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I like books about tanks so much that I even wrote one myself.
 
https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15014
 

I like books about tanks so much that I even wrote one myself.
 
https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15014
 

I like books about tanks so much that I even wrote one myself.
 
https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15014
 

The British find a use for a Goliath.
 

From The Tank Museum Twitter
 

Two new books came in. Kolomiets' KV-1 book needs no introduction, and while I have no idea who this Sorokin guy is, the reviews for this book were good.
 

I like books about tanks so much that I even wrote one myself.
 
https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15014
 

I like books about tanks so much that I even wrote one myself.
 
https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15014
 

I like books about tanks so much that I even wrote one myself.
 
https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15014
 

I like books about tanks so much that I even wrote one myself.
 
https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15014
 

I like books about tanks so much that I even wrote one myself.
 
https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15014
 

I like books about tanks so much that I even wrote one myself.
 
https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15014
 

I don't think the British had any M4A3(105)s, only M4s.

Churchill NA 75 conversion using Sherman gun and mantlet to correct the deficiencies in the Churchill Mk IV's armament and frontal turret protection. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've had Lawrence's comically large tome on Kursk for four years or so and have just started reading it, having been previously intimidated a bit by its sheer size and scope. I mean, it has the word "Prokhorovka" on the spine...horizontally. And it weighs 12 pounds.

 
So far, Lawrence is definitely thorough, and there are first-person accounts to balance out the archival research. I can't really form an opinion of his analysis of the battle yet since I'm only on page 359, where the actual battle begins.

 
I'll keep everyone posted.

German gunners must have been confused when they never saw this mish-mash of early and late Sherman characteristics, or whatever those bogeys are supposed to be.
 

Time for another tank story:
 
This time it is the early '90s, I'm a TC on an M1A1 in the Oregon National Guard, G Trp 82nd Cav. Annual training at Gowen Field, Orchards Training Center, outside of Boise ID. This didn't happen to me, but I witnessed the event. We were down range on the night portion of TT VIII. My buddy Duncan was the gunner on the Platoon Sergeant's tank. This happened during Duncan's run. It was what we called the "Widow Maker": on the move, NBC environment, two targets, a BMP & then a troop target.
 
During this engagement, Duncan's TC gives the fire command "Gunner, HEAT, PC!", the rest of the crew & Duncan react appropriately and service the target. The TC calls cease fire on the PC & gives the fire command of "Gunner, Coax, Troops!", but the loader had already loaded a new round in the main gun and had placed the main gun safety to fire. Not normally a big deal if the gunner had switched from main gun to coax, but on the M1A1 there was a switch for each of the main gun and coax, so it was possible to fire both at the same time if both were set to fire and the loader's safety was set to fire.
 
This time at Gowen Field, on the main tank range for TT VIII, the observation tower for that range, they had a TTS thermal sight from an M60A3 rigged up in the tower with a video camera to record it for the evaluation NCO to use during night gunnery, so there was a recording of what happened.
 
Duncan lays on the troop target, gets a range and fires. "On the Way!', BOOOM rattatttattaat! goes the main gun and coax, "Shit!" goes Duncan. 
 
Later in the tower, I was there when the evaluator goes over that engagement with Duncan's crew., along with the video from the tower. You could clearly see the troop target as it rises on the range, hear the fire commands given by Duncan's TC and watch as a 120mm training heat round hits the left most troop target. The troop target just disappears, flies right off the target array, and then you can see the tracers from the coax strike around the troop target as it lowers back down. 
 
The evaluator commented that while that they hit the target & it was suppressed, they engaged with the wrong weapon system, - 30 points. They were impressed that he hit the target. Later someone went down range and retrieved that target, it had a 120mm hole in it at about the level of the heart, nice shot. They later hung it up in the tower briefing room.

This one time in the Army (I'm required to start all my army stories this way by my wife)....
 
Well I was a driver on an M60A3 when I was in C Co. 1/70 AR in Germany in 1983. We were driving down this tank trail, the lead tank of our platoon, when this crunchy (infantryman) pops out from behind a tree. He was about 50 meters or so down the tank trail when he holds up his rifle across his body in a "Halt!" fashion. I ask my TC if I should stop & he says to keep on driving. The crunchy motions for us to "Halt" a couple more times in an increasingly more aggressive and desperate fashion. When we get about 10 meters from him he suddenly realizes that we aren't stopping and an M16 isn't going to faze us one bit. He dove one way and his rifle went the other as we rolled on pass him. I said to my TC "I wonder what he wanted?" and my TC replied "Who the fuck knows." It isn't a wonder that there's no love lost between DATs and crunchies.

I got my hands on this... 
 

Guys, i found a photo evidence that animea is a trash. 

 
Was walking yesterday with a sister to buy a new iPad, went through one of islands (parts of old St.Petersburg are located on several islands) and saw this.