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Tigers from 501st Heavy Tank battalion move into defensive positions during the start of Operation Bagration under heavy Russian rocket fire.


German infantry from the 256th infantry division wait in there trenches for the Russian onslaught.


501st Tiger awaits the inevitable Russian tanks in a camouflaged position


Germans troops look on towards the Russian axis of advance...anxiously.


Russian troops dismount there BMP-3's during the invasion of Ukraine.


Ukranian BMP-2's burn after being hit by Russian air attacks

To put it simply I am not getting the exclamation point for notifications below my avatar anymore, what settings do I need to mess with to get it back?

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Command Modern Air and Naval Operations During Action Report-

I am going to be starting a DAR on this little scenario for CMANO, which tasks us with tailing an Al Qaeda informant to a rebel base in Somalia, once identified we will neutralize him and surrounding targets. I am in command of Task Force Maverick which is composed of an Wasp class carrier and a shiny new LCS Combat ship, the USS Independence.

Mission Briefing-



Lets take a look at our forces, we have a Wasp carrier and a brand new Littoral Combat Ship, she will be our only escort ship for the carrier, but since were up against Al Qaeda I am not expecting a strike on my task force.





Aside from advanced SEARAM missiles used to intercept aircraft and missiles she also has an extremely impressive sensor and electronic warfare array, along with a Unmanned Firescout Helicopter drone we will be taking full advantage of.

Fire scout unmanned helicopter drone-



The fire scout is great because it houses an advanced thermal imaging package that should help in finding the bad guys at the air field, along with designating target fors my strike package from the carrier. Speaking of the Wasp, what does she have going for her?

Wasp Carrier specs and compliment-





So we have about two companies of marines ready to rock in four ospreys, two Harriers and a pair of super cobras as as a strike package ready as well. Once we find the targets the Harriers will go in to pound any AA and the super cobras and marines will go in to secure what ever is left, a sound plan I think, but no plan survives contact with the enemy.

Super Cobras AV-8B Harriers, and Ospreys currently stationed on wasp-







Overall strategic view of the situation-



So that is the situation, I intend to update this thread as I play hence the name "During action report", you guys can kind of dictate what I do as long as it isn't to silly, so pop a comment or question and I will do my best to answer/carry it out in-game.

So any questions, comments concerns?

I just defeated her but, that boss fight man...and the cut-scene...that hit me really hard. Few games can really get me where I live...but that one did it.

Anybody else get that feeling from it?

Germany has a better plan this time, we attack during winter, Russia won't expect that.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/12/18/congress-again-buys-abrams-tanks-the-army-doesnt-want.html

The new defense spending bill includes $120 million for tanks that the Army has repeatedly said it doesn't want.

For three years, the Army in numerous Congressional hearings has pushed a plan that essentially would have suspended tank building and upgrades in the U.S. for the first time since World War II. The Army suggested that production lines could be kept open through foreign sales.

Each time, Congress has pushed back. Last week, Congress won again in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2015.

In a statement, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said that Congress "recognizes the necessity of the Abrams tank to our national security and authorizes an additional $120 million for Abrams tank upgrades. This provision keeps the production lines open in Lima, Ohio, and ensures that our skilled, technical workers are protected."

Turner chairs the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee and will retain that position in the next Congress. The General Dynamics Land Systems plant in Lima, the only U.S. manufacturer of tanks, is in the district of Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

Turner's office did not respond to several requests for comment on why Congress went against the recommendation of Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, to suspend tank production.

Todd Harrison, a Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments analyst, said it was open to question whether the Army and the Marine Corps needed more tanks on top of the estimated 9,000 already in their inventories. However, he noted that it was not unusual for Congress to go against the military's recommendations on the budget.

"It's just one example and it's not unique to this year," Harrison said. "In some cases, Congress is using its appropriate role of oversight. In some cases, Congress can act out of purely parochial interests."

The tank debate between the Army and Congress goes back to 2012 when Odierno testified that "we don't need the tanks. Our tank fleet is two and a half years old on average now. We're in good shape and these are additional tanks that we don't need."

I like Abrams tanks as much as the next guy, but this really is getting silly. The Abrams M1A2 SEP is the most recent upgrade for the Abrams, to do that they need to install a new electronics suite and a few other bells and whistles, making more Abrams chassis is stupid because we haven't even upgraded our entire fleet to the most current model yet. Its getting to the point where there are just heaps of tanks sitting out in a lot somewhere collecting dust, because we don't need half of them. A high intensity conflict that see's us deploying 3,000 tanks is pretty hard to believe.

