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Dark Alley Dan
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Neat pics. Postwar Swiss, yes?
Kampfhamster
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We only got them brand new after the war. Our first "real" tanks, which we used until 1973. Some of them have been preserved in running condition in museums, others have been used as targets.
On the practice area outside of my town there used to be four of them that were used as target until around 2000.
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Interesting must be a story behind that..
There is. They were recovered (ground dug) at Gallipolli when the australian war graves commission returned to the site after the war to inter their dead. It's an 8mm Mauser being hit by a .303 round. It's on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. I've seen it there in person.
Cottage Hill Bill
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There are several similar examples floating about, all described as mid-air strikes, but it just isn't so. Physics just won't support bullets hitting each other in mid-air ending up like that. As noted above, one of those hasn't been fired meaning it was in an ammo pouch, laying on the ground or in an ammo box. When I'm collecting spent bullets at my gun club to melt down for casting it's not uncommon to find bullets that have hit other bullets, though usually nose-to-tail. Used to keep them until I realized how common they were. Probably still have a couple of pairs laying around somewhere.
fingers284
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I've seen more than one photo of lead slugs that were claimed to be recovered from the civil war battle sites that were fused together after a mid-air collision.
Dark Alley Dan
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That Swede 94 ad is one of those "Please, God, give me a day in 1950 with a fistful of money and a big shopping cart" deals.
The reference to "Artik-Karlin" is a new one for me. Marketing hoo-hah, or a real thing?
The reference to "Artik-Karlin" is a new one for me. Marketing hoo-hah, or a real thing?
Cottage Hill Bill
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Yes, lead musket balls or Minie balls hitting head-on have been recovered from ACW battlefields. Big, slow moving, soft lead balls head-on is a very different physics problem from copper-jacketed, high velocity bullets hitting at 90 degrees or so.
I don't doubt that it didn't happen mid-air, but that particular photo is from canberra - it's displayed that way, suspended by a wire in a glass case. I've seen it and it definitely was recovered at gallipolli, which makes it cool no matter how it happened.
