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4 hours ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

Best Soviet Medium tank of the War!  

 

Also, I like how instead of using fences, they have police holding hands to form a barrier. 

Those aren't police, at least not any kind of police I've ever seen.

There were posts earlier in the thread about two books from Tactical Press that were translated, they are quite good (at least the originals were). There is also Red Machines 1: T-60 Small Tank & Variants which isn't strictly speaking a translated book, but Pasholok also has a Russian T-60 book.

All the documents I found in the Canadian archives refer to them as "the old group" rather than "gang". The TOGs don't come up a lot, but there is one instance where the TOG2 is considered alongside the A30 as a heavy gun carrier, although it is quickly discarded. 

10 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

B3

Looks like a good diorama solution if you messed up when assembling the suspension.

12 hours ago, Khand-e said:

 

Funny you mention it because these popped up on Akula's QQ group earlier today.

 

 

 

Also, just for the hell of it, this thing!.

 

Yeah, I also have that document, except in readable resolution.

Ulanov posted a document regarding Soviet experimental 5.6 mm rounds in 1941. A prototype was tested, but it was deemed impossible to produce a gun with the required weight of 3.6 kg. 

Little @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks is pulling a bogey off a knocked-out Sherman while his pal keeps watch.

Which German tank is this?

Got enough stars there?

• World War II Netherlands. War Museum, Overloon. June 13, 1946. A man and a woman are sitting on an [American] tank on the museum grounds.

Here's something really neat.

Specifically the mention of a Sherman IIc. As far as I know, the only Sherman IIc built (M4A1 with 17-pounder) were Canadian Grizzlies, but looks like the British built one too. 

On 2/1/2018 at 6:04 PM, Xlucine said:

No point looking at a wooden mockup of HH or the mkIV in '45, since there should be real examples available. I've seen a reference to the vickers M131 (as in 2 pages of draft specifications) of 1944, which seems to be a stretched harry hopkins (bending track, 18t, 77mm gun). I suspect this morphed into the FV300 once the designers came down off their opium high and realised that a bending track design was pushing it a bit at that weight, and it fits the timeframe for having wooden mockups available

Looks like you were right!

The real tanks are the friends you met along the way.

Edit: ahahaha

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Tanks, first and foremost, are:

Extremely heavily armored, often weighing upwards of 60 tons as a result.
Equipped with a big gun, usually in at least 120mm caliber in modern tanks.
Tracked, rather than propelled by wheels and tires.

 

Leopard 1 is not a tank

PzI is not a tank, and neither are any American tanks pre-1940s ish

Ansaldo-Pavesi Wheeled Tank Modello 1925 is not a tank

British and Canadian reports were mixed. Most regiments reported that it sucked and they turned it off, but one reported that they loved it. There was also a trial regarding loading on the move on the Firefly with the stabilizer engaged, the recommendation being to disengage the stabilizer before loading.

Hey, @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks, what kind of gun is this? 75 mm or 105 mm? 

Any idea what this could be? The only Vickers light tank of the era I can think of is the Mk.VI, but why bother testing it in 1945?

Forczyk's "Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941-1942" is on sale for under two bucks on Google Play right now, which is a hilariously low price for such a great book.

On 12/22/2017 at 12:13 PM, Sturgeon said:

I note that this article, which essentially recaps the highlight moments of the film, doesn't include any mention of the damned casino planet segment.

 

They could have taken that whole bit out and it would have made the movie much leaner and more enjoyable.

I went to pee during the casino planet part, and I think I picked a good point in the movie. 

Oh, I was thinking on the computer, but I guess this is a more authentic way of doing it.