideas of psychedelia.

The Force is far more concrete and straightforward than Newtype-ism. A magic energy field that can be used to perform great feats of power, and which has birthed two established sects of thought that are both treated as ancient. Force users are also clearly demarcated into Good and Evil camps, with specific powers and abilities locked behind a character's individual morality.

Newtypes in Gundam are very different from Sith or Jedi though. Rather than representing an ancient struggle of good vs evil, Newtypes represent a supposed evolution of the human soul, when humanity can communicate to each other psychically in an era where miscommunication is impossible. Supposedly.

Because whereas in Star Wars, the conflict of the Force is one of primordial good and evil, the conflict of the Newtype is one of heightened spiritualist ideas butting up against the mundane reality of different people operating under different and conflicting motivations. There aren't dark or light side Newtypes in the way that Force users are categorized, all of them share the core ability to bridge physical limitations to understand each other on a deep intimate level, but does that matter when their material conditions are inherently at odds? What happens when two people understand each other perfectly and they still have to fight and kill each other?

My last point of comparison is between the two "heroes" of both series. Luke Skywalker and Amuro Ray.

In a way, they're very similar characters. Both start out as young boys living relatively comfortable-if boring lives who are Called To Adventure and eventually awaken to their special powers to become great soldiers of their respective wars. Both are defined by the legacy of their fathers. Both are coming of age stories.

Where I find the comparison between them very interesting is the comparison of Luke at the end of his character arc (in The Last Jedi) and Amuro at the end of his (in Char's Counterattack). Luke in TLJ is a sad disillusioned old man who has failed in his attempt to rebuild the order that had been entrusted to him and who has stagnated into a miserable grandpa. For many longtime fans of the character this was a shock, and apparently for a lot of people felt like a disappointing betrayal. Because Luke was the Hero of The Rebellion, the Return of The Jedi. He was brave, and true, and more than just a normal man. So to see him so impotent felt wrong for many people.

I find it interesting that Amuro (subtler than Luke) also ends up in a similar spot, but in a way that feels far more appropriate to his character and to the tone of the narrative.

Because Amuro was not a hero. He was a child forced to become a soldier far younger than he should've been. Pressured by the dire, apocalyptic world surrounding him and the societal pressures of masculinity that hound him. Luke's inheritance from his father was a Lightsaber. A weapon of a great shining order which eventually was mutated by the Disney movies into a sort of Excalibur wielded only by the worthy virtuous heroes. Amuro's inheritance was the Gundam, the Devil's Machine, the first in a long line of military weapons, the image of which would haunt him for the rest of his tragically short life.

Amuro had at one point been a war hero, then a rebel fighting against the corrupt and self-interested Federation that had eagerly turned him into a human weapon. But his childhood of violence eventually left him no choice but to be subsumed into the military hierarchy he had at one point attempted to break free of. In terms of combat skill, Amuro was the best of the best by the end of his arc, but he had failed in every other regard. His Newtype abilities, once seen as a gateway to a future without misunderstandings, were now honed for violence. His final words ones of dumb confusion as he failed to understand the feelings of his enemy.

Luke gets the benefit of a Rey. The ability to once again become heroic and good and brave, to inhabit the comforting role of a gallant knight. And this step in his characterization is still met with confused hostility by most viewers. Amuro does not receive a similar luxury. He dies young and suddenly, with only the suggestion that his actions will eventually make things better, but it feels right with his character even for how unsatisfying it is.

Again, I don't know if I really have a coherent point with this post. Apologies if you've read this far and felt like I have wasted your time. For now, I think my main conclusion is that it's interesting to see how two different kinds of science fiction (heroic science-fantasy VS military sci-fi) approach similar ideas. I think the reason Luke's arc in TLJ fails for many is that the story of the original trilogy was fundamentally unfit to handle it. It's tacking on an unsatisfying tragedy onto a conventional, simple Hero's Journey rather than building on the foundation of societal critique the way Gundam does with Amuro.

Anyway. Bye.

