Facebook: Friends of the Tank Museum

[hammurabi70]

Ah, but imagine how surprised the Germans would be coming across a sub in the bocage!

I believe the Germans were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._30_Commando

I remember reading the memoirs of a unit commander whose German officer prisoner was surprised to be captured by the Royal Navy in the middle of Normandy (actually Brittany I think).

Edit:
Patrick Dalzel-Job
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Patrick_Dalzel-Job

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Dunstan Curtis took the surrender of Keil and then
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunstan_Curtis
Donitz surrendered to the KSLI, his baton is in the Regimental Museum is Shrewsbury Castle (although Patrick, Dunstan's wife, always claimed to me that he refused to surrender himself to the army, so Dunstan Curtis was summonsed as the nearest navel officer as he was nearby...

I still have Dunstan's field glasses.

[fsn]

The commander of a Russian T-80BV tank fires the NSV heavy machine gun during the Chechen War, 1994-96.  The T-80BV is an update of the T-80 with a new turret, autoloader, reactive armour and the ability to fire the AT-8 Kobra ATGM through its 125mm main gun tube.  It was found to be vulnerable to catastrophic explosions if penetrated, particularly in urban combat where the upper surfaces could be targeted by opponents in buildings.  The problem was apparently the combustible case rounds in the autoloader, which ignited easily and could cause the entire ammunition load to chain-detonate; later versions have apparently addressed the problem.

[Raider4]

Interesting photo. All the little 'blocks' covering the turret are the reactive armour, I believe?, And, a mine-roller sticking out the front?

. . .  later versions have apparently addressed the problem.

That's what they want you to believe . . . ;

[fsn]

Well, nobody's come back and complained.

[fsn]

June 22nd 1951, just north of Seoul, South Korea.
Two knocked out and abandoned British Centurion Mk3 tanks are being stripped for recoverable spares.


Gentlemen, a very sad sight.

[Raider4]

Not from either Facebook, or the Friends of the Tank Musuem, but:



Oh my! Found while looking for info about the M48. From the Wikipedia page on Checkpoint Charlie.

[fsn]

That's a scary picture.

[Steve J]

That sums up the Cold War really .

[Ace of Spades]

Nice that they stacked the sandbags around the booth though; that should help a lot!

Cheers,
Rob

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It was to stop bad drivers damaging it...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

It's not obviuos but the M48s have dozer blades on them as extra "armour".

[fsn]

On the same theme.

Interesting dozer blades.

[OldenBUA]

That sums up the Cold War really .

Yeah, never heard of Covid, and a tobacconist corner shop. Happy days?

[Westmarcher]

Interesting dozer blades.

I assume these are 'fixed' and not 'operable' like a conventional bulldozer?

[Ace of Spades]

It was to stop bad drivers damaging it...

Bad drivers in M48 tanks...? with dozer blades...? Hmmm....

Cheers,
Rob

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Car and lorry...   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Narrow streets - Tanks - 20 yr old drivers, dozers !!!

[Raider4]

Interesting dozer blades.

According to information I have*, the '52' tank was the Company XO, and was usually equipped with a dozer blade as standard.

* Actually about USMC tanks in Vietnam - I'm extrapolating that it might apply to US Army as well . . .

Looks like an M59 APC behind the tanks? Don't think I've ever seen a photo of one before.

[fred.]

When you paint the bottom of the dozer blade white, you probably aren't expecting to use it very much!

The US tanks are very heavily covered in stars - ID clearly a concern at this time. Rather different to the later Berlin Brigade camo.