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Reply #225 on: December 11, 2019, 08:44:21 AM
I think (without checking) that it was a pre-war idea and they didn't actually see active service. It was based on the Carden-Lloyd chassis, and you can quite clearly see the Universal carrier (Bren carrier) parentage.

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Reply #226 on: December 11, 2019, 08:46:00 AM
This is really neat.  Rather impractical, but fun.
Was this developed post Dunkerque?  The british considered a lot of wacky answers to the situation.

There was a display at the Imperial War Museum of the Bates Bottle Thrower.
It looked like a cannon, at first glance, but was a device that threw molotov cocktails out to about a hundred yards.  Worked like a slingshot with massive rubber bands to propel the coke bottles.

Kind of like this?


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Reply #227 on: December 11, 2019, 07:39:52 PM
"Fighting Girlfriend", another Mark Felton video that you East Front fans might find interesting:


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Reply #228 on: December 11, 2019, 11:18:05 PM
Great story.  :applause:

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Reply #229 on: December 21, 2019, 07:33:54 AM
The pics from when my son, my dad, and I went to the Armor Museum at Ft Knox.  Those of you that've seen Bayonet Jr recently can tell how long ago this was.  We took a long day trip down from Columbus to Ft Knox






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Reply #230 on: December 21, 2019, 08:44:57 AM
Crimminy, that was a LONG time ago!  :P

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Reply #231 on: December 24, 2019, 09:45:39 AM
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Reply #232 on: December 24, 2019, 10:22:43 AM
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Charioteer and Centurion tank at display in the military museum of Vienna.




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Reply #233 on: December 26, 2019, 10:51:52 AM

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Reply #234 on: December 26, 2019, 12:10:08 PM
Excellent - I'd not read about that before  :bigthumb:

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Reply #235 on: December 26, 2019, 12:20:01 PM
Excellent - I'd not read about that before  :bigthumb:

Me neither which kinda surprised me. I thought I was fairly well read on the Korean War.

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Reply #236 on: December 29, 2019, 05:30:06 PM

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Reply #237 on: December 29, 2019, 05:42:45 PM

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Reply #238 on: December 30, 2019, 11:22:14 AM

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Reply #239 on: December 30, 2019, 11:23:59 AM
Good picture  :bigthumb:

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