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I do a daily search on military vehicles and found these three pristine British tanks out of New Jersey, USA:
1989 Other Makes | eBay
2001 Other Makes | eBay
2001 Other Makes | eBay
Since I've never really followed tanks, I don't know if these are priced right, but they seem cheap for what they are...
Russ
[checks to see if shipping from Ukraine]
These weren't listed as BFPU.Quote:
Originally Posted by m4a3sherman
Make a complaint to eBay under misleading/incorrect description. They are not Tanks.
If you want a Tank you won't go far wrong with a Challenger 2 MBT, should the UK decide to sell any off.
I avoided saying that but as per usual, Ebay seller has an incorrect listing. Agreed, not even close.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
Most of us civilian types tend to call any war machine on treads a "tank", just like we tend mislabel toilet paper as "Charmin" or facial tissues as "Kleenex"...
Aside from all that, pretty cool stuff!
Russ
When there was more Abbot 105mm Self Propelled Guns around in the UK many people insisted on calling them "Tanks", in a very irritating manner, just because they had a gun and a turret. It was a losing battle trying to explain that they were not Tanks.
Agh! I meant to ask, what are the splayed tubes near the front of these "tracked vehicles"? I'm thinking chaff mortars?
Russ
For firing canisters of smoke for when one drives into a "spot of bother"; in order to extricate ones self under the cover of smoke.Quote:
Originally Posted by RASelkirk
Ours have three loadings of different grenades I'm aware of...smoke producing, WP and frag grenades. The smoke is just the FS type everyone uses, gives you smoke but can start fires. The Phosphorous is downright frightening when it's fired and you're in the open and the frag is like a delay mortar bomb.Quote:
Originally Posted by RASelkirk
Most media types as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by RASelkirk
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...aeihjk81-1.jpg
It has to be true.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../Tankpng-1.jpg
The comment does accurately describe that the auto-loader's carousel location beneath the turret floor is the main reason the T-72's turret comes off like it does. There is a classic video of a live fire test of the Javelin missile against a full loaded T-72. About 37 seconds in you here one of test crew comment, "Did you see how high that turret went?"Quote:
Originally Posted by SNAFU22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovxz1_hPJKQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovxz1_hPJKQ
The first one, the 1989 Spartan is an excellent vehicle.
They have a 4.2L 6 cylinder Jaguar petrol engine and go like stink!
I remember watching one being chased by two Chieftans in Germany on exercise. It turned onto the road and down into a cul-de-sac and did a 360 before leaving via the front gardens of the houses, leaving the tanks floundering at the entrance.
You could hear the Spartan crew laughing over the roar of the engine.
The Damcon teams no doubt ended up paying for new gardens too!
(They changed the engines later for 5.9L Cummins diesels)