[warsofasoiaf]

What army do you think is the most overrated in history?

As with all questions about "overrated" and "underrated," the question is, who is doing the rating? Being "overrated" or "underrated" means evaluating someone's judgment, while being "bad" or "good" means evaluating performance. The latter is far easier to evaluate.

Take for example, the Mongols. The Mongols were an exceptionally good army, one of the best in history for a whole host of reasons including their highly exceptional C2 system. But in "The Death that Saved Europe," Cecelia Holland argues that Ogedai Khan's unlikely death was the only thing stopping the Mongols from conquering all of Europe to the Atlantic Ocean, and this just doesn't stand up to scrutiny when evaluating their performance in Hungary and Poland. The Mongols struggled with European stone-walled castles, and moving further into Western Europe would only see the castle density increase. They're still incredibly good, but that's a clear case of overrating.

Or by contrast, take the Red Army in the Winter War. By all conventional metrics, the Red Army was absolutely abysmal in performance - poor tactics, poor leadership, poor equipment. Yet Adolf Hitler thought that they were so garbage that all he would need is a swift kick in the door for the rotten foundation of the Soviet Union to collapse like old scaffolding, and it very clearly did not. Clearly, that was a case of underrating the army. By contrast, modern non-military historians frequently overrate the performance of the Red Army in the Second World War to the point of parody, omitting the exceptionally high levels of unnecessary casualties stemming from poor military performance.

But if I had to pick, I'd either pick the Iraqi Army of Saddam Hussein or the current Russian military, which has largely inherited its weakness from the Red Army.

The Iraqi Army of Saddam Hussein was considered the 5th strongest army in the world, with a formidable array of tanks, aircraft, and missile defense systems. Using primarily Soviet equipment, it was believed to be by far the most powerful regional hegemon in the region despite it's rather lackluster performance against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War. In practice, the officer corps was extremely nepotistic and poorly-trained. The T-72 was shown to be an underperforming tank compared to modern Abrams, the Soviet missile systems proved unable to detect stealth fighters or handle Wild Weasel SEAD missions, and the aircraft were poorly maintained and their pilots even worse. At Medina Ridge and 73 Easting, Saddam's ground forces were poorly organized and sent into complete disarray. Far from being a million strong legion that could enforce its will on the region, it was a hollow, rotten tree trunk about to be struck by lightning.

I've already spoken at length about Russian weakness in the current Russo-Ukrainian War, but it's extremely indicative of systemic weakness when a so-called Great Power army is incapable of performing multi-theater combined arms warfare in the 21st century. This has been a staple of warfare and an overriding design feature of military equipment for decades now. Russia's much-vaunted hypersonic missiles are being intercepted by old Patriot AD systems, turning them into yet another Wunderwaffen. Their technology is not even comparable to last-gen systems and their troops incompetent. For a military that was vaunted as the second-most powerful in the world, its diminished capacity has shown it to be far inferior than numbers would suggest. Its vaunted tank fleet are vulnerable to old anti-tank weapons down to bargain-bin fwoop tubes. Its aircraft can't be stealthy and can't secure airspace even against a vastly inferior airforce. It's sole aircraft carrier is more of a floating environmental disaster whose maintenance log reads like an SCP entry. The T-14 Armata and Su-75 Checkmate are vapor-ware projects established primarily, it seems, to embezzle money for more dachas and yachts. Worst of all, its logistics corps are so deficient that countless Russian soldiers are dying from easily treatable injuries. This was supposed to be the mightiest army in Europe and the military leader of the non-Western world, the lynchpin of the "new multipolar world order," the army that was to defend the Motherland against NATO. It's losing badly to an army that wasn't even ranked in the top 20 by military observers using a combination of legacy Soviet equipment and the stuff that NATO found in the back of the toolshed.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[francaistoutsimplement]

Footage Shows One of the Last Leopard 2A6 Tanks Destroyed in Kursk

(Sources : https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/ukraine-losing-abrams-fast et https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/leopard2a6-destroyed-footage-kursk

Les Wunderwaffen qui devaient consacrer la supériorité des armes de l'OTAN sur les russes et emmener les ukrainiens nazis au 7° ciel ne semblent pas en grande forme...

