Written by deadone on 24.02.2014 at 01:53

Written by Akula on 21.02.2014 at 23:38

Night witches, for sure is dedicated to the heroic girls who fought in Stalingrad.

No.

Night Witches refers to Soviet Air Force night bomber squadrons that were crewed by women.

By "night bomber" I actually mean 2 seat Po-2 biplane trainers equipped with a few small bombs.

US/Allied forces also had problems with these things in Korea. Too hard to locate a fabric covered small target and then slow down enough to shoot it down without stalling.

Only time the USAF managed to bag one of these with a jet fighter, the recoil of the guns stalled the jet and it crashed.

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The fabric covered biplane is in fact one of North Korea's most potent weapons - hard to detect and hard to shoot down. Hence they still have a few hundred of these:

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Bare in mind the last of those An-2/Y-5 biplanes was only produced in 2002!

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Lauri Torni (aka Larry Thorne) is an absolute legends.

His character was the basis for John Wayne's character in Green Berret.

They should make a modern movie about Lauri Torni and include his time fighting the Soviets both in the Finnish army as well as the SS.


As for Sabaton, too gutless for my liking.