(Part 2) Top products from r/Warthunder

Well, $40 is the bare minimum.

The Logitech Extreme 3D Pro is an entry-level twist stick. A lot of folks will recommend the Thrustmaster T.16000M, which is a notable step up with better sensors, but clocks in at about twice the price.

For super cheap headtracking, you're looking at using FaceTrackNoIR or opentrack and bashing together your own point tracker. The camera will run you about ten bucks, and the LEDs, wires and battery pack a buck or two, plus some time to assemble everything.

If you throw more money at it, you can either go for TrackHat or TrackIR, with TrackIR being something of the gold standard, but also commensurately expensive.

I'd recommend starting off with a cheap stick, a webcam, and facetrack. If you get bit by the bug, build your own point tracker to improve your head tracking quality, and look into getting rudder pedals, followed by upgrading your stick.

Picked this up at Barnes and Noble few weeks ago for $11 on sale;

http://www.amazon.com/Aircraft-World-War-Aviation-Factfile/dp/078582958X

Great book with info, diagrams, stats, etc. Nice coffee like table book.

Robert Stanford Tuck's biography Fly For Your Life is hands down one of the best books I've ever read. His account of the Battle of Britain is exceptionally interesting. Definitely worth a read if you can find a copy.

I have this book: http://www.amazon.com/Aircraft-World-Aviation-Factfile-Chartwell/dp/078582958X

I really like it, but like the reviews below say there are some inconsistencies and the descriptions about the aircraft aren't too extensive. Nevertheless it is still a really interesting read about all the aircraft.

Had more been referring to Gamelin's debacle, of anything! They reaaally didn't listen to Estienne or de Gaulle after him in the push to create independent armored divisions until it was far too late, right around the first Czechoslovak Crisis (The May Crisis) in '38. It was his words that Guderian had reflected in his formation of the Panzer divisions, as well as Guderian's experience on the opposite side of such a combined forces action during the "Black day of the German army," 3ème Bataille de Picardie, circa 1918 - if I'm remembering correctly! Guderian even credited the French in his memoirs, no less.


It's de Gaulle's espousing of Estienne's teachings so closely that helped urge the creation of LeClerc's 2e Division Blindée (aside from LeClerc's performance with the unit prior to the name, of course!). Prior to this the Tanks were interspersed throughout the units of the standing, defensive forces under overly-cautious Gamelin.


...There's much that can be ranted on regarding the debacle, The Collapse of the Third Republic by Shirer being quite a good book for such musings! He does not hide his bias therein, though his detailing of events is still quite stellar.


My great-uncle served with one of the Forces françaises libres divisions as a radio operator during the invasion of Germany at the end, and my grandfather as a submariner in the Les Forces Navales Françaises Libres - despite having been in port during la bataille de Mers el-Kébir, to be true - so the disposition of French forces has always been a passion hereabouts. Je suis un Franco-Américain, il est bon de savoir que l'histoire des deux côtés!

https://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-Void-Surround-Gaming-Headset/dp/B0748MPHVX/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=7.1+headset&qid=1567744864&s=electronics&sr=1-10

https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Kraken-Tournament-Gel-Infused-Cushions/dp/B07G5FQMJ8?ref_=ast_sto_dp

https://www.amazon.com/HyperX-Cloud-Stinger-Comfortable-Noise-Cancellation/dp/B07SQZZJXJ/

Out of those, which do you recommend? Also if there's any others you recommend within that price range.

I read it in 'Fly for your life' by Larry Forrester. His story really is quite amazing.

dot has better quality, i think the dot is actually a newer version of the dash one.

Here are links:

T-16000M

T.16000M

T.16000M With Throttle Included

CH FighterStick

I've had a copy of this since I was a kid http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aircraft-Recognition-Illustrated-Silhouettes-Photographs/dp/014103033X originally published in 1941, just letting you know in case you were stuck for a gift idea in future!

Based on what i see here in the "
From the Manufacturer" Information section it looks to be exclusive to the PS4. You could try it though. It's also possible to redeem it on PS4 then use your PS4 account on PC. You will just have a next to your name (like Caraval)

Edit: You will also have some other PS4 Related limitations on what you can do on PC if you use a PS4 account. I don't remember what they are though.

sauce

I think reading this should give you everything you need to know.

Is that the same tracker as this? S18 - OpenTrack Camera + IR LED Track Clip Pro Work on FSX ATS ETS TrackIR 5 Alternate https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P8HG3DW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_TgqLDbA24F4JP

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Get a head tracker if you are using it for sim

My Thrustmaster T16000m controls

Star of Africa

Sakai's exploits

Boyington's exploits

Just a few books that say otherwise. But I guess I'll take your word over there's.

I guess you just bombed your target, or retreated if you needed to, and went back to the carrier. You can picked up the book for a couple of bucks used: https://www.amazon.com/Dauntless-Helldivers-Dive-Bomber-Carrier-Battles/dp/0517577941

Untrue. While that was one of the reasons, it wasn't the only one. Bomb racks on aircraft were field expedient measures taken by ground crews, usually with the aim of helping Imperial Army forces. In some cases, like in Burma, 250kg bombs were used against British tanks and defensive positions. Not just by zeroes, but for nearly anything that flew in the Imperial Japanese Army, and some Navy units.

Many Zeroes were fitted with 250kg bombs for use against US ships, with the intent on coming back without it as well.

