I'm changing my nickname to Tank. It used to be Fluffy.

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author of Syncing Forward and other stories...

It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I've got my Milkbone underwear on.

Why not both?

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Ghost's Paint Blog, where everything goes that isn't something else.

Don't often post but been as its Christmas and all I thought I would have a go at your quiz and what ya know I got 100%

Big grins...

Congrads ! Always trying to keep the Tac Cmd crew combat ready !!!

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Funnily, the first 'tanks' would not be counted as tanks by contemporary standards.

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That's very true.

And remember that StuGs were a branch of the artillery in Germany.

The tech evolves as does tactics as does the definitions ...

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Is that a snorkle on the t-62m?

The Snorkle is stowed on the turret rear ... the device on the side of the turret is an ATGM Launcher ... http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/cv/tank/T-62.html

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

I aced the quiz, but... if there's such thing as a "main battle tank", then why can't all the other tracked vehicles be called "tanks" of the non-main, non-battle variety?

A tank by any other name: can you tell which vehicles are tanks? I scored 100% - can you match that?
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i always knew being the only one EVER to sign out that book on the history of WW2 was going to come in handy 16 years later! or some thing like that! lol

only because the Panzer boys got snobby cause it didnt have a turret and wanted nothing to do with it, so the Chief of Artillery said he would take it...there is an amusing anecdote in one of Heinz Guderian's books (Achtung Panzer! or Panzer Leader - cant remember which) about how the StuGs came to be part of the artillery...

and the StuG gunners were also generally better than the Panzer crews as well...put rounds on target quicker and more effectively, especially in the early years of the war...

anyhoos - also managed a perfect score in the quiz...useless information in my head finally pays off

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May your tankard never be dry and the Dice Gods look favourably upon your endeavours!

I got all but that Belarussian IFV, and I blame that on the fact that I thought it was just a really crappy WWII tank.

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10 outta 10. Tac Comm privileges retained!

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Apart from the serously groovy suspension and the low removable tech anti-rocket rake in the front (a big secret at the time) I like the fact that the 103 is designed to go backwards as fast as forward.

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