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THE EIGHTH ARMY IN THE KLAGENFURT AREA OF AUSTRIA, MAY 1945.
British military transport carrying supplies for the Eighth Army, passes the frontier station on the border between Italy and Austria. A British military policeman gives guidance to drivers as they pass through.
Creator: Tanner, A. R. (Captain), War Office official photographer.
Source: © IWM TR 2865
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1941 – WW2 – A column of Soviet armored vehicles BA-20M moving into combat positions – USSR




Bless them, they look so archaic.
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Ithoriel

Quote from: Steve J on 23 January 2021, 01:38:58 PM
They certainly do look archaic!

And yet they were first produced in 1936. The 1938 BA-10M isn't much of an improvement, lookswise.
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23 January 2021, 04:50:09 PM #245 Last Edit: 23 January 2021, 04:57:43 PM by Raider4
Quote from: Steve J on 23 January 2021, 01:38:58 PM
They certainly do look archaic!

Unlike our modern, British armoured cars . . .


fsn

TBH I was thinking of the German, French and Italian equivalents



'sides, we didn't do too bad ... eventually
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Ithoriel

To be fair, some later Russian recce looked like this :)

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fsn

Can I just say that I wasn't getting at the BA10. I just said it looked archaic.


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Quote from: fsn on 23 January 2021, 05:25:02 PM
TBH I was thinking of the German, French and Italian equivalents



Oooh, I like this one. Italian?

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23 January 2021, 08:46:38 PM #251 Last Edit: 23 January 2021, 08:50:29 PM by Ithoriel
Quote from: Raider4 on 23 January 2021, 08:23:15 PM
Oooh, I like this one. Italian?

Looks like a Fiat-Ansaldo Autoblinda 41 to me .... but I'm more at home with stuff on the Eastern Front than the Western Desert!

They also look to be firing to their rear. The hull machine gun is in fact rear-facing and apparently when used in attack rather than scouting roles they would attack backwards as the extra machine gun gave more firepower and the engine some crew protection. <Insert Italian gearbox jokes here>
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24 January 2021, 08:52:33 AM #252 Last Edit: 24 January 2021, 08:58:40 AM by fsn


I want to be a real tank when I grow up!  These "baby tanks" (Kinderpanzer) were made for the East German National Volksarmee's Young Pioneers (think boy scouts, but with added guns and Marxism).  There were actually a number of different versions, resembling real T-34 or T-55 tanks and even assault guns, with a crew or 2 or 3 boys.  Each one was powered by a Trabant 2 Stroke Car Engine


I don't care what you say, this is so much cooler than crop rotation.  Don't see how you'd fit 3 boys into one of these things though.  :-\
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Both cool and bizarre.

These seem to have a crew of 2, one of which seems to be a lot smaller, who I assume is the driver.  But it still seems very much a squeeze, but probably good training for Sov Block tanks which were always pretty cramped.
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