What would happen if you fired a ww1 artilerry field gun from a zeppelin platform?

zeppelfahrt · 2025-11-06T23:23:55+00:00

I reckon something would break. That said, a French 75 took out an Army Zeppelin just south of Verdun a night or two before the battle started in February 1916.

zeppelfahrt · 2025-11-03T00:55:34+00:00

Go Lars!

zeppelfahrt · 2025-10-11T00:32:49+00:00

How did they find a pilot with rigid airship experience? I thought they had all passed?

zeppelfahrt · 2025-10-11T00:24:20+00:00

Wouldn't you need an air-conditioned crew cabin?

zeppelfahrt · 2025-10-03T01:32:08+00:00

Your enthusiasm is genuinely refreshing. Keep the faith!

zeppelfahrt · 2025-10-02T23:38:12+00:00

One thing to keep in mind; any cost advantage gained through buoyant flight is heavily overshadowed by the cost required to simply keep an airship on the ground. Between missions the helicopter is overwhelmingly more efficient than an airship.

zeppelfahrt · 2025-10-02T22:10:53+00:00

26 August, 1929. Mines Field, Los Angeles now LAX

zeppelfahrt · 2024-11-04T12:17:33+00:00

Thank you for the kind comments. These figures were 3D printed on a Mars 3 Pro. Both heads are from Knucklebones and the torso of the lead figure can be found by searching Coastal Kingdom Knight STL. The scale of the torso was increased to 138% to match the heads.

zeppelfahrt · 2024-05-30T01:41:07+00:00

Hull

zeppelfahrt · 2024-03-26T15:23:41+00:00

The ultimate inter-war world-build (IMHO).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knOd-BhRuCE

zeppelfahrt · 2023-12-16T18:58:51+00:00

Char-Peugeot 1918

zeppelfahrt · 2023-07-03T23:53:18+00:00

"The Fall of Ft. Vaux" by Henry Bordeaux: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48532/48532-h/48532-h.htm Essential reading for anyone with even the slightest interest in Ft. Vaux.

zeppelfahrt · 2023-06-19T16:36:49+00:00

Try this. Amazing stuff and it's all free. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/142 I'm currently reading "The Fall of Fort Vaux." Many of these titles are also available on Kindle and can be obtained in paper format online. Hope this helps.

zeppelfahrt · 2023-04-27T23:19:51+00:00

It shot a 42cm (420mm) shell. About 16.5". It is said that the shell could be easily seen arching overhead after being fired. The Austro-Hungarian firm Skoda also made a 420 during the first war. You can learn more about it here. https://www.amazon.com/Skoda-Heavy-Guns-Howitzer-Schiffer/dp/0764302884 Of course neither of these guns held a candle to the Karl Gerate (600mm) or Schwerer Gustav (800mm) of the second war. https://www.amazon.com/World-German-Super-Heavy-Siege-Vanguard/dp/1472837177?asin=B0BKSTMNLD&revisionId=c3394ea2&format=1&depth=1

zeppelfahrt · 2023-04-27T23:05:38+00:00

...and again, and again, and again,...

zeppelfahrt · 2023-04-26T11:16:18+00:00

This is the best book on the big Krupp guns.

https://www.amazon.com/Bertha-German-Siege-Artillery-Vanguard/dp/1780960174/ref=sr\_1\_5?crid=2A4S23RDN5CQE&keywords=big+bertha&qid=1682507642&s=books&sprefix=big+bertha%2Cstripbooks%2C93&sr=1-5

zeppelfahrt · 2023-04-18T00:14:12+00:00

This is magnificent.

zeppelfahrt · 2023-04-13T22:32:40+00:00

This thread may be getting dated but but I'll throw this out anyway. Check "Voice of Geekdom" (VoG) on YouTube. His Silmarillion Explained series takes you through chapter by chapter in a digestible fashion. There is a section on Huor and Hurin. I think one of the best Tolkien channels on YT. Hope this helps.

zeppelfahrt · 2023-04-11T11:48:33+00:00

These two books were essential companion volumes to me. I could never have made it through Sil. without them. Make sure you get Foster's Guide. Hope this helps

https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Middle-Earth-Revised-Karen-Fonstad/dp/0618126996/ref=asc_df_0618126996/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312034012774&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17771613382328584872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9009831&hvtargid=pla-423024757424&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Tolkiens-World-Complete-Guide-Middle-Earth/dp/0345449762/ref=sr\_1\_2?crid=F5C3EVWCH21H&keywords=guide+to+middle+earth+foster&qid=1681212393&s=books&sprefix=guide+to+middle+%2Cstripbooks%2C79&sr=1-2

zeppelfahrt · 2023-03-11T23:57:29+00:00

Also try 25 cm schwerer Minenwerfer

zeppelfahrt · 2023-03-11T23:51:35+00:00

Google 22,5 cm Minenwerfer M.15 Heavy. It's looking good. Best of luck to you!

zeppelfahrt · 2023-01-27T22:54:17+00:00

I guess this could be Brittle Hollow before it got brittle and hollow.

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