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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Razgovory

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August 22, 2025, 03:57:28 PM
I just looked a larger map of these.  Turkey and Peru have the same symbol, as does Paraguay and France.  I hope they never fight, they might forget who's on which side.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

grumbler

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August 22, 2025, 03:59:48 PM Last Edit: August 22, 2025, 09:27:37 PM by grumbler
Quote from: Josquius on August 22, 2025, 02:19:02 PMInteresting.
Why did Austria use the iron Cross?
And does the use of roundels actually aid targeting? (I suspect not as they're so small, but I wonder if there's been a study showing a small blip)

Roundels were chosen because they could be so easily distinguished from the Central Powers crosses.

They are too small to be aids to targeting, especially as compared to the easy-to-distinguish point where the wings intersect the fuselage.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Norgy

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August 22, 2025, 04:05:31 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 22, 2025, 03:51:15 PMI always found roundels confusing.  Sometimes the plane is camouflaged, but they still put colorful symbols on it?

It's to identify it for friendlies, really.

I live in a town where three people got Iron Crosses during World War II. Not sure if I am proud of that.

The Austrian-Hungarian military relied heavily on Germany after a while, so maybe that is where the iron cross comes from?

We can't all, like Blackadder, be in the Women's Auxilliary Balloon Corps.
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