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  1. The British Army use the NBC Recce version, which is incredibly expensive, I heard from a Bundeswehr NBC type who thought that the "exported" ABC-Fuchs (German nomenclature) were in fact leased, and not sold. How true that is I don't know. So the answer could be - never.
  2. believe me...there are enough idiots out there !!
  3. You won't find any Fuchs vehicles up for sale for quite a while, until the BOXER comes into service. At the moment the Fuchs vehicles are being uodated with extra armour etc to become the IED Fuchs. M113s are also being withdrawn from service, with some of their roles (ie ambulance) being taken up by Fuchs. There is also a problem aquiring combat vehicles, due to the Kriegswaffenkontrollgesetz (Law governing the control of weapons of war)
  4. These radio Mogs were in three versions - ELINT, radio-relay and "steam radio" ELINT - normally as a DF vehicle, radio-relay - with the Siemens DFM12/800 (SR C70 in British service) both these versions had a pneumatic mast mounted on the nearside (theirs- not ours!) The equipment for radio Mogs varied according to specific role and what was in service at the time. There was also a version with a somewhat lower cabin fitted with the GRC3-8 (relatively rare) Some were also used in other roles, with minimal modifications, ie as command vehicles with airfield crash/rescue units, and would therefore have mud-to-air sets fitted.
  5. Most of them commissioned, too !
  6. Never happens - they just get hold of Anne Robinson - she gave the director of DVLA a hard time last year! The English in Lagos schools is definately coming uo to civil service standards!
  7. I can actually find no reference that the BGS actually used carriers. The 300 purchased went straight to the Bundeswehr.
  8. The reference comes from a book about Bundeswehr vehicles from 1956 to today (well almost!). The photos show 3 road wheels, a driving sprocket and an idler on each side. They were fitted with a Ford 8-cylinder power plant, type 29W (6850 ccm, 100bhp approx) weight was given as 4.7 metric tonnes. I'll try and scan the relevant bits. The book also refers to them as licence-built by Ford in 1941/42.
  9. The Bundeswehr vehicles were US licence-builds (by Ford) and were snapped up for a mere 4,000 quid apiece. Although originally destined for recce units, they were in fact used for resupply and training purposes. One vehicle (Y-320 271) was (unsuccessfully!) trialed as an ATGW vehicle, being fitted with seven SS10s.
  10. Looks like a spares (or spare valves) container. I had some similar ones in the Hebrides for our WS682 stations and BE-201 on St Kilda. Whether they actually belonged to them isn't known. But definately NOT vehicle-specific, more likely a WS CES item.
  11. The wheeled vehicle was an experimental vehicle from 1957, built by FIAT.
  12. It wasn't actually much of a deal "beating" our friends from across the sea! I think that we did it ALL the time. One exercise, we were told to LET them win just once - probably didn't want them to take their ball back!
  13. It was a Luftwaffe night fighter base. As the are is a "Kurort", you're probably find that you're right about the current use. I remember that whilst with 1 Div Sigs, we hosted Wellbeck College CCF out at Reinsehlen , and put them through their paces (and some of our guys made that DI in Full Metal Jacket look like a pussycat!). One of the cadets stepped into a puddle, and promptly was stuck up to his shoulders in mud. We had to borrow a Chieftain tank from the QRIH to pull him out. He made a wonderful slurping noise as he came out. The troopers from QRIH were highly amused.
  14. Plan Of Attack, the one about George W Bush and the lead up to the Iraq invasion. I borrowed it, and was astounded how incompetent the US Military actually is (and that was just the "Pentaguys".)
  15. Or you put the quantity in wrong on the demand form!. If you needed only one, the digit went to the right of the column. Put it to the left, and you ended up with a thousand! Could be embarassing.
  16. The worst thing was when them at staff level decided to see how the spares system worked. We were having problems with our C70s (radio-relay) at 1 Div (Verden). This was caused by low-lifed valves (500 hours operating time). The system was used to get them back on the air, which went summat like this: 1) Stores demand put in. 2) Eventually, someone at the Siemens factory in Erlamgen (in Bavaria) put a box of the required valves (2C39BA for the techno-freaks) into a truck which then barrelled down the Autobahn to Bremerhaven, incidentally passing by my barracks. 3) The container of bits and bobs was offloaded at Felixstowe, and loaded onto a truck/train/whatever and went off to COD Donnington (BEFORE the fire!). 4) some bored minor MoD employee sorted out the bits , put them into another container, which went off on the back of a train/truck/whatever to Marchwood. 5) container arrived in Antwerp and was transported to Emblem Camp. 6) parts sorted and eventually a container was sent to Viersen. 7) parts further sorted, and the stuff for 1 Div sent to Scheuen (nr Celle) 8) we sent a truck to Scheuen and picked up our bits. The whole thing took 2 weeks! Not only that, they forgot my bl++dy valves!
  17. Here are some of Ferrets (2/3) and Saladins at the Queen's Birthday Parade in Hong Kong in April, 1967. The unit was B Suadron, The Life Guards, on detachment from Singapore due to the Red Guard problems prevalent then. They were based at Sek Kong in the New Territories.
  18. Here are some from my collection. The monochrome (black & white for the less-well educated) shots show an airportable C50 radio-relay detachment. The vehicle towing the fish-fryer trailer sometimes held a third equipment bank (double anchor and relay roles). the other trailer carried two 40ft Clarke masts and the log-periodic antennae (ie a logmarithmically-spaced series of transposed dipoles). The Landy carried two Onan 3.5 kVA genes. The colour shot was taken at the Queen's Birthday Parade in Hong Kong in April, 1967.
  19. you are making a very basic translation mistake - translating word for word. Some of it consquently doesn't make sense. Try looking at expressions or groups, as the meaning could be different. i used to translate technical documents from German to English, but electronic rather than mechanical. PM the original, amd I'll see what I can do.
  20. I don't suppose they're prepared to pull down the post office ?
  21. I'm surprised that parts are scarce. These beasties, and the M3 APC, are still used by a lot of African armies.
  22. I suspect that the first pic was taken during the Warsaw Uprising. The gun behind the half-track could be a 10.5cm leFH18.
  23. strangely enough, Saracens were used to tow Green Archer and the silenced generators within towed field regiments, RA. 18 Feld Regt, in Munsterlager in the mid 1960s,had a radar troop with four Saracens, 2 Green Archers and 2 genes
  24. I can just imagine the fire orders. "Three rounds gunfire! Monday, Wednesday and Friday!" I wonder how far back along the track the recoil pushed the beast! ?
  25. not sure of the source, but here's one from my archive. They were indeed used as dressing stations and x-ray units by the former Czechoslovakian Peoples Army and subsequently by the Czech and Slovak armies. They have been replaced by Tatras in the Czech army and Aktis in the Slovak army. Some have found their way into civilian life, such as this one with a local authority ambulance service
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