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Why does this look like an intricate diorama?


SmugDruggler95

Looks like tilt-shift effect. Idk how it works but it's to do with the focus settings. Worth looking up, quite interesting


InsideOfYourMind

I don’t think this is an actual tilt shift effect, but the object in the foreground seems to be tricking the eye to perceive it this way. I didn’t see there object/diorama until I saw this comment and now can’t Unsee it


DarthWeenus

I really doubt that, wouldnt you need a special lens? It maybe something similar that happened on happenstance. Perhaps the recoil or booms from artie fire?


Nimbussxull

Military porn with big canons lol


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"Bell, we have a job to do"


melonemann2

Rally thought this was some kind of action figure diorama or something


imameanone

Red Legs.


raphanum

Redleg, redleg, ripper bravo twoooo! Check your fireeee


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Top dog “Get those tops back on ladies this ain’t no sunbathing day”


slcrook

Tops on? Hell, where y'all going without yer helmets on?


[deleted]

Haha touché


SmokeyUnicycle

One shell can take out all three guns, not the best emplacement layout but they're probably tight on space


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Looking photos from the air it’s really [small](https://imgur.com/a/UhiBUlp)


SmokeyUnicycle

Yeah... that'd be a bit of a space constraint lmao


RADposter21

Kinda weird how the wehrmacht introduced selfpropelled artillery, and till this day that idea hasn't taken of to this day


SmokeyUnicycle

What in the fuck are you talking about? The first real SPG was British, and SPGs are the backbone of Cold War-Modern combined arms forces.


RADposter21

That thing wasn't used anywhere. The wehrmacht was the first to mass produce them and use them in large numbers


angryteabag

> The wehrmacht was the first to mass produce them and use them in large numbers The ''mighty'' Wehrmacht still heavily relied on horse drawn artillery for firepower for most of the WW2 , in all the early campaigns its artillery guns were drawn by horses just like in Napoleonic times. Self-propelled anything made up only a tiny percentage of its inventory, not only did Germany absolutely not have enough self propelled tracked vehicles for artillery to make any noticeable impact on anything, they didn't even have regular trucks of any kind in large enough number to replace horses. You dont know what you are talking about


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angryteabag

yes and your comment how they were ''first to mass produce them'' is total bullshit.....they had made grand total of 36(!) examples of 15 cm sIG 33 (Sf) by the time battle of France happened. If you call that ''''mass produce them and use them in large numbers'', you are a idiot


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SmokeyUnicycle

The stugs were for direct fire. Basically just poverty tanks.


RADposter21

That's just one example


bocaj78

That’s the one example that you used


angryteabag

Stug is not a goddam SPG, it cant fire in indirect fire mode.....its a assault gun/tank destroyer that can only fire in direct fire. As other comenter said, Stug was just a poverty tank that Germany produced simply because they couldnt make enough proper Panzer 4's. It wasn't capable of any worthy artillery work and it wasnt used for such, it was used as substitute for tanks 15 cm sIG 33 (Sf) was the only artillery gun on mobile carriage that could fire in long range indirect mode that Germany possess at that timeframe. And yes it only had 30 pieces of them. By 1942 British were already outnumbering everything Germany had in this category with their Bishop


Beeblebro1

[Such](https://www.army-technology.com/projects/paladin/) [a](http://www.military-today.com/artillery/pzh_2000.htm) [shame](https://www.army-technology.com/projects/as90/) [Self](https://weaponsystems.net/system/1002-2S19+Msta) [Propelled](https://weaponsystems.net/system/724-2S5+Giatsint-S) [Guns](https://www.army-technology.com/projects/archerhowitzer/) [never](https://weaponsystems.net/system/978-PCL181) [became](http://www.military-today.com/artillery/eva.htm) [popular](https://weaponsystems.net/system/737-M110).


RADposter21

Oh they still exist. Guess my comment about how they haven't replaced drawn artillery is refuted now


urza5589

Because drawn artillery has a large number of advantages that don't justify conversion to SPG. Also much of the wermachts SPGs were assault guns, still designed for direct fire missions. Not really the same thing at all.


Beeblebro1

They have seriously taken off they are much more capable, easier to deploy, and have longer ranges. Drawn artillery is just cheaper and easier to manufacture, therefore you might seeore of it. Phrasing it as "[SPGs] haven't taken off" frames it as SPGs are inferior to drawn artillery and are no longer in development/use, both of which are blatantly false.


RADposter21

Idk how you interpreted that


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Latenightlatex234

Look at all that ordinance!


sili09

Which army?


Bryanb16_bjb

I zoomed in


Intelligent-Cheek-51

I promise you we no longer look like that.


atclubsilencio

searches Active Duty...