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diopter said:
Take II
M13-40 or M14-41
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Yeah, something happened to italian design since this thing and the Diabolo.

Amazing it resides in Alberta though you folk seem to be maintaining much better than anyone in this liberal cesspool that is Eastern Canada

F**K now I'm irked again and will have to drown myself in a mixture of Tonic water( keeps the malarials away) and some form of alcoolic beverage that could possibly mix enchantingly

If someone has an old family recipe please let me know:)
 
yea its a 13-40 took me a while to initially figure it out the main to feature that made me figure it out was the side hatch and closely zoomed in you see fossati on one of the support rollers. I think its a project of one units on base. I kinda wish they would clean up the centurion by my house the paint is falling off.
 
bellero said:
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No difficulty to get it out of there by backing it up or pulling the ass end backwards. The problem is if they do that the gun will drag down the bridge abutement and be forced upwards, damaging it, if not prying the turret off its rails. It looks like they are rigging a cradle out of steel cable for the gun barrel so the turret can be rotated 90 degrees (gun pointing to the side) and be held there. Without something supporting the weight of the barrel as the turret is turned, it would fall down and swing the turret close to 180 deg. before burying itself in the dirt.
Once the gun is held pointing to the side they can back the tank up and drop the front to the ground.
IMO
 
hacer2 said:
yea its a 13-40 took me a while to initially figure it out the main to feature that made me figure it out was the side hatch and closely zoomed in you see fossati on one of the support rollers. I think its a project of one units on base. I kinda wish they would clean up the centurion by my house the paint is falling off.
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I'd assumed it was Canadian Tank Regiment, so I was trying to make it a US M-2 Medium, but I knew it wasn't that. Now when you say 'Italy' I recognize the odd rear deck and those telltale trucks. Must've been a capture from N. Africa. That was a bit of a puzzler alright.
SL
 
hacer2 said:
If you know base wainwright a bit, it is in a compound across from Cubic CWES building.
(you live near wainwright smellie?) I would of stolen a truck when I was there a few weeks ago to creep a peak at the knowledge and collection lol

diopter is closest so far!
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Is this picture recent? I work on base and bring vehicles to Base Maint or Cubic on a regular basis and I've never seen it there? There's a T34 in one of the CMTC Tn compound but never se this one around.
 
Cdn303 said:
Missed it be that much.

Possibly crank the turret around to 90, and drag the back end of the tank away from the base of the bridge.
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Judging by what looks like the opposite abutement at the RH edge of the picture and what could be a confined work space to move recovery vehicles down into that river bedéroad way, I think this would be a rather tricky recovery as the entire dead weight of the tank is resting on its rear. I see some just plain brute force dragging of that Panther in its near future.
 
bellero said:
Is this picture recent? I work on base and bring vehicles to Base Maint or Cubic on a regular basis and I've never seen it there? There's a T34 in one of the CMTC Tn compound but never se this one around.
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Recent as about 3 to 4 weeks ago. You can sort of see it from the firing pad where cubic does there vehicle zeroing. And you can see it from the road cubic is on once your infront of that perticular compound. Definitely a unique little piece in that end of the country. I heard borden had one too in there museam but ive yet to go
 
XRCD011 said:
Judging by what looks like the opposite abutement at the RH edge of the picture and what could be a confined work space to move recovery vehicles down into that river bedéroad way, I think this would be a rather tricky recovery as the entire dead weight of the tank is resting on its rear. I see some just plain brute force dragging of that Panther in its near future.
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Yup I agree. If the engine wasn't shut down immediately that it came to be in that position, it will be seized and if they start it up in that position it will be before it moves very far... either way it will be a "dead in the water" pull. I don't know what sort of drive system those tanks have but if they have a planetary gear reduction system that may prevent free wheeling when they try to tug it backwards, they may have to torch the tracks at the sprockets to preserve the gear train.
If it will "free wheel", turn the turret a 1/4 turn and give'er a jerk, if it won't free wheel that tank may become a "parts donor" depending on the closeness of the allied forces.
 
fingers284 said:
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Yup I agree. If the engine wasn't shut down immediately that it came to be in that position, it will be seized and if they start it up in that position it will be before it moves very far... either way it will be a "dead in the water" pull. I don't know what sort of drive system those tanks have but if they have a planetary gear reduction system that may prevent free wheeling when they try to tug it backwards, they may have to torch the tracks at the sprockets to preserve the gear train.
If it will "free wheel", turn the turret a 1/4 turn and give'er a jerk, if it won't free wheel that tank may become a "parts donor" depending on the closeness of the allied forces.
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There is no way that tank is just going to be "started up and backed off the abutement" as all the engine oil will have flooded the rear most cylinders, or if failing to shut down right away the engine would be seized as you point out. Once down on the ground its now boxed in between two abutements so sideways dragging would be needed and that would be best done with tracks on as the road wheels would dig in and be damaged along with the swing arms, even the act of dropping it onto the tracks may break torsion bars or carriers. All in all thats a recovery job for the books.
 
hacer2 said:
Recent as about 3 to 4 weeks ago. You can sort of see it from the firing pad where cubic does there vehicle zeroing. And you can see it from the road cubic is on once your infront of that perticular compound. Definitely a unique little piece in that end of the country. I heard borden had one too in there museam but ive yet to go
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Last time I saw that tank, 10 years ago, it was parked out in a field, rusting, with other AFV's. Nice to see a new paint job.
 
Hans-Joachim Marseille had quite the career as a fighter pilot. Many maintain his record was at least partly fictional, but the guy undeniably had style and a LOT of talent as a pilot.

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He also had this guy as his batman and driver:

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That's Mr. Matthew "Mathias" Letuku, late of the South African Army, captured and thence employed by the Luftwaffe. He stayed with 1./JG 27 until mid 1944 as an accepted member of the organization.

They motored around in this interestingly-painted Kubewagen:
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The star of Africa, Marseille was quite the character and I have no doubt he would reached Hartmann's tally had he survived a little longer.
 
kayceel said:
Wonder how long it took to get the smell of all that #### and piss out of the aircraft? Kayceel
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Lol, when I was a wee lad my uncle, who owned about two acres, thought hobby farming would be a great way to pocket some extra cash and bought a small goat herd. After the first trip to the auction mart with a station wagon, the station wagon went into the bush, my aunt got a new car, and the goats were history.
 
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