# ![@hw97karbine Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1886789881688424448.png) @hw97karbine hw97karbine

hw97karbine posts on X about in the, $4732t, target, germany the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  13.77% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  3.62% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  2.9% [stocks](/list/stocks)  1.45% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  0.72%

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the) 7.25%, [$4732t](/topic/$4732t) #603, [target](/topic/target) #1472, [germany](/topic/germany) #2832, [war](/topic/war) #1190, [malta](/topic/malta) #155, [the first](/topic/the-first) 2.9%, [the british](/topic/the-british) #713, [shell](/topic/shell) #847, [mitsubishi](/topic/mitsubishi) 2.17%

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Authentic footage combined with dramatized sequences depicting the sinking of the Egyptian-flagged freighter SS Radames by Type IXB U-Boat U-103 off the Liberian coast on May 25th 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021639368448872877)  2026-02-11T17:36Z 27.3K followers, 33.4K engagements


"German 10.5cm Flak [--] in action and RAF Short Stirling transports in trouble over the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in September 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021793130962669678)  2026-02-12T03:47Z 27.3K followers, 29.5K engagements


"Type VIIB U-Boat U-46 commanded by Engelbert Endrass returns to Saint-Nazaire on June 13th [----] The vessel's conning tower was damaged by the British tanker Ensis that rammed her a few days earlier on June 8th after being struck by two torpedoes from the submarine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022073981830938834)  2026-02-12T22:23Z 27.3K followers, 50.4K engagements


"@Outlaw__Mike @Jason_R_Burt @rocolor_photo Sergeant Curtis G. Culin III of the US 2nd Armored Division's 102nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019844992219672800)  2026-02-06T18:45Z 27.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Panzerfaust demonstration for civilians in Berlin circa March [----] with the Soviet advance on the German capital just weeks away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020815942637301772)  2026-02-09T11:04Z 27.3K followers, 112.1K engagements


"Various German weapons firing in early [----] including a 5cm KwK [--] tank gun mounted in a fixed position Sturmgewehr [--] Panzerfaust 2cm Flakvierling [--] and 8.8cm Flak with the latter two firing against ground targets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021350716154003948)  2026-02-10T22:29Z 27.3K followers, 58.2K engagements


"German artillery in Italy takes out a horse circa August [----] A shell fragment appears to strike the ground next to the animal and it drops immediately after"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021540719010459723)  2026-02-11T11:04Z 27.3K followers, 58.8K engagements


"@MorbiusIam2023 Presumably the crossing wasn't a challenge on foot and it was vehicle access they were looking to sever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022821237882241375)  2026-02-14T23:52Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Boeing XB-15 heavy bomber prototype returns to the US after delivering over [----] lbs of medical supplies to Chile in the aftermath of the Chilln earthquake in January 1939"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019464537674543339)  2026-02-05T17:34Z 27.3K followers, 47.7K engagements


"15cm sFH 13/1 (Sf) auf GW Lorraine Schlepper(f) self-propelled guns mating the 15cm sFH [--] howitzer with the French Lorraine 37L tractor chassis on maneuvers in the South of France near Marseille circa late 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019539783530221864)  2026-02-05T22:33Z 27.3K followers, 31.2K engagements


"Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri on shore bombardment duty as part of Task Force [--] off the Korean coast in December 1950"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019729533792821314)  2026-02-06T11:07Z 27.3K followers, 29.6K engagements


"Soviet troops liberate German "Winterstiefel" overboots from a captured 14.Panzer-Division Panzer III at Stalingrad circa early 1943"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021125985043874139)  2026-02-10T07:36Z 27.3K followers, 91.2K engagements


"ASM-N-7 Bullpup MCLOS missile trials launched from VX-4 "The Evaluators" FJ-4B Fury BuNo [------] at Point Mugu in California in October 1957"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021274715378303226)  2026-02-10T17:27Z 27.3K followers, 13.9K engagements


"HMM-164 "Knightriders" CH-46 Sea Knight escorted by UH-1 Huey gunships recovers the Wright R-1820 Cyclone radial engine from a downed UH-34D in Vietnam circa 1967"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022001755828199663)  2026-02-12T17:36Z 27.3K followers, 22K engagements


