Tanks!

Started by bayonetbrant, February 18, 2013, 08:51:35 AM

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LongBlade

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LB +1, "smart tank", that's funny right there... ;D
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Jack Nastyface

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Okay, not QUITE a tank...but can someone ID the weapon platform on these?

http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/20131007224439.aspx

Sorry...can't quite get this "post image" thing to work.



MOD EDIT:  Here's your image
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GDS_Starfury

.50 cal training barrel up front and a 40mm grenade launcher on the rear Stryker.
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Staggerwing

The Ontos 6-barrel recoilless rocket vehicle used a similar set up with a .50 cal spotting rifle used to aim the rocket tubes.

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Windigo

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 08, 2013, 06:09:51 PM
.50 cal training barrel up front and a 40mm grenade launcher on the rear Stryker.

damn that looks like wyoming
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Quote from: Staggerwing on October 08, 2013, 06:28:13 PM
The Ontos 6-barrel recoilless rocket vehicle used a similar set up with a .50 cal spotting rifle used to aim the rocket tubes.



Love it!

I had a model of the Ontos a very long time ago - think it was by Frog and was 1/48 scale.
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Airborne Rifles

Quote from: Windigo on October 09, 2013, 12:01:47 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 08, 2013, 06:09:51 PM
.50 cal training barrel up front and a 40mm grenade launcher on the rear Stryker.

damn that looks like wyoming

Probably Yakima in central Washington.  That's where the training areas near Ft. Lewis are.  There are a couple of Stryker brigades there.

GDS_Starfury

did no one read the caption?  ::)

QuoteU.S. Soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, take to the road during a joint platoon exercise at the Yakima Training Center, Wash., Sept. 16, 2013. Rising Thunder is a U.S. Army-hosted exercise designed to build interoperability between I Corps, the 7th Infantry Division and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt Austan Owen)
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Airborne Rifles

I'm too busy to be bothered by silly things like "captions" and "facts." 

GDS_Starfury

then you would love the global warming thread.  ;D
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Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

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Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


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bayonetbrant

Ft Lewis has some maneuver space, but for pure open-ground-with-nothing-in-your-way, Yakima is pretty damned close to Ft Irwin for space to cruise around.  And Yakima has the advantage of not having been so totally overanalyzed as Ft Irwin.  I was at Yakima for AT in the Summer of '99 and it was actually quite a bit of fun.
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Staggerwing

Actually, Grant should also be up there with Lee. The difference was primarily in the turret design and the two names for the M3 medium tank were actually used by the British so they could tell their lend-lease tanks apart on reports and forms. It didn't help that the British were also using M3 light tanks supplied by the US as well. These they named Stuarts for the same aforementioned reasons.
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