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Good morning Armoured 🌎 and welcome to a fresh new Valentine's Day 💕
We wanted to tell you the story of what happened when Challenger 2 met Leopard 2 on a romantic dalliance. It is important as the armoured family has delivered a new child - Challenger 3!
We wanted to tell you the story of what happened when Challenger 2 met Leopard 2 on a romantic dalliance. It is important as the armoured family has delivered a new child - Challenger 3!
So, imagine a cold night somewhere wild, and as Challener looks across the open fields, it locks sights with a rather fetching Leopard 2 A7, taking time out for a walk to think about the future ahead.
When! Suddenly the their sights meet and it is love at first sight!
When! Suddenly the their sights meet and it is love at first sight!
After their first meeting, they decided to go back to watch @TankMuseum videos in their hides, AKA Netflix and chill.
A romance blossoms and they enter into a loving contract. After some testing years, they finally decide to take the next step and start a new family line...
A romance blossoms and they enter into a loving contract. After some testing years, they finally decide to take the next step and start a new family line...
T-34 #military #history – The apex of Soviet Christie suspension #tanks is the 33 mph T-34/85 with the L/55 D-5T 85mm main gun. Note: the larger vehicles (T-34/76, T-34/85, British A-27 and A-34) had five wheels a side).
#military #history – The most-famous Christie suspension vehicle is the Soviet T-34/76. It lacked the hybrid solid rubber tire road wheel/track configuration but just superb wide traction tracks helping it sprint over terrain its opponents couldn’t handle.
3/ #TankTuesday I'll post four T-34 interior shots in a moment as a reply to this later model T-34/85 with the larger gun, larger turret, and five-man crew instead of the original T-34/76’s four-man crew.
#TankTuesday: The M46 Patton Medium Tank.
The M26 Pershing was rushed to Europe to fight German tanks at the end of World War II. With greater armor and firepower, the Pershing was a substantial improvement over the M4 Sherman.
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The M26 Pershing was rushed to Europe to fight German tanks at the end of World War II. With greater armor and firepower, the Pershing was a substantial improvement over the M4 Sherman.
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However, the 46-ton Pershing used the Ford GAF 500 horsepower V8 engine, a slightly modified version of the standard 35-ton Sherman’s GAA engine with similar horsepower. This meant that the heavier Pershing suffered mobility issues due to its power to weight ratio.
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In 1948, work began on a Pershing variant with a Continental AV-1790 V12 engine which gave 810 horsepower. This was designated as the M46 Patton and began arriving to U.S. Army tank battalions shortly before the Korean War began.
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1/ #TankTuesday #tanks #USA's #ColdWar M103A2 w/ L/60 120 mm main gun. This supersized tank used the M48/M60 power plant but 7 road wheels, 120mm gun, very thick armor, etc. This was overkill for Soviet tanks, underpowered, susceptible to breakdown.
#TankTuesday #ColdWar #Tanks #History - While Germany's Leopard 2 MBT differs from Leopard 1, it's the longest production tank "brand" I know. Leopard 1 debuted ~1965. 55+ years later, Leopard 2 is still in service. Not sure when production ended. Great clip from @PhilLoder!
@PhilLoder 2/ Germany's stunning 65-ton #Leopard2PL modernizes 142 slab turret L/44 120mm Leopard 2A4 #tanks inside and out for Poland. Dziękuję @r116440 @RyszardJonski @1WBPanc.
@PhilLoder @r116440 @RyszardJonski @1WBPanc 3/ The Putin effect... #Czech Republic wants to buy 50 Leopard 2A7 #tanks. #RussiaUkraineWar
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#TankTuesday #WW1 #WW2 #MAFVA #France #tanks - 1917 #Renault FT... The most influential #tank ever. Let's tour it inside and out, shall we? THREAD 1/
@milmodelscene @PhilLoder @DesertStorm24ID @09EA63 @RivetsAndPins @militaryhistori @agbdrilling @sitnikov_94 @Burntime0101 @C_VargasHarle 2/ #tanks - 1917 #Renault FT... Some firsts: revolving turret, sprung suspension, low track and rear engine. Thousands built. Also used by USA, Italy, Russia, etc. Crew 2: 6.5 tons. 4 mph. Its armament was a Puteaux L/21 SA18 37mm cannon or a machine gun but not both.
