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  1. Another Ahab

    European scrap - salvage yards and parts suppliers

    Any idea who are the buyers? Governments? Municipalities? Industry? Individual buyers? ALL of the above?!
  2. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    Good idea there, marchplumber! Should I include a straw to go with the bottle, you think?
  3. Another Ahab

    Usmc m1030b1

    That CARC product is just about the same cost as a can of Rustoleum (+/-). Who knew?
  4. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    Then I guess Tracer and I will just have to each drink a bottle oursleves: - And when we do, we will be drinking to YOUR good health!!
  5. Another Ahab

    European scrap - salvage yards and parts suppliers

    Are these active military vehicles for shipment, or surplus? Are you kidding? Are these being sold as surplus? Everything looks brand spanking new?!
  6. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    Hey, USSR, if Tracer ships you a bottle or two of the Texas "Titos", will you forgive us? Please??!
  7. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    Can't find it, but now that I searched the algorithim will likely tag me with it now in a day or two...
  8. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    Can't find the gasoline reference, but here's a "snip" about the Ronson story:
  9. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    I'll look, but if I remember right, that's the reason the M-34 Sherman was gasoline-powered: - The engine was an off-the-shelf item, already engineered and U.S. manufacturing was also already tooled for the mass-production The T-34 was put into production in kind of the same way. There's a...
  10. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    I read somewhere that the American tankers themselves gave the nickname "Ronsons" to their Shermans: - They were gasoline-powered, and they were prone to burn when hit Ronson was the name of a popular cigarette lighter of the time. Tankers (Soviet and American both) apparently had a sense of...
  11. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    I recall a grim passage from Beevor's book ("Stalingrad") that early in The Great Patriotic War (German Operation Barbarossa): - Soviet T-34's that were knocked out by armor piercing shells in the fighting compartment, were cycled right back into combat after repairs - First however the "pink...
  12. Another Ahab

    Usmc m1030b1

    Is the CARC product pricey at all, compared to like a can of Rustoleum?
  13. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    I read a history or two about that horrible siege of Leningrad (can't recall the authors just now): - Never really a battle on the part of the German Wehrmacht but a slow deliberate siege, it lasted close to 900 days if I remember it right - Hitler apparentlly never intended to take the City...
  14. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    Knowing history isn't much our strong suit here really: - Hollywood and the Oscars get more attention than our Constitution and the Bill of Rights "Whatcha" going to do? Just the way it is...
  15. Another Ahab

    Uses for Deuces

    Nice pic. How do you lift those round bales, is there a special fork for the tractor to do that?
  16. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    That Russian statistic (26 million causalties), is not common knowledge over here. That wasn't taught in our history classes (not sure if it is even today). Communism was a threat after WWII, the Cold War broke out, and making Russia look good was nobody's goal here in the U.S. Few here know...
  17. Another Ahab

    Modern Russian Army in the photos.

    Wondered what the green spray-painting was all about. Until the light filtering through the roof panel "dawned" on me... 🙃
  18. Another Ahab

    European scrap - salvage yards and parts suppliers

    The perfect website for anybody in the market for a Main Battle Tank. :naner::driver::naner:
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