Have some time to kill, and love heavy armour? Check this out.

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Have a look at this link that I stumbled across. The information is fantastic, and the pictures are almost endless.

https://home.comcast.net/~szee1a/Bovington_Tanks/BovingtonTanks.html

Enjoy!
 
I spent almost two years of my earlier military career there in the foreign technology wing, playing with the funky Swedish S-Tank - StrV-S - among others. If you are ever near, the only working Tiger I, captured in Libya, lives there - you might even see it prowling around.

tac
 
tacfoley said:
I spent almost two years of my earlier military career there in the foreign technology wing, playing with the funky Swedish S-Tank - StrV-S - among others. If you are ever near, the only working Tiger I, captured in Libya, lives there - you might even see it prowling around.

tac
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one thing that struck me was how small it is, its not really a lot bigger than a sherman or a panzer 4, and its pretty tiny compared to a king tiger or centurion
 
Thanks for the tanks, definitely a place to visit with LOTS of time to absorb it all. Bovington got it right with the floor space used well. It makes my blood boil to see all the open space at the CWM set aside for wine and cheese parties (really) they just plain did not make the Lebreton Gallery the right size (larger) right from the start. Another thing I like about the vehicles displayed at Bovington is the mounting of MGs on turrets and some light kit such as helmets and packs. It certainly adds something to the vehicle on display. Again why the CWM does the bare minimum is beyond me, they park a vehicle inside the gallery and think "hey jobs done" and do not go that extra bit.
 
XRCD011 said:
Thanks for the tanks, definitely a place to visit with LOTS of time to absorb it all. Bovington got it right with the floor space used well. It makes my blood boil to see all the open space at the CWM set aside for wine and cheese parties (really) they just plain did not make the Lebreton Gallery the right size (larger) right from the start. Another thing I like about the vehicles displayed at Bovington is the mounting of MGs on turrets and some light kit such as helmets and packs. It certainly adds something to the vehicle on display. Again why the CWM does the bare minimum is beyond me, they park a vehicle inside the gallery and think "hey jobs done" and do not go that extra bit.
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You are very welcome (and I encourage you) to tell the Museum Director what you think. It took a number of veterans complaining about the artwork that showed war crimes (Somalia murders) to get those pictures removed. Yeah, the management hemmed and hawed because it was art, but when I was there a month ago, those offensive painting were back in storage. The same goes for errors in their display placards and captions. If they don't know what bothers visitors, like has been said, "Hey, job's done." and the staff will go off to do other things.
 
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