Tanks for the Memories

[spitfire]

She does a cracking version of Candle In The Wind apparently.

 

[dylanredefined]

Here comes glorious russian tank army

 

[dylanredefined]

Supposedly sung by none russian speakers so it sounds wierd to Russians.
There is a t 34 hulk up on otterburn ranges I know cos I put a rocket through the drivers hatch. Being a hulk there was no explosion kinda disappointing.
My mate missed the hill and so an officer went off with a compass and some explosives to blow up the spent rocket.Dont know if he ever found it.

 

[spitfire]

On the news ...

Last D-Day craft makes final journey after Portsmouth revamp

LCT 7074 sank in 2010 but has been renovated and will go on display at the D-Day Story museum.

www.bbc.co.uk

nice to see something as utilitarian as this restored.

Tanks on a boat.

Sherman looks a bit forlorn.

 

[spitfire]

Crazy Norwegians build longtank.

 

[agricola]

Why is the Queen known as Brenda? Don't gettit.

Apparently its from a BBC documentary of the 60s that gave "normal" names to the Royals in an attempt to humanize them. You may also see Prince Charles referred to as Brian for exactly the same reason.

 

[Idris2002]

That's both weird and sad at the same time.

 

[LDC]

Brenda's lads are apparently contemplating getting rid of their tank capacity altogether:

British Army could axe ageing tanks as part of modernisation plans

Senior Army officers have told the BBC the military may abandon its ageing stock of Challenger 2 tanks.

www.bbc.com

Future UK Armed Forces: no tanks, a Cessna armed with water bombs, a sturdy rowing boat, and kebabking armed with a shotgun and a trained killer goat.

 

[kebabking]

Future UK Armed Forces: no tanks, a Cessna armed with water bombs, a sturdy rowing boat, and kebabking armed with a shotgun and a trained killer goat.

we've already cut the Goat - it was a resourse intensive niche capability with very limited cross spectrum deployability.

 

[co-op]

Apparently its from a BBC documentary of the 60s that gave "normal" names to the Royals in an attempt to humanize them. You may also see Prince Charles referred to as Brian for exactly the same reason.

Was it not Private Eye leaking gossip that Palace staff called the Queen Brenda? By "staff" we mean people who are posher than the Royal family here, Pursuivant-Keeper of the Sovereign's Mirkin etc. So posh they think the Royals are petit-bourgeois.

 

[co-op]

we've already cut the Goat - it was a resourse intensive niche capability with very limited cross spectrum deployability.

Sounds like a forces review alright; almost literally 180 degrees wrong. Goats can be deployed just about anywhere and live on a diet of thistles and old boots.

 

[spitfire]

Germans are big on reuse and recycling

 

[Idris2002]

Yeah, didn't end well for a lot of them. I took this at the museum of underwater wrecks in Normandy a few years ago. You can see the front frame that held the canvas "bow".

I believe the ones that did make it ashore were quite useful though.

This is a Bradley Fighting Vehicle with a similar floatation device.



I vaguely remember the BFV being a controversial white elephant in the 1980s.

Bradley Fighting Vehicle - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Idris2002]

Or am I thinking of the Sergeant York?

 

[LDC]

The BMP had an 'amphibious' capability iirc. Fuck that though. It's a heavy metal box. Not designed to float. Fuck getting in that. Although sitting on top of one like this would be a laugh. Just not inside.

 

[spitfire]

Sgt York needs more pew pew I reckon.

Gepard FTW.

 

[spitfire]

By pure coincidence this just popped up on twitter.

Bless.*



* Would put the shits up me regardless if pointed at me in anger... 4 x 7.92 not to be sniffed at.

 

[LDC]

By pure coincidence this just popped up on twitter.

Bless.*



* Would put the shits up me regardless if pointed at me in anger... 4 x 7.92 not to be sniffed at.

Bet he's wearing those baggy desert shorts too the hard bastard.

 

[kebabking]

By pure coincidence this just popped up on twitter.

Bless.*



* Would put the shits up me regardless if pointed at me in anger... 4 x 7.92 not to be sniffed at.

I think that what pops up on my twitter is better than what pops up on your twitter..


(Obviously it's an SPG, not a tank, but we've long since left the path of purity...)

 

[spitfire]

I think that what pops up on my twitter is better than what pops up on your twitter..


(Obviously it's an SPG, not a tank, but we've long since left the path of purity...)

Oddly, I almost followed that account yesterday. All very modern though.

The one at the end is having a sad.

 

[Idris2002]

I'm watching this on a saturday night.



I've wasted my life.

 

[DownwardDog]

The BMP had an 'amphibious' capability iirc. Fuck that though. It's a heavy metal box. Not designed to float. Fuck getting in that. Although sitting on top of one like this would be a laugh. Just not inside.

The troop compartment doors of the BMP-1 had fuel tanks built into them so good luck to the forces of peace and socialism inside one when those got hit. In Kosovo their default state seemed to be 'on fire'.

 

[Streathamite]

Apparently its from a BBC documentary of the 60s that gave "normal" names to the Royals in an attempt to humanize them. You may also see Prince Charles referred to as Brian for exactly the same reason.

ahh...I thought the source was Private Eye, who adopted the pseudonyms as a defence against legal aggro?

 

[mauvais]

ahh...I thought the source was Private Eye, who adopted the pseudonyms as a defence against legal aggro?

Yes, this, or at least by PE to take the piss - there's fuck all chance they were called anything in that 1969 documentary, which they approved.

 

[A380]

The troop compartment doors of the BMP-1 had fuel tanks built into them so good luck to the forces of peace and socialism inside one when those got hit. In Kosovo their default state seemed to be 'on fire'.

Given what we now know about the USSRs kit I wonder if, on an alternate timeline 1979 where all kicked off on the Inner German Border, instead of Nuclear Armageddon there would be loads of hung over squadies from BAOR and Third Shock Army standing around kicking vehicles that wouldn’t start....

 

[A380]

Not a tank but...

 

[spitfire]

Not a tank but...

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Depends on how you define tanks!

 

[Lancman]

One of the several PLO tanks that I saw in Beirut in the 1980s. They all seemed to have been hit by the same Israeli weapons. The effect was to make a fairly small hole in the side of the hull but the force of the internal explosion was big enough to smash the tank floor onto the ground and blow the hull some distance away where it fell inverted. The turret was similarly shifted some distance where it fell upright.
Can anyone identify the type of tank?

 

[spitfire]

First guess was wrong, T55! (Going by the wheels).

 

[kebabking]

The turret looks a lot like a T-55. Worth noting that there are so many different variants deliverers to export customers that working on out exactly which one it is is a job for specialist Weapons Int people.