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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Tyler Durden on December 22, 2011, 01:53:47 AM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16292244
I am going to the flea market this weekend. If I spot an M1A1 Abrams tank, an F-15 fighter jet, or an AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship, any of ya'll want to go in "halves-ies" with me?
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Lets go for the Abrams. We can split the cost 4 ways. I have experience as Driver and Commander in tracked vehicles.
Lets hold off for the A3 model. It is underdevelopment and should be available on the black market any time now. :(
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You know we left a lot of equipment behind for the Iraqis. It should start becoming available any day now.
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And the Great 0Bama Giveaway continues unabated. >:(
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I have always wanted an IAV Striker. We can pack in 8 of us, plus gear, it's street legal, and FAST!!!
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If you can't afford to actually, ya know, BUY a tank, there is always this (BTW, I literally just ran across this - I had no clue). M58, you anywhere near Kosota, MN?
I found my Christmas present!!!!!!
http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2011/12/07/sbiz_drive_a_tank_poppy.cnnmoney/ (http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2011/12/07/sbiz_drive_a_tank_poppy.cnnmoney/)
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Hmm...that vehicle reminded me of one I only saw briefly.
This was in 1968 in the month I was discharged from the Army.
It was a tracked reconnaissance vehicle that carried 3 crew. Driver, Navigator/Commo Operator, and Gunner.
The gunner used a top mounted M2 in a turret that could be rotated 360, sighting out small ports with a sight mounted under the barrel...he basically sat under the gun.
I didn't see the specs or do more than sit it one, but it was said to have a top speed of 70 mph on open terrain. That may have been the classified speed.
We got two of them into HHC of the 3rd Inf Div.. One had a turret that was rotated with manual cranks and the other had the turret electrically rotated.
I recall it was called the Shillelagh, as in the Irish fighting club, but I don't know any other name for it.
I've not been able to find any information on it and was wondering if anyone here might know something about it?
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The Shillelagh was a missile launched from a M551 Sheridan light tank. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M551_Sheridan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-51_Shillelagh
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Interior Minister Paivi Rasanen said the missiles were marked "fireworks".
A vast improvement over what I usually use on holidays. Then again, I don't have incoming missles in my neighborhood....yet.
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Interior Minister Paivi Rasanen said the missiles were marked "fireworks".
A vast improvement over what I usually use on holidays. Then again, I don't have incoming missles in my neighborhood....yet.
something tell me they won't get CAs stamp of "safe and sane" on them.
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Hell I can always use a Hummer with a TOW launcher, and if you guys need a gunner I'll bring the beer. ;D
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whoops!
turns out those Patriot missiles were ours or are ours and we were shipping them to South Korea.
Yeah, my initial gut reaction was that they had somehow got on the black market and were being sold to China.
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The Shillelagh was a missile launched from a M551 Sheridan light tank. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M551_Sheridan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-51_Shillelagh
That I've found by google...but the vehicle I sat in wasn't a missile or a Sheridan tank.. And it wasn't going to be a platform for the missile, which I considered, because it was to small..short..I was taller than it by bit.. It was a low slung track recon vehicle. I might have the nickname wrong, but that is what I remember. If you are interested in finding what vehicle I remember, search for something that matches the vehicle description rather than the name I remember...of course others interest won't be as peaked as mine :D :D
P.S. most of my interest is because I was told that it was capable of full maneuverability in open terrain at it's top speed of 70mph.
I had my doubts about that but wasn't an engineer. I assumed the 70mph was a classified speed. Wasn't any way to really research it till the Internet became available.
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If you can't afford to actually, ya know, BUY a tank, there is always this (BTW, I literally just ran across this - I had no clue). M58, you anywhere near Kosota, MN?
I found my Christmas present!!!!!!
http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2011/12/07/sbiz_drive_a_tank_poppy.cnnmoney/ (http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2011/12/07/sbiz_drive_a_tank_poppy.cnnmoney/)
Good Lord! Sixty to eighty grand for a Chieftain? You can drop more than that on a Mercedes without breaking a sweat. And I'm willing to bet that if you're willing to break a few dozen laws and have a buddy that's good with tools, that that deactivated gun, well.......Are you listening BillT? Kilo? Heck, even minus the cannon, a couple of live .50 cals and I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it.
FQ13
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Solus your desription sounds more like an M114 variant than anything else I'm familiar with but the top speed is only half that. As far as I know it only has a model number and not a name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M114_armored_fighting_vehicle
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Hell I can always use a Hummer with a TOW launcher, and if you guys need a gunner I'll bring the beer. ;D
I'll bring the beer, you bring the ammo.
FQ13
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whoops!
turns out those Patriot missiles were ours or are ours and we were shipping them to South Korea.
Yeah, my initial gut reaction was that they had somehow got on the black market and were being sold to China.
Well, hell, there goes a perfectly good conspiracy (theory). >:(
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whoops!
turns out those Patriot missiles were ours or are ours and we were shipping them to South Korea.
Yeah, my initial gut reaction was that they had somehow got on the black market and were being sold to China.
I wonder??? does that make our drifts meaningless?
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I wonder??? does that make our drifts meaningless?
Blasphemer!!!!!