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Bränsklekärra 91 – The monowheel fuel tank

Alastair — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:47:28 +0000

The Swedish army has always wanted to arm itself independently with Swedish designed vehicles (The Strv S being an obvious example), but at the same time it has been pragmatic enough to recognise when local design and development is lagging behind, and has gone shopping for foreign vehicles to plug the gap. This is how, […]

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Review: Norfolk Tank Museum

Alastair — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:55:54 +0000

The Norfolk Tank Museum is more like an enthusiastic private collection than a formal museum. It is also a work in progress… or at least many of the tanks are. That doesn’t matter because, while it might not be as big or formal as for example, the tank museums of Bovington or Saumur, it has […]

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Wait up, guys. It’s a baby!

Alastair — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:04:04 +0000

I recently came across this small event in Patrick Delaforce’s book, Churchill’s Desert Rats . It illustrates how, sometimes, there can be brief moments of honour & decency – even involving the SS – in the midst of total war. It was during the opening stages of Operation Market-Garden in Holland in September 1944. The […]

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ZSU-23-4 “Shilka”

Alastair — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:35:37 +0000

The ZSU-23-4 Shilka is a Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft system. I thought the Shilka was an old piece of Cold War kit, but it turns out that, while it may be old, many countries have developed upgrade packs and are still using it. The ZSU-23-4 (Zenitnaya Samokhodnaya Ustanovka = “anti-aircraft self-propelled system”, 23mm x 4 guns) […]

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The Land Warfare Museum at Duxford

Alastair — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:22:54 +0000

Imperial War Museum (IWM) – Duxford is primarily an aircraft museum, but the westernmost building is not, like the others, a giant hanger full of aircraft. Instead it is where the lion’s share of the IWM’s military vehicle collection is displayed – in the Land Warfare building. I said ages ago, when I reviewed the […]

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GCT 155mm Self Propelled Gun

Alastair — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:15:29 +0000

I’ve been trying to work out what this slightly rusty Self Propelled Gun (SPG) is, parked up at the back of the Musee de Blindes in Saumur, awaiting a little love and attention from their restoration teams. Now, thanks to TankNutDave.com, and some time I spent trawling through photos of SPGs (!), I’ve nailed it. […]

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Review: Arsenalen – the Swedish National Tank Museum

Alastair — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 06:59:25 +0000

With innovative companies like Saab, Bofors, Volvo and Scania, the Swedes have come at engineering & design from a different angle to everybody else.

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Review: Saumur Tank Museum

Alastair — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 16:00:44 +0000

With over 200 armoured vehicles on permanent display, and another 680 in its inventory, the Musée des Blindés Saumur, has the largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world*. It’s been on my list of museums to visit for some time and I wasn’t disappointed. Its roots were laid at the end of WW2 when […]

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