Niggoslav_Krawczyk
That’s because they created it. It would be like the US dropping the M14 and M16. Won’t happen, no matter how much better crap comes out. It’s like tradition to use it. Ditto Germans and Lugers/H&K. They will instead try to re-engineer a new technology to fit an old design.
@Randomosaur
You can own flamethrowers most anywhere if you can come up with a ‘brushclearing’ excuse. Of course, if you’re living in some place that’s mostly desert or frozen you might have a tough time of that…
@SeraphimDawn
The DORA is actually feasible, but nazi engineers approached things the wrong way. If the Soviets had the gun fetish you would have seen Shagohods all over. Germans kept throwing too much damn armour on everything, rendering every tank after the Panther a mobile pillbox, while both necessity and commands from above forced soviet engineers to get the same performance out of a fifth of the materials. A Soviet DORA would probably be un-railed and have its own turret. The IS4 got roughly the same performance as the Maus but weighed only 50 tons. Also if you ever wanted an argument for competition and contracts over nationalisation and ‘favouritism,’ Porsche basically kept pumping out the same engine out for every damn tank ever, which made ponderously slow tanks even slower since they were far overweight already. So a Soviet-made DORA would probably be like a turreted Sturmmorser (and around the same weight as Maus, would likely not carry many rounds on its own to prevent assaults by planes, extra rounds would be on supply trucks or towed by smaller vehicles), but as wide as those mining excavators to offset PSI.
Granted, those advancements all came about because Stalin was like “MAKE IT FASTER/LIGHTER WITHOUT SACRIFICING A SINGLE THING, OR I SHOOT YOU” while Hitler would loiter around and pester his designers and basically act like a teenager watching one of the Great Old Beards coding, and the nervousness and stress would lead to them giving him impressive looking shit that couldn’t really work.
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@Background Pony
I’m pretty sure there’s a certain military which uses them in tiny numbers. I do agree that it’s a completely useless weapon, though.
That’s because they created it. It would be like the US dropping the M14 and M16. Won’t happen, no matter how much better crap comes out. It’s like tradition to use it. Ditto Germans and Lugers/H&K. They will instead try to re-engineer a new technology to fit an old design.
@Randomosaur
You can own flamethrowers most anywhere if you can come up with a ‘brushclearing’ excuse. Of course, if you’re living in some place that’s mostly desert or frozen you might have a tough time of that…
@SeraphimDawn
The DORA is actually feasible, but nazi engineers approached things the wrong way. If the Soviets had the gun fetish you would have seen Shagohods all over. Germans kept throwing too much damn armour on everything, rendering every tank after the Panther a mobile pillbox, while both necessity and commands from above forced soviet engineers to get the same performance out of a fifth of the materials. A Soviet DORA would probably be un-railed and have its own turret. The IS4 got roughly the same performance as the Maus but weighed only 50 tons. Also if you ever wanted an argument for competition and contracts over nationalisation and ‘favouritism,’ Porsche basically kept pumping out the same engine out for every damn tank ever, which made ponderously slow tanks even slower since they were far overweight already. So a Soviet-made DORA would probably be like a turreted Sturmmorser (and around the same weight as Maus, would likely not carry many rounds on its own to prevent assaults by planes, extra rounds would be on supply trucks or towed by smaller vehicles), but as wide as those mining excavators to offset PSI.
Granted, those advancements all came about because Stalin was like “MAKE IT FASTER/LIGHTER WITHOUT SACRIFICING A SINGLE THING, OR I SHOOT YOU” while Hitler would loiter around and pester his designers and basically act like a teenager watching one of the Great Old Beards coding, and the nervousness and stress would lead to them giving him impressive looking shit that couldn’t really work.