Tanks!

Started by bayonetbrant, February 18, 2013, 08:51:35 AM

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bob48

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Staggerwing

Lengthen that section where the turret meets the hull and one could see the very beginnings of a Skynet-type Hunter-Killer Tank.
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

bayonetbrant

at first glance I thought "Someone made a tank out of a Rifleman battlemech!"
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mirth

One of my favorite Mechs.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Capn Darwin

Rocket Scientist by day, Game Designer by night.

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bob48

Quite a few years ago, I was visiting Vickers Defence Systems to see one of the purchasing officers (they were one of my customers) and whilst I was there they were test-driving Chieftans just outside the building where my meeting was. Needless to say, I found it difficult to concentrate on business.
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

endfire79

Nice comparison of the 3 Brit tanks  :)

Quote from: bob48 on March 07, 2014, 07:00:48 AM
Quite a few years ago, I was visiting Vickers Defence Systems to see one of the purchasing officers (they were one of my customers) and whilst I was there they were test-driving Chieftans just outside the building where my meeting was. Needless to say, I found it difficult to concentrate on business.

Nice. You should have asked for a ride, that would have been sweet!
"I will return before you can say 'antidisestablishmentarianism'."

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his principles, his friends. The glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."

bayonetbrant

I had a squid that lived across from me in California when I was on the POM Annex.  He mentioned he'd never been on a tank before.  We were taking a few of them out to the field for some trials with a new laser-tag instrumentation system, so I worked it out for him to come down to FHL with me and ride shotgun when they took them out to the test site.  It was about a 9-mile ride, all dirt roads and tank trails and a few pretty good hills.
I had him wear his whatever-the-Navy-calls-BDUs and the crew actually threw him into the TC's hatch instead of the loader's hatch (more stable to stand in; don't get thrown around as much).  I was in a HMMWV with one of my other troopies, as we were the road guards for crossing hardballs along the way.  Every time the tanks passed us, his grin was wider and wider.  When I picked him up out at 8J, I swear he floated out of the tank.  I'm not sure his feet touched the ground for 4 days after that.
To me, it was just a simple 9-mile dust vortex that I'd done 50 times by then. To him, it was the only ride he'd ever get on a tank and he probably still tells that story today.
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

GDS_Starfury

thats because tanks are cool.  8)
Toonces - Don't ask me, I just close my eyes and take it.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Staggerwing

Hot damn! That's the US T-28 Super Heavy in the middle. IIRC it had dual track assemblies on either, the outer which could be removed to facilitate rapid redeployment or railway transport or something.
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

GDS_Starfury

And in WoT theyre pretty easy to kill.  However when you get hit by one... mucho pain.
Toonces - Don't ask me, I just close my eyes and take it.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus