Tanks for the Memories
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DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Here's an interesting MTB/MBT: Centurion #169041. In 1953 it was positioned 500m from a nuclear blast in Australia. It started first time afterwards and was used by the Australian army for 23 years afterwards including a tour of duty in the 'Nam.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
It must be the T34. They made about 100,000 of them with some still in service. There isn't much armour by modern standards. I saw one get hit by a GBU-10 in Bosnia and the turret landed two towns away.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
yeah - also gets extra kudos for winning world war 2.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
T34 is strongkest, da. But the dear old USSR didn't always get it right in the tank department:
The T-35 Was Russia's Deadly Land Battleship (And a Total Disaster)
The T-35 Was Russia's Deadly Land Battleship (And a Total Disaster)
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
not-bono-ever
meh
There are still about 50000 of them on plinths outside every bloody Russian / ex soviet town ever
not-bono-ever
meh
There were literally hundreds of tanks sunk into the mud in Kaliningrad a decade ago- did not manage to get much more of a look as the gaff was heavily militarised and the best sight got was a drive by in a lada taxi
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
From this thread here:
More British light Armor in early WWII
Not much alternate history in this one, just some interesting pics of tanks.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Hey, coley, you were asking about stuff to read on the subject of tanks further up thread.
This might suit your needs.
Tank Archives: Bovington: T-34 and KV-1 impressions
This might suit your needs.
Tank Archives: Bovington: T-34 and KV-1 impressions
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
It was the angled armour that made the T-34 such a tough bugger. No extra weight but extra protection against anything coming at you horizontally, and a greater chance of ordnance ricocheting off. They also had about five moving parts and so were a lot more reliable than the German tigers.
High Voltage
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The T34 also had parts interchangeabilty so even if you did break down the crew would be able to scavenge spares to get going again. The Tigers not so.
The Tigers are also engineered to a far higher standard. The T34s were made in volume to a good enough standard. And weren't they made in volume
The Tigers are also engineered to a far higher standard. The T34s were made in volume to a good enough standard. And weren't they made in volume
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Well yes, I think the Americans summed it up as a well-designed tank that lost most of the advantages of its design to atrocious quality control. But the Sovs made enough of them to be effectively disposable, so if you broke one you just got another. Quite similar to the M4 and the PzIV in that all were fairly good tanks when they first showed up, hopelessly outdated by 1945, but the production lines were there and ready and their replacements were expensive and hard to build. (The M4 was really slow to get off the ground though - you could argue it wasn't even that great brand new, though if it had showed up at the same time as the T-34 it would've been great)
Besides, they'd knocked most of the kinks out of the production process by '44 and they were likely to actually be driven to the front instead of breaking down before they got there. Their vaunted reliability didn't exist before then, really. Bad welds, engines that caught fire, most of them leaked in the rain...
Besides, they'd knocked most of the kinks out of the production process by '44 and they were likely to actually be driven to the front instead of breaking down before they got there. Their vaunted reliability didn't exist before then, really. Bad welds, engines that caught fire, most of them leaked in the rain...
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
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Is that not like 'i wish I was poor..', or 'i wish Scarlett Johansson wouldn't keep dragging me off to her apartment in Paris for weeks of vigorous sex...'.
Have you spoken to your GP recently?
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
I did think of tagging you. It was getting to the 15 mountain guns of different nationalities that made me think enough might be enough...
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Torcross Tank: a Sherman tank sunk in the bay during the disastrous Operation Tiger, which took place 75 years ago next Sunday. Over 1000, mostly American, servicemen died in the disaster and yet no news of it was allowed to come out at all as this was how they were preparing for D-Day...
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A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
An hour ago I didn’t even know 1/6 scale radio controlled metal tanks - and other AFVs- were a thing. Now I am wondering if I actually need things like somewhere to live and food as those seem a bit of a waste of money that could be spent on huge model tanks...
https://www.armortek.co.uk
They even do artillery...
https://www.armortek.co.uk
They even do artillery...
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
. . . but no T34. Hmmm. . .
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Needs Yakety Sax.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
One wonders what would have happened if the T72 had managed to get a shot off - would an exploding ACV have any deleterious effect on the T72 it was parked on top of?
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Just got back from a week in north-western France, and got to visit the Musee des Blindes in Saumur - a great place, though if you go there on the train expect to walk quite a way to get to it.
They have almost a full range of German WW2 tanks on display (apart from a Panzer 1 and some of the more arcane ones) and a good selection of nearly everyone elses' from the period except the Japanese. I thought the best thing in there though was the ARL-44, something that could only have been built by the French.
They have almost a full range of German WW2 tanks on display (apart from a Panzer 1 and some of the more arcane ones) and a good selection of nearly everyone elses' from the period except the Japanese. I thought the best thing in there though was the ARL-44, something that could only have been built by the French.
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