I read somewhere that they fired up a pan of gas under their plane engines and let it burn. A guy I used to know (Dead now) was in the "Spetnaz" corp and he told me that his issued 1936 Simonov assault rifles would jam with the cold but that the soviets had developed a lubricant that would work, but the Germans had nothing and their guns jammed.
Terry
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Originally Posted by Bruce Adams
OH ! OH !
I hope this doesn;t start a debate about what kind of lube oils the Russians used at Stalingrad. 
I understand the Germans had a tough time starting tanks and trucks during that cold Russian winter.
How are radial engines lubed? Is there a crankcase? |