Military Machines Thread (No 56k)

[Coupes and More]

i am a big fan of ww2 tanks here is some pics of a m3 grant tank recovered from an army range and brought back to running order complete with the thousands of holes









pritty much proof that nothing is impossible

[NC1183]

Love the shot of the AC-130 firing pattern.

[Kryton]

Tatra.
Pictures say everything.

[Kryton]

[mik]

great pics, scarey machinery some of the military stuff, i remember reading some blokes getting limbs ripped of by the self loading mechanism, gotta a feeling that was in a russian tank? brave blokes being couped up in a tin can.

[xbrules]

[NC1183]

Originally Posted by xbrules

Very fitting for the thread, seeing as some of the first photo's posted were of the USS Missouri

[ryanstev]

The B17 Flying Fortress


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_...lying_Fortress

This plane was legendary for the pummeling it could take and still return it's crew home.
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/b-17/tail2.htm

[nstg8a]

in that last pic, is the whole airframe twisted? the wings are on a hell of an angle...

[AdamL]

Originally Posted by NFURY8 Ute

here is a pic ofof australias new m1a1 abram main battle tank, unlike the american version which is powerd by a jet engine, ours is powerd by the good ol diesel moter

Ours use the same turbine engine as the Yanks.
We do run them on diesel though.

[SLO247]

Most enjoyable thread here yet.

[Franco Cozzo]

I'm a big fan of the Abrams tank:

[Peuty]

Amiens rail gun







Captured by the AIF from the Germans in WW1 as a war trophy, the barrel is now on display at the War Memorial in Canberra.

Pictured here with the gun turret from HMAS Brisbane in the background.



Not sure why they scrapped the carriage part, that would have been awesome to see today.

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by davway

Tatra.
Pictures say everything.

In Soviet Russia, truck drives you!

Yeah yeah, they're Czech, but whatever!

[Bucknaked]

Originally Posted by xbrules

Got this movie on DVD as well. Great movie

[74_XB_Ute]

Not many tank operators will be too happy to hear a few of these bad boys floating around in the sky!!

A-10 Gun Pack




A-10 with a burst from the Gun Pack

[Highway]

tu160 one fast bomber

[Fordman1]

Originally Posted by XR6TUte

Ours use the same turbine engine as the Yanks.
We do run them on diesel though.

This ^^^^^^

The engine will run on about anything, ours run on diesel.

[AdamL]

I know. Including Chanel No. 5 apparently.
Makes perfect sense really, since 99% of the other equipment use diesel too.

[bungarra]

[QUOTE=Highway
tu160 one fast bomber[/QUOTE]

Russian copy of the B1 Lancer.

[ThaFlash]

mental, i love this thread, more WW2 stuff.

[nstg8a]

as awesome as modern fighters sound they have nothing on these babies...

[Ba tradie]

here is a tiger that was at work

[74_XB_Ute]

[QUOTE=bungarra]

Originally Posted by Highway
tu160 one fast bomber[/QUOTE

Russian copy of the B1 Lancer.

Yep....and the B1 does the best airfield beat-ups i have ever seen in my life!!
It's like having an F111 strapped under each wing!!

[Burnout]

Leopard - 2

[bungarra]

[mcnamg]

Have always loved the MH53 what a beast of a helicopter

[geckoGT]

Originally Posted by NFURY8 Ute

my missus is becoming a driver in the army, im pretty sure the unimog has 18 gears in fwd and reverse

Unimog actually has 8 gears, 4 of which are low range so during normal road driving you take off in 5th (4th if up a hill or heavily loaded). It is true they and a seperate reverse gear that once engaged gives all the same ratios in reverse as they have in forward.

Top speed due to the low ratios (8th is not real high) is about 80-90 km/h and a strange little quirk is you can get more speed out of them on a highway if you use the hand throttle.

They are primarily RWD with selectable 4WD that gives a 50/50 torque split, they also have diff lock which locks both diffs and the transfer case solid for crawling up or through just about anything.

Australian unimog were an excellent vehicle although their cross country capability were limited by the tyres fitted. The australian army was too tight to spend the cash on the drive on flat balloon tyres that were originally fitted. Instead they fitted a more conventional cross country truck tyre similar to what was fitted to the Mack R series that we also had.

[mad machs]

Avro Shackleton Mark 3/3

[Velociraptor82]

Even since I got a model kit of the HMS Ark Royal when I was young, I've had a soft sport for her. The Ark Royal was the one responsibe for the aircraft attack on the Bismark which evidently sank her.