Picture of the day

[Rod B]

Please delete

Please delete.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Mortar squad:

Can anyone make out the shoulder flashes?

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Behold - the Mighty Carden Loyd Mk. IV Tankette!

http://2.bp.########.com/-xNzpiFU_iF8/VaUic63gYXI/AAAAAAAAMB8/eUsrrehyoL4/s1600/28.jpg

http://3.bp.########.com/-BakE7oMw9DU/VaUgCJTPdZI/AAAAAAAAMBw/VzCgLjbeZkg/s1600/27.jpg

Looks like a bad place to get killed. Still, could be worse:

 

[Kman303]

Can anyone make out the shoulder flashes?

Could be the crossed keys of the British 2nd Infantry division?

 

[RRCo.]

http://3.bp.########.com/-BakE7oMw9DU/VaUgCJTPdZI/AAAAAAAAMBw/VzCgLjbeZkg/s1600/27.jpg

That unarmoured water jacket on the Vickers would make for a very short engagement. I guess this was before the RAC embraced the Besa MG and 7.92x57, otherwise they could have grabbed some old war trophy MG08/15s with the armoured water jackets and gunner's shields and fitted them.

 

[MarkCNP]

 

[MarkCNP]

 

[Sharps '63]

Looks like a good rifleman could have taken out the pilot of that Fokker Eindecker.

 

[Gibbs505]

Looks like a good rifleman could have taken out the pilot of that Fokker Eindecker.

Need a lot of lead

 

[MarkCNP]

 

[MarkCNP]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Some of those posts appear to have a bit of wiggle in 'em. Betcha that was Pucker Factor Seven or better for young Tankist Comrade in driver's seat...

 

[MarkCNP]

Prossibly "tanked" with vodka.

 

[Sharps '63]

Not really. One shot into the engine/fuel tank or the cockpit would have sufficed.

Need a lot of lead

 

[DOOK]

I think he means lead, not lead as in bullet material.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Alternately, one can simply saturate the area of the sky where the airplane is...

 

[deckerhead]

Alternately, one can simply saturate the area of the sky where the airplane is...

Would make an awesome goose getter........

 

[diopter]

 

[grelmar]

T46. Nimble, quick little beast. Turned out to have too complicated (expensive and high maintenance) of a suspension, among other problems, to enter full production. One of the great "what if's" of WWII... Essentially "What if the Soviets hadn't spent so much time dickering around with dozens of possible tank designs and gotten busy just producing them earlier, and in large numbers..."

Then again, the whole shotgun approach to tank design they took ended up producing the T-34 series, so hard to find fault with it.

 

[fraserdw]

Looks more like a BT7 to me.