Source: Tales by Japanese Soldiers

>The next moment or so was a terrifying moment for the crew, for those at least who had not been mangled, decapitated or sliced in two by the shell or flying fragments. Even if a tank was only immobilised by a hit, everyone knew that they only had a very short respite before another shell would come ripping through the hull. Peter Elstob’s crew soon learnt an important lesson of tank warfare, that ‘when a tank was hit by an armour-piercing shell those who were still alive and able to move got out fast before the next one hit; the whole thing was as unlike a boxing match as it could be, because in tank battle the first hit was the winning one’. The first or second hit was almost certain to set the tank on fire and it was then that any watching infantry were truly thankful that they had never been assigned to an armoured unit.

http://www.amazon.com/On-Front-Lines-Experience-Soldiers/dp/0471551481?tag=viglink20265-20

Though I concede that it does mention being "immobilized", but then goes on to say any hit from a AP round.
From what I've read/seen after an initial hit the crew almost always immediately bails, but obviously not in every case. Of course in the case of a ricochet the crew probably won't bail, but in terms of WT we're talking about a pen that kills some of the crew, not none damaging ricochet.

From my understanding of how the implosion-type device that was Fat Man worked, the explosives that would drive the uranium into the plutonium core (which would cause the reaction) might go off. Since damage would have occurred when it was hit, the timing would be off on these detonations, preventing a full nuclear reaction.

For the record, there was also a concern that lightning strikes would cause the electronics on early nuclear devices to go haywire and detonate. It's a bit of a wonder that there weren't more nuclear accidents between 1940-1970.

(Source: Command and Control, by Eric Schlosser)

Collectivization and forced industrialisation were part of Stalinist Communism because he viewed the Soviet Union as lacking an industrial base to support a true marxist communist state. They were stepping stones to that end. Nazism gave a head nod to socialism but Hitler in actuality just played lip service to the German people in that respect.

I'm done arguing but I'll leave you a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nazism_and_Stalinism.

You can also take a gander at this book http://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471 if you're interested in a more in depth look at the state practices of both countries in Ukraine, the Balkans, and Poland.

In practice sure both countries were similarly brutal but there's a difference in why they were brutal.

Edit: Also why did you sarcastically write 'attempted' changes? Millions of people starved or were killed during those programs. The border between Ukraine and Poland was literally shut down to prevent people from fleeing. Stalin and the Comintern was wholeheartedly devoted to collectivization and making it succeed to support the next stage of industrialization. This was while they were planning to support a communist revolution in Poland. Also look at after the war how the Soviet Union exported communism to the countries it occupied. You can't ignore that and say they half-assed their attempt to make communism work.

Not really. As a "spaceship", yes, but TIE Defenders aren't very aerodynamic.

In the lore TIEs would be at a massive disadvantage in atmospheric combat. They would rely heavily on their gravity repulsers just to generate lift; if they were lured into a turn fight they would have a terrible turning radius and risk tumbling from the sky, unlike the I-185.

They'd be good boom-and-zoomers, maybe, until they get going fast enough for the panels to be ripped off.

Recommended reading: Star Wars: X-Wing series by Michael A. Stackpole. Seems out of place on the War Thunder sub, but on the other hand this series has a lot of dogfights (albeit mostly in space). Excellent storyline, too.

Highly recommended as an entry into the Star Wars book universe; it's not as stupid or ultra-nerdy as it sounds.

To those who croon about how the German POW's had it made and how life was a paradise for them.

Well, there is history and then there is what really happened.

http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Mercies-Civilians-Occupation-1944%C2%961950/dp/0889225672/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419322289&sr=1-1&keywords=james+bacque

http://www.amazon.com/OTHER-LOSSES-Shocking-Civilians-Eisenhowers/dp/1559580992/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419322289&sr=1-3&keywords=james+bacque

http://www.amazon.com/After-Reich-Brutal-History-Occupation/dp/0465003389/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419322289&sr=1-5&keywords=james+bacque


http://www.amazon.com/Morgenthau-Plan-Influence-American-Postwar/dp/1892941902/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419322574&sr=1-1&keywords=morgenthau+plan

http://whale.to/b/walsh11.html

It's OK to have not known this before - the victors get to write history, after all.

This is not to excuse the German and other Axis nations atrocities (especially the Ukrainians). On the East Front, wholesale murder of whole towns, never mind villagers, was normal (for example the much celebrated and admired, because it was a great military achievemtn by Manstein, the retaking of Kharkov in 1943, ended in the wholesale execution of the WHOLE TOWN in revenge for resisting).

The savagery of Russians has been told many times (in my family, my grandma flatly stated that "When the Russians came, they first stole everything and then raped everything that moved"... And no, we were Russian allies at that point).

But the Western Allies not only shot POWs in Germany as a matter of course, but starved the whole German population as an act of revenge. The Morgenthau Plan was in full force right after WW2, and only after Mr. Hoover and some Mormons and Red Cross (and others) actually visited Germany and saw what the Allies were doing there was it cut back a bit.

Due to the Cold War, both the Russians and the West tried to woo the Germans - in fact, the first mass feeding of the Berliners was done by the Soviets, to demonstrate how much better they were than the Western Allies who starved the whole population and took hundreds of thousands for slave labor!

With Wings Like Eagles

The Blonde Knight of Germany

Stuka Pilot Be forewarned, the man was an unrepentant Nazi.

Samurai!

Edit: If you want some non-aviation but still military books:

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax

The Last Battle

Slaughterhouse 5 Fiction

The Things They Carried

To Hell and Back