"@VoicesofWW2 Flak [--] restored by "Panzer Group South" in Ohio so nice to see actual projectiles being fired and the view from the target is terrifying It gives some idea of what must have been the last thing some Allied tankers ever saw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022399685781262817)  2026-02-13T19:57Z 27.3K followers, 54.5K engagements


"British-made Vickers-Carden-Loyd light amphibious tanks and "Hong Kong" type armored cars on Thornycroft 6x6 truck chassis in service with Chinese Nationalist forces in 1930s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022518913532334556)  2026-02-14T03:51Z 27.3K followers, 12.2K engagements


"Bear-powered bomb trolley trundles along as the 20mm cannon on No [---] Squadron RAF Spitfire Mk VIII fighters are rearmed and a curious ape inspects a Vultee Vengeance dive bomber in Burma circa early 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022881804689248639)  2026-02-15T03:53Z 27.3K followers, 27.7K engagements


"@heikihenken The "dragon's teeth" was another variation that worked well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022882880251203881)  2026-02-15T03:57Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Firing the "Hartkern" APCR-T ammunition contemporary German documentation lists penetration for the BK [--] as 69mm of RHA angled at [--] degrees from the vertical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023094656737870058)  2026-02-15T17:58Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Heavily camouflaged Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind self-propelled anti-aircraft guns in action in France in 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2011446706165215373)  2026-01-14T14:34Z 27.2K followers, 16.6K engagements


"Waffen-SS Schwimmwagen in their element on the Eastern Front in the Summer of 1943"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2013209571993538705)  2026-01-19T11:19Z 27.1K followers, 106K engagements


"German troops on ice on the Leningrad Front in 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2013981911178256474)  2026-01-21T14:28Z 27.1K followers, 342.2K engagements


"Staged German sequence showing an 8.8cm Flak [--] battery engaging a British night raid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2014177197792395735)  2026-01-22T03:24Z 27.1K followers, 271.1K engagements


"This is one of eight Sherman turrets preserved as memorials in Bastogne this was the location at the time the footage was filmed: It has since been relocated to Mageret: https://maps.app.goo.gl/hPMs6dQDgcNC8FEE6 https://maps.app.goo.gl/XyASFyqoQZJCjeyR6 https://maps.app.goo.gl/hPMs6dQDgcNC8FEE6 https://maps.app.goo.gl/XyASFyqoQZJCjeyR6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2014754906473717958)  2026-01-23T17:39Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"French Voisin IV pusher biplane armed with a flexibly-mounted manually loaded 47mm cannon firing at the range and while airborne"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2015432972464210297)  2026-01-25T14:34Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Imperial Japanese Army Air Service Mitsubishi Ki-21 bombers depart for a mission over Burma circa late 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2016105655250440264)  2026-01-27T11:07Z 27.1K followers, 17.1K engagements


"@jpg2t785 Footage of the device being assembled and tested"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2016556722937114979)  2026-01-28T16:59Z 27.3K followers, 33.9K engagements


"US troops taking no prisoners after an apparent North Korean ambush near the Han River circa September [----] Around the [--] second mark a Degtyaryov machinegun with its distinctive pan magazine can be discerned in the vegetation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2016879755757265322)  2026-01-29T14:23Z 27.1K followers, 123.8K engagements


"5./StG [--] Junkers Ju [--] D Stuka dive bombers taking off for a mission over the Eastern Front in 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2016927822825091506)  2026-01-29T17:34Z 27.1K followers, 44.4K engagements


"@ocbknnk @DulceBellum1944 Looks like this model made by Carl Zeiss"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2016971329572925608)  2026-01-29T20:26Z 27.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@DocStrangelove2 And in case you need some backup fuck you there's also a revolver chambered for the same cartridge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2017351347410981110)  2026-01-30T21:36Z 27.1K followers, 11.7K engagements


"The remains of North American T-39A Sabreliner 62-4448 and its three crew returned to West Germany after the aircraft was brought down by Soviet MiG-19 interceptors The aircraft had strayed into East German airspace and crashed near Vogelsberg on January 28th 1964"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2017605537920413935)  2026-01-31T14:27Z 27.1K followers, 44.2K engagements


