T-72 with some dodgy looking tank riders. This tank did have a previous owner before the British Army acquired it...
'Wittman' Wallman enjoys the view from the King Tiger.
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Big Boys' toys - part 3
Following on from my two posts about my recent visit to the Defence Academy at Shrivenham, I have posted below some photos from my earlier visit. This post will deal with tanks, and the next - rather more extensively - with APCs.
T-72 with some dodgy looking tank riders. This tank did have a previous owner before the British Army acquired it...
Chieftain and Centurion - 'proper' tanks!
Challenger 2.
Tom demonstrates the Challenger 2 control panel (the thing that looks like a X-Box controller) while Jim Wallman looks on.
Leopard 1 cut neatly in half by Bundeswehr technicians. It must have taken a lot of hacksaw blades!
AT ammunition.
The effect of a HEAT round (I think) on spaced armour.
Flaking paint on the T-62 showing the original Russian green under the Iraqi sand colour.
T-72 with some dodgy looking tank riders. This tank did have a previous owner before the British Army acquired it...
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10 comments:
Nice looking visit. The Leo 1 is a great idea!
Paul
It gives a really good idea of how the interior is laid out - without trying to climb around inside!
Tim
LOL there are advantages to not having to climb around in one!
I say this as one who has had to live in the bloody things for
years!
Bill
Tanks (especially Russian ones) are certainly not designed for the well-nourished 6ft2in tall person!
Tim
Tanks (especially Russian ones) are certainly not designed for the well-nourished 6ft2in tall person!
Tim
Well it was a well known joke with
Bill's friends about him being the
only Tanker in the US army that could
stand flat footed on the floor of the turret and have his head out the
hatch....We tease him that's why he made Command Sergeant Major so fast so he'd get his own Humvee...)
Don M
Was that in an M60 or a Carden Lloyd tankette?
Tim
Happy Xmas Tim
Did you get one of these tanks in your stocking?
Well started in M60s and went to M1A1s actually...I wouldn't fit
in a Carden Lloyd tankette, or anything Russian!
Geordie
I don't think I'd have got one past the gate guard at Shrivenham. Or here.
Tim
Bill
I look forward to hearing more of your adventures under armour. Or, just this once, 'armor'.
Tim
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