Some of you are probably wondering why we don't sell them, well we can to Saudi Arabia and a few other select countries, but those are export models and they already have plenty apparently. As for US Army Europe, US Army Korea, those tank fleets should already have the best of the best, making new tanks isn't helping anyone...at all. There is a lot of fat we can trim from our defense budget, and it wouldn't be hard to start with this.

What some could argue is the most infamous tank ever invented, the Panzerkampfwagen ausferon VI H otherwise known famously as the "Tiger". It was nicknamed by its German crews to scare its enemies and it stuck.

The Tiger sports an 88mm gun capable of defeating Allied Shermans and T-34's (The most manufctured and used allied tanks) at a range of up to 2 miles, its 100mm frontal armor is impervious to the Shermans low velocity 75mm cannon up until point blank as well. The Tiger first burst onto the World War 2 stage in Leningrad where it faced off against the famous T-34. The T-34 was no match for the Tiger at long ranges as its 76mm gun was not powerful enough much akin to the Sherman. It achieved remarkable success in Tunisia as well in 1943, the allied tanks had trouble fighting on the open desert plains, however there weren't enough to make a big difference. The Tiger also had plenty of teething problems during Leningrad as it actually entered service there as a prototype, it would often get stuck, and engine maintenance needed to be improved during the brutal winter. Some of these problems would be alleviated by 1944, but by then the Tiger was losing its advantage.

The infamous 88 Flak/Anti-tank gun, it was fitted to the Tiger (The 88 was organized into flak batterys, in certain cases during early Barbarossa, they would be rushed to the frontline to help eliminate KV-1 heavy tanks that were impervious to pretty much everything except it) -

A great gif of 88's in action- http://fat.gfycat.com/TartAgileFieldmouse.webm

Tigers were organized into separate heavy tank abteilungs (German for Battalion), so special was the Tiger that they were handed out piece meal in these battalions as divisional level assets. The Tiger was designed as a breakthrough tank, so where ever you saw a tiger, more than likely you were in the path of the German main effort. However, converse to that is the fact that you were actually pretty lucky or indeed unlucky to even see a tiger, in fact only about 1200 were made, contrast that with 8500 Panzers 4's, this fact makes Tiger panic even more interesting, a point I elaborate on towards the end of this post.

Much like the Panzer 4, the Tiger to went through alterations and versions, in Leningrad it was a prototype, learning from that the Germans adopted a few changes. The most major change was a lowered cupola, this change was made because the tigers cupola stood out a bit to much, the alter models had the hatch swing to the side instead to reduce profile, and also added a periscope for the commander to look through instead of the cupola windows. The Tiger tank was also one of many German tanks equipped with the Nahverteidigungswaffe (German for self defense system. This allowed the Tiger or other tanks to fire defensive smoke, or offensive mines about 5-10 meters in front of the tank. One last important change was the addition of "zimmerit" an anti magnetic mine coating, ironically none of Germanys enemy's used magnetic anti tank weaponry, the only thing they had to fear was the capture of those munitions from them.

Tiger 1 Early model with high cupola-

Late Tiger 1 model sporting Nahverteidigungswaffe close defense system and new cupola (Note how the hatch now swings to the side)-
Panzer 4 "H" (The side plates on the Panzer 4 H usually took the blame for making it look like a Tiger, those plates are designed to detonate shaped charge warheads fired from bazookas, or help stop AT rifle rounds)-

However the Tiger had its own fair share of problems both in its mechanical workings and of course the enemy's new weapons. For one it was simply over engineered, to build a Tiger it took a lot of hours and a lot of materials to make a Tiger, to the point where it was inefficient. German industry can be blamed in part for this because each part was made in a separate factory halfway across the country but this also helped out because allied bombing raids really couldn't stop tank production completely. Its tracks were hard to dismantle and replace, the transmission would fail and if a Tiger got stuck it took a lot of work to get it free, it was simply to heavy weighing in at 60 tons. As the war dragged on the tiger would meet its match with the new soviet tanks like the T-34-85 which was more than capable of dealing with it frontally at a comfortable range, and the IS-2 with its 122mm cannon that could crack it open like an easter egg two miles out. The Americans and British learned quickly as well, with the British adopting the Sherman "Fire fly" a Sherman that was retro fitted to fit the 17 pdr AT gun, which was more than capable of taking a tiger on a mile out. The Americans however had tank destroyers like the Hell cat, and up-gunned 76 Shermans that with special ammunition equipped were a match as well. These tanks were for the most part ready in 1943 and were fought with until the end of the war.

