Now this is a curiousity.
At first the Germans didn't delivered Panzerfausts and Panzerschrecks but in '43 they gave a pair for making studies. As I said the letter inspired the 44M 60 mm handheld rocket launcher but the Panzerfaust also gave ideas to Hungarian military engineers. Luckily we could buy the Nebelwerfer's license and they used the gunpowder of it in several explosives (like in the 60 mm rocket).
The novelty was the detonation which was based on a mechanism that they later called Misnay-Schardin effect. The two researcher discovered it independently, probably the German was the first. Here you can read more about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misznay%E2%80%93Schardin_effect
The operation of the 44M 60 mm rocket, the 40 mm AT projectile, 43M AT mine and the 44M. "Macelauncher" was based on this effect.

Today's topic the the 44M. "Macelauncher" (Buzogányvető) or "Szálasi-rocket" which was a three person crew operated AT rocket launcher.
Ofc this also came late. The tests began in '44, the production went on from the summer till late December when the factory was took by the Red Army. All in all they produced maybe 6-700 pieces, two exists with the serial number of 441 and 448.
For the first test they used tripod as a mount - the soldier who fired the first shots was a convict with death penalty who got pardoned and forced to do the tests instead - then they used the Goryunov machine gun's wheeled mount as they not just find it very suitable but the army obtained many hundreds of it as spoils of war. A few was also placed on some Krupp Protze trucks and on Toldi tanks.
The rocket itself is 27-30 kg, 970 mm long and 215 mm wide at the fattest part, two was loaded into 700 mm long launcher tubes. It was capable of penetrating 300 mm armor and had a range of 500-1200 m but could fly about 2000. Ofc the effective range was much shorter, maybe about 200 m.
It only saw action around Budapest during her siege.

Oh I almost forget it, it had a fragmentation version against soft targets. It was called "Downpour".

44M Lidérc (ghost, wisp) AA rocket. Second AA rocket in the world but the first one which used an igniter activated by the target itself as German AA rockets were activated by impact or a timer. The carrier aircraft would have been the Me 210 Ca-1 - only one could be fitted on one plane - and the target would have been the carpet bombing Allied bombers flying in close formation, the planned objective was to disrupt their missions by breaking up their formations and not the destruction of individual planes.
The designer of the igniter was Pulváry Károly (in esperanto: https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1roly_Pulv%C3%A1ry) physicist, mechanical engineer, sound engineer who made his invention to be activated by the sound of motor of the bombers.
50 pieces were made but - as far as I know - none had the igniter as there was no capacity to manufacture them. They were used as anti-personnel rocket propelled explosives against the Red Army around Budapest.
No American bomber was harmed in the making of this rocket.

>>20024
There's something spooky and supernatural in a pic like this. Reminds me of those Bermuda Triangle movies. I'll have to watch The Terror. Thanks for the heads up on this.

An article in the newspaper caught my attention today. It was about the red head day (Roodharigendag) that was 2 weeks ago in the Netherlands. It was really kc tier and explained that the MC1R gene is responsible for the ginger hair. Only 1% of humanity is blessed/doomed with this trait.

Nokia presented some concept phone, it isn't newsworthy at all except one image.

https://www.igeekphone.com/concept-nokia-3310-2018-the-pinnacle-of-design-enough-for-the-galaxy-s9/

There's now a flurry of alleged hate crimes blamed on Bolsonaro, with poorly-drawn swastikas mysteriously appearing throughout the country.

Meanwhile, both candidates are seeking out a wider base, with Haddad stating he'll be true to Catholic principles and Bolsonaro joking to a young gay man that "my kiss will cure you".

And now, a look at some notable individuals who did or did not get elected:

Acir Gurgacz, PDT/Rondônia: Ran for Senator and failed, only getting third place. Second place was some dude named Confucius. Made headlines after getting arrested just a few days after the elections for financial fraud.

Anthony Garotinho, PRP/Rio de Janeiro: former governor, presidential candidate and Brizola ally. Ran for Senator, but saw his campaign declared illegal due to a previous condemnation over R$ 234 million government funds embezzled in 2005-6, and that's just one of his many corruption scandals. Nonetheless, he managed to receive over 80 thousand votes, which were promptly declared invalid.

Alexandre Frota,PSL/São Paulo: former porn actor and tranny conoisseur turned into a popular pro-Bolsonaro activist. Landed 152 thousand votes. Was still telling people he'd fuck their mothers and then fuck them in the ass on Twitter as late as last September.

Tiririca,PR/São Paulo: you've probably already heard of him-this is the literal clown who reached record vote counts on slogans such as "It can't get any worse" and "Do you know what a congressman does? I don't, either. Vote for me and I'll tell you." Promised his career was over earlier on but broke his vows and comfortably secured 445 thousand votes.

Luiz Philippe of Orleans and Braganza, PSL/São Paulo: nephew of the current pretender to the throne. A businessman and intellectual, he recently gained fame through media appearences and a book outlining his vision of the country. Running for congressman, he got himself a seat with 116 thousand votes. A qualified and well-meaning individual, though, as some of his own relatives noted, it is perhaps degrading for someone of his birth to not only join a republican institution but also the most reviled one.

Dilma Rousseff, PT/Minas Gerais: No explanation needed. Sought a senatorial post and failed.

>>19891
It is surprising, farms with nutrias (closely related to capybara) exist in south Russia. They are grown for fur, but their meat is also used for food. I've personally never eat that rat, but seen people who did it.

Although general population wouldn't eat it of course, it looks strange, but I'd never expect that nutria farming may happen in Russia.