1st Armed Forces Day.

[ducktapehero]

Mike, Are you a veteran?

[Gareth]

Mike, Are you a veteran?

No, he just looks older than he is.   

That looks like you had a great day mate.  

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Mike, Are you a veteran?

No, he just looks older than he is.   

That looks like you had a great day mate.  

Thanks mate

Nope sadly not a veteran, as the silly sods wouldn't let me join up

[I'm Still Bison]

Cool pics!!!! Loved seeing some of the older armaments.I wish I could see the BoB Historic Flight in the flesh.But it needed more Centurions

The Warrior was the heaviest AFV there

Thanks DTH

A Warrior is nothing to sneeze at.I know I wouldn't want to be looking down the barrel of one

[yud]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

[I'm Still Bison]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

 You'd get a ton of respect in the drive-thru lines

[yud]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

 You'd get a ton of respect in the drive-thru lines

I wouldn't try that at a bank

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Cool pics!!!! Loved seeing some of the older armaments.I wish I could see the BoB Historic Flight in the flesh.But it needed more Centurions

The Warrior was the heaviest AFV there

Thanks DTH

A Warrior is nothing to sneeze at.I know I wouldn't want to be looking down the barrel of one

There's plent of brewed up T54/55 and T62's that'll testify to the power of a Rarden 30mm

[Benner]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

Very much so. 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

Very much so. 

I doubt many of us could afford to put enough diesel in it to get to the shops

[Benner]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

Very much so. 

I doubt many of us could afford to put enough diesel in it to get to the shops

To the end of the drive is not nearly as fun is it. 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

Very much so. 

I doubt many of us could afford to put enough diesel in it to get to the shops

To the end of the drive is not nearly as fun is it. 

Depends on weather or not your mother in laws at the end of the drive 

[rp252]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

Very much so. 

I doubt many of us could afford to put enough diesel in it to get to the shops

"I might not be quick, but anyone who races me dies in a very nasty way"  

When I was in university there was often a warrior, and once an MLRS parked in the city centre for the public to see.  Very, very cool

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

Very much so. 

I doubt many of us could afford to put enough diesel in it to get to the shops

"I might not be quick, but anyone who races me dies in a very nasty way"  

When I was in university there was often a warrior, and once an MLRS parked in the city centre for the public to see.  Very, very cool

The Warrior is deceptively large too. Somehow they come across as being quite small on tv

[rp252]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

Very much so. 

I doubt many of us could afford to put enough diesel in it to get to the shops

"I might not be quick, but anyone who races me dies in a very nasty way"  

When I was in university there was often a warrior, and once an MLRS parked in the city centre for the public to see.  Very, very cool

The Warrior is deceptively large too. Somehow they come across as being quite small on tv

True, and the MLRS was actually much smaller than I thought it was going to be.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

Very much so. 

I doubt many of us could afford to put enough diesel in it to get to the shops

"I might not be quick, but anyone who races me dies in a very nasty way"  

When I was in university there was often a warrior, and once an MLRS parked in the city centre for the public to see.  Very, very cool

The Warrior is deceptively large too. Somehow they come across as being quite small on tv

True, and the MLRS was actually much smaller than I thought it was going to be.

However the King Tiger I saw at Bovington was just as big and scary as I thought it'd be

[Gareth]

is it just me or dose anyone eles think it would be fun to have a tank and drive it around like to the store

Very much so. 

I doubt many of us could afford to put enough diesel in it to get to the shops

"I might not be quick, but anyone who races me dies in a very nasty way"  

When I was in university there was often a warrior, and once an MLRS parked in the city centre for the public to see.  Very, very cool

The Warrior is deceptively large too. Somehow they come across as being quite small on tv

True, and the MLRS was actually much smaller than I thought it was going to be.

However the King Tiger I saw at Bovington was just as big and scary as I thought it'd be

Oddly the Challenger II I saw on Saturday wasn't as big as I thought.  Big certainly but not huge.

[Chako]

Hmm...if I had to use something military to get a cup of coffee at the corner store, I would love a Ferret. Now there is a classic…and it is in keeping with the locality that most of you hail from. 

It shouldn't scare anyone either....much. 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Hmm...if I had to use something military to get a cup of coffee at the corner store, I would love a Ferret. Now there is a classic…and it is in keeping with the locality that most of you hail from. 

