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I did a naughty and downloaded the film so I could make screenshots Definitely 432s with (Fox?) turrets - I was fooled at first as the gun's been replaced with some drainpipe. Now what the hell are they supposedly doing in Korea? :nut: Other than this mini-gaffe it's a pretty good film! Stone

With the same NSN they should all be identical - that would just tell you the tolerance to which they were manufactured, no? Nice looking things though Stone

So, has anyone else seen the film 'Salt' yet? If you could tear your eyes away from Angelina Jolie for a few moments (:cool2:) in the early minutes of the film you might have spotted a pair of 'tanks', allegedly guarding the border between North and South Korea. They didn't get a lot of screen time but I'm convinced they were actually FV432s with Scorpion turrets on Anyone here want to own up? Stone

Ours just has the standard aluminium board roof with chequerplate anti-slip material around the edge. It shouldn't sag unless you put lots of weight on it...ours came with a warning to keep to the walkway painted on the centre of the roof ;-) I'm not too keen on climbing it anyway, you're a good 10ft in the air! Stone

Should do - our Ptarmigan box came with the key. Unfortunately we jacked in removing the safe as we couldn't find it, only for it to turn up once we got home :banghead: It was in a brown paper envelope stuffed in with the Form 654 etc. Stone

No hurry! I have a bunch of the manuals but you'll have to get them translated out of the Russian...might be easier to buy+translate the German ones though, at least most of the alphabet is the same

Sounds painful! :shocked: Was the 73 Euros for carrying a load when it was supposed to be unladen, then?

Don't fancy my luck fixing that ATGM BRDM-2 :shocked: Hmm, dunno who owns all the stuff scattered around the desert, anyone fancy pricing up a couple of containers to ship them all back in? :nut:

I can tell you the answer (in excruciating detail) as I've measured it - but you'll have to wait as the numbers are at work and I'm off sick at the moment. ISTR it was just under the normal 2.4GHz band used by WLAN networks as they use a very similar protocol but are slightly detuned. I understand the newer version (Soldier System Radio) are very different though, no idea with them. Some PRRs are legal to own as they've been sold to many different places, even the Yanks use them and they get swapped for kit while on ops etc. Obviously you'd want to investigate before buying any - if they'd been stolen off the MoD it wouldn't be very wise to be advertising them around, I've seen them on eBay with the serial numbers ripped off and all sorts! I'd be very surprised if any of the newer models showed up though. Stone

My fave Soviet vehicle, good show They were basically cheap and fast so got turned into all sorts of unlikely variants. There was a longer version called the MTLBu (uglier front, one extra roadwheel) that was usually a command post. A hybrid with an MTLB-like front end but the extra roadwheel carried a 122mm howitzer turret as the 2S1. Duxford have one with an artillery-locating radar on (BIG FRED) - it's painted in desert sand so possibly Iraqi? Great fun to drive, the 2S1 makes about 30mph cross-country so I assume the MTLB is faster? No armour to speak of (anything above 7.62 goes straight through) and the angled front gives you a terrific bow wave when fording, 95% of the water gets flung forwards and the rest ends up in the driver's lap! It has a big diesel truck engine in, I think it's the same as the KRAZ. A load of them with a 439-like storage box on top of the hull at the back, and no turret, were used by Sweden (in a very smart green splinter camo pattern) as the Pbv401 - think they were all sold to collectors about 10 years ago. Go on Paul, give us some pics Any idea of its history? Stone

When taking mine I was explicitly told you couldn't take an H test in a tracked excavator - the reason being that although they're 'track-laying vehicles steered by their tracks', you can already drive one (on your cat B car licence) due to one of the exemptions in INF52 for engineering plant. Stone

I tried twice to get a V55/5 posted out but in the end it was much easier to just go down to the local office - they have huge piles of them on free issue. Simples! :nut: On the bright side I sent my photocard back to have my address updated after I moved house a month or so ago - no problems, it was back in 10 days and still had my cat H on it! Stone

They're 'hidden in the small print' as those categories are the ones that aren't harmonised across the EU. A, B, B1, C, C1, D, D1 and +E are all internationally recognised, but the others vary by country Stone

Or to make sure the good bits got swapped out of them! Incidentally this is why the release form is called MOD Form 654 'Application for disposal of a cast vehicle'. Those Stormers (271,272) look nice, wonder how much they'll go for...don't they have the Perkins diesel? Stone

Find someone with an expensive printer - our ones at work are great. Unbind the manual, pop the stack of paper in the scanning tray and hit the button, you end up with a searchable PDF. It even emails it to you! :nut: Stone

I would have shot him for the paint job/turret, what did it ever do to deserve that? Stone

If you're going to take it apart, at the very least do it outside with a respirator on and your Geiger counter handy... Drill for SUSAT was 'if you drop one, open the windows and evacuate for 1 hour' so wouldn't recommend it...:shocked: Stone

From the depths of a semester's-worth of corporate law I once attended I seem to remember that you're not allowed to disclaim death or personal injury due to your own negligence etc - it's one of the major provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ( more info here. I told my local go-karting place off for this but they still wouldn't let me in unless I signed their unenforceable slip of paper Stone

Thanks for this, saves us weighing veh+box to find out how much the box weighs Ours is a half-length box (CB101 transportable signals container 1 ton) so with 5100kg unladen weight we should be at just over 6t with the box. Plenty of capacity for our extras :cool2: Stone

Is that the one fitted with a fake gun to make it look more like an Abbot? :nut: Any ideas on "Mowag Wheeled Tank Training Vehicle"? Stone

The mirrors don't look right and some of the turret periscopes seem to be missing... Other than the registration sticker being on wonky I can't see anything else - it's not something silly like the tracks being on backwards, is it? Stone

Before you take the pack out do double-check it's not in gear - I had an embarrassing moment in my H test when I couldn't restart the damn thing as I'd neglected to put it in neutral when stopping :blush: Symptoms were much as you describe with clicking and whirring while pushing the button but no life. I'm sure you haven't been as daft as I was but it only takes 10 secs to check :nut: Stone

Does this fire 30x173 or a different calibre? I have a replica 30mm cartridge on my desk :cool2: Stone

Depends on which turret! The original production ones were GKN Sankey (ie BAE Land Systems) with the 30mm RARDEN, Desert Warrior and Arctic Warrior and Warrior 2000 have a Delco turret, there was one by Cockerill (Belgian?) and the Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme / Warrior Life Improvement Programme had 4 turrets submitted, one Lockheed / Rheinmetall, one Selex Galileo / Oto Melara, one by BAE and one by General Dynamics - the BAE one was chosen. There'll be at least one prototype of each so you'd have to find out which kind of Warrior you were thinking of first... Confused yet? My guess is that they'll change the turret again before the scheduled end-of-life in 2025 as their requirements change, most IFVs seem to be standardising on the Mk44 30mm Bushmaster (3 of the 4 WLIP turrets had one!) so my money would be on that. Stone

If you make friends with an aviator they might let you borrow some TEL, they have an exemption Stone