Anyone have any more pics of armored vehicles destoyed in combat?

Quoted: Quoted: img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/scott1959/boresight3.jpg This is why you should never bump-fire your M1A2 underwater.

Quoted: Anyone have any more pics of armored vehicles destoyed in combat?

I think so, stay tuned.....

If any of these have been posted before... bite me.






























I also have this one without the text, if anyone wants it.



I have more, but I think this is going to tax any dial-up ARFCOMmers viewing this thread enough as it is.

Swindle,
Go ahead and post them!!

Quoted: What were the tanks used in "Kelly's Heroes"? Both German and American.  I haven't seen it in a while and forgot.

I "thought" the M-4's were A3's (Might've been E8's but i don't remember) and the "tigers" were converted Yugo' (Or some other eastern European) T-34/85's (?)

Quoted: What were the tanks used in "Kelly's Heroes"? Both German and American.  I haven't seen it in a while and forgot.

They had actual Sherman tanks for the Americans, but the tigers looked to be converted from some sort of bulldozer or something, the way they moved was "untanklike". At least they tried to make something that looked like a tiger instead of painting up an M-48 Patton.


Heres a real Tiger I





Our guys.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: What were the tanks used in "Kelly's Heroes"? Both German and American.  I haven't seen it in a while and forgot. They had actual Sherman tanks for the Americans, but the tigers looked to be converted from some sort of bulldozer or something, the way they moved was "untanklike". At least they tried to make something that looked like a tiger instead of painting up an M-48 Patton. I think I need to throw in the movie and get some screenshots...

The tigers in the movie had their turrets too far forward, some say to cover up a T-34 turret, I knew they didnt look right. I did enjoy the sherman, comming out of a train tunnel, blaring music and shooting up that rail yard. It was a fun movie.  

I think the teddy bear on top of the Abrams is hilarious.

Quoted: I think the teddy bear on top of the Abrams Challenger is hilarious.

Fixed it.   The Teddy is great.

You mean the Teddy in front of the Challenger's TC?

It gets around: I saw a Stryker with a Mr Potato Head on the front, my 3 tank had a Pumbaa on the mantlet, my 2 tank acquired some Rhinocerous dressed as a firefighter on his mantlet, and I brought my Loch Ness Monster along on the occasional patrol... (But she rode in the tank)

NTM

GOD Bless Tanks !!!!  Okay...dumb comment.  But damn, tanks are the bomb!  The only thing as captivating is a hot gal with large, natural breast.  Got Milk?

I know this is not a tank, but thought it was a pretty cool picture.  

Can someone tell me what it is?  Thanks.

Crusader?

Quoted: Heavy Convoy Escort Vehicals. img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/scott1959/BMP-T1Heavyconvoyescortvehical.jpg img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/scott1959/BMP-THeavyconvoyescortvehical.jpg

Hmmmm, first I've seen one of those..... More info please.....Model name or #?

Quoted: Ok, what are those things sticking out on the turret on either side of the main gun?

Anyone notice the teddybear?

Quoted: I know this is not a tank, but thought it was a pretty cool picture.   Can someone tell me what it is?  Thanks. img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/2A373/sm3.jpg

Crusader. Supposed to have a hellava firing rate and abiltiy to fire several rounds quickly at differant elevations and velocities so all the rounds arrive on target at the same time. If it works like advertised it's guarenteed to leave a mark that wont buff out.

Any update on it's status?

Quoted: Quoted: I know this is not a tank, but thought it was a pretty cool picture.   Can someone tell me what it is?  Thanks. img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/2A373/sm3.jpg Crusader. Supposed to have a hellava firing rate and abiltiy to fire several rounds quickly at differant elevations and velocities so all the rounds arrive on target at the same time. If it works like advertised it's guarenteed to leave a mark that wont buff out. Any update on it's status?

It was canceled. Dead and gone.  

Quoted: If any of these have been posted before... bite me. i134.exs.cx/img134/6800/11084432078425ce.jpg I also have this one without the text, if anyone wants it.

I'd like that one without text

Hello, I´m new to this forum but I followed a link to this topic and I felt obliged to share the latest pic of the swedish AMOS, or as we call it, SSG120 (GRKPBV 90-120). As for me... I´m an officer in the Swedish Armoured Corps. Work with the CV90 family and the Leopard 2 daily.

I also have a webpage: www.mainbattletanks.net you are most welcome to visit herehttp://www.armen.mil.se/images/local/050310_ssg120_01.jpg

welcome

mainbattletanks,

What level of protection does the hull of the CV90 and CV9040C provide (if you know)?  I've always wondered how it compares to the 30mm protection of the M2A3 Bradley

Quoted: Hello, I´m new to this forum but I followed a link to this topic and I felt obliged to share the latest pic of the swedish AMOS, or as we call it, SSG120 (GRKPBV 90-120). As for me... I´m an officer in the Swedish Armoured Corps. Work with the CV90 family and the Leopard 2 daily. I also have a webpage: www.mainbattletanks.net you are most welcome to visit well here is the SSG120. www.armen.mil.se/images/local/050310_ssg120_01.jpg

Wellcome

Quoted: Swedish S-Tank.

