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It was also one of the nicknames of this WW2 brute.
A Stuka divebomber with two dirty great anti tank/flak guns strapped on with gaffer tape and prayer. Now to be fair, being German it was very good gaffer tape and very precise prayer. 😁 In the right hands it was a very effective anti tank/transport/emplacement/shipping weapon(as the Stuka was in general). It was one of the main inspirations for the American A-10. Post WW2 and with the newly minted threat of the Soviet Union rolling masses of tanks into western Europe, as part of the brief for aircraft(and other things) they turned to the only people who happened to have engaged with rolling masses of Soviet tanks before, even if they'd been on the wrong side(then again without a certain W Von Braun and his friends that One Small Step for a Man, would have been a lot longer. Some selective amnesia required...). Though outclassed by single engined fighters even at the start of WW2, it was one of the more survivable bombers and before more advanced post war aiming systems, far more accurate than pretty much anything, could sustain crazy amounts of damage and keep flying, could take off from a ploughed field in a remarkably short distance and was easier to repair than most and easier to fly. As the war went on the Germans added more and more armour around the pilot, not unlike the armour in the A-10. A relatively slow, ability to loiter, hard to kill with a big gun and plenty of bomb racks scalable and an ugly but purposeful airframe was one of the things that gave the world the USAF A-10.
As I noted earlier about that many kilometres long Russian convoy in Ukraine, if a squadron of the above Stukas had seen a Soviet convoy like that in 1943, or had flown through a time warp they would have thought all their Christmasses had come at once and would have had a field day. At the time that did worry me for the Ukrainians as a target that big not being blown to bits suggested they were fantastic at defence, but offence was lacking. Where were their artillery, tanks, flanking infantry and so on. Thankfully that really seems to have changed since then and they are pushing back against the Russians remarkably effectively. They seem to have kept their powder dry until they knew the lay of the land and with that knowledge are kicking their enemy's arse. 👍️ Long may they continue on that course and kick their arse to the fúck off back to your now economically, militarily and politically fecked craphole negotiation table.
/Aside
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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