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1. Nope! This
◊ is a Luchs. Notice the unbroken trackguard, differently shaped turret and vision ports, and slightly different running gear.
2. Yup - a Renault R35, known as the Panzerkampfwagen 35R 731 (f) in German service. Not sure where this picture was taken, but likely far behind the front - the captured French infantry tanks made for adequate security vehicles.
3. Correct - the Schwerer Ladungsträger Borgward B IV heavy remote-controlled explosive vehicle. Not considered a great success.
Right about the base vehicle, but wrong about the vehicle on that last one.
Correct about the Object 292. Want more specifics on the T-34 and the Sherman. Wrong about all the others.
edited 10th Jan '15 5:18:12 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiThis tank
is a Type 59. Chinese knockoff of the T-54/55. (More in common with T-54.)
Exterior: 1 is the German Panzer II Ausf. J (Pz.Kpfw. IIJ).
5 is the Soviet IRM Tracked Armoured Engineer Reconnaissance Vehicle which is based on the BMP-1 Chassis.
6 is the Italian L3/33 Tankette, it was also called Carro Veloce CV-33.
Detail shots:
1 is an exhaust port from a T-34.
2 is the HVSS system from a M 4 A 3(105) HVSS Sherman.
4 is the back right of a T-62M.
6 is the side of a Marder I.
Interior shots:
1 is the driver's seat of a T-34.
2 is a the breach of the Tiger I's 8.8 cm Kw K 36 cannon.
3 is the targeting computer of a Chinese Type 90 IIM, which served as the base for the Pakistan MBT-2000 Al-Khalid.
4 is the massive 380 mm Raketen-Werfer 61 L/5.4 and its ammunition racks in the Sturmtiger assault gun.
5 is the interior and main gun of a WWI French Saint-Chamond.
6 is the Maus's secondary 7.5 cm Kw K 37 gun and ammunition racks.
Still working on Detail 3 and 5 checking my reference books now.
edited 10th Jan '15 6:45:54 AM by lazarus238
Thanks to Sabre for reminding me this tech existed.
Cased Telescopic 40mm Ammunition system
If the claims are to be believed it has 140mm RHA penetration. Pretty good for a non-tank vehicle.
Accelerate Vehicle Concepts of the Future
Any more guesses for the AFV recognition challenge?
There are still a few unguessed.
Currently "enjoying" Sparky's Failed Tanks series on YT. A disappointing lack of craziness, because he cribs it from Wiki. Still some silly choices though.
edited 10th Jan '15 1:29:45 PM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiThose interleaved road wheels on number one, hmmm. That should at least tell us what chassis it's built on; according to Wiki the earlier Panzer models lacked that feature. (With the exception of the Pz-II Luchs, but that's been ruled out already.)
EDIT: VK 901, I think. That sure looks like a Pz-II chassis.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Hard 2 in the Detail section is one of the rare Marder Is built on the French FCM 36 chassis with the 75mm Pa K 40 gun. It was obviously German and the profile fit a SPG, so I went searching for rarer German SP Gs. Seems that they only had ten of these.
Pictures near the middle of here
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edited 10th Jan '15 7:40:16 PM by Morven
A brighter future for a darker age.It's actually the 10.5cm artillery piece, but it occurs to me that you wouldn't be able to tell that from the picture I posted. So everyone who guessed Marder on a French tank wins.
Just three to go now:
Detail: Hard I
Clue: An old old relic in a very modern setting.
Detail: Medium I
Clue: Should have been flat-pack.
Interior: Medium I
◊. Clue: Strasbourg, via Tunisia, and Paris.
The markings for Hard I may tell us something. I can't quite tell what it is: it doesn't resemble most smoke-launcher arrangements I'm familiar with. Also, that looks a little like a vision port behind it.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.I'm generally not familiar with what optical rangefinders look like from the outside, but I do know the optical rangefinders for earlier-mark Patton tanks were installed on the turret sides. The longer of a baseline you have between the two optics, the more accurately you can range; given that, it'd seem a little unusual for it to be a rangefinder...
Achaemenid did say it was very, very old, so I'm halfway wondering if that's not actually a mounting for machine guns or the stub 37mm cannon or something.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.

Let's try a few:
Exterior:
Detail
Hard II: Marder I hull, based on a French FCM-36. Keep Rolling On