Hairy Mary armored train with hemp rope armor from the Boer War.

  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    It’s actually camouflage. The enemy will think it’s just a migrating giant yarn bundle and not shoot it

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    10 months ago

    Ah, the wooly mammoth camouflage. A classic, sadly it only tricks the enemy for as long as it takes them to remember that wooly mammoths are extinct.

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    10 months ago

    the shittiest of technicals

    i think similar contraptions were used in propellant factories of the era as blast shields, but it’s kinda pointless this way when curtain can’t flex under stress. maybe perhaps it will stop tiny fragments or shot and the slowest of bullets, otherwise it would probably cause more trouble when it catches fire

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        10 months ago

        Well that and the fact they are made of asbestos, and raising and lowering friable asbestos fabric all the time in a public space isn’t the best idea.