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A little bondo, some touch up paint, and a new tire, and he'll be good to go...

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Circa Benghazi, 2014...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2839442/Motorist-finds-live-mortar-wedged-bodywork-vehicle-fierce-shelling-Libya.html

And an EOD team!
 
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Found this inside a crate of belted 8mm swedish surplus last night. Thought you guys might a get a kick out it. I’ve always been fascinated by what life must have been like in Sweden and Switzerland during WW2.

Google translate:

TO THE COMMANDER

"Our country's unwinding and the increased approach of metals for the needs of the armed forces today demands that the greatest possible economy with all kinds of metals be baked. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were lost by, among other things. a. Empty sleeves are not used to a sufficient extent.

The clean scrap of 1,000 pcs. 6.5 and 8 mm empty sleeves indicate about NOK 12 and NOK 14, respectively, which we do not have a line to lose. The costs of lost equipment must be countered by state resources and therefore, through the taxes, we must ultimately respond to the costs.

However, it is not just the money for the scrap but the metal as such, which is lost if the sleeves are not collected. that day may come when the metal, the massage, cannot be obtained at all.

According to the published regulations, the shelters should be collected with 100% at school shooting and at least 80% at field mass shooting. Check immediately that every empty sleeves and loading frames are collected. do not win. the sleeves disappear in the snow or grass. makes what you say to take advantage of empty sleeves and drawer trays."
 

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Found this inside a crate of belted 8mm swedish surplus last night. Thought you guys might a get a kick out it. I’ve always been fascinated by what life must have been like in Sweden and Switzerland during WW2.

Google translate:

TO THE COMMANDER

"Our country's unwinding and the increased approach of metals for the needs of the armed forces today demands that the greatest possible economy with all kinds of metals be baked. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were lost by, among other things. a. Empty sleeves are not used to a sufficient extent.

The clean scrap of 1,000 pcs. 6.5 and 8 mm empty sleeves indicate about NOK 12 and NOK 14, respectively, which we do not have a line to lose. The costs of lost equipment must be countered by state resources and therefore, through the taxes, we must ultimately respond to the costs.

However, it is not just the money for the scrap but the metal as such, which is lost if the sleeves are not collected. that day may come when the metal, the massage, cannot be obtained at all.

According to the published regulations, the shelters should be collected with 100% at school shooting and at least 80% at field mass shooting. Check immediately that every empty sleeves and loading frames are collected. do not win. the sleeves disappear in the snow or grass. makes what you say to take advantage of empty sleeves and drawer trays."

I can relate....spent many many minutes looking for that one .284 brass in the snow when their availability was scarce.
 
Back in the day when Swede 96's were a hundred bucks all day long, and The Mighty ag42B was $150, I bought one of each.

The only ammunition available was Norma. One had to travel to a major center to find it. It was terrifyingly expensive. I bought two boxes.

Dad and I shot it in the Mauser. Lovely - low recoil, wonderfully accurate, a real lady. We reloaded our forty precious "sleeves" and took the 42b to the range.

You know where this is going.

This was pre-magic-rivet-of-public-safety, so we loaded 10 and let 'er rip. The brass left the immediate area, headed southwest at some substantial speed. There was snow. We lost eight of the 10. The two we found were further away than common sense would suggest was possible. And the arse end of the case had a great dirty rectangular hack mark on it where the ejector (made of a small sliver of Thor's hammer, apparently) gave the case the necessary shove to get it to low-earth orbit.

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(Not my pic, but one gets the idea)

One pities the poor Swedish recruit tasked with digging through the snow to find brass that's been flung halfway to Norway. His mitts are soggy, he can't feel his fingers, the Sgt. is getting pretty angry, and it's gonna be dark in about fifteen minutes...
 
I didn't know Swedes had 38T tanks so I googled it-not only had them,they made them.They kept them for a long while and converted them to APC called Pansarbandvagn 301.

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