Steven Carleton

@Tank_Archives The Kirov started as a crucial Czarist armory, one of the first in Russia. The Bolsheviks expanded it to produce heavy armor. Unlike the vast works centered around Kharkov, Kirov's machine tools could not be moved to the Urals during the nazi invasion. It survived the siege.

#OTD in 1941 the Kirov factory was allowed to cease producing spare parts for the KV-1 to focus on setting up KV-3 production. This decision backfired two months later when the Germans invaded and the KV-3 was not even close to completion. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

@elonmusk Humanity isn't dying. This will be the real driver of robotics. Simple folks will just move up the value chain, as happened with the early industrial age. We will live longer, work less, and let automation do the grunt work. What will folks do with such long future lifespans?

This collective suicide of humanity needs to turn around!

@ShangguanJiewen No, the PRC subsidizes its roughly 100 hundred EV car 'ventures'. Its totally against the WTO, but the PRC doesn't care. The CCP has flagged EVs as strategic and so it must dominate by any means necessary. Thanks bot.

The real reason you can't get Chinese EVs in the USA, is that US brands can't compete with the speed of Chinese innovation. Chinese engineering would wipe out US companies. That's how far ahead China is, technologically.

@XueJia24682 You mean a massive real-estate boom and crash? Enormous office towers and apartments abandoned and empty? These can be seen from space. The PRC's central planning has run amok. Why not let the Chinese people work the market system they invented so long ago?

✨🇨🇳Xi Jinping:To build a modern socialist country in all respects, we must, first and foremost, pursue high-quality development. Development is our Party’s top priority in governing and rejuvenating China, for without solid material and technological foundations, we cannot hope to build a great modern socialist country in all respects.

@Urgent_Russia24 Nations like Azerbaijan, centered around the massive oil and gas fields of the S. Caspian, are extending pipelines to the EU. The Republic of Türkiye plays a major role. Russia will be short-circuited, forcing it to become a vassal state of the PRC. Few Russians support that.

🇷🇺 Russia cuts off Kazakh oil deliveries to Germany via the old Soviet Druzhba pipeline. The move is seen by Moscow as payback for Germany's ban on Russian crude. Putin responds in kind...

@WWIIpix Lucky it didn't set off the ammo. Tanks are going to get hit. If the vehicle gives the crew a strong chance to survive, well...there's always more tanks.

North of Cologne, Germany, a knocked out American M26 Pershing tank, hit by a Nashorn tank destroyer, March 1945. The projectile penetrated the lower front armor, passed between the driver's legs and set the turret on fire. The entire crew bailed out safely. #WW2

@saorbats @Tank_Archives They could tow vehicles back for service with 'headless' tank chassis or heavy tractors. Perhaps @Tank_Archives could explain, but the Red Army by 1943 was quite good at quickly repairing tanks. Was this done in the field, or at central depots?

@Tank_Archives Do the soviets have tanks transports? I know they used trains but what about when fight was not near a railroad? Engines will die before they get into the enemy.

#OTD in 1942 the People's Commissar of Tank Production announced considerable rewards for anyone who could increase the lifespan of the T-34's engine. The top prize aimed at a lofty goal of 350 hours of service with lesser awards for 300 and 250 hours. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

@Tank_Archives Not exactly capitalism, but incentives do drive innovation. The short engine life was due to imprecise parts. As Soviet industry learned mass production and quality control, they began to see micron precision. Parts became truly interchangeable across factories.

@Tank_Archives Stalin was very involved with the major Soviet weapon programs. But despite the propaganda, I don't think he pushed anything not supported by STAVKA and the Military Council. Not true of Hitler. His desperate late-war mania had no bounds, according to Speer's memoirs.

#OTD in 1945 the Red Army captured the hulk of the sole complete Maus tank which the Germans demolished because it broke down during their retreat. The tank sat there for months until someone realized it didn't look like any known type of German tank. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

@Zydus44 @HistoryArcs Germany didn't wait. The Italian invasion of Greece had been another of Mussolini's disasters. Along with, the new unstable state of Yugoslavia had just suffered a pro-western coup. Hitler needed to secure his Balkan flank before the greatest land invasion in history commenced.

