Tanks for the Memories

[coley]

Conqueror - the last Brit heavy tank, or so the interweb tells me.

Only ever saw them as wrecks on AT ranges, big brutes as I remember?

 

[DaveCinzano]

It's a fictional vehicle from the G.I. Joe universe, called a H.I.S.S. Tank.

Is that the one which filmed a pilot for its own spin-off sitcom series about dating a hire car - with hilarious consequences?

 

[kebabking]

Did the same to mine, something must have rubbed off, the eldest has recently finished his 22, as a WO1, didn't fancy the move to a commission though.
Both managed to outrank poor old Da

It's not for everyone - red trousers can be quite clashy, and the bloody dog hair gets everywhere...

 

[spitfire]

When I started going to Glastonbury in the '90's and saw the cool vehicles it made me want to get one of these and turn it into a pirate radio station.

Needless to say it never happened and probably wouldn't have worked anyway. Probably just accidentally turned it into a microwave transmitter and fried some poor unsuspecting hippies.

P-40 radar - Wikipedia

 

[Opera Buffa]

A crewman releases a carrier pigeon from a Mark V tank in 1918

 

[spitfire]

"I'm not going out there. Are you fucking mad?

Put me down. Put me down you cunt. No. No not going out.

Fuck fuck fuck fuuuuuuuuuuck. "

*flies like mad*

 

[Idris2002]

Japanese Chi-Ha jungle clearing tank:

 

[fishfinger]

Japanese Chi-Ha jungle clearing tank:

Is that a ginormous jungle knife on the front?

 

[spitfire]

"That's not a knife....."

 

[DaveCinzano]

Japanese Chi-Ha jungle clearing tank:

I have been wracking my brain all day for what that reminded me of, finally remembered the name of the strip:

 

[DaveCinzano]

I have been wracking my brain all day for what that reminded me of, finally remembered the name of the strip:

PS

I'm really chuffed with the sketch I did earlier today whilst I was wracking my brain to think what the comic strip was called:

 

[spitfire]

Want.

Armor Model Kits,Tanks & 1/6 Scale Models | Armortek

 

[A380]

Want.

Armor Model Kits,Tanks & 1/6 Scale Models | Armortek

I'm standing on a cliff edge when I see things like this. A whole world of stuff I could spend my money on...

 

[Idris2002]

Angola.

 

[MikeMcc]

Is that a ginormous jungle knife on the front?

No, it's just pleased to see you!

 

[A380]

 

[Pickman's model]

chinese t-69 consigned to the deeps to be part of an artificial reef

 

[David Clapson]

I couchsurfed in Boone, North Carolina with an ex-driver of an Abrams, America's Main Battle Tank:



He volunteered because he 'wanted to know how it feels to shoot someone'. I'm sure that wasn't his only reason but being a shrimp they made him a tank driver and off he went to Kick Saddam's Ass. He didn't like it much. The Abrams, billed as 'the best tank in the world', has shonky old electrics and it sometimes catches fire, incinerating the crew. This happened to some of his friends. He was very jealous of the Brits in their Challengers. Also, a number of Abrams in Iraq ended up like this...



....but submerged, when they fell into one of Iraq's many irrigation ditches/canals. He said they were very top heavy and he was constantly shitting himself that the bank of the ditch would crumble and his tank would roll in. As you can see there's no escape hatch. And the US army didn't send divers with acetylene torches to accompany their armour, or issue tank crews with scuba gear. Nothing could be done for them so they were left to drown/suffocate/shoot themselves. After the war he became a pacifist and an active member of Iraq Veterans Against the War Iraq Veterans Against the War | You are not alone

 

[Idris2002]

These ones are French.

"AMR 35 light tanks. Screenhot taken from the 1943 United States Army propaganda film Divide and Conquer (Why We Fight #3) directed by Frank Capra and partially based on, news archives, animations, restaged scenes and captured propaganda material from both sides."

 

[Idris2002]

Dirty Rhodesian white settler troops lording it over a ZIPRA T34.

 

[Idris2002]

Czech-made tank used by Peru in its 1941 war with Ecuador.

 

[Idris2002]

Flying Bren carrier.

 

[spitfire]

I love Bren Carriers, when I win the lottery/become king of everything I'm going to get one for my back garden.

 

[spitfire]

Irish bren carriers not so recently on O'Connell Street.

Irish Armour Online: Tracked Armoured Vehicles

 

[A380]

 

[A380]

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[A380]

 

[spitfire]

"Oh so you think indicators are like magic wands and I just disappear?
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WRONG!"

 

[Idris2002]

Ethiopian troops training to use captured Italian tanks:

 

[Idris2002]

Italian tanks in Australian service, North Africa: