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Posted: 11/7/2020 10:07:01 PM EDT
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Rooski stuff thread
Great photos from WWII World War One Photo Thread A glowing hot Swiss Army Panzer 68 hull being heat treated in an oil bath, at an Eidgenoessische Konstruktionswerkstaette facility in Thun, Switzerland, 1977. View Quote |
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We are living in a Tom Clancy novel
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sweet thread... that first picture is awesome... I had no idea they heat treat an entire hull assembly..
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Great thread and pics.
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"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
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Originally Posted By mike_nds: I always thought the M715 was badass. https://www.easternsurplus.net/Documents/Pictures/d40bc4d4-e2ff-45c5-9701-6cf783fbf526-01262018-cropped-2540-00-917-5904%20Green%20Canvas%20Cab%20Top%20for%20M715%20Jeep%20NOS%20(2).jpg View Quote That's a Gladiator, not a 715. The windshield is angled the wrong way. |
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USN Retired: APR 1988 - MAY 2008
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch |
Originally Posted By mike_nds: I always thought the M715 was badass. https://www.easternsurplus.net/Documents/Pictures/d40bc4d4-e2ff-45c5-9701-6cf783fbf526-01262018-cropped-2540-00-917-5904%20Green%20Canvas%20Cab%20Top%20for%20M715%20Jeep%20NOS%20(2).jpg View Quote That's gonna be my next rig. Parked next to the Wrangler.... Fucking love the stance on a properly set up M715 *yeah thought it was a gladiator...either way... |
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Originally Posted By Seabee_Mech: It's a boat, no it's a truck, no it's https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/119852/BMU2-1365217.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/119852/LARC_V_JPEG-1164127.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/119852/LARC-60-1674560.jpg View Quote |
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Originally Posted By m35ben: I always have found those interesting. View Quote The old girls were getting hard to keep running when I worked on and drove them as parts are about all used up. 1/2 of my 24 vehicle fleet was strictly for donor parts, we even raided some static displays for parts. A SLEP program has extended the life of some of the hulls (42 hulls according to the interwebs). |
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USN Retired: APR 1988 - MAY 2008
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch |
M110 8 inch (203 mm) Self-Propelled Howitzer |
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Originally Posted By Seabee_Mech: They were a blast when surf busting on the California coast, if you hit the wave just right the spray/wave would clear the stern. The windshields are 2" laminated glass and have been known to bust out when the force of a wave hit them at speed. We rigged up an "armor" plate with a small slit in it for the driver to cover the front windshield when we went from beach to sea. The old girls were getting hard to keep running when I worked on and drove them as parts are about all used up. 1/2 of my 24 vehicle fleet was strictly for donor parts, we even raided some static displays for parts. A SLEP program has extended the life of some of the hulls (42 hulls according to the interwebs). View Quote |
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The Russian MICLIC, UR-77 Meteorit mine clearing vehicle.
Frying pan down, no problemo: Attached File Frying pan UP, beware! Attached File Rocket away, trailing a boom snake: Attached File Also handy for urban renewal: Failed To Load Title |
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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: The Russian MICLIC, UR-77 Meteorit mine clearing vehicle. Frying pan down, no problemo: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/Openwater2016-47_jpg-1674596.JPG Frying pan UP, beware! https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/ve_eng_ur77_p05_jpg-1674599.JPG Rocket away, trailing a boom snake: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/ve_eng_ur77_p06_jpg-1674601.JPG Also handy for urban renewal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTWvjoLikwY View Quote |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/mahCU3b.jpg A glowing hot Swiss Army Panzer 68 hull being heat treated in an oil bath, at an Eidgenoessische Konstruktionswerkstaette facility in Thun, Switzerland, 1977. View Quote View Quote Today, OP was a pretty cool guy. |
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RIP Tamurand a damn fine Rhodesian Ridgeback 02-09-14
RIP Kaya, an equally fine Yellow Lab 06-08-2015 RIP Millie the Destroyer, AKA ShitTrumpet, WCCorgi 12-21-2015 CALLSIGN: YODEL Happy to be in ALASKA! |
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Originally Posted By Seabee_Mech: It's a boat, no it's a truck, no it's https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/119852/BMU2-1365217.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/119852/LARC_V_JPEG-1164127.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/119852/LARC-60-1674560.jpg View Quote |
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RIP Tamurand a damn fine Rhodesian Ridgeback 02-09-14
RIP Kaya, an equally fine Yellow Lab 06-08-2015 RIP Millie the Destroyer, AKA ShitTrumpet, WCCorgi 12-21-2015 CALLSIGN: YODEL Happy to be in ALASKA! |
