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jwhc said:
Good day fellow Nutz :) New day new picture :)

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Cheers
Joe
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I wonder if that's a twin .50 mount on a PT boat. Anyway to tell? Or is the mount 'generic'?
 
purple said:
This is always a caution as a tank is nearly blind in the dark. Today's night vision kit would be a help, but it's still a risk. You can hear them all around you, but can't locate them to get out of the way, except when they are right on top of you. I remember being caught on my feet in the middle of a tank squadron at night, big howling Rolls- Royce Meteor engines in the old Centurions all around, lots of dust to boot, and lighting a book of matches one by one hoping that a driver would see me.

I had a friend run over and killed by an M113. Sadly he unrolled his sleeping bag after arriving in a harbour area in the bush at night and wasn't aware that he was only about 15 feet behind the vehicle. The APC started up to move before first light, the driver wasn't aware of anything behind him and the track reversed right over my friend.
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Terrible. May he rest in peace. :(
 
We were on exercise in Shilo doing recce drills up a dirt road when the troop commander came on the radio and said get off the road NOW! He knew we were advancing towards a blind corner right - I ordered my driver off the road and radioed my patrol second to follow.

Moments later two German Leopards raced around the corner heading back to base. It was Friday, they had their turrets reversed and were flooring it.

Would have squished us like a bug!
 
Would this be twin M3's? Sure looks like .50 ammo there, I thought the ANM2's were .30cal aircraft with high cyclic rate. Anyhow if they are twin .50 M3's, god help the poor guys that stray in front of him anywhere inside 1000 yards, that would be 3000 rpm there!.
 
Good day Gunnutz new day new picture :) This picture is courtesy of Brno8x57 :) plus many more!!

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Spitfire "tipping-off" a V1. If you've never heard of this insane tactic .......

At first V1's were shot down by gunfire. Optimum range was inside 200yds, which was marginal for survival. Many planes were damaged and quite a few pilots killed. Basically at such high speed and low altitude a plane had to fly though the explosion and hope.

With the high risk of being blown up some of the best pilots started tipping the V1's wing, because of damage to wing tips they later developed a tactic of disrupting the aitflow by placing their wing very close to the V1's wing, causing it to topple..

Not every pilot did this. At night this was not possible, the flame from the V1 blinded the pilot to everything else, though some Mossie pilots flew past closely in front of the V1, again causing it to topple. The thought of doing this at 450mph, 4,000 feet above the ground, at night and being blinded gives me the willies.

Cheers
Joe
 
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