Wild_Bill_Kelso
Senior Master Sergeant
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- Mar 18, 2022
Also don't forget Louisiana "Sweet Crude" lol
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Marty Cooper (an American) was the inventor of the first mobile cellphone.The first Mobile phone
At the risk of grossly drifting OT, the operational analysts judged the Sten in NW Europe as effective as a Lee Enfield and production had no effect upon Lee Enfield production. It complemented the Lee Enfield in infantry sections rather than replaced them and was more effective in close actions and as a defensive weapon. I have met several WW2 users who swore by it rather than at it. It and its higher quality successor remained in service with the British army until the end of the century. It and the Lee Enfield were both to be replaced by the Rifle no9 until the Americans b*ggered it up. The only real Sten weaknesses were the lack of a positive safety and copying the MP28 magazine.Getting back to the actual Sten gun.
They made about 3.7 million to 5 million depending on who you believe.
Which is not bad for a "disposable" SMG.
However for context they built around 4 million Lee Enfield No 4s and had about 13 million leftover No 1s.
They also built 5 factories to build Bren guns. 2 in India (?), one in Canada and 1 in Australia.
One of the Indian factories may have been converted from the production line for the Vickers Berthier MG which was built in India from the early 30s?
The Sten was cheap and replaced a number of more expensive submachine guns, it did not replace rifles or LMGs.
Marty Cooper (an American) was the inventor of the first mobile cellphone.
He also holds (or held) a pile of patents in the telecom field.
He was also the first person to make a cellular phone call.
There is certainly nothing wrong, and it is preferable, to "productionize" aircraft whenever possible. Japanese saved over 20,000 parts (?, rivets?) on one fighter. But they did that without sacrificing much, if anything in performance. They also made maintenance/repairs easier. They also kept the standard engine and armament.
However if you are sacrificing performance or load carrying ability the trade-offs for cheaper production get a lot harder to make.
A number of air forces in WW II underestimated the investment in training needed for effective pilots.
In the BoB the shortage turned out to be not the expensive fighters but effective pilots for just one example.
They did not know any better then. We do now.
Soviets were not fighting at either 25,000ft or 200 miles (320km) from base.And yet, bigger isn't always better. I again point out the Soviet assessment of the P-47 as 'nice plane, not a fighter'
Ahh, ok.Yeah, right. In 1973. But "In Soviet Russia, the Mobile Phone calls YOU!!!" and they already had a nationwide mobile phone network in 1963, based on an invention from 1958.
Altai (mobile telephone system) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I guess it's considered mobile, but not cellular. There was also some kind of limited car phone thing from Sweden in 1956.
A little like who first invented the airplane or the car, you get a lot of arguments. But the Soviets had a working, (maybe "Sten style?") mobile phone system already working 10 years before Martin Cooper did his thing, and twenty years before there was a network in the US.
Soviets were not fighting at either 25,000ft or 200 miles (320km) from base.
When you are fighting at under 10,000ft and a combat mission lasts for 40-60 minutes you have different criteria.
It doesn't matter how good a dog fighter you have if you can't reach the fight.
By 1944 many allied fighters were multi-purpose. Even if the squadrons tended to specialize due to training/experience they didn't need quite the difference in airframe modifications that some of the Soviet aircraft needed. And if you wanted to drop 1000-2000lbs of bombs on something the Soviets needed an Il-2 or larger (PE-2?)
Ahh, ok.
So their system was like Motorola's mobile radio telephone, which was introduced by the Bell System in 1946.
Wiki (I know, I know) has a good timeline of systems in the "Origins" section:Interesting, they had a nationwide network patched into the phone system in 1946?
Yeah, right. In 1973. But "In Soviet Russia, the Mobile Phone calls YOU!!!" and they already had a nationwide mobile phone network in 1963, based on an invention from 1958.
Altai (mobile telephone system) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I guess it's considered mobile, but not cellular. There was also some kind of limited car phone thing from Sweden in 1956.
A little like who first invented the airplane or the car, you get a lot of arguments. But the Soviets had a working, (maybe "Sten style?") mobile phone system already working 10 years before Martin Cooper did his thing, and twenty years before there was a network in the US.
When the first transportable phones that could be fitted in cars were introduced and only the rich had them, one British millionaire (there werent billionaires then) always used to delay answering then apologise for being on the other line.