Picture of the day

[recce]

Meanwhile, in France - the "Light Monitor L990" patrolled the Rhine from '54 to '66 to prevent Le Maudite Boche from coming to visit again:

Yep, it's exactly what it looks like.

I'm curious what the platform rock would have been like firing over the side.

 

[bearhunter]

I'm curious what the platform rock would have been like firing over the side.

Probably didn't even carry ammunition. More for show of vigilence than anything else.

A good mortarman could take that out with a single round.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Relatively wide beam and some decent keel depth, plus some kind of recoil mechanism in the turret.

Never used in anger, but feasable, and certainly frugal.

 

[CV32]

Most tank gun adaptations to watercraft soon dispensed with the tank chassis, and installed the turret only. North Korea deployed several variants of this kind of arrangement, often with T-34 turrets.

 

[brokenspokes1812]

Don't think I would want to be at the helm in that thing fired anywhere near to straight ahead, lol

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

The B-36:

Sometime in the early 1950s, the Boss walked into the design and drafting department at Convair, said "give it jets" and walked out again. Some time later the Sliderule Boys came up with the B-36G, later redesignated the YB-60:

New vertical stab, swept wing, converted to jet power. Not successful. First flew in '52, both examples scrapped by '54.

The B-52 was better, and seventy years later still is.

 

[bearhunter]

Most tank gun adaptations to watercraft soon dispensed with the tank chassis, and installed the turret only. North Korea deployed several variants of this kind of arrangement, often with T-34 turrets.

The Russians often used T34 turrets on their small barges and patrol boats during WWII and the seiges of their cities.

 

[john@]

I believe the tank engine might be used to propel the barge. There is an exhaust pipe from tank to stern.

Most tank gun adaptations to watercraft soon dispensed with the tank chassis, and installed the turret only. North Korea deployed several variants of this kind of arrangement, often with T-34 turrets.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I believe the tank engine might be used to propel the barge. There is an exhaust pipe from tank to stern.

With part of the tank being below deck would lower the craft's center of gravity as well.

Grizz

 

[RRCo.]

The Russians often used T34 turrets on their small barges and patrol boats during WWII and the seiges of their cities.

And those in use today still appear very similar to those WWII era types, from what I saw in a video recently.

 

[Rule 303]

It was on loan to AV Roe which was building the Arrow. That's a Chinook jet engine made by Orenda, two of which were to be installed in Arrow 206....the engine is on the port side near the rear.


Moderators: Please delete. Better answers have been given.

 

[CV32]

I believe the tank engine might be used to propel the barge. There is an exhaust pipe from tank to stern.

Yes, although the chassis is not really necessary to the boat it does make operating the turret much simpler.

 

[bearhunter]

IMHO, they did an excellent job of utilizing parts on hand to put together a very ineffective fighting craft.

The tracks/bogies and trailers seem to have been removed to get the profile even lower and that tank chassis will provide lots of cover for the crew if they ever need it.

Very likely their only real threat (if one existed) at the time was from small arms fire. I'm also thinking the crew were the crew of the tank.

From what I can see, the tank may have provided cover during inclement weather as well.

I can't see the helmsman manning such an exposed position during stressful encounters either. I guess their modus operandi was to drift or drop both anchors during an altercation. Not a great plan IMHO.

That's why I wonder if the tank even carried any ammo for its main gun??

Great use of obsolete equiment but it's not something I would want to be on if there was a ''real'' threat to ward off.

Likely it's purpose was more to thwart smugglers, which were very prevalent during the occupation years.

 

[diopter]

Venga TG-10 experimental combat training plane (Canada. 1987).
The Venga TG-10 "Brushfire" was a combat training aircraft developed in Canada by Venga Aerospace in the late 1980s. The TG-10 was a low-wing single-engine jet with tandem housing (side behind each other) for the pilot and instructor. Generally, it looked a bit like the Northrop F-5 fighter, but unlike it, it had a double drift, somewhat spaced outward
The only prototype was destroyed in a fire and never took off.

 

[john@]

One of the articles I read when I was poking around for more info (River Gunboats: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia By Roger Branfill-Cook on google books) indicated the helmsman could operate the boat from inside the tank...

When not in action the monitor was navigated from the conning position in front of the tank; when in action the driver controlled the steering and engines from his seat inside the tank.

I can't see the helmsman manning such an exposed position during stressful encounters either. I guess their modus operandi was to drift or drop both anchors during an altercation. Not a great plan IMHO.

 

[CV32]

Photos of the model Type VIIC U-96 made for the greatest submarine film of all time -- Das Boot

Three models were constructed, the largest of which was built to 1/6 scale (at 11.2 meters long) and was controlled by an onboard diver.

 

[CV32]

 

[CV32]

 

[diopter]

I need a bigger bathtub.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I need a bigger bathtub.

Great movie if you can watch it in German. One of the crewmen is my namesake, interesting in that my brother claims from one of my German relatives that my dad was the lone survivor of a sinking. Apparently screwed him up thoroughly, because he spent the rest of the war in the infantry. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. One of his old post cards he kept till his death, which kind of thickens the plot.

U boot Flotte Weddigen, the coastal boats that Doenitz started with.

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