I did not know that they heat-treat armored vehicles in the as-assembled condition! Holy shit that is a huge oil bath! Is that steel hella-high in hardenabilty? What do the tempering and austenitizing furnaces look like?! Edit: derp - I see one coming out of the austenitizing furnace back there. |
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Originally Posted By MountainElephant: That's a Gladiator, not a 715. The windshield is angled the wrong way. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By MountainElephant: Originally Posted By mike_nds: I always thought the M715 was badass. https://www.easternsurplus.net/Documents/Pictures/d40bc4d4-e2ff-45c5-9701-6cf783fbf526-01262018-cropped-2540-00-917-5904%20Green%20Canvas%20Cab%20Top%20for%20M715%20Jeep%20NOS%20(2).jpg That's a Gladiator, not a 715. The windshield is angled the wrong way. It's a M715. Windshield is correct. Here is mine as a second example. Parked facing my new 2020 Gladiator |
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Originally Posted By czechsix: There's a lot with a couple of LARC-LX's about a mile and a half away from me, I'll take some pics tomorrow and post them. View Quote Mid 1990s when I was stationed at NAS Norfolk the Army still had a few LARC-60s in service. They used to float across the bay from Fort Eustis and use the old WW2 Seaplane ramps on NAS Norfolk for practice. They are huge for an amphibious truck, you can squeeze a couple 2 1/2 trucks side by side in the well. |
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USN Retired: APR 1988 - MAY 2008
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch |
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View Quote How much did you pay |
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All posts by me are here entitled to be fictional. Except my boating accident on the lake on 7/4/2019
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Originally Posted By mike_nds: I always thought the M715 was badass. https://www.easternsurplus.net/Documents/Pictures/d40bc4d4-e2ff-45c5-9701-6cf783fbf526-01262018-cropped-2540-00-917-5904%20Green%20Canvas%20Cab%20Top%20for%20M715%20Jeep%20NOS%20(2).jpg View Quote Want. |
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Originally Posted By bushmaster069: Originally Posted By mike_nds: I always thought the M715 was badass. https://www.easternsurplus.net/Documents/Pictures/d40bc4d4-e2ff-45c5-9701-6cf783fbf526-01262018-cropped-2540-00-917-5904%20Green%20Canvas%20Cab%20Top%20for%20M715%20Jeep%20NOS%20(2).jpg Want. https://military.kia.com/en/kia/vehicles/km45-series/km450-cargo-truck.do#.X6eBui01ggo KM450 KIA MILITARY English |
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Originally Posted By banditbigdog: Used to drive / was assigned a gama goat 1985-1987, Ft. Polk. Was fun to take off road, 6 x6, 4 wheel steering, not so much fun to maintain. Ill try and find a pic I have of it, one below was pulled from the web. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.speednik.com%2Ffiles%2F2014%2F05%2FGama-Goat-WS2.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 View Quote How's your hearing? |
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KF7WNX If you want a picture of the future, imagine Clownshoes stomping on a human face—for ever.
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Originally Posted By outofbattery: https://military.kia.com/en/kia/vehicles/km45-series/km450-cargo-truck.do#.X6eBui01ggo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hDdQsZyXs View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By outofbattery: Originally Posted By bushmaster069: Originally Posted By mike_nds: I always thought the M715 was badass. https://www.easternsurplus.net/Documents/Pictures/d40bc4d4-e2ff-45c5-9701-6cf783fbf526-01262018-cropped-2540-00-917-5904%20Green%20Canvas%20Cab%20Top%20for%20M715%20Jeep%20NOS%20(2).jpg Want. https://military.kia.com/en/kia/vehicles/km45-series/km450-cargo-truck.do#.X6eBui01ggo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hDdQsZyXs I knew that those were a thing, but I don't think that I could get one here. |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/mahCU3b.jpg A glowing hot Swiss Army Panzer 68 hull being heat treated in an oil bath, at an Eidgenoessische Konstruktionswerkstaette facility in Thun, Switzerland, 1977. View Quote View Quote thats fucking crazy |
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Originally Posted By jeepdan: It's a M715. Windshield is correct. Here is mine as a second example. https://i.imgur.com/2VfiGtch.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/xpiyCfkh.jpg Parked facing my new 2020 Gladiatorhttps://i.imgur.com/CQiGIQ5h.jpg View Quote |
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USN Retired: APR 1988 - MAY 2008
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch |
That’s a cool pic OP
Here’s mine Attached File Attached File A friend owns this Attached File Another friend owns this Attached File |
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Originally Posted By Banshee35: That’s a cool pic OP Here’s mine https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/164962/2172FA88-6A48-4C8F-85D7-EB1B72BA76EB_jpe-1674840.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/164962/63048472-6CAF-4260-9E02-8D80A8515598_jpe-1674844.JPG A friend owns this https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/164962/C4B4C508-31D4-43A7-AEA5-E380BC2C804A_jpe-1674845.JPG Another friend owns this https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/164962/142CB56F-C58F-489A-9CFC-8D5991DB2F6B_png-1674846.JPG View Quote What's the story on the "Czech Freedom Tank?" |
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1955 Daimler Ferret (updated with LED lighting, cameras, and remote control turret).
Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Originally Posted By elcope: How's your hearing? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By elcope: Originally Posted By banditbigdog: Used to drive / was assigned a gama goat 1985-1987, Ft. Polk. Was fun to take off road, 6 x6, 4 wheel steering, not so much fun to maintain. Ill try and find a pic I have of it, one below was pulled from the web. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.speednik.com%2Ffiles%2F2014%2F05%2FGama-Goat-WS2.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 How's your hearing? Ok except for tinnitus, there’s a you tube channel that has various frequencies, I can crank the 11,000 hertz tone way up and not hear a thing. Kids and wife are screaming “ wth! turn that off!” I used hearing protection most of the time when driving it. Not every time however. Thing was definitely a screamer at moderate to high (relative) speed. 3 cylinder, 2 stroke diesel sitting right behind you. |
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Originally Posted By FightingHellfish: What's the story on the "Czech Freedom Tank?" View Quote @fightinghellfish Here’s the story on it but long story short it was a modified WW2 German SdKfz 254 used to drive across the boarder between Czechoslovakia and Germany to escape the iron curtain. Afterwards it was used to raise funds for Radio Free Europe, was on the Ed Sullivan show and somewhere along the line ended up in a farmers field. My friend happened upon it and bought it for basically scrap price. He still owns it but is in poor shape and stored away. The base vehicle is very odd in that it had road wheels with rubber tires that could drop down to drive it on normal roads or retract up to drive on the tracks. They are very rare now and I have heard there are only two in existence, one of which is the modified “Czech Freedom Tank”. Here is what it used to look like before being modified for the escape Attached File |
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Originally Posted By HistoricArmsLLC: 1955 Daimler Ferret (updated with LED lighting, cameras, and remote control turret). https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/169738/DSC08465_JPG-1674960.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/169738/DSC08469_JPG-1674961.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/169738/IMG_20200912_150209859_HDR_jpg-1674962.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/169738/IMG_20200912_150012047_HDR_jpg-1674963.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/169738/DSC08432_JPG-1674965.JPG View Quote Attached File |
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"you ought to listen to our resident Swede, he's genetically superior." -Bohr_Adam
"They are superior beings those Swedes." -RockHard13F |
Originally Posted By Banshee35: @fightinghellfish Here’s the story on it but long story short it was a modified WW2 German SdKfz 254 used to drive across the boarder between Czechoslovakia and Germany to escape the iron curtain. Afterwards it was used to raise funds for Radio Free Europe, was on the Ed Sullivan show and somewhere along the line ended up in a farmers field. My friend happened upon it and bought it for basically scrap price. He still owns it but is in poor shape and stored away. The base vehicle is very odd in that it had road wheels with rubber tires that could drop down to drive it on normal roads or retract up to drive on the tracks. They are very rare now and I have heard there are only two in existence, one of which is the modified “Czech Freedom Tank”. Here is what it used to look like before being modified for the escape https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/164962/008EA5F8-1F92-4E0F-BAE3-AF97F3009B0C_jpe-1675058.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Banshee35: Originally Posted By FightingHellfish: What's the story on the "Czech Freedom Tank?" @fightinghellfish Here’s the story on it but long story short it was a modified WW2 German SdKfz 254 used to drive across the boarder between Czechoslovakia and Germany to escape the iron curtain. Afterwards it was used to raise funds for Radio Free Europe, was on the Ed Sullivan show and somewhere along the line ended up in a farmers field. My friend happened upon it and bought it for basically scrap price. He still owns it but is in poor shape and stored away. The base vehicle is very odd in that it had road wheels with rubber tires that could drop down to drive it on normal roads or retract up to drive on the tracks. They are very rare now and I have heard there are only two in existence, one of which is the modified “Czech Freedom Tank”. Here is what it used to look like before being modified for the escape https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/164962/008EA5F8-1F92-4E0F-BAE3-AF97F3009B0C_jpe-1675058.JPG That’s awesome. |
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"you ought to listen to our resident Swede, he's genetically superior." -Bohr_Adam
"They are superior beings those Swedes." -RockHard13F |
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We are living in a Tom Clancy novel
Over 50 and reputed to be a formidable brigand |
Same guy with the Czech Freedom Tank has one of these as well
Attached File He has several WW2 Jeep’s, a Ferret a mighty mite, a deuce and a half, some trailers, a WW2 BSA motorcycle, they are all in variable stages of being reclaimed by rust. |
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Originally Posted By byron2112: sweet thread... that first picture is awesome... I had no idea they heat treat an entire hull assembly.. View Quote Me neither, but it makes sense if you think about it. If you weld treated steel, you lose the heat treat - gotta get it back. I'm curious how they kept dimensional tolerances - or did they just do all of the final machining after heat treating? |
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Originally Posted By HistoricArmsLLC: 1955 Daimler Ferret (updated with LED lighting, cameras, and remote control turret). https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/169738/DSC08465_JPG-1674960.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/169738/DSC08469_JPG-1674961.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/169738/IMG_20200912_150209859_HDR_jpg-1674962.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/169738/IMG_20200912_150012047_HDR_jpg-1674963.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/169738/DSC08432_JPG-1674965.JPG View Quote Yeah thats bad ass. Would love one of those, that or a up-armored humvee with remote 50 call turret on top. |
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"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery". - Thomas Jefferson
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Cool thread and pics, no love for pre war though
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I dig early Cold-war arms and equipment.
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