![]() ![]() In response, governments are taking regulatory action. Models waving swords from vehicles is maybe pushing it, but in a world where your tank can get swarmed by Orks or Termagaunts, maybe having something long and pointy to hand isn’t a bad idea.The latest thief hatch monitoring technologies easily install on both new and existing thief hatch models and can reliably sense if a thief hatch is properly latched. My point was only that GW didn’t just make that up. The internet’s derision is usually directed at a model waving a flag from a vehicle hatch, rather than an aerial identification flag draped over the rear or attached to a radio antenna. ![]() Also, usage of captured tanks was (somewhat) common, especially on nazi side as T-34 was plainly better than vast majority of their tanks (though Soviets fielded SU-76i in not inconsiderable numbers too), and the crews of these had double incentive to be identified quickly and not be fired upon by reflex. These flags were most often draped on the tank, but ones flying from poles were used too (though mostly in decorative role). Irbis wrote: The flags were mostly for propaganda purposes, yes, but also for the fact that with fast moving steppe armored warfare your own planes often had no idea where the friendly units were so you put flags on so that the pilots can identify their own tanks and not bomb them.
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