"@SgmNaval This visualisation is quite chilling https://vimeo.com/128373915fl=pl&fe=sh https://vimeo.com/128373915fl=pl&fe=sh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2017607418788589907)  2026-01-31T14:34Z 27.1K followers, [----] engagements


"USAF Lieutenant Colonel Gerald K. Hannaford Captain Donald Grant Millard and Captain John F. Lorraine perished in the incident US radar stations realized the aircraft was headed for East German airspace but their calls went unanswered as it appears the radio on the T-39A had malfunctioned The aircraft was intercepted within [--] minutes of crossing the border and was shot down around ten minutes later https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017611520415330539 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017611520415330539"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2017611520415330539)  2026-01-31T14:50Z 27.1K followers, [----] engagements


"6th Night Fighter Squadron Northrop P-61A Black Widow 42-5528 "Jap Batty" landing on Saipan in June [----] with the dorsal turret replaced with an extra fuel tank Also of note is the unpainted translucent fiberglass radome covering the SCR-720 interception radar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2017650836726329549)  2026-01-31T17:27Z 27.1K followers, 55.3K engagements


"Maschinengewehr [--] field maintenance and testing on the Eastern Front in the Spring of 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2017866255756038650)  2026-02-01T07:43Z 27.1K followers, 31.4K engagements


"Luftwaffe ace Joachim Mncheberg enjoying some downtime with fellow JG [--] pilots and having another victory bar added to the rudder of his Focke-Wulf Fw [---] A-2 WNr [-----] after a mission over the English Channel circa early 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2017969687574049153)  2026-02-01T14:34Z 27.1K followers, 98.7K engagements


"VMA-224 "Bengals" A-4E Skyhawks using JATO bottles while flying close support missions from Chu Lai Air Base in South Vietnam circa late 1965"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018015992631431352)  2026-02-01T17:38Z 27.1K followers, 12.2K engagements


"Bombing trials with the Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018171391598895483)  2026-02-02T03:55Z 27.1K followers, 15K engagements


"Erratum: as @MattRebane pointed out these are in fact A-4C Skyhawks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018326102356201981)  2026-02-02T14:10Z 27.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Gunfire from a North American F-86 Sabre sets off the cannon on a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 during the Korean War #guncamera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018376870610567426)  2026-02-02T17:32Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"In the absence of the Luftwaffe a Morris-Commercial C9/B Self-Propelled 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun battery bombards targets on the ground during the British advance on the Rhine in early 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018449977195004028)  2026-02-02T22:22Z 27.2K followers, 36.4K engagements


"Sd.Kfz. 250/10 leichter Schtzenpanzerwagen (3.7cm PaK) infantry support half-track on the move on the Eastern Front circa 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018531137120055344)  2026-02-03T03:45Z 27.2K followers, 14.6K engagements


"M2 Carbine firing during the Korean War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018590276881670391)  2026-02-03T07:40Z 27.2K followers, 30.4K engagements


"British 7th Armoured Division and German schwere SS-Panzerabteilung [---] armored casualties suffered during the Battle of Villers-Bocage in June 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018642118705562013)  2026-02-03T11:06Z 27.2K followers, 50.8K engagements


"The last vehicle pictured was a K Battery 5th Royal Horse Artillery Sherman OP or "Observation Post" knocked out in Rue Clemenceau by German tank ace Michael Wittmann's Tiger tank The OP variant of the Sherman eliminated the main gun to make room for more radio equipment and was fitted with a dummy wooden gun to give the appearance of a regular tank This vehicle was struck in the turret by an armor piercing shell with driver Charles 'Jock' Rae being the only man on board he survived the impact and managed to escape the vehicle and return to friendly lines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018649272674058319)  2026-02-03T11:34Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"M40 recoilless rifle overheating while performing indirect fire at Dong Ha Combat Base in 1969"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018693708699615731)  2026-02-03T14:31Z 27.2K followers, 44K engagements


"One sixth of the firepower of the M50 Ontos also deployed in Vietnam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018721013769417001)  2026-02-03T16:19Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Japanese Yokosuka P1Y Ginga under attack by a US fighter at low level circa [----] #guncamera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018740768450793581)  2026-02-03T17:38Z 27.2K followers, 76.8K engagements


