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After WWII...
This site wwiiafterwwii wwii equipment used after the war is absolutely amazing. I've been reading it for 3 days now and have barely scratched the surface. It's about what happened to all the guns, tanks, planes, ships, equipment of the Allies and Axis powers after the war.
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Here's one to keep you busy. Click on "Tactical & Technical Trends" it's the very first link. Lot's of inside Baseball.
http://www.lonesentry.com
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Will bookmark for later...June
Still trying to forage through this one too, Korean War Documentary: Site Contents
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Then there are the Chinese Mauser rifle clones in 6.8mm. According to "legend", this cartridge was the result of the work of a Chinese ordnance boffin attempting to develop the "optimum" cartirdge in the 1920s.
it is alleged to have been the inspiration for the .270 Winchester cartridge; both using .277" bullets loaded into "proper" military cases suitably necked down
Anyone have any "substantial" info on the cartridge and any possible link to Winchester / Western?.
A couple of these 6.8mm rifles came to Australia in the early 1990s. They were part of a couple of shipments of Chinese "warehouse sweepings"; mostly 7.92 Mauser variations and a wild assortment of ratty Arisakas. VERY shabby, sold as "good luck with your purchase" but the bore size was a bit of an eye-opener. for the observant. No. I gidn't get, even photograph one.
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Lotta W.W. II vintage stuff was used long after 1945. The Korean War was fought with virtually the same weapons. The CF still uses the Inglis BHP made only in 1944 and '45. The Avro Lancaster was flown by the RCAF for coastal patrol until 1963. The .30 Browning was still in use 35 years ago.
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Originally Posted by
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The Avro Lancaster was flown by the RCAF for coastal patrol until 1963.
It was a somewhat altered version (a lot of radar equipment, I think) called the Shackleton. Described in a television documentary as "10,000 rivets flying in close formation".
Last edited by Patrick Chadwick; 01-28-2018 at 03:05 PM.
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the Shackleton.
Those did a lot of work...there's one lying in the airfield of Nicosia Cyprus and used as a firefighting platform. Check Google earth, it's still there...
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Need I say that WWI/WWII weapons - No. 1 Mk III rifles, Owens, Vickers, and 25 Pdr field guns - served on in Australia well into the second half of the 2oth Century?
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