[freyjaofthenorth]

sees one (1) short from mythbusters that says "war is bad, yo"

youtube algorithm, immediately: military?? military stuff?? wanna see the new tank that is definitely gonna be ukraines wunderwaffen this time?? military history?? wanna learn about swedish fighter jets?? war sure is cool right!

[spockvarietyhour]

[kramlabs]

Link

Vox Day commentary: link

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The real Manhattan project:

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Stefan Molyneux on Oppenheimer: https://fdrpodcasts.com/5228/the-truth-about-oppenheimer

[temkinlifuturist]

Wunderwaffen

Çizgiroman okumayı ve çizgiroman dükkanlarını gezmeyi çok severim. Yine bu gezmelerden birisinde raflarda WUNDERWAFFEN adlı dergi boyu bir çizgiromana rastladım. Alfa Yayınları tarafından Türkçeye çevrilmiş ve basılmıştı. Eski nesil uçakları sevdiğim için sayfalarındaki görseller ilgimi çekmişti. Çizgiromanın çizilme tarihi 2011. Bu nedenle dehşet bir taraviri kolleksiyonuna sahip dostumdan yardım istedim ve elindeki taraviri malzemeyi edindim. Kolleksiyonun biraz eksikleri olmasına rağmen seri hakkında fikir edinmemi sağlamıştı.

Serinin yazarı Richard D. Nolane. 1955 doğumlu Fransız yazar-çizer.

Dergi Fransız Soleil Yayıncılığın çalışması. Bu ekip “ikinci dünya savaşı bu şekilde bitmeseydi bugün neler yaşardık” senaryosunun pek çok versiyonuna çalışmış. Ekipte ana çizim MAZA’ya ait. Ancak ilginç bir şekilde Sırp kökenli çizerlerin desteği yoğun. Jovan Ukropina, Zeljko Vladetic, Desimir Miljic, Desko, Marko Nikolic.

Digikore Studios çizimleri renklendirmiş. Bu stüdyo grafik renklendirme, VFX üzerine grafik animasyon stüdyosu. Çizgi roman, bilgisayar oyunları ve film görsel efektleri üzerine çalışıyor. VFX üzerine çalışan ekibin hemen hepsi Hintli. Jumanji, Stranger Things, Transformars, Titanic 3D, Vortex, Expandables, Ninja Turtles, Need for Speed, Hayalet Sürücü, Deadpool gibi pek çok sinema filminde çalışmış. Holivut’un vazgeçilmez firmalarından. ( https://digikorevfx.com/ )

Wunderwaffen’de Ana çizer olarak MAZA adı geçiyor ve bazı çizgiroman sitelerinde 1924 doğumlu Kübalı sanatçı Heriberto Maza olduğu yazılıyor. Soleil Yayıncılığın sayfasında MAZA nın kim olduğu konusu muallakta bırakılmış. Azıcık karıştırınca bu çizerin 1965 Bosna-Hersek doğumlu MAZA olduğu ortaya çıkıyor. Yine de asıl adını bulamadım.

https://mazastrip.blogspot.com/

Wunderwaffen birkaç alt seri ile birlikte yayınlanmış.

Wunderwaffen 25  sayılık, 21. Sayı Mayıs 2023’te yayınlanmış – İlk sayısı 2012 de yayınlanmış.

Wunderwaffen -Mission Secrets -3 sayı  (2019-2021-2022)

Wunderwaffen – Spaca Reich – 5 sayı – 2015 -2017-2018- 2019- 2022 ye aralıklı yayın

Wunderwaffen – Zeppelin’s War -  4 sayı -2014-2016 – 2018- 2021

Serinin yaratıcısı Nolane ve Maza’nın dünyasında  takvim 1946 yılında durmuş. Normandiya çıkarması başarısızlığa uğramış. Savaş havada sürüyor. Almanların güç uğruna savaş teknolojisinde başlattığı yarışa Amerikalılar, ucundan Fransızlar ve bozguncu olarak İngilizler katılıyor.