"@MCCCANM This Gulfstream II testbed was pretty neat but I don't think they tried feeding it birds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018784125931692440)  2026-02-03T20:30Z 27.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The remains of USAAF Beechcraft C-45F Expeditor 44-47570 after it collided with the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan while attempting to land at Newark Army Airfield in thick fog on May 20th 1946"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018900319707820118)  2026-02-04T04:12Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Italian Squalo-class submarine Narvalo and Japanese Myk-class heavy cruiser Ashigara passing honors as the latter travels down the Suez canal returning from her diplomatic mission to Europe for the coronation of King George VI in 1937"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019317317608624380)  2026-02-05T07:49Z 27.2K followers, 30.2K engagements


"She also visited the Grand Harbour in Malta"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019347270693425452)  2026-02-05T09:48Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"A tank destroyer that could not penetrate the frontal armor of enemy medium tanks even at point blank range while also only protecting its crew from small arms fire from the front and sides was effectively obsolete in [----] That doesn't mean it won't find a use on the battlefield but compared to say the StuG III Ausf. F that was also entering service a this time it was obsolete for its original design role"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019354930742509910)  2026-02-05T10:18Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Chase aircraft perspective of VX-4 McDonnell F3H-2 Demon BuNo [------] blowing the starboard wing off an F6F Hellcat target drone with an AAM-N-6 Sparrow III missile during trials in the Summer of [----] The missile was fitted with a [--] lb MK [--] Mod [--] continuous-rod warhead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019369636379390116)  2026-02-05T11:16Z 27.2K followers, 28.1K engagements


"Unlike a more conventional blast-fragmentation warhead the continuous-rod type was a cylinder composed of rods attached in a zigzag pattern that on detonation would expand to form a more or less continuous ring designed to cut through an aircraft structure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019374067187359805)  2026-02-05T11:34Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"VMF-511 Vought F4U-1D Corsair fighters at the Naval Ordnance Test Station during trials with the "Tiny Tim" 11.75-inch rocket in late February [----] In order to avoid damaging the aircraft rocket motors were ignited by a lanyard after they had been dropped"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019617545859351003)  2026-02-06T03:42Z 27.2K followers, 44.7K engagements


"@joeblillib4090 20mm is overkill for infantry you want 7.62mm Miniguns and the Phantom could carry [--] such pods Each one had a maximum rate of fire of [---] rounds per second so this rig could dump the equivalent of entire ammunition load carried by an 8-gun Spitfire in less than [--] seconds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019775343414943965)  2026-02-06T14:09Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@thalex30 @joeblillib4090 [----] rounds per pod so at maximum rate of fire this setup could dump an astonishing [-----] rounds in [--] seconds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019810540894499082)  2026-02-06T16:28Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements


"The first aircraft visible appears to be an experimental Mitsubishi Ka-15 that was an earlier iteration of what would become the G3M"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019926842585555181)  2026-02-07T00:11Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@petehill854 I'm guessing it's staged with a captured aircraft or a composite image Here is some genuine Polikarpov vs [---] footage although the latter is behind the lens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019971641095110949)  2026-02-07T03:09Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Hamon_ai Yes it was a 363rd Fighter Group thing apparently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020118018970341843)  2026-02-07T12:50Z 27K followers, [---] engagements


"German troops make a sand sculpture while enjoying some down time on the Eastern Front in 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020185035236659282)  2026-02-07T17:17Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@CapHornier_ This was on May 13th [----] and I believe that is USS Midway visible in the background on her way to relieve USS Hancock at Yankee Station off the Vietnamese coast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020457653000884639)  2026-02-08T11:20Z 27.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@TheNameofWar Sherman tank hard target pictured during M72 LAW training on the ranges at CFB Chilliwack in British Columbia in 1986"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020589776953639354)  2026-02-08T20:05Z 27.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@McgregorJonryan @B_Garelick Three warheads will do that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020699994849005718)  2026-02-09T03:23Z 27.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@heikihenken Cutaway view of how the cartridge functions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020784896952737931)  2026-02-09T09:00Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements


"The point about the 75mm gun being good against anti-tank guns is an important one here for example is an 8.8cm Flak [--] that appears to have been struck by a 2-pounder shell that went in and out of the gunshield without much consequence A 75mm HE hit to the same location would have easily put the piece out of action and killed most of its crew https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020885259911307426 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020885259911307426"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020885259911307426)  2026-02-09T15:39Z 27.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@HarmonBurgh_ I would say that Henschel Hs [---] pilots would be a closer match both in terms of their role and the aircraft they flew"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020885897139413498)  2026-02-09T15:41Z 27.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Stray_Pilgrim @Michalis_Vlahos @FennellJW That was the original concept but in practice the 37mm was largely useless for most tanks it encountered therefore putting the same 75mm gun in a turret was a better idea hence the Sherman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020954711114031237)  2026-02-09T20:15Z 27.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@dgkulus @HarmonBurgh_ For the A-X program that eventually spawned the A-10 Rudel's memoir "Stuka Pilot" was apparently required reading although its not clear if there was any direct contact with Luftwaffe veterans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021005818028753347)  2026-02-09T23:38Z 27.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@ron_eisele A kill is a kill but to put it in context Yeager's Me [---] claim looked something like this not quite the result of a hard-fought melee at [-----] feet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021178997980234161)  2026-02-10T11:06Z 27.2K followers, 29.3K engagements


"The data is not complete but if we look at the 8th Air Force statistics in [--] engagements with jet aircraft during February [----] only two bomber losses are listed around one kill per [--] engagements The R4M was introduced the following month and losses for March and April are [--] each for [---] and [---] engagements respectively that gives one kill per six engagements representing a very significant improvement I think this justifies the belief that the focus should have been on rockets rather than heavy caliber cannon for the purposes of taking down bombers and the gun armament should have been a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021247005700301151)  2026-02-10T15:36Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@Fillet2kRyan Lead ship of her class USS Yorktown (CV-5) was sunk during the Battle of Midway on June 7th [----] Essex-class carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) was commissioned on April 15th 1943"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021305061809217759)  2026-02-10T19:27Z 27.2K followers, [--] engagements


"With a muzzle velocity of [--] m/s I don't think it was really capable of direct fire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021352774215270426)  2026-02-10T22:37Z 27.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Jason_R_Burt The Japanese also had a funky triple barrel flare launcher in WWII"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021364745476120649)  2026-02-10T23:24Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Wasp flamethrower-equipped variant of the Universal Carrier demonstrated in [----] One of the targets visible around the [--] second mark is a Vickers Medium Mark I from the 1920s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021591804584579361)  2026-02-11T14:27Z 27.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Wasp flamethrower-equipped variant of the Universal Carrier demonstrated in [----] One of the targets visible around the [--] second mark is a Vickers Medium Mark I from the 1920s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021591930644140462)  2026-02-11T14:27Z 27.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@ZxvHqR89tGkRuqj Third XB-29 prototype 41-18335"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021664044361691444)  2026-02-11T19:14Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@heikihenken Footage of a test firing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021924847727915510)  2026-02-12T12:30Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Lancaster had effectively gotten away with murder when he was acquitted of shooting love rival Haden Clarke on April 20th [----] He died on the same day one year later in [----] eight days after crashing due to engine failure far North of his expected route This lead to rescue efforts focusing on the wrong area and he waited in vain with his last note reading as follows: "So the beginning of the eighth day has dawned. It is still cool. I have no water. I am waiting patiently. Come soon please. Fever wracked me last night. Hope you get my full log. Bill""  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021949879652614178)  2026-02-12T14:09Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The usefulness of the shotgun in combat has long been the subject of some controversy Carroll Childers wrote in the January-February [----] issue of Infantry magazine. Unfortunately a great deal of romanticism about its use prevails. At the time Childers was an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren Va. as well as an officer in the Virginia Army National Guard. In [----] Childers started work on what he hoped would be a radical new design dubbed the special operations weapon or SOW. Childers based his initial concept on the needs of and feedback from Navy SEAL teams and Marine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022004233222889866)  2026-02-12T17:45Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@WarTard It was well armored against small arms fire but I don't think it would absorb a 37mm hit to a vital area"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022061036359364622)  2026-02-12T21:31Z 27.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@petehill854 The "SD" code identifies them as [---] Squadron aircraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022309692903424134)  2026-02-13T13:59Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@DocStrangelove2 Expectation vs reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022350136391700660)  2026-02-13T16:40Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@TeancumsRaiders @DocStrangelove2 Can you even chamber a round without a chamber 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022361564439781662)  2026-02-13T17:25Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@blackstarops You need a slightly more substantial vehicle for a mobile ground-based Phalanx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022401728877072448)  2026-02-13T20:05Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@buckadeath Pneumatic mortars were also a thing during the First World War just saying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020872700839731400)  2026-02-09T14:49Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@GrandpaRoy2 It's a concept the British pondered in [----] the demonstrator seems to be good enough to deflect stones at least"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020879692195102900)  2026-02-09T15:17Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"US Marine shows off his captured Japanese sword and an interestingly named International Harvester M-2-4 light truck loading supplies on Iwo Jima as elements of the invasion force prepared to leave the on March 25th 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019176892159389756)  2026-02-04T22:31Z 27.3K followers, 98.3K engagements