American "Hell cat" tank destroyer (Note the large 76mm gun, Hell cats usually carried a special round known as HVAP, which stands for high velocity armor piercing, this was a special round that could defeat tigers a mile out)-

Soviet T-34-85 (The T-34-85 is an up-gunned T-34 that mounts a modification of the soviet 85mm AA gun, most importantly the turret now can hold a commander and gunner independently. On the T-34-76 the commander acted as gunner and commander, now he can command the tank separately reducing work load)-

American 76mm Sherman (Note the increased turret space in the rear to accomodate the 76mm gun)-

Russian IS2 (Note the massive 122mm howitzer mounted as the main gun, contrary to popular belief the IS-2 wasn't designed necessarily to kill big cats like the panther and Tiger, it as well as the tiger was a breakthrough tank).-

British Sherman Firefly (Britain: Fixing American equipment to make it better from the Sherman to the Apache gunship) Note: The paint on the upper half of the barrel was an attempt to break up the silhouette of the gun so a firefly would be hard to tell from a normal 75 equipped Sherman. Also the radio is now mounted behind the turret in that bustle you see to accomodate the 17 pounder gun-

Although the Tiger was later outmatched and became obsolete its legacy lives on as one of the most feared armored vehicles in history. Often normal Panzer 4's would be mistakenly called Tigers, leading to Tiger "panic" which was literally a panic caused by someone identifying (or misidentyifying) that a Tiger was on the battlefield, which was caused by its terrifying reputation. I can't find another tank with that kind of infamy. From the sand swept dunes of Northern Africa to the streets of Berlin, the Tiger is the symbol of the panzer, and it is going no where any time soon.

Today there is only one surviving completely intact Tiger, Tiger 131 in Britain's Bovington tank museum, it was abandoned by its crew when a shell struck and damaged the turret traverse, the culprit was a British churchill, punching a bit above its weight. Tiger 131 can also be seen in the movie "Fury", it is the only movie where an actual working Tiger tank is shown moving around.

Tiger 131 (The only operational original Tiger tank in the world, note the damage below the gun where the 75mm shell hit and jammed the turret traverse)-

Fury Tiger 131 (As seen in Fury, note the tree limbs used as camouflage)-



Well first post, and many more to come, hopefully you learned something. Also don't be shy to ask me about posting on a topic you want to see!

Title says it all, lets hear it.

I get mine usually from BBC, EuroNews, MSNBC, Slate, Salon, Huffington Post, NY times, and Al Jazeera, yes I lean a bit left. If I do get my news from the other side (Just to see the perspective) its usually in a newspaper like the New York Post or I catch an article I see on the Yahoo news feed from a conservative leaning website.

Well lets get this show on the road, and what better way to get a show on the road then with a Tiger! No not the animal, the tank, which is far cooler and more vicious. My first WW2 tech post back on Bungie was actually on the Tiger, so this is poetic I guess...if a thing that blows people up in horrific ways can be poetic. Were not here to talk about that though, we want to hear why its awesome and how it kills people in those horrific ways!

*Now with 100% more and cooler pictures!

What some could argue is the most infamous tank ever invented, the Panzerkampfwagen ausferon VI otherwise known famously as the "Tiger". It was nicknamed by its German crews to scare its enemies and it stuck, it stuck like a magnetic mine on a T-34, but thats for another post  .

The Tiger sports an 88mm gun capable of defeating Allied Shermans and T-34's at a range of up to 2 miles, its 100mm frontal armor is impervious to the Shermans low velocity 75mm cannon. The Tiger first burst onto the World War 2 stage in Leningrad where it faced off against the famous T-34. The T-34 was no match for the Tiger at long ranges as its 76mm gun was not powerful enough much akin to the Sherman. It achieved remarkable success in Tunisia as well in 1943, the allied tanks had trouble fighting on the open desert plains, however there weren't enough to make a big difference.