That looks like the one that belongs to Alan Cors' VMMV.

Quoted: If any of these have been posted before... bite me.

AMX-50's??

Cool Pics.
Thanks for posting them!

Those 'Heavy Escort Vehicle's actually aren't.

The top one is a BMP-T "Tank Assistance Combat Vehicle" designed for two purposes. One was to deal with smaller stuff that doesn't really require the attention of the tank's main gun, and it also has a secondary purpose in built-up areas. Based off the T-72 chassis.

I'm thinking that the second picture is another variant of BMP-T with a different turret.

There is also BTR-T based off a T-55 which loses some of the armament, but does carry some troops, and is a heavy APC.

NTM

Bump because this is a cool thread



ETA: and for the swede and his cool vehicles

Quoted: Those 'Heavy Escort Vehicle's actually aren't. The top one is a BMP-T "Tank Assistance Combat Vehicle" designed for two purposes. One was to deal with smaller stuff that doesn't really require the attention of the tank's main gun, and it also has a secondary purpose in built-up areas. Based off the T-72 chassis. I'm thinking that the second picture is another variant of BMP-T with a different turret. There is also BTR-T based off a T-55 which loses some of the armament, but does carry some troops, and is a heavy APC. NTM

I just took that from the file names, had to call them something.   Whatever they are, it seems like good idea, heavy apc with heavy firepower.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I know this is not a tank, but thought it was a pretty cool picture.   Can someone tell me what it is?  Thanks. img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/2A373/sm3.jpg Crusader. Supposed to have a hellava firing rate and abiltiy to fire several rounds quickly at differant elevations and velocities so all the rounds arrive on target at the same time. If it works like advertised it's guarenteed to leave a mark that wont buff out. Any update on it's status? It was canceled. Dead and gone.

Too Heavy..........

Quoted: Hello, I´m new to this forum but I followed a link to this topic and I felt obliged to share the latest pic of the swedish AMOS, or as we call it, SSG120 (GRKPBV 90-120). As for me... I´m an officer in the Swedish Armoured Corps. Work with the CV90 family and the Leopard 2 daily.

välkomnande!

More tank pics, as promised, and the picture of the Dukes O' Hazzard tank firing without text, as requested.

And again, I have a crapload of these things on my comp, so if any of these are repeats of previous pics in this thread, feel free to excercise your right to bite me.






















Hey kid, guess who'll win in a head-on collission?

































I'll probably post a few more tanks, some APC's, more self-propelled artillery, some rocket artillery, and more anti-aircraft armored vehicles tomorow.

Quoted: More tank pics, as promised, and the picture of the Dukes O' Hazzard tank firing without text, as requested. And again, I have a crapload of these things on my comp, so if any of these are repeats of previous pics in this thread, feel free to excercise your right to bite me. I'll probably post a few more tanks, some APC's, more self-propelled artillery, some rocket artillery, and more anti-aircraft armored vehicles tomorow.

Thanks

Quoted: Heres a real Tiger I img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/scott1959/Tiger1-sPzAbt503-011.jpg

Interesting story behind this photo. This is a picture of the destroyed Tiger I commanded by SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Wittmann during the Panzer LEHR counter Attack at Villers Bocage On June 13, 1944. The very same tank that caused  the carnage at on the road from Villers Bocage during the battle for Normandy.

On June 13, 1944, Wittmann with his crew and former gunner Bobby Woll (who was by now a panzer commander, but was on that day Wittmann's gunner since his own tank was damaged) set out an ordered reconnaissance patrol of the area in front of his company towards Balleroy and in the direction of a hill tactically marked height 213. Rumors were that the Allies were surmounting a massive attack aimed at Panzer Lehr's left flank.  
When Wittmann stopped his tank to listen for enemy sounds, an alarmed infantry squad reported to him that strange tanks were rolling down the road. As he emerged on foot from the cover of a small wood he witnessed the arrival of a large number of British tanks, half-tracks, and infantry support carriers belonging to the 4th County of London Yeomanry (4th CLY), part of the famed 7th Armored Division (Desert Rats). The British were headed in the direction of Hill 213 and Wittmann realized that this unit was about to mount a flanking maneuver against Panzer Lehr. Near Villers Bocage the British stopped for vehicle maintenance and breakfast, not expecting to meet any German forces.  

Wittmann ran back to his Tiger, placed his crew on battle alert and although he was not able to establish contact with other units, or did not want to in order to maintain radio silence, he broke cover and moved off in the direction of the British headquarters section tanks (RHQ) protected between A and B squadrons. The first vehicles were twelve M3 half-tracks, which were destroyed using both MG-34's. Next appeared three M5A1 Honey tanks which were fired upon with main gun rounds. The Tiger engaged the RHQ tanks inside Viller Bocage and knocked out three Cromwell tanks. Wittmann then moved down the road and bumped into B squadron which was guarding the road to Caumont. Turning around to return to his company for additional vehicles he ran into a stalking Cromwell which fired two 75mm gun rounds that bounced off the thick armor. Wittmann's gunner destroyed the Cromwell and they went back to their company area.

