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Another whatziss...

...one of my usual ways of covering a lackaposting when TDY.  Yeah, it's a snivel, but hey, I got back to the hotel at 7PM, lay down to read the paper, and suddenly it was 3AM.  Hard to keep up with the world when yer in the secure area all day and slug out immediately upon arrival at the hotel...

So, what we got here?

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It's an inverted picture of the interior of ry's keyboard. The Cheetos™ crumbs are a dead giveaway...
 
John,

       I'd have to say that those were row upon row of PC's and peripherals in storage, either waiting to be issued, or waitinf to be recycled. They are stored in a reinforced concrete facility, most likely a  munitions bunker of some sort,, perhaps ebem part of a command post. Hard to tell. Gowever, it's been unused for it's intended purpose for awhile as there are paint peelings overhead. Fown the center are sheets of paper detailg what each section of computers is assigned to, or came from, or are intended for, etc. Inventory sheets, in other words.

     Respects,
 
It looks like track to me, But I have no Idea what vehicle it belongs to, other than it's probably heavy track.
Pat
 
Under the floor board of your house?
 
I think it's a T-28. Tank that is.
   
XBrad..that was pretty good.  But, I guess that's what you get when you throw a tank picture up in the armorer's layer. 
 
yeah, but is it the LEFT or the RIGHT side, smartie pants??!!
 
Oh, well *that's* obvious, Mike.  Geez.
 
Mike,

   It's the starboard side. That's the only set of tracks that are aligned.....
 
STARBOARD?!?!  There's no STARBOARD in friggin' PANZERS ladies!!!
 

Mike,

   Well  I have to wonder just what's up with all the armour giys anyway. Seems to me they are all a bunch of wannabe sailors. They speak the lingo, you know.

   Turret. Hatch. Main Gun. Hull. Bow. Bulkhead. Sponson. Aft. Oberhead. Compartment.  Periscope.
    The vocabulary goes on and on, but you just can't use the word "starboard" or "port".  Oj wait... you DO use gun port. My bad..... Heh.  :)

     I guess denial is not just a river in Egypt, eh? 

 
The tank is their pocket battleship.
 

No, the "tank" (so-called because the crates were marked "water tank" when the sekrit machines were shipped about) was originally called a Landship, because it was developed under the direction of the First Lord of the Admiralty... Winston Churchill.

Or something like that.

 
Plus, turret is borrowed from military architecture, and periscopes use on land pre-date their use at sea.
 
So it is a land pocket battleship? ; )
 
So, ummm, do I win a prize? And I'm pretty sure I've got a picture of me on that tank somewhere.
 
Ah, so you want to provide *proof* of you breaking rules, eh?  As in, "Don't climb on the tanks."

 
If that's a tank, where's the turret?

Feh. It's an assault gun -- an overgrown ASU-85.
 
It makes me think of a trap.
 
Nope, it's more like *bait* for ATGMs...
 
Nah Tim, if they was real blue water wannabes they would have a couple a E2s pretending to chip rust on that buggy.
 
John, couldn't find the pic, but yeah, I was (always) a rule breaker. The Curator at Ft. Lewis got pissed at me for climbing all over their M-103.
 
 Let's see..., I'm a grunt, and I see corrosion, copper doo-dads, wires, ... hmmmm. I know! It is a soviet military item, or a pre 1960's American military item resistant to EMP warfare!!!

Oh, you want to know specifically what it is? Sorry, I'm a grunt. I think we should put C-4, det cord, and blasting caps on it. It's too heavy to bring back for the S-2 to mis-identify...!

Fire for effect!
 
 AND...,

FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!
 
 Maybe the orientation of the view is off. It could be the inside view of a water filtration plant, turned sideways.