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Content Poll September 2018

  • Why Escort Carriers? 8
  • Basics: Strategy - Operations - Tactics 11
  • Topic around Siege Warfare / Siegecraft 3
  • Topic around Vietnam War 3
  • 2018-09-03
  • —2018-09-23
  • 25 votes
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Vote here for a topic of a video for September 2018. The poll will be closed on the 23rd of September 2018, 1000 CEST. 

Feel free to add suggestions in the comments.

Comments

Michael Brewer

Another topic suggestion: there are tons of comparisons available on the differences between Luftwaffe and Allied aircraft designs, but I've seen little or nothing on the differences in conceptual thinking/manufacture between Allied and Luftwaffe powerplants. Did Allied designers have a different view on how to get the maximum performance from their engines than Luftwaffe designers, or were they pretty much on the same page? Did they attempt to get the same improvements via different means? For example, American sports car engines favored raw size to achieve high horsepower numbers, and gave torque a high priority when designing engine and transmission systems. Japanese engineers favored smaller, lighter engines that produced higher revs, and used sophisticated valve/cam designs coupled with turbos or superchargers to maximize performance while keeping overall weight down. They may have been following German design concepts for this, as the Porsche engines have always been small compared to their American cousins (until recently, at least). So, did aviation engine theory have similar regional differences? You probably have sufficient reference materials on hand to cover this topic if it interests you and your audience. Keep up the fine work, Bis.

John M. Haskin

I voted for basics: strategy – operations – tactics because some of my favorite videos of yours deal with basic concepts such as your video explaining the difference between war and video games and the German squad tactics video.