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Let us continue the whatziss

By The Armorer on March 11, 2011 | | Comments (21)
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By BillT on March 11, 2011 9:17 AM
Aha -- anchor hooks visible! That and the rust and the lousy condition of the sod definitely pegs it as Navy...
 
By Susan Katz Keating on March 11, 2011 9:47 AM
 ...and the seaweed wedged in the tracks might be a clue, as well...
 
By Skip on March 11, 2011 9:53 AM
But theres no cat hail!
 
By Skip on March 11, 2011 9:58 AM
hair....fat fingers+ no coffee + stupid.
 
By Spiff on March 11, 2011 11:02 AM
This Looks like the Aberdeen Proving Ground tank park, and a Sherman tank.  I am over due for my visit!
Spiff
 
By Raging Tachikoma on March 11, 2011 12:44 PM
Hmm, I am going to say that this a Soviet T60 or T70 light tank. Almost definately at the Ordnance meseum at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

 
By John of Argghhh! on March 11, 2011 1:10 PM
Nope, nope, nope and nope.
 
By Old Fat Sailor on March 11, 2011 3:56 PM
 Early amtrac or the famous Patgorney Land Destroyer Escort (for countries that did not have the budget for a Land Battleship)   ... _._

 
By Heltau on March 11, 2011 4:17 PM
If those are anchor hooks, shouldn't they be turned 180* so the open part faces up instead of down?  So things bing anchored would not fall out of them.
 
By Heltau on March 11, 2011 4:21 PM
Or are they used to lift the front for transporting by plane to drop by patachute or when they are being worked on.
 
By Quartermaster on March 11, 2011 5:55 PM
 Looks like the final drive of whatever tracked vehicle it is.
 
By Quartermaster on March 11, 2011 6:37 PM
 Looks like standard parade field sod I've seen on Posts and AFBs to me Bill. But since there are no painted rocks, it can't be Army.

Seriously, the thing rings a bell, but just can't place it.
 
By Mark Matis on March 11, 2011 7:14 PM
And I'll STILL guarantee it is NOT any model B-52.
}:-]
 
By og on March 11, 2011 8:04 PM
very weird.

There are some things about it that certainly look pershing-ish, but the drive gear is off. The tracks, too, are not "normal" tracks, that depth is unfamiliar, so it must have had a fairly special purpose. it doesn't seem to have the clunkiness I associate with the russians. and the shape of the drive wheel suggests Scorpion- it isn't some kind of Cromwell, or Centurion?

Now we're officially all over the map. Someone has to have come close by now.
 
By wolfwalker on March 11, 2011 8:22 PM
for some reason i get the feeling this is the rear end of whatever-it-is, upon which note the hooks suggest a towing function.  is it a tank retriever? 
 
By John (Not The Armorer) on March 11, 2011 9:10 PM
The track cleats do no look American at all.  More European WW2-ish.   Maybe German, Czech or Italian.  Methinks most likely Czech or as the Krauts prefered, something (t).
 
By Rod Thorsen on March 11, 2011 10:46 PM
The hydro-static drive Panzer IV.
 
By Argent on March 12, 2011 9:16 AM
Is it maybe one of the Bergepanzer IV?
 
By Skip on March 12, 2011 12:26 PM
1each, self propelled, gazillion mm, canon.
WW2, russky,.
 
By PrimEvil on March 12, 2011 3:35 PM
 My guess about the hooks is that they are intended for hoisting,
not towing. That aside, I haven't a clue what it is they are attached
to, other than it's a trac of some sort.
 
By Gary on March 12, 2011 8:24 PM
 Japanese Type 95 Light Tank?