Comment by chippy
9 years ago
I remember a talk from a map librarian who said that the Soviets didn't just copy western maps, as they often had more detail and unique elements that the western maps didn't have. One thing, for example was the heights of bridges, and widths of roads.
You might want to jump straight into the examples: https://redatlasbook.com/cityplans
Flash is needed though...
Make no mistake, we have that as well. Worldwide: https://www.sddc.army.mil/sites/TEA/Functions/SpecialAssista...
Is anyone else getting a non-secure warning from chrome?
You see that because the DoD uses their own root certificates for sites intended for internal use that browsers don't trust by default: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/147606/why-woul...
If you were afflicted with the military and were planning on using these sites on your own hardware regularly, you'd install their certificates: https://iase.disa.mil/pki-pke/Pages/tools.aspx
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And clicking 'Advanced' didn't allow the option of continuing!
> When Google Chrome tried to connect to www.sddc.army.mil this time, the website sent back unusual and incorrect credentials. [...] You cannot visit www.sddc.army.mil right now because the website sent scrambled credentials that Google Chrome cannot process.
I had to type 'badidea' to bypass the error. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/42xd4i/chrome_dan...
According to qualys (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.sddc.army...), that site uses an untrusted certificate.
Makes sense about the bridges and roads thing. You need to know that for tanks. Even today in Germany you’ll see tiny bridges crossing a stream, a sign right by that says “this bridge rated for 70,000 pounds” (so can hold multiple tanks at once).
Multiple? A Main Battle Tank such as the German Leopard 2 weighs 62,300 kg (137, 347 lb). Even a puny WW2 Sherman medium tank weighed in the neighborhood of 70,000 lb.
An M4 Sherman weighed about 35 tons when including fuel, crew and ammunition. So technically, it could hold two, though it would be a risky endeavor.
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Is that literally true? I would have expected Germans to rate their bridges in tons, not pounds/pfund.
I live in Germany and have never seen a sign using pounds, only tons.
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That would likely be metric tons, or a little more than 2204 pounds. The US uses short tons, or exactly 2000 pounds.
A lot of bridges everywhere are marked with their capacity. I don't think it's necessarily for the purpose of tanks.
I think he relates to the bridge signs of the NATO.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Load_Classification
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Those are MLC (Military Load Classification) signs.
I once talked to a guy working in the local government responsible for all-things-roads in a town in Germany. He showed me some maps and building plans of bridges and told me that these maps/plans were actually highly classified in the cold war.
Makes sense to me that the soviets collected everything.