The British 7th Armored Division, having outflanked Bayerlein's Panzer Lehr Division, was running for Caen as part of an overall plan to take the city by a "right hook" around the defenders. After reporting to his commander Sepp Dietrich, Wittmann returned in the afternoon with three Tigers and a PzKpfw IV Ausf. H to launch a counter-attack against A squadron and capture Villers Bocage. By that time Cromwells, Sherman Fireflies and Bren Carriers towing anti-tank guns had halted on the side of the road, parked nose to tail, with their guns swung to the side. The British tank crews were dismounted taking a break and brewing tea, and recognition of a quick kill was instinctive. Wittmann and his crew knocked out the entire line of British vehicles as he moved past, impervious to everything that was fired in return. After regrouping, the four German vehicles entered the town where B squadron had taken up defensive positions together with some 6pdr anti-tank guns. One of the anti-tank guns immobilized Wittmann's Tiger, and the crew had to escape. The other German tanks were knocked out by Firefly and Cromwell tank gun fire. The losses for the 7th Armored amounted to 25 tanks, 14 carriers and 14 half-tracks, the majority incurred during the morning.

Despite the German losses, Wittmann's single handed attack had inflicted such an overwhelming damage and a state of shock, that Panzer Lehr was saved from certain destruction. On the recommendation of General Bayerlein of Panzer Lehr, Wittmann was awarded the Swords to his Knights' Cross with Oakleaf and was promoted on the spot to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain). He was offered an appointment at an officers' tactical school but refused.  


Along with his crew, Wittmann inspects the 88 "Kill Rings" on the gun barrel of their Tiger I
Those kills earned him and gunner Bobby Woll the Knight's Cross


SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Wittmann


"Over the course of twelve days in July of 1943 during Operation Zitadelle, Wittman destroyed more than 30 Soviet tanks and 28 Soviet self-propelled guns."

Here's another panzer ace story:

On July 22 of 1944, 1st Lieutenant Otto Carius with his company of eight (early and mid production) Tigers advanced towards village of Malinava (northern suburb of Dunaburg) in order to halt the Russian advance. 1st Lieutenant Otto Carius and 1st Lieutenant Albert Kerscher (one of the most decorated commanders of sPzAbt 502) took a Kubelwagen in order to check if the village was already occupied by Russians. They discovered that village of Malinava was already occupied by the enemy. Carius recognized that the Russian tanks in the village were only advance troops waiting for the main force to arrive. He decided to recapture the village before the arrival of reinforcements. Carius returned to his company for briefing and explained his plan to take the village. He decided to attack the village using only two tanks because there was only one road leading to the village and rushing all of his Tigers would be dangerous. Six Tigers remained in the reserve while Carius and Kerscher's Tigers moved towards the village of Malinava. Speed was the essence of Carius' strategy and it was decisive to upset Russians and immobilize their tanks.

Left: Leutnant Otto Carius after receiving Oakleaves to his Knight's Cross.  

When Carius' Tiger No.217 was about to enter the village, two T-34/85 tanks were observed rotating their turrets. At this moment, Kerscher's Tiger No.213 which followed Carius at about 150m, fired and knocked them out. Also for the first time, Otto Carius encountered Russian's latest JS-1 (or possibly JS-2) heavy tank. Its silhouette was somewhat similar to the German King Tiger and Carius was confused at first but after hesitating a bit, he fired and JS-1 burst into flames. Afterwards, Otto Carius recalls that the entire battle did not last more than 20 minutes. In such a short time, Carius and Kerscher's Tigers knocked out 17 Russian tanks including the new JS-1. Although the Russians were attacked by suprise, Carius' quick and accurate recognition of the situation and the excellent tactics used were the main factors in the outcome. Carius' achievement at Malinava is equally outstanding to Michael Wittmann's achievement at Villers-Bocage.

I think we've covered all the tanks of the world.....So heres some other tracked vehicles of war








M2A3 Bradley IFV





M6 Bradley Linebacker










M163 PIVADS with 20mm vulcan cannon













Concept of our Marines new Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, can do nearly 30mph in the water.... Awesome

Here are some photos I took at Aberdeen in Oct of 03.
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You can see where the front slope took three direct hits.  Each one is about the size of my fist and is no more than 3.5" deep.  

Some of our guys who didnt make it home, this Sherman came around the corner and was knocked out by a Panther, minutes later the Panther was hunted down and destroyed by an M-26 Pershing.
This was caught on film and is pretty impressive to see.

M-26 Pershing, below, late in the war, our guys finaly got a tank that was more of a match for the german heavys. Some of these pictures are from the Korean war.

Until I read your caption.  I thought that photo was taken much earlier in the war.  As that is an early M4 with the three piece transmission housing and small gun shield over the mantel.  One thing I noticed is that there seems to be a second layer of  armor plate welded to the right side of the turret.  I wonder if that tank had been knocked out before and was returned to service.  

The extra weld on armor seen on the turret and sides was common late war. I think alot was made from panther armor.