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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 14:34:17 GMT
Cheers. I've just repaired one of the links to the Bois Jacques pics - you can view it again now. It's a pity we didn't have time to visit the museum at Bastogne Barracks; there's an amazing selection of hardware in there, including a Panzer IV, a StuG III and a Scammell Pioneer, one of my favourite WWII softskins. Ah well, there's always next time... Great vehicle the Scammell Pioneer Tank transporter, Break down vehicle in fact a genuine multi purpose military H.G.V.
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Post by LDE76 on May 4, 2017 15:05:37 GMT
Cheers. I've just repaired one of the links to the Bois Jacques pics - you can view it again now. It's a pity we didn't have time to visit the museum at Bastogne Barracks; there's an amazing selection of hardware in there, including a Panzer IV, a StuG III and a Scammell Pioneer, one of my favourite WWII softskins. Ah well, there's always next time... Great vehicle the Scammell Pioneer Tank transporter, Break down vehicle in fact a genuine multi purpose military H.G.V. Yeah. It was so tough, the last two weren't retired from British army service until 1990!
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 15:33:24 GMT
Great vehicle the Scammell Pioneer Tank transporter, Break down vehicle in fact a genuine multi purpose military H.G.V. Yeah. It was so tough, the last two weren't retired from British army service until 1990! Really ? I wasn't aware of that .......it must have still been in service alongside the Antar which was a vehicle of similar capabilities .
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Post by LDE76 on May 4, 2017 15:43:52 GMT
Yeah. It was so tough, the last two weren't retired from British army service until 1990! Really ? I wasn't aware of that .......it must have still been in service alongside the Antar which was a vehicle of similar capabilities . 1980s according to Wikipedia - although I've definitely read 1990 somewhere. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scammell_Pioneer
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 15:53:23 GMT
Really ? I wasn't aware of that .......it must have still been in service alongside the Antar which was a vehicle of similar capabilities . 1980s according to Wikipedia - although I've definitely read 1990 somewhere. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scammell_PioneerGood read that
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 5, 2017 15:21:41 GMT
Ace stuff LDE76 . Thanks! Cheers. I've just repaired one of the links to the Bois Jacques pics - you can view it again now. It's a pity we didn't have time to visit the museum at Bastogne Barracks; there's an amazing selection of hardware in there, including a Panzer IV, a StuG III and a Scammell Pioneer, one of my favourite WWII softskins. Ah well, there's always next time... Some excellent photo's there LDE. We're off to sunny Spain on a SCW military history/camping jaunt soon. I'll try and get a few snaps.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 2, 2017 15:10:58 GMT
There aren’t many armoured vehicles remaining from the Spanish Civil War/Revolution these days.
At the rear of the Battle of the Ebro Museum at Fayón we were allowed a nose around this restored Russian supplied Republican Popular Army 4 man BA-6 armoured car (1936). The armoured car runs and is regularly used in re-enactments.
That’s a T-60 tank turret housing a 45mm gun and DT 7.62mm machine gun. The hull mounted machine gun is also a DT 7.62mm. The armour is 9mm on the body and 15mm on the turret. All the Russian AFV’s were similarly lightly armoured and vulnerable to close range heavy machine and ATR fire.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 2, 2017 15:13:47 GMT
The tyres on the vehicle are filled with porous rubber to minimise damage from small arms fire and the rear four tyres can be field modded with tracks to convert it to a half-track with improved off road capabilities.
The BA-6 armoured car was still in service with the Russian army when Hitler invaded Russia in 1941.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 2, 2017 15:16:30 GMT
The 45mm tank gun featured on all the AFV’s supplied to the Republicans by the Russians and outgunned anything that Hitler or the Italians put in service with the Nationalists (Pz-1s and CV-33 tankettes). Consequently the Nationalists took every opportunity to capture and re-use Republican AFV hardware. Examples were still in use by Franco’s army into the 1950’s.
Indeed, here is the Nationalist camouflage plan for captured T-26's:-
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 2, 2017 15:20:30 GMT
Here's a Chevrolet command car in the process of restoration at the same museum.
They have a restored and running ambulance at Fayón as well but it was away during our visit.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 3, 2017 11:32:02 GMT
Republican tank crew uniform.
Note the Renault FT17 tank badge. Prior to 1936, Spain's armoured forces consisted of ten of these venerable beasts alongside six even more obsolete Schneider CA1 assault tanks plus a handful of domestically produced Trubia prototypes based on the WW1 Fiat 3000A. Five FT17's made up each of the 1st and 2nd Light Tank Regiments. In 1936 the 2nd Regt fell into the hands of the Nationalists while the rest remained with the Republic. The Nationalists later resumed tank design at Trubia but actual tank production was negligible.
Renault FT17
Schneider CA1
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 9, 2017 15:36:39 GMT
Right I think I've finally fixed the disappearing photo issue. Sorry about that, I'm only tech literate up to about 2005.
In fact, sod it, they can bring DOS and the C:> back anytime they like - I'm a feckin' wizard at that.
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