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Ten Game Changers Head-To-Head Battlefield Lady Death & the White Military Despatches Vol 9 March 2018 Ten game changers Ten weapons that changed the face of warfare Surrender! Forget about it The best responses to ultimatums to surrender Head-to-Head The Toughest Military Training Battlefield Operation Nimrod Lady Death & The White Death Two of World War IIs most deadly snipers. For the military enthusiast Military Despatches March 2018 What’s in this month’s edition Feature Articles 6 Top Ten Weapons that changed warfare Click on any video below to view Ten weapons that changed the face of warfare forever. How much do you know 12 Surrender! Forget about it. about movie theme On given an ultimatum to surrender, some responses songs? Take our quiz have been rather surprising to say the least. and find out. 16 Is that a fact Some facts about World War I. Short, sharp and to the Page 6 point. Hipe’s Wouter de The old South African Page 19 Goede interviews former Defence Force used 28’s gang boss David a mixture of English, Quiz Williams. Afrikaans, slang and 19 Modern Day Tanks techno-speak that few How well do you know the tanks of today? outside the military 20 Rank Structure - British Armed Forces could hope to under- Over the next few months we will be running a se- stand. Some of the terms ries of articles looking at the rank structure of various were humorous, some armed forces. were clever, while others were downright crude. 24 Charles Daniel Holloway Lt Col Robbie Roberts pays tribute to Charles Daniel Holloway - an officer, gentleman, and legend. Part of Hipe’s “On the couch” series, this is an 28 PVO Cheese and Wine interview with one of The Parabat Veteran’s Organisation held a cheese and author Herman Charles wine evening to meet and honour former command- Bosman’s most famous ing officers of 1 Parachute Battalion. characters, Oom Schalk Cover Photograph Page 24 A taxi driver was shot Lourens. Hipe spent time in The explosion from an American nuclear test at a re- dead in an ongoing Hanover Park, an area mote site in the desert. war between rival taxi plagued with gang organisations. violence, to view first- hand how Project Ceasefire is dealing with the situation. Hipe TV brings you videos ranging from actuality to humour and every- thing in between. Interviews, mini-documentaries and much more. Check out Hipe TV and remember to like, comment, share and subscribe. 00 3 Head-to-Head 30 Toughest Military Training Think your military training was tough? Take a look at what some people have to go through. Famous Figures Editor’s 34 Lyudmila Pavlichenko & Simo Häyhä PUBLISHER Sitrep Two of the most deadly snipers of World War II. Hipe Media Page 30 EDITOR Forged in Battle Matt Tennyson 38 The 1939 Finnish Army Page 34 CONTRIBUTORS When Russia invaded Finland in 1939, they bit off more than they could chew. Raymond Fletcher, Ryan Mur- s most of you know, I Putting this month’s issue to- phy, Ernie Nel, Matt O’Brien, am Irish. I was born in gether was a bit of a challenge. Lt Col Robbie Roberts, Matt Ireland and moved to I have a cataract in my left eye Battlefield A Tennyson, Lt Cdr Glenn von 41 Operation Nimrod South Africa where I did my for which I will have to undergo Zeil. last two years of schooling. surgery. When the British SAS assaulted the Iranian Embassy Then, after completing On Friday, five days before in London in 1980 to rescue hostages, the entire world Military Despatches is pub- watched it live. school, I was called up for Na- deadline, my eye suddenly went lished on-line every month. tional Service. Due to my lack squint. I now have double vision The articles used in Military of Afrikaans, I ended up sign- that means I’m seeing two com- Page 41 Despatches are copyrighted Reviews ing up for the permanent force. puter screens instead of one. The and may not be used without So, as I’m Irish and this is accompanying headache is also 52 Game Review - Stalker Series prior permission from the edi- As if Chernobyl wasn’t enough of a problem, when March, I celebrate St. Patrick’s not fun. tor. Day on 17 March. So may I I had to put off a visit to the Matt O’Brien arrives in the area you somehow know The views stated in this mag- that things are going to go from bad to worse. start off with an Irish blessing. doctor until the magazine was azine do not necessary reflect Seosláinteantséitéara, an gha- complete. So hopefully he can the views of Hipe!, the editor, daí, an trodaí, agus an óltóra! tell me what is wrong and what the staff, or Hipe Media. 