Out of Mothballs: Obsolescent Weaponry on the T2k Battlefield

[Raellus]

D-44

This may be a repeat report, but both Russia and Ukraine are currently using D-44 85mm divisional guns. Production began in 1944. They were designed to serve as both light field artillery pieces and anti-tank guns, and replaced the 76mm M1942 divisional gun.

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[kato13]

Gotta appreciate how often Soviets named things directly to the year of initial production. Makes things easier to keep track of.

[LoneCollector1987]

I found an old weapon. Unfortunately only one exists.

The so called Green Mace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mace

Would have been interesting. But magazine capacity way too low.

[Vespers War]

The blog wwiiafterwwii has a nice recent post about the Mexican M8 Greyhound and its two rounds of upgrades (all 40 of them receiving the first upgrade in 1992 and half of them getting a second round in 2000).

[Raellus]

Lights, Camera, Action!

The Russians are literally sending movie prop AFVs to the front lines in Ukraine.

https://www.twz.com/land/russias-largest-film-studio-donated-antique-tanks-to-the-military

I suppose that this is something that we would see across the T2kU.

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[Ursus Maior]

Absolutely, though these Russian props differ from many Western studio props in that they seem to be regular working and not demilitarized vehicles.

But in T2K we might get to see Spanish CASA 2.111, which was their production version of the famous He-111 bomber.

[Vespers War]

I am pretty sure this is a replica rather than an actual antique (the cast ring to interact with the recoil system, the muzzle, and the lanyard location are all wrong for an antique), but how about a self-propelled smoothbore artillery

[Brit]

"The Paraguayan Navy's Humait!-class river gunboats may well be regarded as ancient by most modern standards, but their longevity pales into insignificance when compared to that Navy's Capit!n Cabral (ex-Triunfo, ex-Adolfo Riquelme), which was first launched in 1907!... She was certainly still in service in 2016 ... one hundred and eleven years after she was launched!"

Link to article, with photos:

http://wargamingmiscellany.blogspot.com/2018/04/an-even-older-paraguayan-river-gunboat.html

Similar in Europe

[Raellus]

"The Paraguayan Navy's Humait!-class river gunboats may well be regarded as ancient by most modern standards, but their longevity pales into insignificance when compared to that Navy's Capit!n Cabral (ex-Triunfo, ex-Adolfo Riquelme), which was first launched in 1907!... She was certainly still in service in 2016 ... one hundred and eleven years after she was launched!"

Similar in Europe

Great find! I researched European military riverine vessels quite a bit for Baltic Boats and didn't come across anything remotely that old. The oldest vessels used during the Cold War were constructed right around WW2 and, IIRC, those only served until the early 1960s.

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