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Okay, vacation's over. Skool is back in session.

By The Armorer on February 21, 2011 | | Comments (22)
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If anyone gets this one quickly, we'll know  who our real geek grognards are.  Easy enough to tell what is in the picture - we're looking for the whole enchilada, not just a component of the filling...

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By BillT on February 21, 2011 8:45 AM
T'ain't German -- the bead-welding's too sloppy.
 
By BloodSpite on February 21, 2011 9:07 AM
Given the welding as Bill noted I'm gonna say Soviet. Maybe part of a armored carrier of some sort.
 
By HH on February 21, 2011 9:39 AM
No real idea, but my first thought was a side port on either an early M4 Sherman or a M-3 Stuart for firing a pistol out of. 
 
By Susan Katz Keating on February 21, 2011 9:42 AM
No way. That's an unbuttoned pocket flap on a VN-era Laotian jungle kammo fatigue blouse.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2011 9:49 AM
Just what herbs are in that herbal tea yer drinking, Mz. Keating?
 
By heath on February 21, 2011 9:53 AM

One part/side of  a optical ranger turret mounted on a is-4 heavy tank .

My guess

Arte et Marte

 
By Old Fat Sailor on February 21, 2011 10:21 AM
 Gun trainers sight port on a bag gun turret.
 
By og on February 21, 2011 1:03 PM
It's an Enchilada!!
 
By Russ on February 21, 2011 2:48 PM
If your google fu is waning, take a break and go visit Lex, who has a video up on the Girandoni air rifle that was carried by Lewis and Clark on their expedition. New to me as a civilian.
http://www.neptunuslex.com/2011/02/21/the-girandoni/
 
By Cricket on February 21, 2011 2:50 PM
It looks like a machine gun port on a tank turret.  Maybe a Soviet one.  So sez the Engineer, who requested that I type this in his name.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2011 3:22 PM
Geez, Russ.  Pimpin' other peeps at my place!  Driving away my traffic!  Waaaaaaaah!
 
By HH on February 21, 2011 6:20 PM
If there was another port on the opposite side of tank, it could be a parallax-range finder sighting system. Possibly a JS-3 for the Soviets like a previous poster suggested. The poor welding job would put it outside a rush job for the US military since even a rush job like that would be too outside of tolerance for acceptance back in those days.
 
By Quartermaster on February 21, 2011 8:10 PM
 I was going to say a steroscopic rangefinder on a tank. I agree with HH on the quality of the weld and its Ivanish provenance.

Go easy on Russ Sir John of Argghhh. I've pimped your place over at Lex's and he's pretty gracious about such acts of sedition. He doesn't cry about it either.
 
By HH on February 21, 2011 8:24 PM

To me, the shape of the thing looks too smooth for WW1, so I put it at WW2 or maybe even the Korean War on either Soviet or Chinese tank.  Could be an early personnel carrier, but the amount of armor and possible turret ring above the protuberance leads me to think of a tank.

 
By HH on February 21, 2011 8:27 PM
A friend of mine just took a few second look and said it was a Grant version on an M4 chassis. Or a Lee on Sherman chassis.
 
By HH on February 21, 2011 8:30 PM
A friend of mine took a few seconds look at it and said it could be either a Grant or Lee on a Sherman chassis.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2011 9:06 PM

QM - "It's my party and I'll cry if I want to...!"

; ^ )

 
By Saker on February 21, 2011 9:13 PM
Opon careful consideration, I'm pretty sure it's not a fruit. So I'm gonna have to agree with og here.
 
By Russ on February 21, 2011 9:54 PM
Actually, I was hoping to draw you into expounding on the Girandoni air rifle. 20 rounds in ~30 seconds, 40 shots before losing pressure. So much for trying to start a rabbit trail.
 
By Navig8r on February 22, 2011 2:23 AM
Remembering  back to a conversation we had back around 1999? 2000? (something about the top of the turret flexing when you stood  on it) I will go with the parallax range finder part and postulate Soviet  export model T-72 as additional details.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 22, 2011 6:56 AM
Navig8r - that discussion wasn't on the blog, we've only been around since 2003.

Russ - since Lewis and I are second cousins (6 times removed) perhaps family deserves a stand-alone post, vice a diversion here?