Okay, it’s actually from 1940, at the Battle of Zaoyang Yichang in central China. Note the funky hopper-fed Type 11 LMG.
Vintage Saturday: Japanese Holdouts on Mars!
Competition
Shanghai 1900 Pistol-Carbine at the Backup Gun Match
Don’t miss the Kickstarter-exclusive version of “Pistols of the Warlords”! Today I am going to actually do some shooting with a Chinese Warlord Era pistol – a Shanghai Model 1900 Pistol-Carbine. As I described in […]
Semiauto Rifles
Infiltrating America: The Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifle
The Type 93 Chinese assault rifle is a development of the Type 56 Kalashnikov, produced by the People’s Liberation Army of the PRC. While the Type 93 designation suggests that the design originated in 1993, […]
Ammunition
British and Japanese Ammo Docs
We have a couple more ammunition-related documents today, both in English this time (and courtesy of reader Robert). First up is the short one, a 21-page leaflet on Japanese ammunition markings. It was written just […]
Maybe the NASA Curiosity rover will find some spent clips from the Type 11. 😉
No man, they’re in my backyard…
I just recently watched Nazis at the Center of the Earth with Jake Busy. I would pay more to see Japanese holdouts on mars.
AMAZING! We were beaten to Mars by a squad of Japanese soldiers in a bamboo rocket. I already knew about their derivations of German rocket and jet fighters, aircraft-carrying submarines, and their attempt to build the a-bomb, but this takes all the cake, pie, and cookies in the bakery.
There, I notified makers of Iron Sky. Happy now?
I have been alerted, thanks 😀
And? Do we have the inspiration for a sequel? 🙂
We’ll see 🙂 I’ve been itching to do a story about mars even before the birth of Iron Sky.
One of the first things we did when we started writing Iron Sky was to browse trough a lot of wwii galleries and saved the most interesting ones into mood board folder. Then when we would get stuck brainstorming we would stare at a slideshow for a while.
Heh neat. I still have yet to see it though.