It shouldn't scare anyone either....much. 

Ferret's are great wee things

Never seen a Challenger in the flesh, but there sillouette is a lot lower than a WW2 tank, so maybe thats why they seem less imposing

[I'm Still Bison]

WW2 taught the designers and soldiers a lot about the necessity of low-profile design...something the US didn't catch on to until the Abrams.If I had to go around in vintage wheeled AFV's give me a Saladin,and if it's tracked,nothing is as sports car looking as the Scimitar.IIRC,the Scimitars were originally powered by modified Jaguar engines.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

WW2 taught the designers and soldiers a lot about the necessity of low-profile design...something the US didn't catch on to until the Abrams.If I had to go around in vintage wheeled AFV's give me a Saladin,and if it's tracked,nothing is as sports car looking as the Scimitar.IIRC,the Scimitars were originally powered by modified Jaguar engines.

I remember seeing pics of the M60 when they still had the original commander's cupola

And least the Israeli had the good sence to remove it

[I'm Still Bison]

 The Israelis did a lot of things,big and small, to the M-60 to make it a battle worthy tank

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

The Israelis did a lot of things,big and small, to the M-60 to make it a battle worthy tank

Well let's face it, they know a thing or two about armoured warfare

[I'm Still Bison]

 They definitely wrang more service and combat out the Sherman,long after everybody else relegated it to scrap heaps and museums.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

They definitely wrang more service and combat out the Sherman,long after everybody else relegated it to scrap heaps and museums.

Not to mention the wonders they achieved with the Centurion (personal fav, especially the AVRE ) and the M2 halftracks

[ringzero]

They definitely wrang more service and combat out the Sherman,long after everybody else relegated it to scrap heaps and museums.

The Sherman was fairly reliable automotively speaking, so I can see the Israelis appreciating that.

So long as the Sherman wasn't forced to slug it out with other main battle tanks (such as Leopard or Tiger) I could see how it could be useful to the Israelis.

German Panzer crews nicknamed the Sherman the "Tommy Cooker" or "Tommy Lighter" to show their contempt for its armor and survivability, IIRC.

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[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

They definitely wrang more service and combat out the Sherman,long after everybody else relegated it to scrap heaps and museums.

The Sherman was fairly reliable automotively speaking, so I can see the Israelis appreciating that.

So long as the Sherman wasn't forced to slug it out with other main battle tanks (such as Leopard or Tiger) I could see how it could be useful to the Israelis.

German Panzer crews nicknamed the Sherman the "Tommy Cooker" or "Tommy Lighter" to show their contempt for its armor and survivability, IIRC.

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That was mainly by virtue of the petrol engine though, as it left you only a very few seconds to bail out before it'd brew up

[yud]

They definitely wrang more service and combat out the Sherman,long after everybody else relegated it to scrap heaps and museums.

The Sherman was fairly reliable automotively speaking, so I can see the Israelis appreciating that.

So long as the Sherman wasn't forced to slug it out with other main battle tanks (such as Leopard or Tiger) I could see how it could be useful to the Israelis.

German Panzer crews nicknamed the Sherman the "Tommy Cooker" or "Tommy Lighter" to show their contempt for its armor and survivability, IIRC.

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they also said it took 10 Shermans to knock out 1 Panzer but there always was a 11th.  That was the problem with the Germans GREAT weapons (for the time) but they were too hard to make in the numbers the US could

[I'm Still Bison]

IIRC,the US built something like 53,000 Shermans.The ultimate Sherman had to be Israel's Super Sherman,and it had been upgunned to such a degree that turret rings were cracking from repeated recoil. The 1973 Yom Kippur War had to have been something to see...Israeli Shermans vs, Syrian Panzer Mk IVs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_Super_Sherman

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

IIRC,the US built something like 53,000 Shermans.The ultimate Sherman had to be Israel's Super Sherman,and it had been upgunned to such a degree that turret rings were cracking from repeated recoil. The 1973 Yom Kippur War had to have been something to see...Israeli Shermans vs, Syrian Panzer Mk IVs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_Super_Sherman

Now that would have been interesting

The P4 was a very fine tank, and the Germans really should have stuck with that rather than developing and slowly building P5 and P6's. But for my money even if you took superiour Israelu training out of the equation, the Super Sherman would have had the edge in pretty much all respect