The artillery power of the French army in 1940 was actually very large and outshined Germany's by a wide margin. Germany won the Battle of France handily thanks to getting lucky in the Ardennes + having a decisive airpower advantage.
You're still bragging about your Pothole Makers
You keep saying "potholes" even though HIMARS strikes shut down both bridges into Kherson and forced the Russians to rely on ferries.
So far, Ukraine cannot even take Kherson, though considering the bad position of the Russian army there, I'd not be surprised if they did withdraw.
They've made a lot of progress in the past 2 months. Remember when you were saying that Ukraine couldn't do offensives at all shortly before they did?
The artillery power of the French army in 1940 was actually very large and outshined Germany's by a wide margin. Germany won the Battle of France handily thanks to getting lucky in the Ardennes + having a decisive airpower advantage.
Every part of the French army outshone the German army, even the number of its aircraft. It was the appallingly poor leadership that did them in. That said, having 1/20 of the artillery of France is not exactly impressive.
You keep saying "potholes" even though HIMARS strikes shut down both bridges into Kherson and forced the Russians to rely on ferries.
They attacked "their own" infrastructure? Regardless, I should hope it would do better than the pictures you were bragging about a while back - because you'd be very sad for your tax dollars to pay for something as useless.
They've made a lot of progress in the past 2 months. Remember when you were saying that Ukraine couldn't do offensives at all shortly before they did?
Any idiot can take undefended areas. I counted on the Russians not being idiots - which unfortunately is often a fool's bet.
Every part of the French army outshone the German army, even the number of its aircraft.
Pls check the wiki on these things before you correct me. I just pulled up the wiki and: "The combined Allied total was 2,935 aircraft, about half the size of the Luftwaffe... The Germans had six times more medium bombers than the French." & "Allied total of about 14,000 guns, 45 per cent more than the Germans."
Pls check the wiki on these things before you correct me
See, I check actually reliable sources. Here's the actual sizes. You were correct that the French had fewer aircraft (only thing they had fewer of), but the allies as a whole had more.
My wiki source was cited to Hooton, E. R. (2007). Luftwaffe at War; Blitzkrieg in the West. page 47.
Wikipedia is not a source. It is a reference for sources. It is far better than your "source", because it uses many sources. Also, you and I both know you didn't open a book and manually search for the info and then type it out. So what was your real internet source?
Obviously your source is wrong. If you read the wiki, you'd know why: "In early June 1940, the French aviation industry was producing a considerable number of aircraft, with an estimated reserve of nearly 2,000 but a chronic lack of spare parts crippled this fleet. Only about 599 (29 per cent) were serviceable"
Your source counted unservicable old broken down French aircraft. Only actually deployed and operational aircraft count, not rusted old broken down ones that sat in a junkyard somewhere.
The artillery power of the French army in 1940 was actually very large and outshined Germany's by a wide margin. Germany won the Battle of France handily thanks to getting lucky in the Ardennes + having a decisive airpower advantage.
You keep saying "potholes" even though HIMARS strikes shut down both bridges into Kherson and forced the Russians to rely on ferries.
They've made a lot of progress in the past 2 months. Remember when you were saying that Ukraine couldn't do offensives at all shortly before they did?
Every part of the French army outshone the German army, even the number of its aircraft. It was the appallingly poor leadership that did them in. That said, having 1/20 of the artillery of France is not exactly impressive.
They attacked "their own" infrastructure? Regardless, I should hope it would do better than the pictures you were bragging about a while back - because you'd be very sad for your tax dollars to pay for something as useless.
Any idiot can take undefended areas. I counted on the Russians not being idiots - which unfortunately is often a fool's bet.
Pls check the wiki on these things before you correct me. I just pulled up the wiki and: "The combined Allied total was 2,935 aircraft, about half the size of the Luftwaffe... The Germans had six times more medium bombers than the French." & "Allied total of about 14,000 guns, 45 per cent more than the Germans."
See, I check actually reliable sources. Here's the actual sizes. You were correct that the French had fewer aircraft (only thing they had fewer of), but the allies as a whole had more.
Germans: 5446
French: 3562
British: 1870
Belgian: 377
Dutch: 124
Source: McDonough, The Hitler Years, 1940-45.
My wiki source was cited to Hooton, E. R. (2007). Luftwaffe at War; Blitzkrieg in the West. page 47.
Wikipedia is not a source. It is a reference for sources. It is far better than your "source", because it uses many sources. Also, you and I both know you didn't open a book and manually search for the info and then type it out. So what was your real internet source?
Obviously your source is wrong. If you read the wiki, you'd know why: "In early June 1940, the French aviation industry was producing a considerable number of aircraft, with an estimated reserve of nearly 2,000 but a chronic lack of spare parts crippled this fleet. Only about 599 (29 per cent) were serviceable"
Your source counted unservicable old broken down French aircraft. Only actually deployed and operational aircraft count, not rusted old broken down ones that sat in a junkyard somewhere.