@StevenCarleton9 @HistoryArcs 1. Germany and Italy were allies at that point. 2. Why would Germany wait for a British invasion of Greece?

👨🏻 🇮🇷 Adolf Hitler's Gift to The King of Iran Hitler personally sent a signed portrait photograph of himself to Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah (King) of Iran and founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. This gesture was part of the warm diplomatic and economic relations between Germany and Iran during the mid-1930s, when Germany was Iran's largest trading partner and provided technical and industrial assistance for modernization efforts. The text reads: "His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shahanshah of Iran. With the best wishes, Adolf Hitler." The signed photo remains preserved and displayed in the Sahebgharanieh Palace within the Niavaran Palace Complex in Tehran to this day.

@laGoyyim @Zydus44 @HistoryArcs I could accuse you of the same. Even after Mussolini's govt was dissolved by the Italian sovereign, a German special forces op rescued him. Hitler put him in charge of a rump govt in N. Italy until partisans strung up he and his mistress upside down in Milan in 1945.

@StevenCarleton9 @Zydus44 @HistoryArcs Basically you typed it in google and chatgpt and copied and anjusted the first few sentences lol. The relationships is complex. People say he was like a mentor to mussulini because he kinda mirrored the "dictator" position of him eventually. Later on their relation deteriorated.

@Zydus44 @HistoryArcs Quite true. Franco refused Hitler's request to go over to the Axis side, barring German forces from attacking Gibraltar. Spain was getting huge amounts of US oil and was vulnerable to Allied naval power. He did send a volunteer division to fight in the East.

@Zydus44 @HistoryArcs Well I'm not Jewish, but check your history. Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were close allies in the 1930s.

@Tank_Archives Yes, and I know they had high octane (leaded) gas for their combat aircraft.

@StevenCarleton9 Not all, many were diesel powered. The Matilda, Sherman, and some Valentines used diesel. The Red Army also had gasoline for its trucks and aircraft. Anything that didn't take diesel could run on that.

#OTD in 1943, after more than a year of using British tanks, the Red Army composed a report on its experience. These tanks were slow moving and hard to service. A recommendation was made to only use them in the south, as they were unsuitable for winter. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

@elonmusk SpaceX even launches LEO sat packages for Kuiper, the US competitor to Starlink. I'm sure it would be happy to support constellations for foreign nations too, if it isn't already.

It’s a start. Vastly more will be needed to extend consciousness to the stars.

@Tank_Archives Artillery always could engage tanks, with armor-piercing shells, fired over sights or with guided indirect fire. Tanks had weak top armor. A nearby HE shell burst could sever the tracks. Scattered German artillery batteries frequently had to face Red Army tank charges.

Trials of Soviet heavy artillery against armour began #OTD in 1941. It turned out that 122 and 152 mm guns made fine anti-tank weapons in a pinch. This knowledge that came in handy when powerful guns were needed urgently in 1943. #artillery #history #WW2 #WWII

@Eng_china5 He's on his last term. Of course in a dictatorship, the successor is a secret. The people aren't entitled to know who the next ruler will be. Scary

Xi Jinping is described as having a kind of strategic power—knowing when to apply pressure, and when to let opponents exhaust themselves over time.

@_MaxQ_ @NASASpaceflight Will this exceed the volume of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building?

SpaceX's Gigabay in Florida is coming along pretty well, ain't it? 😉 📸 - @NASASpaceflight

@BarackObama This is getting boring. Political parties take over, gerrymander, and then the courts step in. Can't the US do any better?

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@Korea_NorthTV Well you don't consider S. Korea to be a legitimate country so your drive to assimilate it wouldn't count as a foreign threat. But you are most certainly a dictator, and a strange new form of monarchy and deity, which your subjects must worship or perish.

Kim Jong Un The U.S. wants Greenland and the entire world’s oil China wants Taiwan Russia wants Ukraine’s territory But I don’t want a single piece of any nation’s land I’m minding my own business in my own country Still, the world calls me a dictator.

@RussianSpoof He just hates Ukrainians - nice

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