"German Panzerjger I tank destroyer on the move and a burned out US-made M3 Lee tank supplied to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease in [----] While the former vehicle was obsolete by this time it could still take out the latter from most aspects at combat ranges"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019260442775052524)  2026-02-05T04:03Z 27.3K followers, 17.8K engagements


"Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Mitsubishi G3M twin-engined bombers conducting long range raids on the Chinese mainland in the Summer of 1937"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019903680875753944)  2026-02-06T22:39Z 27.3K followers, 17.7K engagements


"Attacks from Malta were effective in disrupting the flow of Axis supplies to Rommel's forces in North Africa and were a critical factor in the latter's defeat These missions were however extremely hazardous and success came at a heavy cost of bombers lost to anti-aircraft fire and fighters often with no survivors No. [---] Squadron RAF was one of the units that suffered terrible attrition both on operations and from Axis air attacks on Malta On October 9th [----] the CO Wing Commander Frazer Apsley Harte was killed in action along with his crew when his Blenheim Mk IV Z7368 was shot down off the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020099678755291641)  2026-02-07T11:37Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@TheNameofWar This is not a wartime image rather a Nash and Thompson FN [---] Turret exhibit at the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington https://smallarmsreview.com/air-gunners-memorial-at-the-yorkshire-air-museum/ https://smallarmsreview.com/air-gunners-memorial-at-the-yorkshire-air-museum/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021982499036180901)  2026-02-12T16:19Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@ToughSf They even turned it into an amphibian one YC-123E was modified by Stroukoff Aircraft with a boundary layer control system and "pantobase" skis allowing it take off and land on water"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022364451073102301)  2026-02-13T17:37Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@OnDisasters That is the Military Aviation Museum replica powered by General Electric CJ610 engines that are not only more reliable but about one fourth the weight and generate about 50% more thrust"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022403946216853526)  2026-02-13T20:14Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


""But it was too short-ranged Indeed it was for a fighter escort. But range and big fuel capacity was of no use in times of enemy air superiority" That sounds like a fairly major deficiency to handwave without the range to venture deep into enemy territory then you can only win local air superiority Without escorted heavy bombing raids over Germany it would have taken a long time to deplete the Luftwaffe to the point that Overlord was viable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022421641960071298)  2026-02-13T21:24Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@LevettRoblev1 @ReassessHistory It only takes around [--] milliseconds for the shell to exit the muzzle so all that movement is happening after it could negatively affect accuracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023013817807184178)  2026-02-15T12:37Z 27.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Luger P08 boot carry on the Eastern Front"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2017193321756541350)  2026-01-30T11:09Z 27.3K followers, 463.7K engagements


"As part of her voyage Ashigara stopped at Kiel in Germany in May 1937"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019346657742303321)  2026-02-05T09:45Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Gebirgsjger 7.5cm le.GebIG [--] and MG [--] in action against Soviet patrols in the Caucasus Mountains circa late 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019780621346718173)  2026-02-06T14:30Z 27.3K followers, 83.7K engagements


"Junkers Ju [--] C heavy fighter variant with a solid nose buzzing a Kriegsmarine vessel in the Atlantic circa early 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020454813130273254)  2026-02-08T11:09Z 27.3K followers, 102.5K engagements


