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    MTLB is home at last..

    in Russian-Eastern block-Warsaw Pact Vehicles

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    I'm a huge fan of the SA-13 (especially that vehicle variant, the 9A35 - the 9A34 has a passive radiolocating system with a load of antennas sticking out into the driver's view!) but the inside is quite different from a standard MTLB. If you're just out for looks it's hard to beat though. That's a very tidy one, whose is it? (tons of pics and info here btw)

     

    MTLBs are great because the tracks already have holes punched in them to take track pad inserts. Paul, have you still got your front fenders with the headlights etc? Those indicators will come in useful if you ever fancy trying to road-register it :cool2:

     

    Stone

    Starting procedure on a T-64

    in Russian-Eastern block-Warsaw Pact Vehicles

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    I have a T-62 operator's manual in English - I'm at work on Wednesday so I'll dig it out for you. The T-64 is a fair bit more advanced but it should help with translating the controls :)

     

    Beware: most Soviet MBTs have a idiosyncratic steering method - the two tillers each have two locking positions (forward and middle) and a variable non-locking one (pull back). Forward is final drive gear of 1:1, middle is final drive gear of 2:1 and pulling hard back towards the driver operates the track brake on that side. You can do most gentle turns just with the first two positions, but exiting the turn is a two-step process - straighten out by putting both tillers fully forward, then pull the opposite tiller to turn the other way.

     

    If you're used to driving a 432 you'll instinctively try and start a turn by pulling one tiller and exit the turn by pulling the other - this will leave you making a beeline for the gatepost! :nut: Take it easy and leave yourself a bit of extra manoeuvring room and you'll be fine :D

     

    Stone

    ps: how many people own a tank but don't know how to make it go? :shocked:

    Ptarmigan

    in British Radio Equipment

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    Band I still has good coverage of military airband though.

     

    The RF cables on TRIFFID cabins (usually attached to their MJ at Withams) are pretty good quality for ham use - and the strange connectors can be adapted to N-types with the bulkhead sockets. I've still got all sorts of bits kicking around from ours...

     

    Stone

    I won

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    Very tidy! For some reason I was expecting it to be a sandy MT-LBv though...

     

    Looks made for the DAF, just the right size! I always suspected you could get one on a rigid, they aren't that heavy :)

     

    Stone

    HGV Training Courses

    in I may be stupid, but......

    Posted

    Agree with Tony on this: the theory test book was sufficient for two of us to pass our tests with ease (me with 100%!). There's plenty of hazard perception examples on YouTube, a couple of hours well spent. Medical: £55, provisional licence is free or £20 if you update the photo at the same time.

     

    Our courses were around £1200 for a week part time (approx 4 hours per day, two hours on Friday before the test) and included test fees which I think is about £150 these days.

     

    We didn't take the CPC so don't know about any of that...

     

    Stone

    Modern British Radio Chatter

    in British Radio Equipment

    Posted

    Surely you'd deserve a medal for effort if you managed to hack into the Mil Radio Web for those on excercise etc as its all bowman (i.e. heavily encripted) innit :undecided: ?

    Increasingly so, but a huge amount is still sent in the clear between 20MHz and 85Mhz. If you need something to happen quickly and somebody doesn't get the message because they've lost their crypto fill then you have a big problem!

     

    Stone

    Dating a Bedford MJ...

    in Legislation, Licenses & Registration

    Posted

    When we got ours, Withams wrote the chassis number incorrectly on the MoD Form 654, so we had to get a date into service independently. If you write to DE&S they will provide you with a date into service from army reg and chassis number but I'm not sure if they could tell you the build date. Ours was first in service early in 1986 so could quite conceivably have been built earlier than the cutoff, but I don't know how you would choose a particularly old one! The military registrations are issued sequentially so you could get something in the 85KDxx/86KDxx range and hope for the best? (Ours was 87KD11).

     

    That said, it's not a big job to add side bars and it's a one-off cost for peace of mind. Ours were done by protruck - very professionally - maybe give him a ring?

     

    Stone

    Modern British Radio Chatter

    in British Radio Equipment

    Posted

    As Mike says - very unlikely to be allowed to replay anything received live. I dare say you might end up on the wrong end of a severe sense of humour failure...

     

    When I last recorded traffic from a British Army exercise we had an enormous amount of regulations with which to comply, including applying to the Home Office for a RIPA licence to allow us to disregard the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. It's not at all straightforward!

     

    Your best bet would be a compilation of YouTube / war films, with the usual caveats about copyright law of course.

     

    Stone

    Front & rear number plates

    in Legislation, Licenses & Registration

    Posted

    To continue the devil's advocate theme - I now have to supply my V5 to have number plates made, so is the supplier technically in breach of law if they supply B&W plates for a vehicle first registered after 1st jan 1973?

    Don't think so, they could be show plates after all. They only want to see your V5 in Halfords to stop it being quite so trivial to get plates made up for a car you don't own (for reassigning your speeding tickets).

     

    I'm pretty confident you'd be committing an offence by using them though, ISTR B&W plates are only legal if they were fitted prior to 2001! If you registered it now (as pointed out above, for the first time) there'd be no way you could have fitted the plates before 2001 so you'd just be making a rod for your own back.

     

    I still reckon pressed aluminium plates with retroreflective background material to BS AU 145 look the nads though ;)

     

    Stone

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