You know what the worst kind of thing is? Being into historical tanks and planes while still believing that war is pretty shitty and the Nazis didn’t lose hard enough.

Yes, I think a tank is a cool engineering achievement. No, I don’t want to talk to you about how war crimes are actually neat. No, I don’t want to help you beat up minorities.

Exactly. WW2 is the last great period of analog engineering.

It’s also the only time racists had a technological edge going into a fight so they cling to the idea they had a chance. The overlap is frustrating. I just want to learn more about analog circuits that can be shot out of a cannon!

Proximity fuze - Wikipedia

Ah the proximity fuse! Another incredible feat IMO, a radar shot out of a cannon…
Oh yes, crazy when you think about it. Nowadays you’d just put some semiconductors, pot it all in epoxy… but they neither had modern epoxy nor transistors.