"US Marine T66 "Honeycomb" 24-tube launchers for M16 4.5-inch rockets airlifted by Sikorsky HRS-1 helicopters during the Korean War in August [----] This relocation technique was frequently employed in order to prevent the positions being engaged by counter-battery fire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020505899819745658)  2026-02-08T14:32Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Sikorsky HO3S-1 helicopter loses lift due ice accumulation on the rotor near USS Pine Island during Operation Highjump on January 19th [----] The entire crew including Capt George J. Dufek was rescued and the wreck later perforated to remove air pockets and allow it to sink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020766365477376413)  2026-02-09T07:47Z 27.3K followers, 19K engagements


"British crews training with US instructors on their brand new Grant tanks in Egypt circa February 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020869545473544416)  2026-02-09T14:37Z 27.3K followers, 32.1K engagements


"@IndexSabot This was in Korea after the Battle of the Imjin River in April [----] the Centurion in the background was a little thirsty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021259681193189850)  2026-02-10T16:27Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth NL732 on medical evacuation duty near Imphal circa early 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021599951197757531)  2026-02-11T14:59Z 27.3K followers, 17.2K engagements


"@RealAirPower1 The .50 cal was only effective in [--] or [--] gun batteries that a [---] could not hope to fit the 20mm cannon was the sensible choice for the Luftwaffe and I think even Gring would have understood that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022714256588746946)  2026-02-14T16:47Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@isengrimm3 @heikihenken There are caveats to those statistics the B-17 would tend to be assigned to raid more heavily defended targets so the losses were not suffered in identical environments also when it came to crew casualties a greater proportion of B-24 crews would be KIA per bomber lost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023033512262295929)  2026-02-15T13:55Z 27.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Armin Faber an unfortunate story: In June [----] Oberleutnant Armin Faber was Gruppen-Adjutant (performing administrative and personnel paperwork duties as well as flight duties) to the commander of the III fighter Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader [--] (JG [--] Second Fighter Wing) based in Morlaix in Brittany. On [--] June he was given special permission to fly a combat mission with 7th Staffel; a unit that flew Focke-Wulf Fw [---] fighters. The Fw [---] had only recently arrived with front line units at this time and its superior performance had caused the Allies so many problems that they were considering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023069439931867266)  2026-02-15T16:18Z 27.3K followers, [--] engagements


"USAF Cessna O-2A Skymaster Forward Air Controller in action over South Vietnam in 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2003066109394899362)  2025-12-22T11:32Z 27.3K followers, 17.3K engagements


"@heikihenken Last ditch defense is still fraught with danger even in the event of a successful interception in this CIWS trial a target drone was struck multiple times and broke apart but still had sufficient energy to impact the ship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2016554631858475191)  2026-01-28T16:51Z 27.3K followers, 337.8K engagements


"M24 Chaffee in French service towed by a fellow tank after it was disabled by a Viet Minh mine on Route nationale [--] linking Hanoi to Haiphong during the First Indochina War circa March 1954"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2019826422139732313)  2026-02-06T17:32Z 27.3K followers, 21.5K engagements


"German draisine patrol on the move near Gomel in Belarus in 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020041967179370852)  2026-02-07T07:48Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"F6F Hellcat flying from USS Yorktown flies between a Japanese Zero and the fellow fighter targeting it circa September [----] #guncamera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020986818141761546)  2026-02-09T22:23Z 27.3K followers, 32.2K engagements


"Lockheed KC-130 Hercules tanker fitted with JATO bottles in Vietnam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021711845665706372)  2026-02-11T22:24Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Wasp flamethrower-equipped variant of the Universal Carrier demonstrated in [----] One of the targets visible around the [--] second mark is a Vickers Medium Mark I from the 1920s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022157029633368504)  2026-02-13T03:53Z 27.3K followers, 39.2K engagements


"Ground testing the eight-gun .303 Browning battery on a Hawker Hurricane fighter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022215918860865924)  2026-02-13T07:47Z 27.3K followers, 17.9K engagements


"Relatively rare German 8.8cm Raketenwerfer [--] "Puppchen" closed-breech rocket launcher test fired from a defensive position in Germany in 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022364647223914758)  2026-02-13T17:38Z 27.3K followers, 18.3K engagements


"B-25 Mitchell bombers bearing the "Green Dragon" insignia of the 405th Bomb Squadron targeting Japanese facilities dispersed in the jungle near Sidate airstrip in Indonesia with parafrags in December 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023164417072898507)  2026-02-15T22:36Z 27.3K followers, 10.5K engagements


"US 1st Marine Division Marines targeting distant Chinese positions with an M1C Garand sniper rifle and M1918A2 automatic rifle during the Battle of Bunker Hill in August 1952"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020142253000569118)  2026-02-07T14:27Z 27.3K followers, 46.5K engagements


"Hull inspection and repairs at sea on board a Kriegsmarine Type IX long-range U-Boat operating against Allied shipping in the Indian Ocean circa late 1943"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020914843952480383)  2026-02-09T17:37Z 27.3K followers, 45.6K engagements


"Canadian-built Otter light reconnaissance cars lead a Police Mobile Force patrol in Palestine in 1946"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021432253172404341)  2026-02-11T03:53Z 27.3K followers, 15.6K engagements


"Artillery shells and demolition charges used by retreating German forces to blow a bridge in Italy circa September 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022803287372972342)  2026-02-14T22:41Z 27.3K followers, 180.5K engagements


"@62chas62 The Luftwaffe did not lose air superiority over the Eastern Front to the same extent as it did against the Western Allies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023043402464719036)  2026-02-15T14:35Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"German Generalfeldmarschall and later convicted war criminal Wilhelm List takes the salute as Axis forces parade through Athens on May 3rd [----] less than a month after the Invasion of Greece began"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023244444238328249)  2026-02-16T03:54Z 27.3K followers, 35.1K engagements


"@P1113171923 I believe so for example there seems to be a corresponding building in the background around the [--] minute mark https://maps.app.goo.gl/N7WYQpVG3dymwAqHA https://maps.app.goo.gl/N7WYQpVG3dymwAqHA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023328914450616620)  2026-02-16T09:29Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements


"French-made Renault R35 a long way from home on the Eastern Front supporting internal security operations in German service circa early 1943"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2015997441766510994)  2026-01-27T03:57Z 27.3K followers, 88.8K engagements


"RAF Bristol Blenheim bombers flying from Malta attacking an Axis vessel in the Mediterranean at mast height and under machinegun fire circa early [----] The first aircraft releases its pair of [---] lb bombs too late causing them to overshoot the ship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2020091669782184325)  2026-02-07T11:06Z 27.3K followers, 227.2K engagements


"German troops disable abandoned Soviet KV-1 and KV-2 tanks with grenades down the hatches on the Eastern Front in July 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023303080704360707)  2026-02-16T07:47Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Sd.Kfz. 251/1 Wurfrahmen [--] "Stuka zu Fuss" battery in action circa 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2015843426890350963)  2026-01-26T17:45Z 27.3K followers, 14.8K engagements


"Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces Type 89B I-Go Otsu tank followed by the earlier Type 89A I-Go K and British-made Vickers Crossley armored cars along with examples of the rare Type [--] armored car on the move in Shanghai"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2018229650330456202)  2026-02-02T07:47Z 27.3K followers, 63.9K engagements


"US Naval Research Laboratory trials with an automatic tracking radar unit at Chesapeake Bay in late [----] including firing trials directing a 1.1inch quadruple mount on a towed target drogue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021181306978119883)  2026-02-10T11:15Z 27.3K followers, 13.8K engagements


"VF-71 Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat comes down a little hard on the deck of USS Wasp circa early 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2021489127951302693)  2026-02-11T07:39Z 27.3K followers, 52.9K engagements


"US Marines engaging Japanese offshore sniper positions in partially submerged wrecks during the Battle of Peleliu in 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2022436621367545925)  2026-02-13T22:24Z 27.3K followers, 46K engagements


"A solitary Junkers Ju [--] G-2 "Kanonenvogel" carrying out gun runs with its 3.7cm cannon and a pair of Soviet IS-2 Heavy Tanks knocked out circa March 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023041607550021692)  2026-02-15T14:28Z 27.3K followers, 73.6K engagements


"@OnDisasters Some slightly better definition footage of the type"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023141215487869018)  2026-02-15T21:03Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@heikihenken Another example is also preserved in Malta here is the loading procedure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/hw97karbine/status/2023339157419168050)  2026-02-16T10:10Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements

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