@milmodelscene @PhilLoder @DesertStorm24ID @09EA63 @RivetsAndPins @militaryhistori @agbdrilling @sitnikov_94 @Burntime0101 @C_VargasHarle @jr_liscano @worldoftanks @WoTBlitz @WoTConsole 3/ These photos show the Renault FT's narrow internal structure. The black and white one (from @C_VargasHarle / Renault archives) shows the commander’s "basket". The other three are from an American M1917 clone.
An easy place to start cataloguing the cost of a war is in military hardware. We will take a sample from the hard work of @oryxspioenkop each day to begin to show some of the overheads of warfare.
#UkraineRussiaWar #TankOfTheDay
#UkraineRussiaWar #TankOfTheDay
@oryxspioenkop #TankOfTheDay 1. The T-64 tank was famously expensive in its day, costing 143,000 Rubles in 1973 (approx $408k today). This T-64BV was destroyed on 03/16/2022.
💸 Total: $408k
Credit: @oryxspioenkop
#RussiaUkraineWar
💸 Total: $408k
Credit: @oryxspioenkop
#RussiaUkraineWar
@oryxspioenkop #TankOfTheDay 2. The T-72B is estimated to cost in the region of $2m based on historic Russian exports. Here we have one that was destroyed on 02/26/2022.
💸 Total: $2,408k
Credit: @oryxspioenkop
#RussiaUkraineWar
💸 Total: $2,408k
Credit: @oryxspioenkop
#RussiaUkraineWar
Today, I want to shine a small spotlight on Nazi Germany's first mass-produced 'tank', the PzKw I.
Most folk tend to ignore this little vehicle in favour of bigger tanks like the PzKw IV, Panther or Tiger.
But for a change, let's look at the little guy.
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Most folk tend to ignore this little vehicle in favour of bigger tanks like the PzKw IV, Panther or Tiger.
But for a change, let's look at the little guy.
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The PzKw I is often considered a mere 'training tank', which ended up in the front line in Poland, France & the Low Countries before the invasion of the USSR in 1941.
Actually, it was much more significant than that.
But first, a question: what *was* the PzKw I?
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Actually, it was much more significant than that.
But first, a question: what *was* the PzKw I?
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The PzKw I is traditionally called a 'light tank'. However, I agree with the view that it was actually a tankette.
A tankette can be defined as a small, 2-man lightly armoured vehicle, open or enclosed.
Such vehicles were much in vogue in the 1920s & 30s.
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A tankette can be defined as a small, 2-man lightly armoured vehicle, open or enclosed.
Such vehicles were much in vogue in the 1920s & 30s.
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Someone (i want to say @AndreiBtvt?) recently posted a pic of the High Mobility and Agility (HIMAG), which is an interesting oddity of history.
A thread of a few facts and pics of this sort of tank for today's #tanktuesday
A thread of a few facts and pics of this sort of tank for today's #tanktuesday
As the name suggests, it was a testbed for mobility and to experiment with lighter and more agile vehicles rather than increasingly heavy MBT, born out of the US Army's Armored Combat Vehicle Technology (ACVT) programme.
Headline features included hydropneumatic suspension, move from heavy conventional turrets of the day (3-man with 105 mm gun) to a lightweight turret mounting an autoloaded ARES XM274 75 mm gun firing cased telscoped ammunition
After last week's #TankTuesday photo, the topic of cannibalism came up. Not the eating of other humans, but the use of parts from disabled or knocked-out tanks, usually due to supply constraints.
In WW2, this was something most armies practised.
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In WW2, this was something most armies practised.
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For Germany, their spare parts supply wasn't great in the first place.
Maintenance/repair crews would therefore show initiative by taking spare parts from damaged/disabled tanks that couldn't be repaired.
Anything to keep as many tanks running as possible.
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Maintenance/repair crews would therefore show initiative by taking spare parts from damaged/disabled tanks that couldn't be repaired.
Anything to keep as many tanks running as possible.
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Then yesterday, @Birdsof79875803 posted this wonderful shot of a battle-worn Panther Ausf. A in 1944, location unknown.
It's been repaired but is still missing its right mudguard & rear-view mirror.
However, it is the obvious beneficiary of some cannibalised parts.
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It's been repaired but is still missing its right mudguard & rear-view mirror.
However, it is the obvious beneficiary of some cannibalised parts.
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