The infamous 88 Flak/Anti-tank gun, it was fitted to the Tiger (You thought it was only supposed to shoot at aircraft? you thought wrong!) -

Nice 88 gif- http://fat.gfycat.com/TartAgileFieldmouse.webm

Tigers were organized into separate heavy tank Abteilungs (German for Battalion), so special was the Tiger that they were handed out piece meal in these battalions as divisional level assets. The Tiger was designed as a breakthrough tank, so where ever you saw a tiger, more than likely you were in the path of the German main effort. However, converse to that is the fact that you were actually pretty lucky (If you want to call it that, I am sure allied soldiers didn't) to even see a tiger, in fact only about 1200 were made, contrast that with 8500 Panzers 4's and you will see that you were one unluck SOB to run into it. This fact alone makes the Tiger panic I mention towards the end even more significant.

Panzer 4 "H" (If you have your body stuffed into a fox hole in France and you tilt your head to the side, you too can probably mistake the Panzer 4 "H" for a Tiger!)-

However the Tiger had its own fair share of problems both in its mechanical workings and of course the enemy's new weapons. For one it was simply over engineered, to build a Tiger it took a lot of hours and a lot of materials to make a Tiger, to the point where it was innefficient. German industry can be blamed in part for tihs because each part was made in a separate factory halfway across the country but this also helped out because allied bombing raids really couldn't stop tank production completely. Its tracks were hard to dismantle and replace, the transmission would fail and if a Tiger got stuck it took a lot of work to get it free, it was simply to heavy weighing in at 60 tons. As the war dragged on the tiger would meet its match with the new soviet tanks like the T-34-85 which was more than capable of dealing with it frontally at a comfortable range, and the IS-2 with its 122mm cannon that could crack it open like an easter egg two miles out. The Americans and British learned quickly as well, with the British adopting the Sherman "Fire fly" a sherman that was retro fitted to fit the 17 pdr AT gun, which was more than capable of taking a tiger on a mile out. The Americans however had tank destroyers like the Hell cat, and up-gunned 76 Shermans that with special ammunitin equipped were a match as well. These tanks were for the most part ready in 1943 and were fought with until the end of the war.

American "Hell cat" tank destroyer (Note the large 76mm gun)-

Soviet T-34-85-

American 76mm Sherman (Note the increased turret space in the rear to accomodate the 76mm gun)-

Russian IS2 (See how big that gun is? yeah don't get hit by that, the Russians weren't known for there subtlety)-

British Sherman Firefly (Britain: Fixing American equipment to make it better from the Sherman to the Apache gunship) Note: The paint on the upper half of the barrel was an attempt to break up the silhouette of the gun so a firefly would be hard to tell from a normal 75 equipped Sherman. Also the radio is now mounted behind the turret in that bustle you see to accomodate the 17 pounder gun-

Although the Tiger was later outmatched and became obsolete its legacy lives on as one of the most feared armored vehicles in history. Often normal Panzer 4's would be mistakenly called Tigers, leading to Tiger "panic" as some soldiers called it, I can't find another tank with that kind of infamy. From the sand swept dunes of Northern Africa to the streets of Berlin, the Tiger is the symbol of the panzer, and it is going no where any time soon.

Today there is only one surviving completely intact Tiger, Tiger 131 in Britain's Bovington tank museum, it was abandoned by its crew when a shell struck and damaged the turret traverse, the culprit was a British churchill, punching a bit above its weight. Tiger 131 can also be seen in the movie "Fury", it is the only movie where an actual working Tiger tank is shown moving around.

Tiger 131 (The only operational original Tiger tank in the world, note the damage below the gun where the 75mm shell hit and jammed the turret traverse)-

Fury Tiger 131 (As seen in Fury, note the tree limbs used as camouflage)-



Well first post, and many more to come, hopefully you learned something. Also don't be shy to ask me about posting on a topic you want to see!

Hi people Its been a while, its nice to see some of you guys again! If you don't remember me that's ok, I was the guy who made all of those World War 2 posts, its great to see a community site that's actually based on the old layout of Bungie, I am impressed. Although I only recognize like two people since the rest of you have anime names and pictures its good to be back haha!

Do all of you only post here or do you occasionally still post on Bnet? I have started to do my daily facts over there still, but I definitely see more new faces than old.