Jump to content

draganm

Members
  • Posts

    505
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

draganm last won the day on December 2 2019

draganm had the most liked content!

Reputation

12 Good

Personal Information

  • Location
    Colorado
  • Interests
    cycling, home theater, WW2
  • Occupation
    Machinist

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

  1. not really, they call it " printing" but it's laser-sintering in a bed of AL oxide powder. The machines are well over a million dollars, it's expensive to do, and the example we got (after a student just HAD to have one), was rather poor. Very grainy/porous texture, prone to oxidation after you machine a clean face, brittle, and you can't weld on it due to the very high oxide content. Can't comment on other metals, but the AL was not good IMO. This was 5+ years ago, so not sure if it they improved it? A competent shop that does a lot of 3D profiling on a CNC mill could probably make that part in 10 to 12 hours and probably wouldn't even require 5-axis mill
  2. Panzer Farm Poland doesn't share a whole lot on FB, mostly them driving the Sherman or T55 at local shows. However, a pair of recent videos from AAAM visiting the farm shows you the scale of what they do. It's quite an expansive workshop and the machine tools are capable. Of course, like the US, no one on the machines under the age of 60 part 1 yard tour and JS1 restoration , part 2 is the shops
  3. seems more like a "keep the war going" propaganda piece? a few pallets of rusty steel tubing and a handful of AL spars hardly constitutes an aircraft
  4. sounds about right, i think that's about as good as your going to get considering they only built 1347, so even a collection of parts welded together is better than not seeing one. hopefully some of other Tiger 1's rotting out in the weather will be inspired by the city of Houffalize to get their vehicles treated better in the near future,
  5. any information on this one? it was a static display at Militracks, Overloon this year and according to the Shadock list it's owned by a private collector in Germany . Other than that no info, but at least we're up to 9 complete vehicles so far, and by complete i just mean hull, Turret, gun, suspension with wheels and at least some of the track present. Most of these are a mix-match of parts but that doesn't bother me BTW, the Houffalize Panther Belgium got a desperately needed reprieve from rusting away into oblivion. A team i think in Germany called the Krings collection had a heck of a time taking it apart and fixing the suspension so the vehicle sits correctly, but it's been preserved, painted, and placed in a new display with overhead awning so at least the Rain and snow won't get it to as much. Bravo to the brave guys who took this on https://www.keymilitary.com/article/long-watch more pics here you can scroll thru of the new memorial https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/140/Panther-Tank-Houffalize.htm
  6. that makes sense, i watched a Russian column have problems with mines and also bad outcome for the vehicles . The Russians tend to just swerve around the destroyed vehicle and keep charging forward, or try and swerve in big circle to go back, but equally bad results. I watched the strike on this Leo/Bradley grouping as it was stationary and it was hard to figure out what was hitting this bunch though. The Bradleys just started smoking and then exploding. Likely ATGM's , but they looked like they were coming from behind the direction the armor is facing? the Kornet has already shown effective against Turkish Leopards in Syria, where they blew up half a dozen, including turret-pops. Doesn't appear to be any effective countermeasure against Dual war-head top attack rockets at this point in Russia or NATO
  7. so didn't you guys train the Uke's there in the UK? Is it standard practice to bunch up all your armor in a tight wad on battlefield with missiles, laser guided Artillery, and Suicide drones all coming in from what look like and endless Rusi supply of this stuff? I was under the impression that during an assault you want some dispersion? This war has also been extremely light on tank engagements, mostly artillery and drones doing all the work, which at that point i don't think it matters what Tank make and model your trundling around in
  8. hard to sell but judging from pic , turret shape and bore evacuator position , looks like another Leo 2 burning, At least the turrets stay on though, so the wrecks are easier to recover. A lick of paint and good as new .
  9. why would they put their only carrier in the black sea, anything and everything in he Black Sea is in range of existing Ruso Naval and land-based Air assets. just left Dry-dock, but still under repair. They really don't need it, what it would it protect or attack? Russia has and always will be a land based military power. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/russias-sole-aircraft-carrier-admiral-kuznetsov-leaves-drydock Aircraft carriers are tools of Global power projection, which is the realm of the old UK Empire and the current US empire
  10. apparently not that well so far, i see a Leo 2-6, Bradleys, a spartan? and they lost many other besides
  11. I hope the vaccine didn't cause him any further problems, No one at my house had any issues but everyone is different Not laser, Water Jet. Water Jet cutting is very accurate and very low cost. They can do steel up to 75mm thick
  12. It's been a while, but the Tiger 1 resto/fab. in Australia is now complete as a static display, using many original parts. I noticed the video series didn't have that many views, which is a shame, so i thought I'd share here. I really like the father/son team aspect of it, what better way to spend time together. Enjoy They also have a blown up early version of the Tiger Turret with Dust-bin cupola
  13. not many of these left in the word, this is one in Australia is one of 5 left . The rest are in Russia and Poland At AAAM down-undah https://streamable.com/4z655h
  14. 3 years can go by so quickly, most people have nothing to mark that time You have a beautifully restored truck , congratulations are in order, it's a beauty
  15. the old link from last night was in fact not working ;( I imagine they're saving all the action videos for the owner, AAAM , although you can see Axis track driver pops it into gear. I'm guessing well over 5 million $$ into this including purchase price. It's impressive
×
×
  • Create New...