Maza’nın havacılık terminolojisi, uçaklar, uçuş tarihi, uçuş teknolojileri konusunda oldukça kapsamlı bir bilgisi var. Uçak modellerini çok iyi yansıtmış. Savaş sahneleri göz alıcı.    

Ağırlıklı olarak savaş sanayinde ortaya çıkan fantastik denemeleri, devamlılığı olmayan veya üstü örtülmüş çalışmaları göz önüne çıkartan bir öyküleme. Wunderwaffen tarihi değiştirebilecek konseptlere ve uçak tasarımlarını inceleyen, havacılık temalı bir dizi olarak tasarlanmış.

What if

Eğer böyle olmasaydı, zamanın akışı nasıl olurdu çeşitlemesinin Nazi Almanyası ve Hitler karakteri üzerindeki örneklerinden birisi. Nazi Almanyasının bütün karakterleri (Gobbels, Goering, Hesse vd) her macerada boy gösteriyor. Askeri olarak Alman ordusu, araçlar, rütbeler, olay kurgusu çok iyi çalışılmış. Sonra da gerçek zaman akışı Normandiya çıkartmasında kırılarak “eğer ollmasaydı ne olurdu” senaryosu yazılmış.

Bu seri ile ilgili pek çok eleştiri var. Nazi propagandası yaptıkları iddia ediliyor. Seriyi oluşturan ekibin ağırlıklı Sırp kökenli olması şüpheleri arttırıyor. Nazi Almanyasının görkemi, kudreti, gücü resimlerde yansıtılıyor.

Ancak komplo teorilerini kıran bir durum söz konusu. O da bütün görsel Nazi ihtişamına karşın, öykü senaryosu, anlatılanlar, kahramanların konuşmaları bu etkiyi köreltiyor ve başka tarafa akıtıyor. Ciddi bir sistem eleştirisi var, Hitler saplantılı bir ruh hastası olarak kimlikleniyor, Hitler, Himmler’in kuklası halinde, etrafındaki herkes güç sarhoşu ve kişisel çıkarlar peşinde. Diğer taraftan Amerikan, İngiliz ve Fransız başkanları ve diğer siyasetçilerin kirliliği, çıkarcılığı, sahtekarlığı, kumpasları epeyce ortaya dökülmüş. Churchill’in entrikaları, Amerikan Başkanı Lindberg’in Hitler özentisi güç yönetimi epeyce kurcalanmış. Bir tek De Goulle hakkında yandan çarklı yaklaşımlar var.  Malum dergi Fransız kökenli. O kadar da olsun.

Seride Nazi Almanyasının askeri teknolojide yaptığı gizli çalışmalar senaryonun taşıyıcı parçası olmuş.

Ben okuduğum kadarıyla ilginç buldum. Hatta bazı tarihi olaylar hakkında hatırlatmalar iyi oldu. 

Teknolojinin NİYE insanları yok ederken bu kadar ilerleyebildiğini yeniden fark ederek hafifçe ürperdim.

İyi ürpermeler.

[captain-price-unofficially]

New Russian antidrone wunderwaffen revealed

[korrektheiten]

Keine Flugabwehr-Wunderwaffen für die Ukraine: „Skyranger“ kommt nicht in die Gänge

Zuerst:»Berlin/Kiew. Trotz „Zeitenwende“ und 100-Milliarden-Sondervermögen hat sich bei der Bundeswehr nicht viel geändert: Neubeschaffungen von Gerät dauern viel zu lange. Jüngstes Beispiel ist das hochmoderne […] Der Beitrag Keine Flugabwehr-Wunderwaffen für die Ukraine: „Skyranger“ kommt nicht in die Gänge erschien zuerst auf ZUERST!. http://dlvr.it/TGJVc1 «