54 Movie Review - My Father’s War Mádhéananntuséitéireacht, go we need to do to sort it out. A must-see film for all military veterans. ndéanatúséitéireachtar an mbás, I was sad to learn of the passing Hipe! Mághoideanntú, go ngoide- of Major Charles Holloway on P.O. Box 31216, Tokai, 7966 Book Reivew - Pathfinder Company túcroímná; Máthroideanntú, 23 February. I had the pleasure 55 South Africa. The story of the ‘Philistines’. Page 54 go dtroidetú i leith do bhráthar, of meeting him a few times and Agusmáólanntú, go n-ólatúliom- what a remarkable man he was. email féin. A veteran of World War II, [email protected] The Lighter Side That, by the way, was in Irish he passed away less than four Gaelic. It means, “If you cheat, months before his 100th birth- 56 Happy Days may you cheat death. If you steal, day. We will remember him. The trials and tribulations of an Irish publican. may you steal a woman’s heart. If you fight, may you fight for a Until next month. brother. And if you drink, may you drink with me.” Also, the ‘On the Lighter Side’ section this month is not a mili- tary article. Rather it is an Irish one. Hey, it’s only St. Paddy’s day once a year, so indulge me. Matt 4 5 English. After the word spread fire arrows, a bag of incendiary Top Ten of its power, Edward I adopted gunpowder attached to the shaft Gladius the weapon for the rest of the of an arrow, from at least the English army in its fight against 10th century. In the following the Welsh. Ironically, a weapon centuries various gunpowder 10 Weapons that used by the Welsh was used weapons such as bombs, fire against them to good effect. lances, and, eventually, the gun changed warfare Archers, using the longbow, appeared in China. Ten weapons that changed the face of warfare forever. became the cornerstone of the It was probably the Mongols British army. Archers would that introduced gunpowder to often outnumber the infantry the West. The earliest Western by as much as 10 to 1. English accounts of gunpowder appear he historical develop- be thrown at an opponent and The reason why Rome was use of longbows was effective in texts written by English phi- ment of civilization has if they were hit in a vulnerable able to conquer such a vast area mans were so impressed with against the French during the losopher Roger Bacon in the always gone hand-in- spot such as the head, it could was mainly due to the Roman the gladius that they quickly Hundred Years’ War, particu- 13th century. Several sources T adopted it for their own use. hand with the history of war- cause serious damage or even Army, especially the Roman larly at the start of the war in mention Chinese firearms and fare. kill them. Legions. The Legions were The sword had at least three the battles of Sluys (1340), Cré- gunpowder weapons being de- In fact, the shift in paradigms Then man discovered ‘haft- made up of professional heavy evolutions, moving from the cy (1346), and Poitiers (1356), ployed by the Mongols against and institutions have only tak- ing’, the process of attaching infantrymen of the Roman Gladius Hispaniensis (Span- and perhaps most famously at European forces at the Battle of en place with the utilisation of a sharpened stone to a spear. It Army. ish Gladius), to the early Ro- the Battle of Agincourt (1415). Mohi in 1241. weapons of war to behead kings could be thrown much further The primary weapon of a man version of the sword, to A longbow was able to shoot The impact of gunpowder and dethrone emperors. The de- than a stone and it was deadly. Legionary was the gladius, a the latter ‘Pompeii’ Version. a 53.6 g arrow 328 m and one would prove to be immeasur- velopment of weapons has been It could cut down an opponent Latin word that simply means This last version had a length of weighing 95.9 g arrow a dis- able. Gunpowder replaced critical to the advancement of long before they were in range ‘sword’. The gladius was used 65-70 cm, a blade width of tance of 249.9 m and could pen- siege weapons, giving birth to societies and the fates of peo- to use a stone or a club. primarily as a stabbing weap- 6 cm, and weighed 700 grams. etrate a knight’s armour with the cannon. Overcoming castles ples and governments. Up until recently, it was ons and it featured a v-shaped The gladius is considered by relative ease. and fortresses would prove to In this article we will look at thought attaching a stone tip tip that was perfect for slip- many to be one of the most im- be far easier with the ability to ten weapons that changed the to a spear - known as ‘hafting’ ping through the spaces in ribs, portant swords in history, both Gunpowder project missiles towards enemy way warfare is conducted.
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