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I like the perkun wz 22 flare pistol and the cavalry helmet, the metal texture is very good, bravo Andrea !
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Oh snap, the Polish army have some of the most attractive looking weapons of their time.
And wow, that anti-tank rifle looks like a regular sniper rifle. I'd imagine that thing can send a person
flying backwards or something. XD
That handgun looks very similar to the 1911 pistols in design. But I guess the influence of the design got around somehow.
Awesome work once again. 
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Hello there, actually I heard about using Ur anti-tank rifle as a sniper one, well it didn't send the man flying. Shot from it just made german officers head explode like ripe watermellon. And on technical terms it was really great weapon, from what I know its ammunition was designed to not pierce the armor of tanks, rather to transfer its energy to the piece of armor it hit, making the inside of armor to peel away hot shrapnels that wit make minecemeaf from the tanks crew. Two shots, well, max thre and the tank crew was mincemeat.
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Wow! I can totally imagine what you said there. That's a powerful rifle there,
even for its time.
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Yea it was, the only downside of it, was that it was kept so tight secret, that when soldiers got it into their hands when germany attacked poland, they didnt know how to use it. They fired like 4 or 5 rounds into a tank that was still moveing, well, waste od ammo crew of that tank was already long dead, and it only moved forward becasue body of a driver was hanging on drivers sticks/pedals or whatever was used to steer it. Anyway, great weapon.
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Oh snap. Yeah that's a hard hitter there. XD
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Yea, after all, the most fragile part of tank is its crew. Eliminate that, and tank is no different than a giant iron paperweight.
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That's so true. XD
I couldn't help but notice Washu as your avatar. I mean with this thing I have with
adapting the tenchi name as my username and all. XD
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Actually Wz. 35 Vis was based on the 1911, hence the simillarity.
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Oh that's what I actually meant to say.
Sorry I wasn't specific in my reference. hehe.
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I didn't know the Poles had so much homegrown ordinance. The fact Germans adapted that anti-tank rifle for their own use says something about is quality, I think. Great work!
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Actualy not so much. From those shown on this picture only the antitank rifle wz 35 UR , the submachine gun Mors, and the self loading rifle wz 38M "Maroszek" (a family name of the chief designer) are indigenous polish designs. Although wz 35 is based on Mauser 98.
VIS is just unlicensed copy/variation on the Browning HP and ealier Browning's designs. Karabinek 29 was just a shorter version of Maruser 98. RKM wz 28 was just a version of the BAR, although modernised and improved, but really most of european BARs were better than those fielded by the US Army.
Also this is important. Maroszek and Mors were never produced in big numbers, only in small early production parties, like 50 or similar numbers.
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It was very good, and a large amount was give way to the Italian Army that hadn't a
light anti-tank rifle, but the very complex Solothurn S-18/1000, that weighed more than 50 kg,
one of the first example of bullpup weapon.
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Polish field caps have a very interesting style. I wonder if they were partly inspired by the headgear issued to Uhlans in the 18/19th Century? Can't remember the name of the headgear, unfortunately.
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Czapka in Polish is a general word for a cap.
Yes there is a clear conection between modern polish service uniforms cap and caps for service uniforms and field uniforms in the Second Republic, and even field caps from the People's Republic and finally tall uhlan hats from 18th centuries. They all are peaked. They are called commonly in Poland as Rogatywka. Which means just a peaked cap.
Look here is an English Wiki article about that stuff called "czapka" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czapka
In Poland we call his "czapkas" just rogatywka. And we don't include into it that funny stuff like a crossbreed between a pickelhaube helmet where a pick is replaced by a four corner top.
For comparision here is about Rogatywka from the English wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogatywk…
Which is only about relativly "modern" that post IWW caps.
Wz 37 field Rogatywka was used in the last years of the Second Republic, and during the War by various polish partisants. The People's Republic replaced service version of Rogatywka with round caps as a symbol of bad old Poland, yet preserved the field rogatywka in a very similar design to wz 37. Here is a photo of Fidel visiting Poland and his meeting with Jaruzelski (the dicator of Poland in 80s) but this photo had been done probably in 70s when Jaruzelski was the minister of the national defense: www.wykop.pl/cdn/c3201142/comm…
Some design features of field rogatywka wz 37 and later post war versions were inspired by german bergesmutze, or whatever that is called, I mean it had folds which could be unfolced to better protect against elements, especialy cold.
So overall for Poles in the past peacked cap called Rogatywka of various designs and sizes was the national symbol, the national military headgear, just like still for France it is kepi, instead of some generic round cap.
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Unfortunately my knowledge of the Polish army is relatively slim. I really appreciate the information. The Rogatywka are much more unique than those of the People's Republic variant.
An aside, it's really nice to have a Burgmutze around the farm for those pesky blizzards.
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hi
"The Rogatywka are much more unique than those of the People's Republic variant." - what do you mean? which variants? I can speak more if you will clarify.
I personaly like field versions of rogatywka. Sadly it isn't used in the Polish Armed Forces anymore, because in 90s on the flow of badly understood "westernization" it was replaced with berets. Along of other bad things, like replacing traditional brown leather belts for service uniforms with black lether belts.
The People's Republic of Poland's troops didn't use rogatywkas as a service cap, only the field variant was used. For service caps it was replaced in late 40s by some generic round service caps. During the late parts of the War and in post war years the soviet backed people's troops used rogatywkas, and commies in Poland overall played on national feelings to get support of population. There were some talking about bringing back rogatywka in 56, yet it wasn't done. Overall rogatywka was treated as a bad because it associations with pre-war Poland. In early 80s Jaruzelski then a dicator of the People's Republic brought back the rogatywka for the honor guard company, as a sign of some "normalization' and playing on national feelings after the Martial Law.
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Many thank for the clarification, it happens the same with the Russian Peaked cap
which is called Furashka cap, while it's just Furashka, because it means Peaked cap.
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Hello, hello.
Well that is like using "stahlhelm helmet", when in German "stahlhelm" means just a steel helmet
An interesting thing for this furashka. In Polish a very similar word "furażerka" is used for a side cap, the same etymological origin from "foraging".
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Yes you are right, it comes from the Czapka, the Polish uhlan leather headgear.
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Czapka is a general polish word for a cap. A polish peaked military cap is called Rogatywka, regardless how tall or short.
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You are semantically right, but both for the Anglo-Saxon peoples and for
Italians the Czapka is the leather hat of the Ulans par excellence,
while no one, or almost, knows how to say hat in Polish.
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Well, that of course true. But for Poles it sounds strange this meaning of "czapka" as for us it is so general word.
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The German Kar98 is the Karabiner 1898, the carbine (short version) of the G98 or Gewehr (Rifle) 1898 . Is this Polish version even shorter?
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And produced in Poland, in State Rifle Factory in Warsaw and Weapon Factory in Radom.
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just a little...... 1110 vs 1100
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I'm glad, let me know....
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I'm very glad, many thanks!
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