Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts

Monday, 3 February 2025

Anti-Tank Magical Girl


Continuing from that comic about characters who would win against a T-72 tank, I decided to expand on it by coming up with this comic about eight tanks Rit would win against if she were to confront them.

Remember when I said that the first boss of the Mysterious Pyramid levels of the arcade version of Rod Land was a tank? It turns out Rit and Tam won against that boss, which inspired me to come up with the comic about characters who would win against a T-72 tank, and this comic is a sequel focused on eight tanks Rit would win against if she were to confront them.

M47 Patton: This tank never got to fire a single shot in anger under the American Flag, but it saw a lot of action in various conflicts. However, its combat record was below average, with the biggest blemish being the Iran-Iraq War, where Iranian M47 Pattons got destroyed by Iraqi tanks of Russian origin.

Chieftain Tank: Britain's attempt to create a more powerful successor to the highly successful Centurion Tank was actually a disappointment that got rejected by Allied countries, including the Netherlands, Canada and Australia. There was a silver lining in that rejection, however, because Iranian Chieftains were getting massacred by Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War. Even Iraqi tank crews claim that their sabot rounds were going through Chieftain Tanks like a hot knife slicing through butter, and those claims turned out to be true.

Type 62 Tank: This Chinese light tank invaded Vietnam during the Sino-Vietnamese War, only to perform poorly in that conflict due to its weak armor.

Type 63 Tank: Another Chinese light tank that invaded Vietnam during the Sino-Vietnamese War. Like the Type 62, it performed poorly in that conflict as well. During the 1991 Gulf War, Iraqi Type 63 light tanks invaded the Saudi Arabian city of Ras Al Jafiji to little success. The reason behind the Type 63's poor performance in the Sino-Vietnamese War and the 1991 Gulf War? Blame its weak armor.

Type 69 Tank: When the Type 69 Tank first came out, it was initially rejected by the Chinese Ministry of Defence due to its poor performance, and all 100 Type 69 Tanks were sent back to the factory that built them. After improvements were made, the Type 69 tank got better. So much better that China manufactured Type 69 Tanks for Iran and Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War. Talk about playing both sides...

Panzer 68: The Panzer 68 had so many problems that it could well be considered the worst tank to have entered military service. The Swiss Ministry of Defence knew about the Panzer 68's problems and they rectified many of these problems with the upgrade to the 68/88 model.

TR-85: Romania's most successful attempt at an indigenous combat tank project was not without teething problems. The problems were so bad that the communist regime threatened to cease tank production. Even after the modernization program that came after the fall of communism, the TR-85 still looks like a relic of the Cold War. In fact, the Romanian Ministry of Defence is mulling over retiring the TR-85. But with no replacement, the TR-85 will have to remain in service with the Romanian Army despite its obsolescence.

Arjun MBT: India's attempt to create "Leopard 2 Tank at home" was a huge disaster. How bad was the Arjun MBT project, you say? The project was mired in so much corruption that the final product ended up having a worse performance than the T-90 Tank. And Krauss-Maffei's involvement in the Arjun MBT project wasn't helping either because the Arjun's MTU engines were not the type of engines you would expect to find in the Leopard 2, but rather, these MTU engines were similar to the ones found in the Leopard 1.

With all that said, if Rit is a magical girl that is capable of anti-tank warfare, then she is eligible to be on the "Top 10 Best Magical Girls" list.

Friday, 21 June 2024

Swimming Pool Matriarch Visual Gag Variations 6


Author's Note: It's been a few months since the previous Matriarch of the Swimming Pool Visual Gag Variations comic. Maybe time constraints do have a serious effect on comic production after all...

Did you know that Casio used to manufacture video game consoles? That's right. Casio, a manufacturer of calculators and watches, used to manufacture video game consoles, namely the PV-1000, PV-2000 and Loopy. Unfortunately, due to poor sales, all of Casio's consoles were discontinued after a short period of time.

Despite the retirement of the MiG-21s, Romania's armed forces are not in good shape. Their only submarine, the Delfinul, has been relegated to the sidelines since 1995 and it has not received replacement batteries since the initial batteries were exhausted in 1996. Therefore, it would be safe to decommission and scrap the Delfinul because none of the proposals to overhaul the submarine have been implemented. Also, Romania's TR-85 is a problematic tank because it was mechanically unreliable during initial tests. Even after modernization programs in the mid-1990s, the TR-85 is still not a good tank because it's worse than India's Arjun MBT.

Speaking of terrible tanks, Switzerland's Panzer 68 has to be the worst tank to enter military service because of multiple problems were found in the Panzer 68, including radios interfering with the turret system. With that said, between the woes of the Panzer 68 and Switzerland lacking a proper navy, Switzerland is better off not being on the list of playable countries in Systemsoft Beta's Daisenryaku series. Even Romania, whose armed forces are in bad shape, has the potential to be on the list of playable countries in the Daisenryaku series.

If you watched the scene where Godzilla arrives in Tokyo in Godzilla Minus One, Godzilla is confronted by several Type 4 Chi-To tanks. In real life, only two Chi-To tanks were built, and both were thrown into a lake at the end of World War 2. If we want Godzilla Minus One to be true to Japan in 1947, it would make more sense if Godzilla was confronting Type 1 Chi-He tanks and Type 3 Chi-Nu tanks. After all, these two tanks are more numerous than the Chi-To.

Have you ever wondered why Nintendo and the Pokemon Anime's writers were unkind to Ash Ketchum? For all we know, Ash Ketchum and his namesake Satoshi Tajiri were one and the same. And this plot twist gets even crazier when we learn that Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Looks like we found another legitimate reason to boycott Nintendo because they have been mean to somebody who has a variation of autism.

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