Tanks for the Memories

[Sasaferrato]

A Hind or other heavily-armed helo might, but a drone, even a big fucker, can't carry enough payload, not even if you're using a real cunt of an explosive like RDX. Tank-busting is still mainly done w/ artillery or mines, or from substantial airborne platforms, not stuff more suited for delivering Amazon parcels.

Hellfire Tank Killer Replacement Enters Production

The Joint Air Ground Missile will launch from helicopters, smash tanks, boats, virtually anything worth smashing.

www.popularmechanics.com

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The Reaper drone can carry Hellfire missiles, eight of them. Eight dead tanks.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Fun fact: ‘Tank’ is Pashto for ‘wedding reception’

 

[ViolentPanda]

And Triumph carefully designed the front end of the Stag so that the Rover V8 wouldn’t physically fit.

Now, where’s that British motor industry we used to have, I’m sure it was arround here somewhere.

You COULD squeeze a Rover V8 in, but it really WAS a squeeze, same as with doing the same in a TR7. Some Stag owners didn't mind cut & shutting the front end, as it gave them an engine & transmission that didn't grind to a halt every thousand miles.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Hellfire Tank Killer Replacement Enters Production

The Joint Air Ground Missile will launch from helicopters, smash tanks, boats, virtually anything worth smashing.

www.popularmechanics.com

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The Reaper drone can carry Hellfire missiles, eight of them. Eight dead tanks.

Reapers don't come in...what was the word you used?...squadrons. You were obviously talking about the wee fellas, & not the Reaper UAV, or you wouldn't have mentioned "a squadron of drones".

 

[Sasaferrato]

Reapers don't come in...what was the word you used?...squadrons. You were obviously talking about the wee fellas, & not the Reaper UAV, or you wouldn't have mentioned "a squadron of drones".

Any particular reason why Reapers need be solitary?
I didn't actually mention drone size in the PP.

 

[existentialist]

You COULD squeeze a Rover V8 in, but it really WAS a squeeze, same as with doing the same in a TR7. Some Stag owners didn't mind cut & shutting the front end, as it gave them an engine & transmission that didn't grind to a halt every thousand miles.

I drove one from Farnham to London once, for a friend. Coming onto the A3 at Ripley, I found myself doing 100+mph without quite realising how.

It was yellow

 

[ViolentPanda]

Any particular reason why Reapers need be solitary?
I didn't actually mention drone size in the PP.

Look, just admit I caught you out, old feller. It's okay, we expect you geriatrics to get confused!

 

[ViolentPanda]

I drove one from Farnham to London once, for a friend. Coming onto the A3 at Ripley, I found myself doing 100+mph without quite realising how.

It was yellow

I think that yellow & purple were the two favourite colours for Stag owners.

 

[existentialist]

I think that yellow & purple were the two favourite colours for Stag owners.

I suppose I should be grateful it wasn't purple, then. Or - the horror - both

 

[ViolentPanda]

I suppose I should be grateful it wasn't purple, then. Or - the horror - both

Cue me violently spewing!

 

[existentialist]

Cue me violently spewing!

Not just you, and I'm colour blind

 

[A380]

I wanted a Stag from age 17 to about 26. Then I saw a cutaway model of its V8 and thought , fuck that.
I do think a TR7 might be a laugh now...

 

[spitfire]

Ivan take tank off train fast.

 

[marty21]

Armored Personnel Carrier Converted Into Funeral Hearse For Veterans

A British Army tank has been converted into funeral hearse for veterans.

www.warhistoryonline.com

Saw this in Kings Cross on Wednesday, I'm guessing there aren't many of them about. Armoured personnel carrier converted into a hearse.

 

[kebabking]

Yeah, that's niche...

 

[spitfire]

Go on, it'll be fine...just go for it!

Merde.

(Video in reply tweet)

 

[existentialist]

Go on, it'll be fine...just go for it!

Merde.

(Video in reply tweet)

"What did you do today, dear?"

"Oh, not much, just rolled a tank"

(in French, naturellement). Oh, OK.

"Et qu'est-ce que tu a fait aujourd'hui?"

"Bof, pas du tout, j'ai seulement roulé un tank"

 

[Chz]

Go on, it'll be fine...just go for it!

Merde.

(Video in reply tweet)

Many of the French tanks (particularly the Somua and the Hotchkiss) were much better than their German counterparts. They just didn't use them properly.
That said, there's a definite doctrinal difference with the French 2 and 3 man crews vs. the Germans with their 4 and 5 man crews that allowed the Commander to... command, rather than load and aim the gun while he was at it.

 

[DownwardDog]

I do think a TR7 might be a laugh now...

I've had two. They were both reliability nightmares and comically underpowered but that Harris Mann design has undeniable charisma. I put a 2.4 Toyota 22RE with twin Weber DCOE carbs in the second one and it was much better but still not exactly fast.

 

[D'wards]

This is a fantastic scene

 

[spitfire]

Tanks driving around a big sand pit. (TW: Armoured Cars and pigeons).

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Idris2002]

 

[spitfire]

Weeeee I'm a tank!

Strong tank fight war!

Oh noez I haz a schmerz.

 

[Hollis]

As you were...

 

[Idris2002]

Replica Polish Tankette:



These things apparently put up a pretty good show in 1939.

 

[Idris2002]

And that thing leads to this link, which is strangely addictive (i.e. don't start watching this unless you've got a spare half hour):

 

[BigTom]

CNT-FAI on a tractor... if it's got caterpillar tracks, it's a tank right? It's certainly not an APC!

 

[spitfire]

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CNT-FAI on a tractor... if it's got caterpillar tracks, it's a tank right? It's certainly not an APC!

It's going to be a very short trip for the person nearest to us...

eta: actually for the fella on the other side of the engine as well. More training required!