Some pics of me and my bezzie m8's trip to Bovington Tank Museum on Tiger Day
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I don't know if this link will work, but it's my Flickr album where there are loads more pictures
https://flic.kr/s/aHskxaCB8H
Cool pics, JD! O0
Quote from: JudgeDredd on April 29, 2018, 12:45:10 PM
I don't know if this link will work, but it's my Flickr album where there are loads more pictures
https://flic.kr/s/aHskxaCB8H
Link works perfectly.
Very nice pics.
Might be worth a trip (only around 500 km distance but you drive on the wrong side of the road ;))
I hadn't been in something like 20 years - and it's changed hugely. Very nice - it was a shed or two before I'm sure.
There's lots of stuff there...LOTS.
I wanna go to Tank Day :'(
very nice!
Awesome pix! Thanks for posting!
Who'se this feller? I'm guessing Valentine by the running gear and hull but the turret looks unfamiliar. Some variant? Looks like maybe a 2 pounder gun.
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I think its a Mk IX with the long 6pdr gun, or maybe the Mk XI which had a 75mm.
Maybe it's the perspective but that barrel opening looks really small.
It was a cold day.
Thanks all. It was a great day.
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 29, 2018, 03:37:27 PM
Awesome pix! Thanks for posting!
Who'se this feller? I'm guessing Valentine by the running gear and hull but the turret looks unfamiliar. Some variant? Looks like maybe a 2 pounder gun.
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It is indeed a Valentine
Quote from: bob48 on April 29, 2018, 03:46:56 PM
I think its a Mk IX with the long 6pdr gun, or maybe the Mk XI which had a 75mm.
And bob called it...a Mark IX
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Smug mode 8)
Earned :notworthy:
Quote from: bob48 on April 29, 2018, 04:09:32 PM
Smug mode 8)
:P
At least I recognized the road wheel layout... :(
:bd:
:)
Those pics are getting me 'HOT'. :smitten:
Quote from: Gusington on April 29, 2018, 02:58:35 PM
I wanna go to Tank Day :'(
+1to sad we cant have such an event here :(
the mixed assortment and amount of -let's call them "groups" here- protesting (and in some case rioting hard against the police, who had to be out in force to protect such an event like the G20 summit in Hamburg) would be huge and the media would 'hunt it down' upfront, picking up a stirred up artificial shitstorm on social media ...even so those 'protester' would maybe only representing 5% of the population.
so a preemptive-PC tsunami would stop it cold in the planning/announcement phase just with the cost for the hired security/stewards alone :(
(depending on the political stance of federal state government they might even prohibit it because the authorities cant guarantee the security of visitors and are not willing to take the cost for the large police deployment. Maybe in Bavaria there would be a chance.)
as an appetizer this is only the most peaceful 'protesters' and against -go figure- The official Open House day of the Bundeswehr hold inside a barracks property! https://youtu.be/ybRr6ysche4
now imagine if a non government (privat/commercial) event would showcase
historic Nazi Panzer driving on a nice prepared typical stretch of proving ground and dare to call it something with "Tiger" Oh, the humanity!
To be fair MikeGER, the last time Germany had a show of strength, Europe disappeared :2funny:
Quote from: JudgeDredd on April 30, 2018, 02:13:44 AM
To be fair MikeGER, the last time Germany had a show of strength, Europe disappeared :2funny:
last time we had some dark lord emperor from Austria, but this time we have a Dark Lady
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...and it looks like she plans to 'steamrole' Europe this time with economic power and asymmetric balance of trade, the Euro currency, and how to stabilize it and suppress her own population with migration waves ^-^
Don't worry with Brexit you are as save as last time O0
...but i don't want to derail such a nice threat about oh so cool Panzers from all nations and times with boring Merkel politics :peace:
I wanna go to Tank Day :'(
lol
^Yeah the last Deustch tank day turned in to a six year ordeal.
lol
"Oh look....Germany are having an Armed Forces Day"
"Shhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit"!
:2funny:
I wish I could have been there on Tank Day.
If you get the opportunity to go the museum, go. The pictures on the mythical front page for the past couple of years for Tanksgiving all came from my visit there. It is the best armor museum in the world (and I've been to multiples).
I went to last years Tank Fest. I will never, ever forget that day. The only other day that means more to me is the day I lost my virginity :dreamer:
Yeah, but imagine losing your virginity IN A TANK!!?? :smitten:
Do tankers have some kind of newbie initiation ceremony we haven't heard about yet?
I think the 'New' guy has to run along behind the tank and erase it's tracks with a tree branch.
theres a reason Brant walks bow legged. :-*