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By The Armorer on January 6, 2005 | | Comments (16) | TrackBacks (1)

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By ali on January 6, 2005 9:04 AM
WOW! What an awesome picture!
 
By cw4billt on January 6, 2005 9:38 AM
Survival, Escape and Evasion 101 Instructional Block 3: Navigation without a compass [50-minutes] "If lost in the vicinity of an armored unit, the most important single thing to remember is that moss always grows on the north side of a tank." There will be a test... =P
 
By SangerM on January 6, 2005 11:02 AM
Looks like the 1970 ROK Marine M48 entry into the Professor Fate Memorial Barnstorming Float contest.... (re: The Great Race) [billt, that was funny....]
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on January 6, 2005 11:15 AM
You can tell when people were awake during the class. M48A2, with 90mm main gun; South Korea? Cheers JMH
 
By BC on January 6, 2005 11:25 AM
But will it catch fire when the main gun is fired?
 
By SangerM on January 6, 2005 11:39 AM
JMH, what makes it the A2 version? What am I missing? SangerM
 
By cw4billt on January 6, 2005 11:41 AM
BC - Only if the TC is careless with his cigarette... SangerM - Tanks very much...
 
By cw4billt on January 6, 2005 11:47 AM
SangerM - forward fenders are flat rather than rounded (most obvious on the left fender in this photo).
 
By triticale on January 6, 2005 12:43 PM
That's a BIG ghillie suit.
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on January 6, 2005 12:47 PM
SangerM: Extrapolation from 'Jane's Armour and Artillery". CW4BillT: Moss grows heavier on the north side ... Cheers JMH
 
By cw4billt on January 6, 2005 3:25 PM
JMH - POI is in revision ('bout time, too--it's written in Ogham) and your contribution will be included... =]
 
By Carl Langdon on January 6, 2005 3:39 PM
Great picture, Thanks for sharing :). I got a message earlier about my I.P address being that of a stalker. Scary.
 
By AFSister on January 6, 2005 8:03 PM
Oh, man- what a great picture! They could enter it in the Rose Bowl Parade, you know. "And here comes the entry from the 1st Armoured Division. That M48A2 is covered with coconut fur, toasted sesame seeds and spanish moss straight from the tree-lined streets of Savannah. Yes, folks you're looking at the winner of the Commander's Trophy, for best use of flora on a killing machine. Let's hear it for The Armourers!"
 
By mostly cajun on January 6, 2005 9:40 PM
M48A2. I had an M48A2C. It had THREE support rollers. The A2 has five. That's them, the little ones holding the track up. The big ones at the bottom are road wheels. The flash suppressor marks it as a 90mm gun. Not a BAD gun, but the 105mm is MUCH better.
 
By cw4billt on January 6, 2005 11:45 PM
ALCON--Now that we've posilutely ID'd it as an M48A2, John's first post at dawn will reveal that it's actually an M60A3 hull that's been PhotoShopped three degrees laterally with an Aussie immersion heater from Gallipoli cut'n'pasted on a T-64 turret... =]
 
By SangerM on January 7, 2005 11:31 AM
Thanks for the clarifications -SangerM
 
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