Jeeps_Guns_Tanks

They have some nice looking Shermans. I wish they had the money to do more than static displays though. 

The turret marking seems like something the Brits would do, its an M4A3 105 tank or maybe an M4 105. 

Like new not an original motor type or a NOS Sherman motor?

5 hours ago, Meplat said:

All that aside, it demonstrates a nigh upon insane lack of comprehension of the logistics (and repercussions) involved in such a command.

 

Once the cork was out of the bottle, it would be open fucking season on feds.

Yeah, its the red line for so many gun owners out there is not even funny. 

Luckily Harris has no chance. She slept her way to the top of a corrupt system in California and has too many skeletons in her past to be really viable, plus her nasally whiney voice may in fact cause cancer. 

On 5/17/2019 at 7:22 AM, EnsignExpendable said:

 

Yes it's the same one, but the bogeys and tracks had rotted away completely so they were replaced. That is why the wheels are wrong for the M3.

So do the Russians have some dank old warehouse, in the back corner of some old base that has Sherman tracks and suspensions, and motors just sitting in crates?   Are they running the proper motors or have they found something more modern they can slap in? 

1 hour ago, Belesarius said:

Herman Wouk, author of The Winds of War and War and Remembrance died at the age of 103 today.

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/17/468790231/herman-wouk-the-jackie-robinson-of-jewish-american-fiction-dies-at-103

I really liked his books.  I've purchased WoW and WaR three times, the actual books, the kindle version, and just recently on audible.    Great books, and a pretty good history lesson too. I wonder what he thought of this crazy world before he went...  

On 5/15/2019 at 10:46 AM, Walter_Sobchak said:

This video is not specifically about the Sherman, but considering who is giving the lecture, I figured I would post it here.

 

 

This was pretty good. There was a very amusing wehraboo question about the first assault weapons, and how could the US Army deal with such superweapons right at the end. The person asking the question is super annoying. 

On 5/9/2019 at 2:47 PM, EnsignExpendable said:

Pasholok says that the counterweight was found inside the tank when it was recovered, that is why it was attached.

That's interesting, I wonder if the tank had an M2, then had an M3 put in and they just tossed the counterweight inside and shipped it to the USSR?    

The M3 in the parade is the same M3 that was recovered from the ocean?

48 minutes ago, LostCosmonaut said:

Picked up a T20 for 75% off. Assume it's good, but even if it sucks still 75% off.

 

 

It's good, it's like an M18 with armor, so you don't have to worry about being machinegunned.   It also goes very fast in reverse. 

Huh, I wonder why they had a counterweight on the M3 gun on the Lee.    Its a pretty early tank too, it still has the hull guns! It is also missing the counterweight for the 37mm. 

11 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

   Murmansk

RAD.

The first image... from the new G104. 

I'm redoing the text. 

3 hours ago, Meplat said:

That article is a load of hooey.

 

Some of them totally believe that shit though.  Guns are evil, they actually make you do bad stuff, like drugs in the 80s!

Yeah I think those are infrared lights, they had a night vision setup for the driver, I don't think it worked well.

On 5/2/2019 at 7:02 PM, EnsignExpendable said:

Some kind of weird spotlight and headlights on an early production Sherman.

 

They have improved the log, they mounted it so it's kinda like a seat or bench! Benchlog!

I got my hands on this... 

Is that 1/35th?

This isn't my tank story, and it's not a story with words, but I think this image tells a pretty funny story all on its own. 

That's not real right?

That's a weird looking bird.    Has a three engine jet fighter been done?

Man I fucking hate California... 

Please, Gods, overthrow the stupid California Assault weapons ban!

Looks pretty good for a Nazi box. 

I got this... 

https://www.gog.com/game/order_of_battle_world_war_ii

Order of Battle WWII. 

It's like Civ 5 in look but a dedicated WWII game.  So far, it's ok, I've only played the Tutorial and a few of the campaign battles with the default Pacific Campaign.  I bought the Marines Pack, since it has a bunch of battles in the Solomons, and that's kinda my thing.  Ill update once I play more. The base game was 19.99 on GoG with a 9.99 charge per addon. 

Hey, its that Sherman with funky fenders, and tracks. 

It was for improved dive performance, and the cab was improved for a radar operator and it was not pressurized. There were two versions, that one and an L based one later, it was used to test stuff for other programs as well, and Lockheed bought it post-war. It was called the Swordfish