Picture of the day

[Dark Alley Dan]

That IS an interesting site. Found this gem there:

Gee, THAT had never, ever been done before. Very innovative, Chrysler...

 

[RRCo.]

Here, read up on Jerry Potts and the idyllic life enjoyed by our aboriginals before the white man spoiled it all.

Jerry Potts, then known as "Bear Child" but now known as "man with no shoulders".

On the other hand didn't seem to hurt this guy's career either:

There was an interesting article in Smithsonian magazine a couple months back about how climate change is exposing areas of the Italian Alps previously frozen over. Lotta hundred-year-old battlefields surfacing with materials and remains well preserved.

Hell of a place to fight a war.

Especially with only bayonets and pickaxes.

A-57 Multibank engine, good lord, they look like something a German would invent.

I have visions of an octopus in coveralls with a timing light in each arm! LOL.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Is mighty Soviet T-35! Good tank! Many guns for smashing Hitlerite aggression!

Also excellent employment scheme for tank corps. Eleven comrades are required for making engine run, driving, shooting, loading, and ensuring philosophical purity.

Is like battleship, or mobile armoured apartment block. Unstoppable, like worldwide acceptance of glorious communist revolution!

And look! Not even time can destroy mighty T-35!

 

[woodchopper]

looks like 2 Mg turrets, 2 HV anti tank gun turrets, and one bigger gun for HE and busting infantry defences.

 

[donor]

Good read about earlier T-28 version and about their use in Finland during Winter and Continuation Wars.

http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/TANKS6.htm

 

[scott585]

everyone was big on the many turret idea, here is a british A9 cruiser:

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Th Germans went big. Here's the Neubaufahrzeug, Uncle Adolf's first attempt at a heavy tank:

 

[XRCD011]

^ One can almost picture a Stoker in the bowels of the tank shoveling coal into the engine and keeping a good head of steam up in full speed ahead mode.

 

[diopter]

 

[CV32]

The Wright Flyer takes to the air, 17 December 1903.

 

[purple]

That picture of the Dodge Ram truck tells a story about Canada trying to R&D its own military equipment. The last ones I saw were lined up to rust at the now defunct LETE Proving Ground in Orleans,ON. Ditto with the stillborn Bobcat APC.

I knew someone who was involved in trialing the Ram and it was apparently OK and would have done a better job than the GM 5/4 ton and the LSVW $hitbox that followed it. At least the name of that truck lived on with Dodge and I've been driving their diesels for the last 20 yrs.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

"There. The Sarge vill neffer know ze diverenz. Let's go to town und get hammered."

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Here's one guy for whom the phrase "Der war ist kapur fur du" was the best news he'd had all day.

 

[tokguy]

The Shermans were powered by 4 types of powerplants. The M4 and M4A1 used the Continental radial engine, the M4A2 a twin GM diesel engine, the M4A3 a Ford V8 and the M4A4 the Chrysler multibank. Production numbers mattered so it was a question of making best use of what was on hand. The multibank M4A4 was the first one to stop production in 1943, a victim of rationalization to eliminate the most complex engine when sufficient others were available.

The US kept most of the M4, M4A1, and M4A3 models for themselves with the M4A2 and M4A4 being provided to allies on lend lease. There was some theoretical advantage to the M4A2 diesel as diesel is less volatile than gas in a fire. 50 yrs ago I learned to drive a M4A2 diesel and it was quite an experience. When I was in Argentina a couple of yrs ago I was surprised to see an M4A4 preserved as a monument outside the military HQ in Buenos Aires.

We have one in Downtown Medicine Hat in Riverside Park, too. Very cool unit

 

[purple]

I've seen a couple of modified Sherman chassis still doing duty on highway construction in BC. One was the early vertical volute suspension type.There's another Sherman chassis parked beside the road in Boston Bar, BC which has been heavily modified as a crane. Most of the original hull is cut away and about the only thing still recognizable is the suspension and track.

 

[Gibbs505]

Bad Day!

 

[Brno8x57]

I've seen a couple of modified Sherman chassis still doing duty on highway construction in BC. One was the early vertical volute suspension type.There's another Sherman chassis parked beside the road in Boston Bar, BC which has been heavily modified as a crane. Most of the original hull is cut away and about the only thing still recognizable is the suspension and track.

Tank undercarriages were used extensively on the BC coast as the chassis on which Madill and other logging equipment manufacturers mounted yarders and towers. Also very common for rock drills. Likely the machine you saw at roadside in Boston Bar was a 009 Madill tower (90 foot) or an 071 Mini Madill (50 foot)

 

[Gibbs505]

A B-57 Canberra observes an Operation Hardtack nuclear test at Kwajalein Atoll in, 1958.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

One of the classics, the Canberra. Such clean lines...

And so damned adapatable!

 

[bearhunter]

Bad Day!

I would call that a good day. Walking away from a hairy carrier landing gone awry and the aircraft still recoverable. That's a win win situation all around.